Knowledge materials for addressing thematic poverty-environment issues
Depending on national circumstances, poverty-environment mainstreaming also entails integrating specific thematic issues — such as climate change adaptation, resource efficiency, sound chemicals management, sustainable land management, and marine and coastal issues – into national development planning.Knowledge materials relevant to poverty-environment mainstreaming from the perspective of a specific thematic issue are presented below.
Climate change
Review and introductory documents
- Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Planning: A Guide for Practitioners, May 2011, UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative
- Taking steps: mainstreaming national adaptation, Briefing, IIED November 2008
- Taking initial steps towards adaptation, DFID 2004
- The impact of climate change on the vulnerability of the poor, DFID 2004
- The impact of climate change on the health of the poor, DFID 2004
- The impact of climate change on pro poor growth, DFID 2004
Methodologies and tools
- Screening Tools and Guidelines to Support the Mainstreaming of Climate Change Adaptation into Development Assistance – A Stocktaking Report. Integrating climate change risks and opportunities into national development processes and UN country programming project, UNDP: New York. A. Olhoff and C. Schaer. 2010
- Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation, Policy Guidance. Paris, France: OECD 2009
- Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Projects. Washington, DC: The World Bank
– Guidance Note N°1, Engaging Key National Institutions in the Adaptation Agenda
– Guidance Note N°2, Engaging Local Communities and Increasing Adaptive Capacity World Bank
– Guidance Note N°3, Assessing Climate Risk
– Guidance Note N°4, Developing Readiness for Institutional Capacity Development and an enabling Policy Framework
– Guidance Note N°5, Furthering an Enabling Institutional Environment
– Guidance Note N°6. Identifying Appropriate Adaptation Measures to Climate Change
– Guidance Note N°7, Evaluating Adaptation via Economic Analysis
– Guidance Note N°8. Monitoring and Evaluation of Adaptation Activities - Compendium on methods and tools to evaluate impacts of, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. Stratus Consulting, UNFFCCC 2004
Examples from countries
- Summary Guidelines for Training of Civil Society Organizations and Journalists on Climate Change Adaptation in Rwanda, UNDP-UNEP CC-DARE 2007
- Not If but When, Adapting to natural hazards in the Pacific Islands Region, A policy note. Washington, DC: The World Bank 2006
Resource Efficiency
Reviews and introductory documents
- UNEP’s Sustainable Consumption and Production Programme
- The Environment & Poverty Times No. 6, UNEP/GRID-Arendal 2009 [English] [Español]
Methodologies and tools
- Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption and Production and Resource Efficiency into Development Planning, UNEP 2009 [English] [Español] [Français]
- Issue Brief: Incorporating SCP and RE in Development Planning When Mainstreaming Poverty-Environment Issues, UNEP 2009
- Towards Triple Impact – Toolbox for Analysing Sustainable Ventures in Developing Countries, UNEP, 2009 [English] [Español] [Français]
- SCP Indicators for Developing Countries – A Guidance Framewok, UNEP, 2008 [English] [Español] [Français]
- Integrating Sustainable Consumption and Production into Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, UNEP/Wuppertal Institute 2006
Examples from countries
- Plan d’action décennal pour la promotion des modes de consommation et de production durables au Burkina Faso, Gouvernement du Burkina Faso, juillet 2010
- Plaidoyer pour la promotion des modes de consommation et de production durables au Burkina Faso, Gouvernement du Burkina Faso, juillet 2010
- Modes de consommation et de production durables : Le plan décennal de mise en œuvre en élaboration. Le Pays No. 459, Burkina Faso, 20 avril 2010
- Etude sur les modes de consommation et de production durables (MCPD) au Mali, République du Mali, mai 2010
Sound management of chemicals
Reviews and introductory documents
- The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the Integration of Sound Management of Chemicals into Development Planning Processes: Maximizing Return on Investment, UNDP-UNEP, 2009 [English] [Español] [Français]
- [Poster] How is SMC related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
Methodologies and tools
- Technical Guide for Mainstreaming the Sound Management of Chemicals (SMC) in MDG-Based Policies and Plans, UNDP
- Toolkit for Incorporating the Sound Management of Chemicals in MDG-based Policies and Plans, UNDP
Examples from countries
- Uganda, Cambodia, Zambia and the FYR Macedonia, The UNDP-UNEP Partnership Initiative for the Integration of Sound Management of Chemicals into Development Planning Processes: Maximizing Return on Investment, UNDP-UNEP, 2009 [English]
Sustainable land management
Reviews and introductory documents
- Agricultural Subsidies, Poverty, and the Environment: Supporting a Domestic Reform Agenda in Developing Countries, WRI, 2007
- Desertification, Drought, Poverty and Agriculture: Research Lessons and Opportunities, M Winslow, BI Shapiro, R Thomas and S. V. R. Shetty, 2004
- Synthesis Paper: Why Invest In Drylands? Global Mechanism, IFAD, 2004
Methodologies and tools
- Generic Guidelines for Mainstreaming Environment with a particular focus on Drylands issues into National Development Frameworks, UNDP, October 2008
Examples from countries
Marine and coastal issues
- Taking Steps toward Marine and Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management – An Introductory Guide, UNEP 2011
Methodologies and tools
- Making Mainstreaming Work: An Analytical Framework, Guidelines and Checklist for the Mainstreaming of Marine and Coastal Issues into National Planning and Budgetary Processes, John Soussan, Stockholm Environment Institute, 2007
Examples from countries
- [Video] – Coral Reefs in Vietnam: Economic Value, Resource Dependency, Livelihoods and Coastal Poverty, PREM Nature’s Wealth documentary series, Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management programme, Amsterdam 2007
- [Video] – Design of Integrated Market Based Incentives for Rural Poverty Reduction and Forest Management around the Coastal Belt Forests in Tanzania, PREM Nature’s Wealth documentary series, Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management programme, Amsterdam 2007