1. Introduction to the UNDP and UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative(PEI) Henrieta Martonakova UNDP and UNEP PEI Regional Team UNDP Bratislava Regional Center

2. Outline Links between economic development, poverty and environment What is PEI? Why PEI? PEI Objectives PEI Interventions

3. Links between economic development, poverty and environment Land degradation Over 40% agricultural land and pastures are degraded; over 85% of territory is eroded --- Agriculture employs 65% of the workforce Food 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 KYRGYZSTAN 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.

4. PEI mission: ….. to provide financial and technical support to countries to build capacity for integrating poverty -environment linkages into national, sectoral and decentralized development plans (i.e. PRSPs, CDSs, district plans, sector strategies, etc.)

5. UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Initiative UNDP and UNEP PEI Partnership UNEPPoverty-EnvironmentProject Supported by Norway, Belgium and Sweden UNDP Poverty-Environment Initiative Grew out of WSSD Supported by DFID and EC Donors collectively agreed to support significant scale-up of PEI in 2007 UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Facility, established 2007 Joint Global PE Facility Joint Regional Teams PEI Country teams Example of effective on-the-ground UN interagency co-operation

6. PEI country inter-agency partnership PEI works with BOTH Planning, finance and sector agencies / ministries to integrate environment in planning for sustainable country development Environment agencies / ministries to engage more effectively in planning for sustainable country development

7. PEI regions and countries

8. PEI Donors

9. 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.

10. 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?

11. 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)

12. Economic analysis Objective: To assess the economic costs and benefits, in monetary and non-monetary terms, of sustainable and unsustainable natural resource use.

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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;

16. 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;

17. Awareness raising and capacity development Communication strategies Guidelines Training schemes Experience sharing at regional and global levels

19. District Trust Funds and micro-credits

20. PRS M&E framework

22. UN / UNDP programming

23. Next Country Development Strategy

25. THANK YOU!  For more information: henrieta.martonakova@undp.org nara.luvsan@unep.org