UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative

Events

22 April 2013
Roundtable discussion on Integrating Ecosystem Services into Policy Planning

PEI Thailand hosted on the 22 of April a roundtable discussion on Integrating Ecosystem Services into Policy Planning in Thailand. Building on the lessons learned from the Sub Global Ecosystem Assessments that were conducted in three Thai Provinces, the participants had fruitful discussions on…

22 March 2013
Rethinking Foreign Direct Investment in South East Asia

Southeast Asia has been experiencing a boom in investment in land for agriculture. Much of this investment comes from within the ASEAN region, but also from the rest of Asia, Europe and North America. Whilst increased investment in the agriculture sector can bring benefits to rural…

27 February 2013 to 28 February 2013
Convergence lost and regained – Rediscovering Poverty-Environment Nexus for the Emerging Agenda

The Global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Conference was held in Bogota, Colombia, from 27 to 28 February 2013. The Conference brought together political and development leaders along with 150 participants from over 40 countries, including lead experts and…

11 January 2013
PEI Lao PDR Initiates Phase II of the Poverty Environment Initiative

On January 11 2013 the Ministry of Planning and Investment in collaboration with UNDP/UNEP organized an inception workshop for Phase II of the Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI) to be implemented over three years from 2012 to 2015.

From 2009 to 2012, PEI Phase I has supported the…

14 December 2012
PEI Malawi supports the integration of P-E linkages into the National Fisheries Policy and Implementation Plan

Following the work that was supported by the Malawi PEI team to include sustainability indicators in the Agriculture Sector Wide Approach plan (ASWAp), the Ministry of Agriculture and Food security requested PEI to provide further support to the revision of the Fisheries Policy to ensure the…

28 November 2012 to 30 November 2012
Training of planners at the Ministry of Women and Social affairs on integrating equity and environment perspectives in the planning process,
27 November 2012
Progress Review and Next Steps Workshop, Agenda
22 November 2012
Workshop on PE mainstreaming into the national planning process

On 22 November 2012 in Dushanbe the training on Poverty-Environment (PE) mainstreaming into Mid-term Development Strategy (MTDS) for 2013-2015 was conducted for the representatives of several ministries and state agencies, including Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ministry of Finance…

12 November 2012 to 14 November 2012
Meeting the Implementation Challenge and Sustaining Impact – Lessons Learned and the Way Ahead for PEI Africa

The Africa Regional Workshop took place on 12-14 November in Nairobi, Kenya. Over 50 participants attended the workshop comprising national planning, finance and environment officials plus UNDP Country Office representatives from the nine PEI Africa countries.  In addition, representatives from…

18 September 2012 to 19 September 2012
National round table on the "Evaluation of statistical capacity of the Kyrgyz Republic to monitor progress indicators of ‘green’ economy based on experience of OECD”

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