New Joint UNEP and UNDP Poverty and Environment Facility
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Environment Programme (UNEP) cemented the bond between fighting poverty and protecting the environment by launching the joint Poverty and Environment Facility in Nairobi during the twenty fourth session of the UNEP Governing Council in February 2007.
The Facility, one of the first concrete examples of UN Reform in action, is designed to help developing countries to integrate sound environment management into their poverty reduction and growth policies. It will play a central role in expanding the UN’s environmental work around the world, with an emphasis on Africa and Asia.
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Quotes from UNDP and UNEP
Says UNDP
"Eliminating poverty and hunger and protecting the environment are inseparable," said UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis speaking in Nairobi. "That is why the environment has to be the concern of the whole UN family," he said.
Says UNEP
Achim Steiner, UNEP’s Executive Director, said:” This announcement sends a further clear and unequivocal message that underlines UNEP and UNDP’s determination to work together not just in the spirit of UN reform but in concrete, action-orientated, ways to support our member states”.
Contact Information
UNDP
Ben Craft, New York, +1 212 906 5344, [email protected]
UNEP
Nick Nuttall, Nairobi, +254 733 632 755, [email protected]
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See Also
Poverty-Environment Partnership - PEP
