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| FACTSHEET: Generating community benefits while protecting the environment |
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UNDP and GEF SGP, 2006-05-03
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| Title: |
FACTSHEET: Generating community benefits while protecting the environment |
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UNDP BDP Environment and Energy Group, 2 pages
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| Type: |
Outreach
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| Country / Region: |
Global
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| Categories: |
Energy Services,
NGO's/CSO's
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| Themes/Issues: |
Development
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| Date Posted: |
2006-05-15 |
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The Expo "Energizing the Millennium Development Goals KNOWLEDGE EXPO" took place during the fourteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-14) held in New York in May 2006. This was one of twelve posters on display on a variety of energy and MDG success stories at the Expo. The focus is on MDG 7: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability.
Challenges of generating community benefits while protecting the environment:
• Scaling up, replicating and mainstreaming community energy initiatives to expand access
to energy services to achieve the MDGs
• Channeling resources directly to non-governmental and community-based organizations that aim
to foster development, particularly in rural areas
• Reaching the poorest of the poor who are limited by literacy, exposure and disempowerment
• Ensuring small scale, community-based initiatives have a wide-reaching impact on development
• Reconciling global environment and development goals with pro-poor energy services that contribute to achieving the MDGs at the local level
Findings from SGP experiences:
• Need to integrate community energy initiatives in the national development process to facilitate the achievement of national development goals like the MDGs
• For rural energy, national policies needed to support decentralized options to energy delivery
coupled with institutional support to integrate energy options
• Necessary to build coalitions between the national government, local government, private sector, civil society (including NGOs), the community and the beneficiaries
Why is a Community-based Approach Important?
- Community options to respond to climate change challenges produce fast demonstrative results to Governments and development partners.
- Communities depend upon natural resources for their life’s and livelihoods. Local impacts in resource use lead to global impacts on environment.
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