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Spotlight Nature and Nurture: Poverty and Environment in Asia and the Pacific Knowledge Resource

Poverty and Environment Program
Updated: 14 October 2009

The Poverty and Environment Program (PEP) is a regional technical assistance project/activity financed by the Poverty and Environment Fund (PEF), a multi-donor trust fund administered by ADB. The program aims to accelerate learning about poverty-environment linkages and effective approaches for poverty reduction.

PEP is developing a fast-growing knowledge base that draws lessons from replicable and self-sustaining interventions implemented by ADB and its development partners in the Asia and Pacific region and globally. Through PEP, the Poverty Environment Net was established as the mechanism for knowledge capture and outreach.

The focal areas are:

While capturing knowledge on poverty-environment relationships from experiences of past and ongoing projects of ADB and other development partners, PEP is also acquiring lessons and promoting effective responses toward environmental improvement and poverty reduction through its own small grants program focusing on the following:

• Pilot interventions - activities that demonstrate innovative institutional arrangements, participatory approaches, technical solutions, or sustainable livelihoods with clear potential for successful replication, mainstreaming, and/or upscaling
• Targeted analytical studies - focused studies, action research, and targeted activities aimed at removing specific policy, institutional, organizational, technical, and financial barriers to improved environmental management at the local level
• Information dissemination - activities that focus on the sharing of lessons learned and best practices for addressing the environmental dimensions of poverty