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UN Inter-Agency Network
The UN Inter-Agency Network was
launched in December 2008 with the participation of 12 UN Agencies.
Its purpose is to:
- Increase awareness of the Marrakech Process and its activities
among the UN Agencies;
- Highlight their potential role and the benefits of getting
engaged in promoting and implementing SCP; and
- Involve the UN Agencies in the formulation of the 10YFP.
Cooperation Dialogue with Development Agencies
Development agencies can make a difference and
contribute to SCP. Even though most of them are not familiar with
the concept, they integrate SCP issues in their sectoral projects,
such as energy and resource efficiency, waste management, water
and sanitation, food and sustainable agriculture, poverty reduction,
and rural development.
The Cooperation Dialogue is a space offered
by the Marrakech Process to engage development agencies, regional
banks, and SCP experts from both developing and developed countries
in the promotion of SCP and in exploring and highlighting the
benefits of SCP for poverty reduction.
Third
Dialogue Session in Paris (2010)
Sustainable
Consumption and Production for Development: Building Cooperation
and Synergies Towards Rio +20, Supporting Poverty Reduction and
Green Growth
The third dialogue session, which
took place on the 10th and 11th of June 2010, in Paris, took the
form of a joint OECD-DAC/ENVIRONET - UNEP workshop.
The workshop objectives were to:
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Build cooperation and explore synergies between sustainable
consumption and production (SCP) capacity building activities
and policies and development cooperation programmes
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Explore ways to facilitate and mainstream the implementation
of SCP/resource efficiency activities in development cooperation
activities and support for policy making at country level
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Highlight SCP contributions to achieving the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), including through green jobs initiatives, which
contribute to poverty alleviation and the construction of
a resource efficient, low carbon economy
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Explore the linkages between SCP and green economy/green
growth as well as between SCP and climate change in a development
context
Participants highly welcomed this
effort to find synergies between existing work streams under the
broad title of "SCP for development" and noted the progress
that had been made in advancing the discussions on SCP in fora
such as the UN Commission for Sustainable Development, the Marrakech
Process, and in the preparations towards Rio +20.
Second
Dialogue Sessions at Stockholm (2007)
The Second Dialogue Sessions of the Cooperation
Dialogue was organised during the Stockholm International Meeting
(2007) with the participation of around 25 participants from as
many organisations and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin
America and North America. The session was co-chaired by Mr. Phil
Dobie of UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environment Facility UNDP and Octavio
Peralta of the Association of Development Financing Institutions
in Asia & Pacific (ADFIAP). The participants pointed out the
following key recommendations to build more cooperation between
SCP experts and development agencies in the promotion of SCP patterns:
- Extend the dialogue beyond development cooperation
agencies to recipient governments to integrate SCP approaches
in national development agendas
- Develop tools for implementation of SCP programmes
(e.g. knowledge management, SCP toolkits under development by
the Task Forces, and SCP checklist for development projects
- Undertake research on the links between poverty
and SCP and to document economic and social benefits of applying
this approach
- Review the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
to see how SCP can secure high-level attention and how the 10YFP
could complement that declaration
The Cooperation Dialogue also identified that
it can contribute to the further development of the 10YFP through:
- Establishing a working group to support the
Development Cooperation Dialogue in developing a vision and
work plan, and specific areas and projects for collaboration.
This group might also serve as a steering committee to guide
the UNEP
project on SCP and poverty alleviation (PDF - 606 KB)
- Extend the Dialogue to a broader spectrum
of development cooperation partners (national and regional development
banks and financial institutions, investors, foundations, interested
commercial banks) to find ways to advance SCP activities developed
by Marrakech Task Forces, National Clean Product Centres and
other stakeholders' initiatives
- Compile an online database of SCP projects
that could be presented to this broader spectrum of development
cooperation partners
Link:
- Meeting
Report (PDF - 248 KB) and Co-chairs Summary of the Third
International Expert Meeting on 10YFP (Stockholm Meeting)
First Dialogue Session at Costa
Rica (2005)
The Cooperation Dialogue Sessions were launched
at the Second International Expert Meeting on the Marrakech Process
(Costa
Rica 2005). It was co-chaired by Mr. Sherif Arif, World Bank
and Mr. James Riordan, Mr. Environment Canada, with a good participation
of development agencies including the Finnish Development Agency,
the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Dutch
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, the Spanish
Agency for International Cooperation (AECA), the Swedish Agency
for International Development (SIDA). As a result, the experts
and the representatives of the development agencies discussed
and identified that:
- Poverty eradication is a priority, with a
particular focus on the Millennium Development Goals
- Development agencies are responsive to the
objectives and priorities set by recipient governments in national
development plans
- Aspects of sustainable development and/or
environmental sustainability are often included in national
development plans, but there are generally no specific references
to SCP
- Engaging development agencies in the Marrakech
Process can best be done by including SCP in national development
plans
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| Sherif Arif (World Bank), Adriana Zacarias
(UNEP), and James Riordan (Ministry of Environment of Canada) |
As a result of the first Cooperation Dialogue
Sessions, the following activities were recommended for follow
up:
- Undertake a review
of existing SCP-related projects supported by development agencies
as a basis for considering how better to integrate SCP in development
plans and identify opportunities to increase access to available
development funds
- Continue the dialogue between SCP experts
and development agencies and organize similar sessions at the
Third International Expert Meeting on the 10-Year Framework
of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (Marrakech+4,
Sweden 2007)
- Estimate the costs of inaction and the benefits
of SCP
See minutes
of the first meeting.
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