PEI participated in the second meeting of the Expert Group on Biodiversity for Poverty Eradication and Development held from 4 to 6 December 2013 in Chennai, India. The linkages between biodiversity and poverty eradication are at the heart of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-20. The aim of the expert group was to provide guidance towards a conceptual framework as w ell as a road map for the integration of biodiversity into poverty eradication and development in the context of the Strategic Plan. PEI provided specific examples on capacity-building for Ministries of Finance, Planning, Environment and different sector Ministries as w ell as cross ministerial coordination and South-South cooperation from its program. Other lessons learned from PEI include the importance of economic assessments and evidence for advocacy and the need to link poverty-environment mainstreaming to the social, environmental and economic benefits of sustainable natural resources management, including access and benefit sharing schemes.