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UNDP Global working
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UNDP Global Programmes for Local
Peoples
Capacity 2015 - In addition to
Capacity 21, other funds and programs managed by
UNDP have provided unique financial and
technical support for grassroots capacity
development initiatives focused on communities'
sustainable development priorities. These
include the Small Grants Program from the Global
Environment Facility, the Africa 2000 network,
and Local Initiatives for the Environment
(LIFE). All of these support decentralized
initiatives based on transparent, participatory
and community driven approaches. Capacity 2015
will build on and expand the scope of these
local capacity development success stories.
Operating globally and nationally, Capacity 2015
will help developing and transition countries
ensure co-ordination, mutual support and maximum
synergies among partners' capacity development
efforts. The UNDP and its global partners will
continue to use the WSSD outcomes to develop
Capacity 2015.
Capacity 2015 Website
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Community Water Initiative -
The Community Water
Initiative is inspired by the success of UNDP’s
small grants programmes such as UNDP/GEF Small
Grants Programme, LIFE and Africa 2000, it is a
funding mechanism for community based water
supply, sanitation and watershed management.
This new initiative operates closely with the
existing UNDP small grant mechanisms and
includes their proven effective features. In
addition to this, the Community Water Initiative
will operate in close partnership with
international NGO’s that have a demonstrated
track record of achievement in water supply and
sanitation. In the 2003/2004 pilot year, six
countries will have programmes to support
activities in four focal areas:
1. Water supply for communities and households
activities
2. Household sanitation
3. Local watershed management
4. Innovative financing and management
structures
Community Water Initiative Website
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CSO Division - As UNDP repositions itself as
a leading policy and advocacy organization for
sustainable human development and poverty
eradication, substantive partnership with CSOs
is of greater strategic importance than ever.
The organization works with a wide cross section
of local, regional and global CSOs in and around
its six thematic areas (democratic governance,
poverty reduction, crisis prevention and
recovery, HIV/AIDS, energy and environment,
information and communications technology). The
range of partners is indicative of the changing
role of civil society actors. CSOs are no longer
restricted to the role of service delivery but
are significant actors in the development of a
society, participating in policy-making and
performing watchdog functions.
The division is responsible for strengthening
UNDP policies and procedural methods to
collaborate more effectively and ystematically
with CSOs. A large measure of this involves
providing programme support and guidance to
country offices to strengthen their capacity to
work with CSOs. In close collaboration with the
Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) and the
regional bureaux, the division also supports
strategic processes of civic engagement at
local, regional, and global levels.
CSO Division Website
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Drylands Development Center - The Drylands
Development Centre (DDC) is a centre of
excellence dedicated to working with people to
fight poverty in the drylands of the world. The
Centre helps to influence policies and bring
about lasting changes.
The Centre recognizes that about one billion
people depend directly upon the natural
resources of the drylands for their livelihoods,
and that many of them are poor and marginalized.
Achieving sustainable development in the
drylands has significant implications for
reducing poverty and hunger worldwide. Over
forty percent of the world is dry and over 2.3
billion people live there. Of the population
living in dry areas approximately 1 billion are
poor which accounts for close to half of the
world's poor.
It will be impossible to meet the Millennium
Development Goals of halving world poverty and
hunger by 2015 unless life is improved for the
people of the drylands. Fortunately, the
drylands have the potential to be productive and
there is a real opportunity for the people who
live there to prosper.
1) We carry out research and analysis of
policies that affect communities in the drylands,
and provide advice and policy-making support to
decision-makers.
2) We help countries to design and manage
capacity development programmes in their
drylands, and help to ensure that national
policy and planning frameworks address the
social and environmental concerns of dryland
populations.
3) We build partnerships, generate knowledge
and promote learning. Our learning networks link
local level actors with the international
community.
4) We promote the strengthening of the
capacities of individuals and institutions at
the local level while working to ensure that
national policy and legislation support local
development.
DDC Website
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Energy and Environment for Sustainable
Development:
Energy and environment are essential for
sustainable development. The poor are
disproportionately affected by environmental
degradation and lack of access to clean,
affordable energy services. These issues are
also global as climate change, loss of
biodiversity and ozone layer depletion cannot be
addressed by countries acting alone.
UNDP helps countries strengthen their
capacity to address these challenges at global,
national and community levels, seeking out and
sharing best practices, providing innovative
policy advice and linking partners through pilot
projects that help poor people build sustainable
livelihoods.
UNDP's Energy and Environment Practice works in
six priority areas:
- Frameworks and strategies for sustainable
development
- Effective water governance
- Access to sustainable energy services
- Sustainable land management to combat
desertification and land degradation
- Conservation and sustainable use of
biodiversity
- National/sectoral policy and planning to
control emissions of ODS and POPs
Energy and Environment Website
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Equator Initiative - The Equator Initiative
undertakes the following activities: Sponsoring
the biennial Equator Prize, which recognizes
outstanding communities that demonstrate in
practical terms how efforts to conserve
biodiversity can also reduce poverty. - Offering
learning exchange grants so that grassroots
practitioners can share best practices with
other communities in the tropics - Facilitating
Eco-entrepreneur mentoring to provide business
and financial advise for small sustainable
business startups - Assisting peoples and
protected areas where communities must balance
income generation with the conservation of
biodiversity in or near World Heritage Sites -
Making the community to policy connection by
linking local sustainable development innovators
with policies that affect them, and working to
ensure communities have the input, political
support and funding they deserve - Fostering
research and learning by enlisting networks of
experts and practitioners to use community best
practices to inform policy and development
priorities - Mounting a global public awareness
campaign to raise the profile of sustainable
communities in donor countries and encourage
adoption of community best practices in
developing regions.
Equator Initiative Website
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GEF-SGP - The Global Environmental Facility
- Small Grants Programme undertakes the
following activitities: Demonstrate
community-level strategies and technologies that
could reduce threats to the global environment
if they are replicated over time; Draw lessons
from community-level experience, and support the
spread of successful community-level strategies
and innovations among CBOs and NGOs, host
governments, development aid agencies, the GEF,
and others working on a larger scale; and build
partnerships and networks of local stakeholders
to support and strengthen community, CBO, and
NGO capacity to address environmental problems
and promote sustainable development.
GEF-SGP Website
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HIV/AIDS -
Under the umbrella of UNAIDS, the International
Partnership Against AIDS in Africa (IPAA) was
launched by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in
December 1999. By intensifying its efforts and
welcoming non-UN entities and individuals in
defining their roles and objectives through
UNAIDS, it is able to take a multi-pronged
approach that will curtail the spread of HIV,
sharply reduce its impact on human suffering and
halt the further reversal of human, social and
economic development in Africa. The Working
Group will support the overall priorities and
principles of the IPAA by developing a global
advocacy campaign to raise awareness and
resources, for the compelling and escalating
needs generated by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in
Africa.
HIV/AIDS Website
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Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment
(LIFE) - UNDP launched LIFE as a global
pilot programme at the Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro in 1992. The programme uses
environmental deprivation as the entry point for
achieving sustainable human development. It
seeks to strengthen CBOs, NGOs and local
authorities, empower the poor and women, and
promote their participation and integration in
development and local governance processes.
LIFE aims to:
- demonstrate local solutions to urban
environmental problems and strengthen
institutional capacities and collaborations
through small-scale projects involving CBOs,
NGOs, and local authorities
- facilitate policy dialogue based on local
initiatives
- promote the exchange of successful approaches
and innovations at the sub-regional, regional
and inter-regional levels.
LIFE Website
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Poverty and Environment Initiative - the
initiative supports a process that includes the
preparation of a literature review and a series
of analytical, in-depth issues papers. The
expected outcome of the Ministerial meeting will
be concrete recommendations for national-level
policies and programs that will promote both
poverty eradication and sound environmental
management, thus creating "win-win" situations
for poor people and the environments in which
they live.
PEI Website
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Public Private Partnership for the Urban
Environment - UNDPs Public-Private
Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE)
facility supports the development of innovative
partnerships between public and private actors
at the local level. Focusing on assisting small
and medium-sized cities, PPPUE works with all
potential stakeholders, including investors,
providers, regulators, users, and experts to
meet the challenge of providing basic urban
environmental services.
PPPUE Website
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Other Key Partnerships
ACT Project - In order to support local
initiatives for the promotion and protection of
human rights, the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) in
partnership with the UNDP established the ACT
Project to financially support through grants,
grass-roots activities carried out by
community-based organizations. These funds will
assist activities which require a relatively
small amount of support to be implemented (up to
5.000US$), but which nevertheless can make an
important impact on the promotion and protection
of human rights at the local level.
ACT Website
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