Poverty-Environment Partnership - PEP

Partnership Title :

Poverty-Environment Partnership - PEP

Organisations involved :

UNDP, bilateral aid agencies, multilateral development banks, other UN agencies and international NGOs

Region :

Global

URL :

Description :

The Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP) is a network of bilateral aid agencies, multilateral development banks, UN agencies (including UNDP) and international NGOs that aim to address key poverty-environment issues within the framework of international efforts to achieve the MDGs. To date the PEP group has published papers on the links between poverty and: Environmental Management, Climate Change and most recently on Environmental Fiscal Reform.

The past year UNDP has had a coordinating role in preparing a fourth paper on Poverty Reduction and Water Management. Organizations (that as per Oct 2005 have agreed to be signatories of this paper) include: ADB, UNDP, UNEP, Danida, EC, WHO, Finnish MFA, Development Cooperation Ireland, Sida, DFID, DGIS Netherlands, AfDB, GTZ. Other organizations that indicated that they wish to be acknowledged as supporting the paper include: IUCN, SEI, SIWI, WWF, WRI, IIED.

See Also New Joint UNEP and UNDP Poverty and Environment Facility

Lessons Learned :

Contact :

Joakim Harlin (UNDP)