Poverty and Environment Group presentation Armenia, Tajikistan, Kosovo

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Poverty and Environment Group
presentationArmenia, Tajikistan, Kosovo

• Bratislava
• 10 December

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Likely Entry Points for Poverty Environment
Mainstreaming - national mechanisms and
structures

• 1) Major National policy documents
• PRSP
• Sectoral Strategies/policies
• Country development strategies /programmes
• 2) Local Level
• Local level development policies/plans LEAPS,
  Municipal development strategies, regional
  development programmes
• 3) Regional
• Transboundary projects Transboundary
  Degradation of Kura Araks river basin, Central
  Asia Water Initiative, EnvSEC
• 4) Donor assistance frameworks UNDAF,
• DIFID,USAID,CIDA,SDC,WB, ADB

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Challenges

• Not clear vision of the link of poverty and
  environment
• among decision makers (dominating short term
  economic
• benefit decision making)
• Evidence Based Awareness Raising on the links
  of the poverty and Env. (Scientific cycles) -
  Economic analyses for Decision makers,
  Regional, National, local levels
• Developed legislative framework but weak
  enforcement mechanisms
• Separate consideration of poverty and environment
  related issues in major policy documents

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Challenges

• No poverty-environment and environmental
  mainstreaming indicators
• Coordination of internal and external financial
  resources
• Financial Crises -may delay achievement of the
  MDG by 7 years

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Planned Processes

• Responsible coordination unit
• Revision EIA - with consideration of the
  Ecosystem Function Valuation For evidence based
  decision making
• Increase access to markets
• Research and development of green sector energy
• New mechanisms -MDG Carbon fund
• Involvement of the Private Sector as major
  stakeholder

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