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...
Bhutan is accelerating its efforts to preserve its valuable natural resources
Bhutan has earned an enviable reputation for its leadership role in conservation and sound environmental management. However, Bhutan faces challenges in translating these goals into action, most notably addressing the challenge of balancing environmental conservation with reducing poverty. [Read more]
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Rwanda’s economic analysis of wetland site leads to internationally recognized wetland restoration
The Government of Rwanda received the internationally renowned Green Globe Award in October 2010 in recognition of its efforts to restore the Rugezi wetland. The UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative had been instrumental in providing the necessary economic analysis and data on which the restoration efforts were based.
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]
Improved monitoring of poverty-environment objectives in Tanzania
In Tanzania, the Poverty-Environment Initiative has been successful in strenghtening and improving the national monitoring and reporting system on poverty-environment objectives. As a result, a new environment statistics module was incorporated into Tanzania’s web based Social Economic Database, which helps improving quality of monitoring of the implementation of Tanzania's key planning tool, the National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (MKUKUTA) and its poverty-environment goals .
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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 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...
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...
