poverty and environment initiative in europe and the cis region
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Poverty and Environment Presentation
Introduction to the UNDP and UNEP Poverty and
Environment Initiative(PEI)
Henrieta MartonakovaUNDP and UNEP PEI Regional TeamUNDP Bratislava Regional Center
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Outline
Links between economic development, poverty and environment
What is PEI?
Why PEI?
PEI Objectives
PEI Interventions
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Links between economic development, poverty and environment
Land degradationOver 40% agricultural land and pastures are degraded;over 85% of territory is eroded --- Agriculture employs 65% of the workforceFood security and income
Natural disasters: More than 90% of the country’s territory is exposed to over 20 hazardous natural events and processes US$35 million in damages each year
Water scarcity: 93% of domestically consumed electricity from hydropower, irrigation intensive agriculture ------- energy and food security, income,
Climate change: rising summer temperatures, reduced winter precipitation, loss of surface waters, greater frequency of droughts, land degradation, and flooding.
KYRGYZSTAN
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PEI mission:….. to provide financial and technical support to countries to build capacity for integrating poverty -environment linkagesinto national, sectoral and decentralized development plans (i.e. PRSPs, CDSs, district plans, sector strategies, etc.)
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UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Initiative
Example of effective on-the-ground UN interagency co-operation
UNEP Poverty-Environment Project Supported by Norway, Belgium and Sweden
UNDP Poverty-Environment Initiative Grew out of WSSDSupported by DFID and EC
Donors collectively agreed to support significant scale-up of PEI in 2007UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Facility, established 2007
UNDP and UNEP PEI Partnership
Joint Global PE Facility
Joint Regional Teams
PEI Country teams
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PEI country inter-agency partnership
PEI works with BOTH
Planning, finance and sector agencies / ministries to integrate environment in
planning for sustainable countrydevelopment
Environment agencies / ministries to engage more effectively in planning
for sustainable country development
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PEI regions and countries
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PEI Donors
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WHY PEI?
• Unsustainable use of the environment reduces the social & economic benefits produced
• E.G. People get sick & die, farmers grow less & earn less• Development is hindered by environmental damage• The contribution of environment to social & economic
development is often poorly understood• Environmental sustainability not operationally integrated into
national development processes (e.g. PRSPs): Words but not action.
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PEI guiding questions Do we recognize links between economic development, poverty reduction and
environmental sustainability?
Are we able to present / communicate those links effectively to influence planners and decision-makers?
Do we have suitable approaches / methodologies for integrating environmental sustainability principles into pro-poor development planning and budgeting?
Are we able to apply those methodologies in practice?
Do we have environmental sustainability as a priority in P/P/P and reflected in other sectors’ development priorities, objectives and implementing measures?
Have the budget allocations for environmentally sustainable activities /measures increased?
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1. Improved collaboration and understanding between key country actors on P-E links
Situation analysis: key PE issues; key stakeholders; current management of natural resources, level of mainstreaming, entry points for mainstreaming;
Institutional set-up: key partners, multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms;
Studies providing evidence on economy – poverty – environment links (economic analysis and valuation of ecosystem goods and services)
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Economic analysis
Objective: To assess the economic costs and benefits, in monetary and non-monetary terms, of sustainable and unsustainable natural resource use.
PRO-POOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
PRO-POOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT
achieving national and sectoral economic growth
achieving national and sectoral economic growth
generating public revenues
generating public revenues
reducing expenditures
reducing expenditures
alleviating and reducing poverty
alleviating and reducing poverty
meeting the MDGs
meeting the MDGs
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Examples of economic analysis findings
24% of GDP, 66% of employment, 26% of exports and 39% of tax revenues makes agriculture a major component of the Tajik economy.
Half of Bhutan’s revenues are generated by hydropower.
From 1997 to 2007, Tajikistan experienced over 200 landslides, mud flows, earthquakes and other hazard events resulting in over 866 deaths and a annual losses averaging $28 million per year. How much could be avoided and saved by taking disaster prevention measures?
The annual health costs caused by particulate emissions from diesel-powered vehicles in Colombo in Sri Lanka are for example estimated at more than $200 million in terms of the cost of investigations, drug treatment and personnel cost, doctor’s time and non-medical costs such as costs incurred by the patient for food and accommodation.
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2. P-E links integrated in development planning
Identification and application of P-E indicators
Integration of PE nexus to national, sub-national and sectoral planning process and final documents
Integration of PE nexus to implementation measures
Pilot projects to demonstrate PE links on ground
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Examples of P-E indicators
• rate of topsoil erosion, • numbers of individuals or households
affected by drought or floods, • level of degree of access to resources by the poor, • incidence of water-borne diseases in rural areas• extent / degree to which the poor can influence
institutions linked to management of rural livelihoods and environmental resources;
• number of ministries, agencies and districts with effective environmental units;
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3. P-E links integrated to budgeting processes
• Public Expenditure Reviews (PER) in the Environment Natural Resource (ENR) sectors;
• Guidelines on how to include environmental sustainability in macro & sector budgets, Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEF);
• Budgetary development processes, e.g. developing costed proposals for funding environmental sustainability in sector budget (e.g. for soil erosion control);
• Mechanisms for long-term increase in budgets for environmental sustainability (e.g. environmental fiscal reform, environment-natural resource sector support programmes for funding by major country-based donors;
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Awareness raising and capacity development
Communication strategies
Guidelines
Training schemes
Experience sharing at regional and global levels
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PEI in Europe and the CIS region
TajikistanUSD 900,000
Sustainable land management
14 district development programmesDistrict Trust Funds and micro-creditsPRS M&E frameworkNext PRS (4)
KyrgyzstanUSD 970,000 + 350,000 parallel
Sustainable pasture management
Province and village plansUN / UNDP programmingNext Country Development StrategyDebt for nature swaps mechanism
Armenia
Up to USD 200,000
Valuation of ecosystem services
