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The proportion of the Beninese population demonstrating the greatest need for access to clean energy is the most heavily affected
by environmental degradation. UNDP Benin supports the integration of national capacities for ecologically sustainable development
and the promotion of global best practices. 3 All UNDP Benin’s energy projects are integrated in the country’s poverty
eradication programmes, as sustainable livelihood cannot be achieved without a sustainable energy policy.
CHEMICALS BIODIVERSITY ENERGY FSSD*
PORTFOLIO
Moustapha Soumare, Resident Representative
UNDP is supporting the Government of Benin in strengthening capacity for natural resources management, through the Programme
for National Environmental Management.The programme has two major objectives, decentralisation of natural resource management,
and strengthening national capacity to implement the National Action Plan against Desertification, particularly, locally-elected officials.
In terms of Climate Change, UNDP has provided assistance to Benin, with funding from the GEF, to prepare its First National
Communication to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
UNDP has promoted the conservation and sustainable use of Benin’s biodiversity with GEF-funding to support the preparation of a
National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, enabling it to fulfil its commitments to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and provided
an assessment of the needs and capacity constraints to biodiversity protection in the country.
Benin is participating in a regional halon management project for 6 French-speaking African countries that will allow all participants
to effectively manage their critical uses of halons, an ODS used for fire protection purposes. Participation in this regional project
ensures effective training in proper halon bank management at the national level, and will establish a regional banked halon system
through which future critical halon needs will be met.
CONTACTS
Mr. Jean Jacob Sahou – jean-jacob.sahou@undp.org
Tel.: 229 31 30 45
Fax: 229 315786
http://www.undp.org.bj/
PARTNERS
Some of our Partners working with
UNDP and the Government in Benin
CBDD
Government of Venezuela
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Benin MDGR 2003 http://www.undg.org/documents/3042-Benin_MDG_Report_-_Objectif_7_Cible_9.pdf and http://www.undg.org/documents/3042-Benin_MDG_Report_-
_Objectif_7_Cible_10_11.pdf ; 2 UNDP/GEF Capacity Needs Assessment for the Implementation of the Benin’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, 2nd National Report;
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http://www.undp.org.bj/; *Frameworks and Strategies for Sustainable Development
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