What is the Poverty-Environment Initiative?

The Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is a global UN-led programme that supports country-led efforts to mainstream poverty-environment linkages into national development planning.

The PEI provides financial and technical assistance to government partners to set up institutional and capacity strengthening programmes and carry out activities to address the particular poverty-environment context.


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Success Stories

Rugezi_wetlandRwanda’s economic analysis of wetland site leads to internationally recognized wetland restoration
The Government of Rwanda received the internationally renowned Green Globe Award in October 2010 in recognition of its efforts to restore the Rugezi wetland. Support provided by the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative was instrumental in providing necessary economic analysis and data on which the restoration efforts were based….>> More
 

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