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UNDP publications showcase the organization’s thought leadership and expertise and play a key role in fulfilling our mandate to support the realization of the SDGs and encourage global development.

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    Clean Energy for Development and Economic Growth

    The document explores the linkages between renewable energy, poverty alleviation, sustainable development, and climate change in developing countries. In particular, the paper places emphasis on biomass-based energy systems. Biomass energy has a number of unique attributes that make it particularly suitable to climate change mitigation and community development applications.

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    Cleanup, Storage, and Transport of Mercury Waste from Healthcare Facilities

    The UNDP GEF project involves demonstrating best practices for the management of mercury waste and promoting mercury-free devices. As health facilities phase out mercury devices, proper methods of storage and transport are needed. This document is intended for project countries where national norms and guidelines for cleanup, storage, and transport of mercury waste do not exist at this time.

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    Climate Finance Options Platform

    This flyer provides an overview of the Climate Finance Options Platform, which analyzes the multitude of funds available for climate action in developing countries, or how to search the web's most comprehensive resource for climate finance information.

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    Closing The Loop: Ecological Sanitation for Food Security

    This publication presents a shift in the way people think about and act upon human excreta. It notes that Human excreta are a resource not a waste. Ecological sanitation is a "closed loop" approach preventing pollution by recycling nutrients and organic matter. Ecological sanitation is applicable for rural areas and for rich and poor alike.

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    Collaboration for Pro-Poor Land Governance – United Nations and CSOs

    The document aims to help UN country teams, as well as other UN staff, intergovernmental organizations and CSOs to: Understand the issue of land governance, why it matters and why civil society needs to be involved; Understand why UN agencies need to work with CSOs to promote pro-poor land governance; and Identify the opportunities and entry points that exist for such UN-CSO collaboration.

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    Combating Desertification in Kenya. Emerging Lessons from Empowering Local Communities

    This publication presents six case studies of Community-Based Organ

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    Communication Package for A Users Guide to Measuring Local Governance

    This communication package has been developed to accompany the User

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    Communities Biodiversity Products from Latin America and the Caribbean

    This publication documents the biodiversity vital to Latin America

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    Community Action to Conserve Biodiversity

    The report presents thirty case studies from the SGP and the Equator Initiative's portfolio to document and draw preliminary lessons from the successes of community-based biodiversity enterprises. While these cases are selected from across Latin America and the Caribbean and initially emerged from an international workshop in Merida, Mexico, they offer valuable lessons for a global agenda.

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