The document outlines the strategy for the Poverty Environment Initiative in the Asia Pacific region from 2013-2017. The expected outcome is improved capacity of governments and stakeholders to integrate environmental concerns of poor women and men into planning and decision making for poverty reduction. The strategy involves country mainstreaming programs, regional knowledge sharing, and advisory services. Key messages from workshops emphasize focusing on implementation, high impact issues, training champions, and engaging various stakeholders including government, private sector, and communities.

1. The Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI) in the
Asia Pacific Region 2013-2017
Draft Outline of the Regional Strategy

2. PEI in Asia Pacific 2013-2017
Expected Outcome
Improved capacity of programme country governments and
other stakeholders to integrate environmental concerns of
poor and excluded women and men into planning, budgeting
and economic decision making for poverty reduction, pro-poor
growth and achievement of the MDGs
Expected Outputs
1. Country mainstreaming programmes
2. Regional communities of practice on pro-poor environmental
mainstreaming
3. Joint UNCDF-UNDP-UNEP regional advisory services

3. Key Message from Our Workshop
• Existing Countries - Build on Phase I to focus
on:
Implementation, Implementation, Implementation
• New Countries - lots of opportunities,
challenge is to focus on where PEI can add
value

4. Messages from Our Workshop - Continue
• Validation of thematic focus of Climate
Financing for Sustainable Development and
Natural Resources for Poverty Reduction
• Keep flexibility, with coherent approach
• Pick high profile issues for mainstreaming to
avoid ‘mainstreaming fatigue’
• Training and institutionalisation of PEI
champions within government

5. Messages from Our Workshop - Continue
• Keep focus on finance, planning and local
government as key coordination ministries
• But improve engagement of Ministry of
Environment to support mainstreaming
• Performance based incentives to encourage
mainstreaming by local government
• South-South exchanges between PEI countries

6. Messages from Our Workshop - Additions
• Financing – using limited funds more
effectively
• Emerging themes such as green economy
• M&E: Development of indicators to support
country efforts for sustainable development
• PEI to position itself to better support
countries in the MDG & post 2015
Sustainable Development agenda

7. Messages from Our Workshop - Additions
• PEI as a mechanism can improve government,
regional and UN coordination
• PEI as a forum for multi-stakeholder dialogue
to raise the profile on controversial issues
• Need to increase involvement of local
communities & vulnerable groups
• PEI as a platform to engage private sector
• Working with the wider UN in country

8. Messages from Our Workshop - Additions
• PEI has an opportunity to elevate
Poverty Environment issues to regional
organisations
• Synthesise or codify PEI lessons learnt
on key topics
• More strategic approach to capacity
building

9. Messages from Our Workshop - Additions
• Stronger focus on poverty & MDGs
• Governance aspects critical to
mainstreaming (PEG?)
• Learning from Human Rights and Gender
mainstreaming.
• More importance to Gender dimensions
of mainstreaming

10. Next Steps
• Regional Team to finalise Asia Pacific Strategy
end of August
• Indonesia Country Scoping August
• Global Project Document end September
• Donor Steering Group meeting October
• Myanmar Country Scoping October
• January 2013 Global Phase II begins