This summary report highlights the Initiative’s successes and failures, and its responses to these. It documents how robust and integrated evidence—along with changes in policy, budgeting, investment, and monitoring frameworks and involving a diverse set of actors—has begun to shape the institutions needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report offers a set of recommendations on how to achieve policy, budget, and expenditure coherence for sustainable development using country-owned planning frameworks, new knowledge and tools, and building national capacities.
This brochure introduces the joint UNDP—UNEP Poverty-Environment Action (2018-2022) project launched on 1 September 2018. Poverty-Environment Action builds on the experience and lessons learned of UNDP—UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (2005-2018) by deepening and broadening its scope and application, notably to the area of finance and through strengthened development partnerships.
This report covers progress on the implementation of UNDP–UNEP Poverty-Environment Action for Sustainable Development Goals through seven full-fledged country projects, as well as two technical assistance projects, underway in 2019. It gives an overview on the project’s performance using established baselines, indicators and targets at the global and country levels, and provides lessons learned during the first full year of implementation.
A mid-term review (MTR) was undertaken and has completed in March 2021 to assess progress towards achievement of PEA objectives and outcomes of which the full report and joint management response to evaluation findings are publicly available at Evaluation Detail (undp.org)
In 2020, total expenditure incurred under all of the above-mentioned funding sources amounted to nearly $7 million. Expenditure against donor funds amounted to nearly $2.5 million (outstanding commitments as of 31 December 2020 — i.e. payments due and committed in Atlas but not yet paid out — of $353,197 are excluded from this donor expenditure figure). Expenditure against agency contributions amounted to nearly $3.5 million in 2020. This comprises $2.1 million from UNDP contributed in the form of in-kind resources for staffing and UNDP core funding, and nearly $1.4 million from UNEP contributed as in-kind resources for staffing and operational support. Under country-level co-financing, expenditures of nearly $675,000 were incurred against local donor and partner contributions, and of about $343,000 against government contributions.