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Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peace Building Potential
(2013)
Thirteen years after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, investment in women as agents of change in peacebuilding remains inadequate. One of the unexplored entry points for strengthening womens contributions ...
Poverty-Environment Initiative: annual progress report 2011
(UNEPUNDP, 2012)
Continued integration of pro-poor environmental sustainability issues into development processes is at the core of the work of the joint United Nations Development Programme United Nations Environment Programme ...
UN-REED programme: 2009 year in review
(2010)
At the global level, the UN-REDD Programme made a number of significant contributions in the area of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), engagement of Indigenous Peoples and Civil Society in REDD+ activities, ...
Mainstreaming poverty, environment linkages into development planning: a handbook for practitioners
(, 2009)
This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning. It draws on a substantial body ...
Uganda Wetlands Atlas - Volume II
(Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda, 2016)
Wetlands underpin the livelihoods of people and their integrity is fundamental to national development. The Uganda Wetlands Atlas, Volume II presents a comprehensive overview of the state and pressures on the wetlands in ...
Economic Analysis of Natural Resource Management in Rwanda
(2006)
The report is structured around two arguments. Firstly, natural resources and ecosystem services in particular have significant contribution to economic growth and poverty reduction. Secondly, failure to manage natural ...
Economic Instruments for Promoting Sustainable Natural Resource Use, Environmental sustainability and Responses to Climate Change
(2009)
This report was prepared to inform the formulation of the five-year National Development Plan (NDP), whose theme is ‘Growth, Employment and Prosperity’. It is based on a study that draws lessons learned from over a decade ...
Scoping Public Environmental Expenditure for Poverty Eradication in Botswana. Poverty-Environment Initiative Botswana Working Paper No. 3
(2013)
Public Environmental Expenditure Reviews (PEER) are playing a major role in providing feedback to governments and other stakeholders on the status of environment and natural resources related spend and initiatives undertaken ...
A Review of Existing and Potential Environmental Fiscal Reforms and other Economic Instruments in Rwanda
(2010)
This report has been made under the auspices of Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI) Phase II in Rwanda. The Initiative aims to enhance the contribution of sound environmental management to poverty reduction, sustainable ...
Enabling local success: A Primer on Mainstreaming Local Ecosystem-Based Solutions to Poverty-Environment Challenge
(2011)
The Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) supports country-led programmes to mainstream the environmental concerns of poor and vulnerable groups into development planning and implementation processes at national, sectoral ...