Mainstreaming Poverty-Environment Linkages into Development Planning: A Handbook for Practitioners

This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning. It draws on a substantial body of experience at the country level and the many lessons learned by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme in working with governments—especially ministries of planning, finance and environment—to support efforts to integrate the complex interrelationships between poverty reduction and improved environmental management into national planning and decision-making. The handbook also benefits from the knowledge and experience of other development actors, in particular the Poverty Environment Partnership.