This report provides a detailed assessment of the structures and processes encompassing key Malawi government institutions and civil society organisations in the area of development, environment and natural resource management. It identifies their roles, mandates and policies. Based on this assessment, the report provides pointers to the areas for potential Poverty‐Environment Initiative (PEI) support.
This report provides a preliminary review of ecosystem services in Rwanda and the corresponding constituents and determinants of well-being related to the availability of these services. This paper is one of seven scoping studies prepared by the International Institute for Sustainable Development for the United Nations Environment Programme.
This report is structured around two arguments: firstly, natural resources and ecosystem services in particular have a significant contribution to economic growth and poverty reduction, secondly, failure to manage natural resources, conserve and protect the ecosystem will result in costs of degradation that will compromise medium and long term sustainable development.
This report provides a preliminary review of ecosystem services in Mozambique and the corresponding constituents and determinants of well-being related to the availability of these services. This paper is one of seven scoping studies prepared by the International Institute for Sustainable Development for the United Nations Environment Programme.
This brief provides arguments for the mainstreaming of the environment in the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy in progress in Rwanda.
This assessment provides a detailed analysis grounded in the changing paradigm on development in Rwanda, speaking to how relationships can be corroborated empirically and how the evidence should influence the policymaking process at the national, meso, and micro levels.