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NEW joint UNDP-UN Environment

Poverty-Environment Action for

SDGs programme

EMG Nexus Dialogue Series

New York 13-14 July 2017

Dialogue 2 on the PEN

Presentation by Nik Sehran, PEI JMB

Member

and Isabell Kempf, PEI co-Director

+ PEI: Supports country-led efforts to strengthen capacity to

mainstream poverty-environment linkages into national

development policy, planning, monitoring and budgeting

+ PEI Achievements at a glance

+ PEI External Evaluation & main

Recommendations (2016)

• Upgrade PEI as a main UNDP- UNEP delivery mechanism for SDG capacity development for equitable and pro-poor sustainable development

+ From Development to Sustainable

Development

2030 Agenda has reinforced the commitment to sustainable

development through the adoption of an integrated social, economic

and environmental approach, which the new programme will use to

support countries in SDG implementation through poverty-

environment main-streaming

Integrated approach to SDG implementation

Targeted use of related P-E tools

and capacity building

Cross-ministerial institutional coordination mechanisms

Joint UNDP-UN Environment programme

+ Poverty-Environment Action for

Sustainable Development Goals -

What’s new?

Builds on lessons learnt from more

than 10 years of PEI implementation and the Added Value of

the UNDP-UN Environment collaboration

Expand PE Mainstreaming:

Focus on promoting quality investments to simultaneously

improve livelihoods, health and resilience of poor women and men to sustainably

manage the environment and address climate

change

+ Theory of Change Outline

• Increased sustainable development starting points

• Institutional capacities for integrated planning, coordination, implementation and enforcement

• Enabling legal frameworks, financial incentives and resources

• Alternative measurements and data collection/analysis

• Use of a gender/rights based approach to ensure participation and accountability

• Institutional capacities for integrated planning and innovative partnerships

Key Solutions

+ Theory of Change Outline

Country governments deliver on the poverty-environment nexus to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

Deepening of PE mainstreaming efforts in a prioritized set of countries with a focus on promoting quality public and private investments and gender

equality

Broadening engagement in countries (synergies with other PE related programmes and institutions; SDG processes; TA; SSC; PEP members;

regional/global initiatives)

Objective

+ Theory of Change Outline

Outcome: Strengthened and more coherent policies, plans, regulations and investments to support Poverty-Environment objectives

Output 1: Policies, plans, legislation and regulations better integrate the poverty-environment nexus.

Output 2: Quality investments engender environmental sustainability, climate resilience and livelihoods.

Output 3: Innovative approaches and tools adopted by regional and global institutions in support of poverty-environment nexus for SDG implementation

Programme Outcome and Outputs

+ Programme Outline (2018 – 2022)

8 proposed full country

programme

Bangladesh

Lao PDR

Mauritania

Malawi

Mozambique

Myanmar

Nepal

Rwanda

Focus on Africa and Asia-Pacific:

+ Programme Outline (2018 – 2022)

Technical assistance to proposed countries +

Regional technical advice

Benin

Bhutan

Burkina Faso

Haiti

Mali

Philippines

South Sudan

Tanzania

Uganda

Regional LAC TA

+ Partnerships – An essential

component

Global Networks including

Poverty Environment

Partnership, Green Growth

Knowledge Platform, Green

Economy Coalition

Global and Regional

Programmes: Belt and Road

Initiative, Africa 2063 and the

African Union, and

biodiversity mainstreaming

in development planning

Strengthened linkages with

multi & bi-lateral agencies:

African and Asian

Development Banks,

Bilaterals – e.g. GIZ climate

adaptation in Africa, EU

Climate Change and

Environment

Internal UN System: (e.g.

UNDP - UN Environment,

FAO, UN WOMEN, UNCDF,

EMG, UN Development

Group and UN inter-agency

Country Teams

+ Partnership opportunities

partnership opportunities with PEP members for:

Strengthening coherent policy development and implementation in support of pro-poor environmental dimensions of the SDGs

Mobilizing domestic and international investment opportunities and incentives through institutional capacity building, innovative

tools and approaches

Strengthening capacity of national, regional and global institutions to apply poverty-environment mainstreaming approaches, tools

and measurements

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THANK YOU