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Do you think we need to do more to ensure environmental considerations are integrated in development decisions?
Do you have problems in finding the right approaches (tools, methods and tactics) to help you?
Do you have experience of using such approaches, or of the challenges to or opportunities for environmental mainstreaming?
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NEW
Environment Inside
We have been building on the lessons from the country learning groups and surveys which are synthesised in our Issues Paper on Environmental Mainstreaming and have developing a first draft Environment Inside - a new web resource for getting envirnment considered in key development decisions.
ACCESS ENVIRONMENT INSIDE
IIED survey of mainstreaming activities
As an input to the work of the Poverty Environment Partnership (link this to this menu item], IIED has undertaken a survey of the mainstreaming initiatives of PEP members.
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Mainstreaming lessons from Amazonas
A new IIED report about Brazil’s Amazonas state provides important lessons for environmental mainstreaming and sustainable development – for the rest of the country and other developing countries as they search for green and sustainable economies.
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New Green Economy Coalition website
The Green Economy Coalition brings together environment, development, trade union, consumer and business sectors, North and South. It is committed to a common cause: accelerating a transition to a new green economy. The GEC fosters a common understanding of green economy themes, and promotes learning, creativity and innovation across sectors.
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The challenge to mainstream/integrate environment into development has never been more urgent. In response, in 2007, IIED launched the User Guide Project , with support from Irish Aid and DFID, focusing on approaches (tools, methods and tactics) for integrating/mainstreaming environment in development decision-making. The focus was placed on those approaches (both formal and informal) which directly help to shape policies, plans and decisions.
The User Guide Project involved a series of country surveys, led by partner organizations, to gather perspectives from decision-makers, planners and development practitioners on environmental mainstreaming or integration and the tools they use and value. Drawing from the reports of these surveys, in July 2009, IIED published an Issues Paper examining the contextual, institutional and other challenges of environmental mainstreaming. The paper also incorporates lessons from EM learning groups organized by IIED in Tanzania, Zambia and Vietnam, and a review of international experience and work undertaken by a number of bilateral development cooperation agencies and UN organizations.
As a follow-up, IIED has linked up with a range of international organizations and initiatives and development cooperation agencies to launch the Environmental Mainstreaming in Development Initiative - a three-year (2009-2012) process of participatory enquiry and preparation of supporting materials including a Sourcebook on Environmental Mainstreaming
The collobarating partners currently include UNDP (Environment & Energy Group), UNDP/UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI), the Biodiversity Convention Secretariat and Ausaid. IIED is in discussion with the OECD and other potential partners regarding their involvement.
This initiative, coordinated by IIED, involves three phases
- Phase 1 (April 2009 – March 2010): Developing a synthesis of existing information and draft sourcebook on EM.
- Phase 2 (2010 - 2011): In-country and thematic dialogues and enquiry.
- Phase 3 (2011 - 2012): Building towards the 2010 UN World Summit (Rio+20)
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