The Poverty Environment Partnership's 13th meeting was held in Manila, Philippines on 9 to 11 June 2008.

Presentations from Monday, 9 June – Poverty and Environment Linkages: Sharing Experience from the Field:

• The Puerto Princesa Experience (Edward Hagedorn, 6.7 MB, PPT)
• An NGO perspective on Addressing Poverty & Environment (Timothy Geer, 773 KB, PPT)
• Overview of PEP 13: Objectives and Program (David McCauley, 244 KB, PPT)
• Programmatic Approach: Structure and Process (Lily Hale, 284 KB, PPT)
• ADB Experience with the Programmatic Approach (David McCauley, 2.4 MB, PPT)
• Country Environmental Analysis: The Philippines (Jan Bojo, 111 KB, PPT)
• Philippine Country Environmental Analysis - ADB Draft Report (M. Nasimul Islam, 116 KB, PPT)
• Sustainable Economics and Poverty Alleviation part 1 (Atty. Antonio Oposa, 14 MB, PDF)
• Sustainable Economics and Poverty Alleviation part 2 (Atty. Antonio Oposa, 14 MB, PDF)
• Poverty Environment Net: Status and New Features (Takashi Ohmura, 2.5 MB, PDF)

Breakout Sessions

• Introduction to Group Breakout Sessions (Takashi Ohmura, 195 KB, PPT)

Group 1: Natural Resources and Sustainable Livelihoods - Local Interventions (Summary)

• Pilot Biodiversity Program for Lam Dong Province of Viet Nam (Nao Ikemoto, 691 KB, PPT)
• Innovative Actions for Community Based Water Management and Education Project – Papua New Guinea (Ben Ngava, 1.5 MB, PDF)
• From Community Forestry to Integrated Resource Management in Nepal (John Soussan, 396 KB, PDF)
• Empowering communities for building sustainable alternative livelihood - case studies from APFED programs (Masanori Kobayashi, 7.6 MB, PPT)
• Designing and Implementing Payments for Environmental Services: Poverty-Environment Concerns (A Philippine Case Study) (Ma. Eugenia C. Bennagen, 931 KB, PPT)

Group 2: Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Livelihoods - National Lessons and Actions (Summary)

• Recent experience in Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Pakistan (Usman Iftikhar, 1 MB, PDF)
• Payment for Ecological Services: Examples and Perspectives from WWF (Richard McNally, 1.1 MB, PDF)
• Making Conservation People's Choice: A Tool to Close the Gap between Conservation and Poverty Reduction (Patricia Zurita, 4.2 MB, PDF)
• Biodiversity, Human Wellbeing and Health in the Philippines (Rowena Boquiren, 2.5 MB, PDF)

Group 3: Building Resilience to Environmental and Social Vulnerabilities (Summary)

• Enhancing Human Security, the Environment and Disaster Management: Central Vietnam (Kathleen McLaughlin, 506 KB, PPT)
• Lessons Learned from the Reconstruction of Aceh (Ashley Bansgrove, 2 MB, PDF)
• Poverty Environment Climate Mainstreaming in Bangladesh (A.K.M. Khorshed Alam and M. Aminul Islam, 1.5 MB, PDF)
• Project on Developing Agricultural Insurance in Vietnam (Tran Thanh Ha, 108 KB, PPT)

Group 4: Urban Environmental Management and Quality of Life for the Poor (Summary)

• Groundwater Remediation, Kanpur India (Rajiv Kumar Singh, 837 KB, PDF)
• Polluted Places India (Marlo Mendoza, 681 KB, PPT)
• Smokey Mountain Remediation & Social Development Program (Anita Celdran, 3.8 MB, PDF)
• Air Pollution, Poverty, and Health in Ho Chi Minh City: Assessing Inequalities in Exposure and Health Effects (Sumi Mehta and Vu Xuan Dan, 1.2 MB, PPT)
• Air and Noise Pollution Reduction Strategies for Tricycle Sub-Sector in Puerto Princesa City (Jovenee Sagun, 2 MB, PDF)

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