United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Organisation O0137
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| Qualification | Poverty and Environment Unit |
| Contact details | United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Avenue, Gigiri PO Box 30552, 00100 Nairobi Kenya Phone: +254 20 621234 Fax: +254 20 624489/90 |
| Type of organisation | Conservation organisations (UN) |
| Organisation's interest | Conservation |
| Location | Kenya |
| Learning Group member? | Yes |
Description
UNEP is the voice for the environment within the United Nations system. UNEP acts as a catalyst, advocate, educator and facilitator to promote the wise use and sustainable development of the global environment. UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
The Poverty and Environment Unit was created in 2004 to address the links between poverty and the environment. The Unit’s aim is to promote the goals of environmental sustainability and poverty reduction.
Projects
UNDP/UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative (PEI): Linking Poverty Reduction And Environmental Management to Achieve the MDGs: The UNDP-UNEP Poverty -Environment Initiative (PEI) is a joint programme to provide financial and technical support to countries for mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning processes. Based upon experience over the past few years in assisting nine countries in Africa and Asia to launch sustainable programmes to mainstream poverty-environment into national development plans, budget processes and sector implementation programmes, UNDP and UNEP have launched an effort to scale-up the PEI significantly and to work closely with key donors and other partners to expand the effort to other countries and regions. An increased number of country programmes will be supported by joint UNDP-UNEP regional teams and by the headquarters of the two organizations.
Geographic coverage
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
People
Peter Hazlewood, PEI
Email: peter.hazlewood@undp.org
Web URL
http://www.unep.org/
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