The year 2021 marked the third full year of implementation of the Poverty Environment Action (PEA) project. Building on progress made in 2020, PEA has put in place the building blocks of future achievement in attaining the intended outcome of strengthened integration of poverty-environment- climate objectives into policies, plans, regulations, and investments of partner countries to accelerate delivery of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.
This report covers the progress on implementation from January to December 2021 of the PEA project through its eight full-fledged country projects and six technical assistance initiatives. Tanzania. The remainder of the report is organized as follows. It begins with a detailed review of PEA implementation by outcome and output indicator performance, with a summary of overall performance following. It continues with a description of communication and visibility efforts, an examination of the challenges encountered in 2021 to successful implementation, and lessons learned for strengthening project delivery. It concludes with a summary of the envisioned way forward. A set of appendixes complete the report presenting, respectively, the PEA communication action plan, the 2022 PEA work plan, and a certificate for outstanding evaluation.