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Environment and Security Initiative

Environment and Security Initiative. Outline. Links between environment and security History of the question Organizations active in the field ENVSEC: how does the partnership work Regions and projects overview Achievements, challenges and plans How to better coordinate with COs.

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Environment and Security Initiative

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  1. Environment and Security Initiative

  2. Outline • Links between environment and security • History of the question • Organizations active in the field • ENVSEC: how does the partnership work • Regions and projects overview • Achievements, challenges and plans • How to better coordinate with COs

  3. Environment and security links • Environmental challenges may contribute to drivers of risks to human security and national stability and insecurity can lead to environmental problems • Environmental degradation and resource scarcity have not been sole causes of violent conflicts • Environmental issues can provide opportunity to foster dialogue and cooperation

  4. Climate change related security risks in selected hotspots

  5. Adapted from Dabelko et al., 2000 and Maltais et al., (2003)

  6. Evolution of understanding

  7. Prominent actors in the field • IISD “Environment and Security” project • E&S research of Pacific Institute: database of water conflicts • ECSP at Wilson Center: new security blog • U of Toronto environment, population and security project • Institute for Environmental Security • Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)

  8. ENVSEC: how it works • Partnership of six agencies with complementing mandates and expertise • Aims to contribute to reduction of environment and security risks, and strengthened cooperation between and within countries by • Providing a multi-stakeholder based analysis of environment and security risks; and • Supporting the process to address identified risks systematically.

  9. ENVSEC: how it works (cont’d) • Active in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus and Central Asia • Management Board, Secretariat (Coordination, Admin, Regional Desk Officers) and NFP in countries • Total portfolio (since 2004 including completed, ongoing and planned) is 101 projects with around 25 mln US$ • Not a funding mechanism; on the contrary has to do its own fund-raising and charges 6% fee for mgt • Project proposals submitted to RDO (CA doesn’t have “core” ENVSEC programming resources)

  10. ENVSEC-UNDP ongoing and pipeline portfolio

  11. ENVSEC achievements • Visualized analysis of environmental-security issues with participation of stakeholders in EE, SEE, SC, and CA • Coordinated approach to the issues of several partners • Facilitation of the discussion of the issues (ENVSEC conferences) and testing of some practical steps to address issues

  12. ENVSEC challenges • Defining the scope and focus of Initiative • Strategic management and coordination capacities • Buy-in and support of governments • Stable funding basis • Strengthened cooperation and coordination within the UN system and with other relevant entities (EC, WB)

  13. How can cooperation with CO be improved? • Keeping CO informed about pertinent ENVSEC developments • Identify matching interests between CO pipeline, ENVSEC priority and donor interest and support CO develop proposals to be implemented by CO • Encourage COs to actively contact ENVSEC RDO and explore possibilities of joint project development and fund-raising

  14. More information www.envsec.org

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