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Towards an integrated approach for implementing the SDGs within National Planning Processes: Cross-country Experiences of Integrated Approaches, Opportunities & Gaps in Africa. David Smith PEI Africa Manager, Poverty-Environment Initiative, Nairobi.
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Towards an integrated approach for implementing the SDGs within National Planning Processes: Cross-country Experiences of Integrated Approaches, Opportunities & Gaps in Africa David Smith PEI Africa Manager, Poverty-Environment Initiative, Nairobi Poverty-Environment Partnership 20th meeting Edinburgh, 27-29 May 2015
UNDP-UNEP POVERTY & ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVE (PEI): WHAT WE DO The UNDP-UNEP PEI supports governments to: Include pro-poor environmentally sustainable natural resource use as a core objective in development planning & implementation Build capacity so that decision-makers know : How pro-poor environmental sustainability contributes to development & How to include pro-poor environmental sustainability in development planning & implementation. PEI regional programmes in Africa, Asia-Pacific, ECIS & LAC PEI Africa full country programmes in Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi & Mozambique . Support to Kenya & Botswana Fully joint programme with joint UNDP-UNEP teams at global & regional level working through Government-UNDP Country Office teams at country level with regional PEI team support. Started in 2005.
PEI AFRICA: A PRACTICAL, PROVEN MODEL OF APPLYING AN INTEGRATED APPROACH WITH MANY LESSONS FOR SDGS • Integrated economic-social-environmental approach is the essence of PEI • Relevance to SDGs identified by donors & countries • Relevant in terms of • Programme content • Means of implementation • Monitoring, accountability & reporting • Experiences & lessons reflect trial & error, ongoing learning & adapting – there is always room for improvement • PEI increasingly requested to provide support to country discussions on how to implement the SDGs
INTEGRATED APPROACHES – KEY ELEMENTS IN PEI AFRICA COUNTRIES • Integrated UN Support – UNDP & UNEP, using a fully joint programming approach: One UN in Action • Integrated programme design at the country level focusing on country circumstances, development planning processes & priorities. • Cross government approach: Planning/Finance, Environment & key ENR sectors (E.G. Agriculture) • Focus on influencing Planning/Finance by demonstrating how sustainable ENR will help achieve economic & social development • Five to ten years of UN support: Poverty-environment mainstreaming is a 10-20 year process of institutional change • Catalysing the large resources for P-E investments from governments & donors.
KEY LESSONS • PEI focus on integrating ENR sustainability & CC adaptation into Planning/Finance led development planning & budgeting process & into key Sector policies & plans because: • P/F set national development priorities & budgets • P/F have responsibilities for cross-sector links & broader cross-government co-ordination • Sectors make the decisions that impact the most on environment • Environment Ministries usually lack capacity & status to m/s by themselves. • Yes, we want to build up capacity in Environment sector • But we need to convince key decision makers who set national & sector priorities & budgets that ENR unsustainability & CC are also development problems. • Then policies will be adopted & more funds will be allocated for ENR sustainability & CC adaptation. • An active commitment to co-ordination & working together is vital – otherwise P-E m/s is a bureaucratically agonising process & likely to fail.
KEY LESSONS • Carry out economic analyses to show how environmentally sustainable natural resource use can improve economic & social development. • Use very specific examples. • Use non-market or informal values also • e.g. family fishing or fuel wood collection • Use economic evidence tactically – e.g. • Briefing notes • Present evidence repeatedly in different meetings & working groups • Present good news as well as bad news – e.g. costs of unsustainability & benefits of investing more in sustainable ENR use and CC adaptation
KEY LESSONS • Support key sector policy & budgetary development processes to ensure sustainability objectives operationalised • Design mechanisms for long-term increases in budgets for ENR sustainability e.g. • Prepare Environment- Natural Resource Sector support programmes for funding by major donors based in country • Proactive, energetic use of PEI programme outputs is vital to generate change • Ensure there is a substantive focus on summarising & communicating key messages according to audience • Prepare Policy briefs based on the key message • Repeat key messages over & over again targeting the specific audience (Planners, ministers, parliamentarians, donors etc) • Inclusion & application of p-e indicators in the national monitoring system vital
OPPORTUNITIES • Applying PEI lessons to assist countries to set the SDGs into the national context (IE Domestication of SDGs). • PEI country programmatic content relevant: • E.g. collection & application of economic & other evidence of the integrated nature of environment-economic-social problems. • PEI country programme means of implementation relevant: • E.g. Joint programming, cross-government, focusing on influencing national development planning & their implementation processes. • PEI country programme challenges provide guidance for implementation of SDGs • In identifying theory of change, developing & applying indicators to track change • In ensuring an adequate focus on the poverty side of p-e m/s
GAPS/CHALLENGES • P-E M/S Is a complex development policy problem – implementing the SDGs will be more complex. Complex problems require appropriate techniques to address them. • Stronger political-economy support will be required compared with MDGs. • Institutional co-ordination – horizontal & vertical - more important • Capacity constraints • Financial constraints • Adequate monitoring SDG implementation & impact plus ensuring monitoring results are used to improve implementation will be very demanding
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