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UNDP has been actively engaged in supporting environmental management in Yemen
to ensure the sustainability of Yemen’s scarce resources and protect its fragile environment.
UNDP focuses on conserving Yemen’s unique biodiversity and ensuring the sustainability
of its environment, while striving to meet MDG 7 targets. Along with its key
national stakeholders, both at the policy and community levels, UNDP is currently working
on an overall policy framework that integrates environmental management into
national development and poverty alleviation policies and programmes.
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PORTFOLIO
Flavia Pansieri, Resident Representative
UNDP and GEF are working to strengthen Yemen’s institutional capacity and its ability to evaluate, and promote pressing environmental
issues, and to integrate environmental, social and economic considerations into national public decision-making. The National
Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) aims at identifying and determining the nature of capacity constraints faced by the Yemeni government
to respond to the global conventions and ways to address these constraints. Meanwhile the Sustainable Natural Resources
Management Programme will provide capacity building support at the national, regional, and local levels.
UNDP is supporting initiatives that aim to build upon and improve the institutional capacities of water organizations to promote and
secure sustainable water and sanitation management. These efforts include The Water Resources Management, Community Water Supply
& Sanitation project, which presents a model for long-term, sustainable stewardship of water and sanitation services at the community
level; and the National Programme on Integrated Water Resources, which provides a comprehensive response for addressing the water
management issues with the objective of alleviating poverty and securing the basis for sustainable development.
The Development of a National Adaptation Programme of Action aims to fulfil Yemen’s requirement under the UNFCCC, in order to deal
with the negative impacts of climate change. Other activities include the Climate Change Enabling Activities project, which assists
Yemen in the preparation of the proposal for the Second National Communication. GEF is contributing to these energy initiatives.
UNDP is supporting the promotion of systemic and integrated human development and biodiversity conservation in the nationally and
internationally important Socotra Archipelago of Yemen. This is being done within the context of the Sustainable Development &
Biodiversity Conservation Programme, which supports main engines of growth for the local economy through eco-tourism and sustainable
fisheries and implements the archipelago’s zoning plan and community based management of protected areas. In addition, GEF
is funding efforts to prepare the third National Report on Biodiversity to meet the Government’s obligation under the CBD.
MLF funding has made possible UNDP’s support in the refrigeration sector with the development and launch of implementation of a
recovery and recycling programme for commercial and mobile air-conditioning refrigerants.
CONTACTS
Mr. Fuad Ali Al-Kadasi – fuad.ali@undp.org
Mr. Waheeb Ahmed Al-Eryani – waheeb.aleryani@undp.or
Tel.: 967-1-448605/8
Fax: 967-1-448841
http://www.undp.org.ye/undp-progs-nat-res.htm
PARTNERS
Some of our Partners working with
UNDP and the Government in Yemen
Government of Italy
CIDA
Canadian Nexen Petroleum Yemen
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MDGR 2003 and http://www.undg.org/documents/4392-Yemen_MDG_Report_-_Goal_7.pdf; 2 UNDP Choices,“Thirst for Water and Development Leads to Conflict in Yemen”, March 2003:
http://www.undp.org/dpa/choices/2003/march/yemen.html; *Frameworks and Strategies for Sustainable Development 155