Operationalizing the Poverty-Environment Agenda: Stories from the Country Level |
| Since the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative embarked on a scaling up effort in 2007, the Initiative has been continuously evaluating its support to countries and documenting lessons learned. Experience shows that it takes time and sustained effort to move poverty-environment concerns to the centre of development planning and action– but there are many stories of achievement and how progress has been made along the way. [Success Stories] |
| Bhutan |
Bhutan is exploring new paths to preserve its valuable natural resources
Bhutan is accelerating its efforts to preserve its valuable natural resources through improved planning processes and increased benefit-sharing with local community, 2010.
More...
Bhutan embraces environmental mainstreaming
Bhutan, which is notable for its efforts to conserve the environment, is now taking steps to integrate environmental considerations into its sector development plans. More...
|
| Rwanda |
Rwanda’s poverty-environmental mainstreaming efforts are supported at the highest political level
The President of Rwanda and members of the cabinet have been acting as ‘champions’ of poverty-environment mainstreaming which helped to successfully integrate environment-poverty linkages into development planning processes. More...
PEI videoclip highlighting poverty-environment mainstreaming achievements in Rwanda
The videoclip features some of the major problems and challenges of poverty-environment related issues in Rwanda and highlights major achievements of the programme on the ground over the years. It introduces the people behind the day-today work of the Poverty-Environment Initiative in Rwanda and shows how they advocate successfully for poverty-environment mainstreaming within the government system and beyond (April 2010). [Video]
|
| Tanzania |
Tanzania’s environment budget has increased considerably
Through effective communication and advocacy, poverty-environmental mainstreaming efforts helped to multiply the budget for the Division of Environment five-fold. More... |
| Uganda |
Uganda integrates poverty-environment concerns into its budgeting process
The argument that "no-action" on environmental problems ultimately increases "repair and rehabilitation" costs helped convince the Ugandan Finance Ministry to include guidelines for environment into the Budget Circular. More...
|
| Kenya |
Kenya adopts the integration of environmental management and pro-poor development across key economic sectors
The Kenyan government developed an Environment Policy that draws on poverty and environment linkages and aims to support the country’s sustainable development aspirations through integration of environment across key sectors. More...
|
| Mozambique |
Mozambique supports poverty-environment efforts at community-level
Pilot projects supported by national ministries helped to raise awareness among local communities how environmental management can improve income generation. More...
|
Print Version