Building an Inclusive Green Economy for all and moving towards Sustainable Development Goals, with special focus on urbanization and employment
18th Poverty Environment Partnership Meeting

Berlin 14th-16th May 2013

Day 1: 14 May

• Introduction - Anja Wucke (GIZ)
• Building an inclusive green economy for all based on PEP joint paper: Overview of key building blocks – Paul Steele (UNDP)
• Putting Green Growth at the Heart of Development – Jan Corfee-Morlot (OECD)
• Scoping the issues of relevance to the green economy for cities – David Satterthwaite (IIED)
• Case study of Durban – Errol Douwes (EThekwini Municipality)
• Perspective of development assistance agencies for promoting and supporting the green economy – Carmen Vogt and Alexandra Linden (GIZ)
• Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia - Tadashi Matsumoto (OECD)
• Opportunities and challenges for green jobs and decent work in developing countries – Moustapha Kamal Gueye (ILO)
• Trade, employment and poverty reduction opportunities from Green Economy – Asad Naqvi (UNEP)
• Green jobs in the context of urbanization - Reka Soos (RWA)
• Indian cooperations and partnerships in green jobs creation – Shrashtant Patara (TARA)
• Scaling-up of Service Delivery Models to meet Basic Needs in the Green Economy - Shrashtant Patara (TARA)
• Poverty-Environment FundFrom small-scale innovation … to stories of …transformation - Daniele Ponzi (ADB)
• Mainstreaming environmental issues in development cooperation: lessons for biodiversity and green economy - Didier Babin (CBD Secretariat)
• European Commission experience with environment mainstreaming: lessons for green economy - Thibaut Portevin (EC)
• Ecosystem Services Approach and Mainstreaming Biodiversity  – Experiences of GIZ - Roland Olbrich (GIZ)
• Current Experience in Biodiversity Mainstreaming - Dilys Roe (IIED)
• UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative: Putting the “inclusive” into an inclusive, green, economy - Isabell Kempf (UNEP)
• A review of methodologies and models to supportGreen Economy policy analysis - Asad Naqvi (UNEP)

Day 2: 15 May

• Mainstreaming environmental issues in development cooperation: lessons for biodiversity and green economy - Summary of Day 1
• The SDGs process: perspectives from Asia and the Pacific - Daniele Ponzi (ADB)
• Environmental sustainability in the post-2015 development agenda - George Bouma (UNDP)
• Overview of Post-2015 Processes & Actors - Susanne Milcher and Martin Nowack (GIZ)
• Post 2015 Framework A CSO Perspective - Celine Beaulieu (WWF)
• Formulating SDGs – within Planetary Boundaries- Ellika Hermansson Török
• Natural Capital Accounting a foundation for the SDGs - John Matuszak
• Questions for Table Working Groups during Session 2
• PEP Future Options - Paul Steele

Day 3: 16 May

• Green Economy, Urbanization, SDGs - Marie-France Houle (CIDA)
• Poverty Environment Net - Paul Steele and Daniele Ponzi

Green Economy for Poverty Reduction: Innovation and Scale
17th Poverty and Environment Partnership Meeting
Hosted by Development Alternatives and TARA in partnership with ADB, BMZ and UN
6 to 9 February 2012, Orchha, India

Day 1: 6 February 2012

• Adaptation to Change: Climate Change, Resource Depletion and Globalization (Mihir Mathur, WOTR)
• Decoupling Growth from Resource Intensity in India
• Evolving Models of Social Entrepreneurship in India (Madhukar Shukla, XLRI)
• Financial measures to promote Green Growth (CKinetics)
• ICT Enabled Services for Poverty Reduction: Scalable Opportunities Through Green Businesses (TARA)
• Innovation and Scaling Out for a Green World Economy (Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives)
• Low Carbon Lifestyles (Yashvardhan Kher, Yash Saxena)
• What is MGNREGS?
• Renewable Energy based Village EmPowerment: Innovation in Practice in India (DA Group Case Study) (Manoj Mahata, Development Alternatives)
• Skill Development & Capacity Building for Job Creation (Meera Shenoy, Youth 4 Jobs)
• Stimulating Green Growth in India: Policy Architecture (K. Vijaya Lakshmi, Development Alternatives)
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) For Rio+20 (Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives)
• Scaling-up Imperatives and Opportunities for Impact Investment - TARAgram Yatra 2011 (Rizwan Uz Zaman, Development Alternatives)
• Towards a Green Economy in Asia Pacific – An Overview (Daniele Ponzi, Kotaro Kawamata, ADB)

Day 3: 8 February 2012

• Linking Poverty Reduction and Green Economy (Paul Steele, UNDP)
  

Day 4: 9 February 2012

• Harmonising in Country Support for Green Economy and Poverty Reduction (Breakout session)

Supporting nationally-owned Green Economies to achieve the MDGs and respond to climate change
PEP 16, Vienna 16th-18th February 2011
Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Favoritenstrasse 15a, 1040 Vienna

Files are in PDF.

February 16
Nationally-owned Green Economy: Economic and policy aspects

Session 1.1: Welcome, updates, and introduction to PEP 16

• Bangkok Call for Action
• A brief update on Rio 2012, SG’s Global Sustainability Panel (GSP) and UNDP’s Human Development Report 2011
• Biodiversity and MDGs: UNGA High-Level meeting, Nagoya COP 10

Session 1.2: Economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: State of the art and experiences of country applications

• The TEEB study and its implications for development assistance
• Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES)
• Green Accounting and its implications for development policy
• Conservation agreements for biodiversity and poverty alleviation

Session 1.3: Economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: The role of the private sector and potential collaboration with PEP member agencies

• Integrating ecosystem services and development in big business
• Building small-scale export-oriented biodiversity based companies: Perspectives on role of private sector in nationally owned green economies
• Unilever Sustainable Living Plan and Allanblackia Project

Session 1.4: Poverty and Green Growth: Measures and strategies

• OECD Green Growth Strategy
• Green growth, firm competitiveness and polution management
• Green Industry - UNIDO's green industry concept
• Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) into National Development Plans
• AfDB-Green Growth Strategy for Africa
• Developing a Green Growth Strategy for Kenya
• Green Economy Initiative
• National Green Growth Strategy in Indonesia
• Green Growth local solutions - India - South Asia

February 17
Nationally-owned Green Economy: From policy to practice

Session 2.1: Supporting nationally owned Green Economy: Linking policy and practice

• Supporting nationally owned Green Economy - linking policy and practice
• Green growth donor stock taking exercise

Session 2.2: Stakeholder dialogues and coalitions for green economy and environmental mainstreaming

• National and regional dialogues on GE - early findings
• GEC national dialogue - TARAgram YATRA - 2010

Session 2.3: Environment mainstreaming and aid effectiveness: experience from Central Eastern Europe and CIS

• Governance and institutional aspects of environmental mainstreaming
• Environmental mainstreaming and aid effectiveness - experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Experience of the Republic of Moldova
• Albania-MADA rural environmental services

Session 2.4: Break out groups on future PEP work

• Green Economy dialogues, information and communications, Green Economy Dialogue - Report back
• Joint agency paper on Green Economy for Poverty Reduction and MDGs (DOC)
  
• Supporting and harmonizing nationally-owned Green Economy macro-economic work at the country level
• Scaling up local solutions to grow the Green Economy of the poor, Scaling Up Local Solutions - Report back

February 18
Nationally-owned Green Economy: Role of donor agencies; PEP joint work

Session 3.1: Sharing experiences on environment strategies

• IFAD Policy on Environment and NRM
• Progress on the EU strategy for integrating environment in DC
• Greening development - WBG environment strategy update

Session 1.1 Welcome and Introductions to themes and objectives

Session 1.2 Climate Change Challenges and the African Response: Learning from Recent Experience

• Botswana's Experience with Mainstreaming (UNDP/UNEP, PDF)
• Responding to Climate Change in Malawi (PDF)
• Climate Change Challenges in Malawi (PDF)
• Economics of Climate Change in Kenya (Stacey Noel, SEI Africa, PDF)

Session 1.3 National Government’s role in Climate and Environment Mainstreaming

• What is Environmental Mainstreaming and the Role of National Government (John Horberry, UNDP/UNEP, PDF)
• Mainstreaming Tools and Approaches (PDF)
• Malawi's Experiences in Mainstreaming (Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, PDF)

Session 1.4 Local Solutions for Environment, Climate Change and the MDGs – Towards a PEP proposal

• Local Solutions for Environment, Climate Change and the MDGs – Towards a PEP Initiative (IIED, UNDP, WRI, PDF)
• Lessons & experiences of the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (Abu-Baker S. Wandera, GEF SGP Uganda, PDF)

Session 1.5 Break-out Groups

Session 2.1 Report back from break out groups

• Mainstreaming Climate and Environment (PDF)
• Upscaling Local Solutions (PDF)

Session 2.2 Development Agencies’ Strategies and World Bank Strategy: introduction

• A New Environment Strategy for the World Bank Group (Kulsum Ahmed, World Bank, via Slideshare)

Session 2.3 Discussion of the World Bank’s Environment Strategy concept note

Session 2.4 Environment and natural resources management for growth and poverty alleviation: Emerging priorities for World Bank assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa?

• Environment and Natural Resources for Growth and Poverty Alleviation: Emerging Priorities for World Bank Assistance (PDF)

Session 2.5 Concluding session on World Bank strategy

Session 3.1 Diverse approaches to Green Economy – initiatives, their drivers, and approaches in different countries

• Green Economy – a way to accelerate MDG achievement? (Steve Bass, IIED, PDF)
• Natural Capital: from resource curse to resource blessing (Glenn-Marie Lange, World Bank, PDF)
• Natural resource based economic development: Translating economic valuation into local economic opportunity (IUCN, PDF)
• Towards a Green Economy: A Kenyan Perspective (Wilfred Nyangena, EfD-K/KIPPRA, PDF)
• Moving Towards Green Economies and Green Jobs (Vijay Chaturvedi, Development Alternatives, via Slideshare)

Session 3.2 Putting the ‘green’ back into Green Economy: going beyond climate change/low-carbon to making use of ecosystem services and natural resources

Session 3.3 Green Economy Market Place

Session 3.4 Areas where PEP network can add value: break out groups

Session 4.1 Country Systems and the Environment

• Capacity Development, Environment and Climate Change and The Use of Country Systems (John Horberry, OECD, PDF)

Session 4.2 Capacities for Integrating Environment in National Budgetary Processes And Capacities for Integrating Environment in National Planning Processes

• Capacities for integrating environment into national budgetary processes (Nelly Petkova, OECD, PDF)
• Importance of Integrating Environment into PFM (Tithokoze Samuael, PDF)

Session 4.3 The Role of Donors in Supporting Capacity for the Environment

• Mainstreaming climate change in aid cooperation projects (EuropeAid, PDF)
• Climate risk screening and EIA (EuropeAid, PDF)
• Joint Integrated Environmental Assessment at Country Level - Pilot Action (PDF)
• UNDP StrategicPlan 2008 - 2011 (PDF)
• Integration of environment and climate change in development cooperation (PDF)

Session 4.4 The challenges and opportunities of climate adapation finance for the strengthening and use of country systems

• Country Systems and financing for climate change adaptation: Perspective from Ghana (Veronica Sackey and Franklin Ashiadey,
  Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, PDF)

Session 5.1 Experiences of new PEI country programmes

• UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (PDF)
• PEI Africa: Progress and Lessons PEP Malawi (PDF)
• The UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative In Botswana (PDF)
• The UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative In Malawi (PDF)
• The UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative In Burkina Faso (PDF)

Session 5.2 Synthesis of PEI Lessons

Session 5.3 How to use economic analysis to make a case for poverty environment mainstreaming (using Malawi as a case study) and experiences from other countries

• Malawi Poverty and Environment Initiative: Economic Study (Gil Yaron, GY Associates Ltd, PDF)

Session 5.4 Conclusions on themes of 5 days and next steps for PEP

The Poverty Environment Partnership's 14th meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland on 31 March to 2 April 2009.

Presentations from Wednesday, 1 April:

• Mainstreaming in Africa - Lessons from the UNDP-UNEP Poverty & Environment Initiative (PEI) (David Smith, 102 KB, PDF)
• Regional UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI) Asia-Pacific (Sanath Ranawana, 662 KB, PDF)
• Environment ‘mainstreaming’ (Steve Bass, 366 KB, PDF)
• Local organisations – key but neglected agents ‘at the end of the MDGs delivery chain’ (Steve Bass, 108 KB, PDF)
• Local Solutions for Poverty, Environment, Climate Change, and the MDGs: UNDP’s Approach to Building and Catalyzing Local Capacity and Action (Veerle Vandeweerd, 1.63 MB, PDF)
• Roots of Resilience: Growing the Wealth of the Poor (Manish Bapna, 1.6 MB, PDF)

The Poverty Environment Partnership's 14th meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland on 31 March to 2 April 2009.

Presentations from Tuesday, 31 March:

• Poverty, Biodiversity, and a “Global Green New Deal” (Pavan Sukhdev, 869 KB, PDF)
• Organic Agriculture and the Green Economy (Alexander Kasterine, 399 KB, PDF)
• Climate Change - The Most Vulnerable Places and People (Martin Parry, 1.6 MB, PDF)
• Towards pro-poor REDD? (80 KB, PDF)
• New Climate Financing & Development Cooperation: Synergies & Potential Conflicts (Dr. Jochen Harnisch, 431 KB, PDF)
• Improving the poverty alleviation and development linkages of environmental financing architecture (Vicente Paolo Yu, 131 KB, PDF)
• Mobilizing Innovative Finance and how to work within the financial architecture: Lessons from the Global Mechanism (Simone Quatrini, 2 MB, PDF)
• Fit for the Future - Reforming the GEF (Andrea Kutter, 113 KB, PDF)

The Poverty Environment Partnership's 13th meeting was held in Manila, Philippines on 9 to 11 June 2008.

Presentations from Tuesday, 10 June - Poverty, Climate Change, Environmental Finance, Emerging Issues

• ADB’s Adaptation Program: poverty implications and emerging responses (James Roop, 1.8 MB, PDF)
• GEF Funding for Adaptation to Climate Change (Lily Hale, 314 KB, PPT)
• OECD Guidance on Integrating Adaptation into Development Co-operation (Remi Paris, 155 KB, PPT)
• Making REDD Work for the Poor (David Huberman, 449 KB, PPT)
• Making REDD Work for the Poor - ODI (Leo Peskett, 561 KB, PDF)
• Climate Investment Funds (Woochong Um, 98 KB, PPT)
• The New Financing Architecture for the Environment (Timothy Geer, 338 KB, PPT)
• Survey of Financial Commitments to Climate Change and Forestry (Yasushi Hibi, 792 KB, PPT)

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The Poverty Environment Partnership's 13th meeting was held in Manila, Philippines on 9 to 11 June 2008.

Presentations from Monday, 9 June – Poverty and Environment Linkages: Sharing Experience from the Field:

• The Puerto Princesa Experience (Edward Hagedorn, 6.7 MB, PPT)
• An NGO perspective on Addressing Poverty & Environment (Timothy Geer, 773 KB, PPT)
• Overview of PEP 13: Objectives and Program (David McCauley, 244 KB, PPT)
• Programmatic Approach: Structure and Process (Lily Hale, 284 KB, PPT)
• ADB Experience with the Programmatic Approach (David McCauley, 2.4 MB, PPT)
• Country Environmental Analysis: The Philippines (Jan Bojo, 111 KB, PPT)
• Philippine Country Environmental Analysis - ADB Draft Report (M. Nasimul Islam, 116 KB, PPT)
• Sustainable Economics and Poverty Alleviation part 1 (Atty. Antonio Oposa, 14 MB, PDF)
• Sustainable Economics and Poverty Alleviation part 2 (Atty. Antonio Oposa, 14 MB, PDF)
• Poverty Environment Net: Status and New Features (Takashi Ohmura, 2.5 MB, PDF)

Breakout Sessions

• Introduction to Group Breakout Sessions (Takashi Ohmura, 195 KB, PPT)

Group 1: Natural Resources and Sustainable Livelihoods - Local Interventions (Summary)

• Pilot Biodiversity Program for Lam Dong Province of Viet Nam (Nao Ikemoto, 691 KB, PPT)
• Innovative Actions for Community Based Water Management and Education Project – Papua New Guinea (Ben Ngava, 1.5 MB, PDF)
• From Community Forestry to Integrated Resource Management in Nepal (John Soussan, 396 KB, PDF)
• Empowering communities for building sustainable alternative livelihood - case studies from APFED programs (Masanori Kobayashi, 7.6 MB, PPT)
• Designing and Implementing Payments for Environmental Services: Poverty-Environment Concerns (A Philippine Case Study) (Ma. Eugenia C. Bennagen, 931 KB, PPT)

Group 2: Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Livelihoods - National Lessons and Actions (Summary)

• Recent experience in Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Pakistan (Usman Iftikhar, 1 MB, PDF)
• Payment for Ecological Services: Examples and Perspectives from WWF (Richard McNally, 1.1 MB, PDF)
• Making Conservation People's Choice: A Tool to Close the Gap between Conservation and Poverty Reduction (Patricia Zurita, 4.2 MB, PDF)
• Biodiversity, Human Wellbeing and Health in the Philippines (Rowena Boquiren, 2.5 MB, PDF)

Group 3: Building Resilience to Environmental and Social Vulnerabilities (Summary)

• Enhancing Human Security, the Environment and Disaster Management: Central Vietnam (Kathleen McLaughlin, 506 KB, PPT)
• Lessons Learned from the Reconstruction of Aceh (Ashley Bansgrove, 2 MB, PDF)
• Poverty Environment Climate Mainstreaming in Bangladesh (A.K.M. Khorshed Alam and M. Aminul Islam, 1.5 MB, PDF)
• Project on Developing Agricultural Insurance in Vietnam (Tran Thanh Ha, 108 KB, PPT)

Group 4: Urban Environmental Management and Quality of Life for the Poor (Summary)

• Groundwater Remediation, Kanpur India (Rajiv Kumar Singh, 837 KB, PDF)
• Polluted Places India (Marlo Mendoza, 681 KB, PPT)
• Smokey Mountain Remediation & Social Development Program (Anita Celdran, 3.8 MB, PDF)
• Air Pollution, Poverty, and Health in Ho Chi Minh City: Assessing Inequalities in Exposure and Health Effects (Sumi Mehta and Vu Xuan Dan, 1.2 MB, PPT)
• Air and Noise Pollution Reduction Strategies for Tricycle Sub-Sector in Puerto Princesa City (Jovenee Sagun, 2 MB, PDF)

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The Poverty Environment Partnership's 13th meeting was held in Manila, Philippines on 9 to 11 June 2008.

Presentations from Wednesday, 11 June - Special Topics, PEP Business and Networking Day

• Biofuel and Poverty Nexus in Asia (Myo Thant, 269 KB, PPT)
• Food Prices and Inflation in Developing Asia (William James, 625 KB, PPT)
• The Environments of the Poor – New Perspectives on Development Programs (Armin Bauer, 542 KB, PPT)
• MDG Summit and environmental sustainability roundtable and side events (Usman Iftikhar, 178 KB, PPT)
• PEP Independent Evaluation Preliminary Results (Kenneth Green, 179 KB, PPT)

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The Poverty Environment Partnership's 12th meeting was held in Washington DC on 19 to 21 November 2007.

21 November Presentations:

• Environmental Review of Budget Support Programmes: Guidance for Non-Specialists (Green and Martin, 48 KB, PPT)
• The Poverty-Environment Agenda and UNDP’s MDG Support (Usman A. Iftikhar, 154 KB, PPT)
• ADB’s Poverty & Environment Program and an Update on www.PovertyEnvironment.Net (David McCauley, 722 KB, PPT)

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