Afghanistan: Strengthened Approach for the Integration of Sustainable Environmental Management into the ANDS/PRSP

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Ensure Environmental Sustainability

JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS

Total Budget $5,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNDP, FAO, UNEP
Main Achievements
  • The National Environment Mainstreaming Guideline prepared and ready for endorsement by Environmental Advisory Council. Environmental Education and Awareness efforts underway.
  • Capacity-building carried out at local level for sustainable use of natural resources, legislation in the field of natural resources, community mobilization and livelihood interventions. Training in natural resources management and restoration of deteriorated rangeland reached 4,775 people.
  • Seeds were harvested and used in reseeding 110 hectare in Herat and Ghor provinces; kitchen gardens and poultry risings established. Manual produced for mainstreaming environment management into training curriculum for the Afghanistan Institute for Rural Development (AIRD) to help incorporate environment management into the overall processes for local community sustainable rural development.
Contact Marziya Baydulloeva, UN Coordinating Officer
baydulloeva@un.org

The Joint Programme's aim is to assist Afghanistan in integrating environmental management into its National Development Strategy (ANDS) so as to produce environmentally sustainable growth.

It is doing so by:

1) Assisting in the formulation of appropriate policy frameworks;

2) Ensuring that Afghanistan's institutions have the capacity to effectively implement these policies;

3) Mainstreaming environmental considerations into the national and sub-national planning and development frameworks. This is being initiated in all 34 provinces of the country; and

4) Piloting and scaling-up community-based natural resources management interventions in 5 selected agro-climatic zones, impacting about 7% of the Natural Resource Management base in more than 30 communities.

The Joint Programme is thus directly contributing to the achievement of Environment and Natural Resource goals included in the 2006-2008 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). It also directly responds to the environment and natural resources benchmarks set out in the interim Afghanistan National Development Strategy.

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