RT null T1 Poverty-Environment Initiative Africa: Achievements and Lessons Learned 2005–2018 A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A1 United Nations Development Programme, K1 poverty mitigation K1 sustainable development K1 private sector K1 environmental financing K1 programme of action K1 Africa K1 Agriculture K1 Biodiversity YR 2019 FD 2019 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28784 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28784 NO This report reviews the Initiative’s successes and failures, and its responses to these. In so doing, it documents how robust and integrated evidence—along with changes in policy, budgeting, investment and monitoring frameworks and involving a diverse set of actors—has begun to shape the institutions needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report offers a set of recommendations on how to achieve policy, budget and expenditure coherence for sustainable development using country-owned planning frameworks, new knowledge and tools, and building national capacities. It explores the importance of building partnerships, committing to joint programming and developing a culture of adaptive management that focuses on generating results; these also contribute to UN reform and development partner effectiveness and coherence. DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 18, 2026