In focus - Success Stories

Please consult the following documents for a quick overview of achievements of Poverty-Environment work at country level

• Annual PEI Progress Report 2008
  
  
• Operationalizing the Poverty-Environment Agenda: Stories from the Country Level, 2008
  
  
• Video [click here]

In September 2008, the UN Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly jointly convened a High-level Event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at UN Headquarters in New York. As part of the event, the Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP) hosted a policy dialogue on Environment, Climate Change and the MDGs: Reshaping the Development Agenda with the aim of ensuring that policy-makers provide adequate priority to the critical role of improved environmental management in efforts to achieve the MDGs. The event highlighted progress on major 2005 commitments, including the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative.  Philip Dobie, Director of the Poverty-Environment Initiative, presented an overview of achievements and lessons learnt of the PEI pilot phase 2004 - 2008.  [Watch here]

Press Releases

General

• United Nations Agencies work together to ensure that Environmental Management brings Prosperity to the Developing World, Nairobi, 18 January 2005
• An Expanded UNDP-UNEP Partnership on Mainstreaming Poverty and Environment into National Planning Frameworks to Achieve the MDGs, Nairobi, February 2007

Country press releases

Bangladesh – Bhutan - Botswana – Burkina Faso – Kenya – Lao PDR - Malawi - Mali – Mauritania - Mozambique- Nepal – Papua New Guinea – Rwanda - Uganda – Uruguay - Tanzania – Thailand – Timor-Leste - Vietnam

• UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative (UNDP-UNEP PEI): Mainstreaming environmental sustainability into national development processes to achieve sustainable development and poverty reduction, Mrs Patricia HAJABAKIGA, Minister of State in charge of Lands and Environment, Ministry of Lands, Environment, Forestry, Water and Mines, Rwanda, Presentation to the 9th Special Session of the United Nations Environment Programme Government Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, Dubai, 7-9 February 2006
  
  
• Generic PEI Powerpoint Presentation [English] [Francais]

Training for Journalists

The Poverty-Environment Initiative is supporting systematically general awareness-raising as well as specific communication outreach on poverty-environment linkages as part of its country programmes. As part of these efforts, the training of journalists is becoming an integral component of PEI country communication strategies.

Training materials

• General introduction to the Poverty-Environment Initiative[English] [Francais]
• Training for journalists (PEI Mozambique) [Presentation]

Multimedia

The Poverty-Environmental Initiative in close cooperation with national media outlets produces regularly country-specific outreach materials. Communication means range from TV spots to radio programmes and posters and billboards.

• Vietnam – Billboards
• Tanzania – TV spots
• Rwanda – Rwanda English
• Uganda – Radio advertisement
  
  

• PEI news update
• PEI publications
• PEI email alerts

Contact us

For more information or interview requests, please contact the Poverty-Environment Facility at: facility.unpei@unpei.org or Tel: +254-20-7625075