This synthesis report provides a review of poverty reduction-related results that were achieved through UNEP’s work evaluated and reported during the period 2015-2017 to assess the level to which and the ways in which, poverty had been integrated into UNEP’s projects and initiatives. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has been a long-term partner of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), providing support to the implementation of its sub-programmes, placing environment and climate change among the top priorities within its support to development cooperation with natural capital regarded as the basis of human existence.
As part of the Programme Cooperation Agreements (PCA), Sida softly earmarked funding during the period 2015-2017 and beyond, across selected UNEP sub-programmes, with a focus on sustainable development and poverty reduction and with emphasis on improving conditions for people living in poverty in developing countries. Included was the joint UNDP–UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative as an innovative programme addressing the poverty-environment nexus in the least Developed Countries.
A review of poverty reduction-related results that were achieved through UNEP’s work was done, with the evaluation reported during the period 2015-2017 to assess the level and ways in which poverty had been integrated into UNEP’s projects and initiatives.
About the Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals
Poverty Environment Action for the Sustainable Development Goals is a joint global project which provides an avenue for the poverty environment mainstreaming process. It emanates from the sustained partnership between UNDP and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as strategic actors within the UN system to advance the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs. It was a four-year project (2018-2022) jointly implemented by UNDP and UNEP with Global Policy Centre on Resilient Ecosystems and Desertification (GC-RED) as the Managing Agent with a US $20 million budget through a pooled fund, financed by the European Union (EU), Austrian Development Agency (ADA), Norway and Sweden through UNEP, as well as core resources from the UN agencies.
Poverty-Environment Action aims at mainstreaming environmental sustainability and climate objectives for poverty eradication into development planning, budgeting and monitoring systems into public and private finance and investment.
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