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Australia /Government	Australia's Industrial Development Experience	Macroeconomic stability – creating a stable environment in which industry can invest with confidence and businesses can build their international competitiveness. The focus is thus on achieving hi	Key lessons learnt from the 2005 Review of National Competition Policy Reforms: A broadly-based reform program improves the prospect that those who might lose from a specific reform still gain ove

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Major Groups	Bund construction for rice production, northern region of Ghana	Although rice was an established crop in the Northern Region, yields were low. There is substantial surface runoff during the rainy season, and bunds that capture this runoff can significantly increa	The lessons learned from this experience are typical of many rural development interventions. First, farmers have been quick to respond to market opportunities, and are ready to invest large amounts	Agence Française de Développement (AFD - French Development Agency), Ministry of Agriculture and Food (MOFA), Agricultural Development Bank, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, local NGO

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Spain /Government	Creación de un registro telemático en la Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas	Facilitar los trámites administrativos de solicitud de signos distintivos y patentes españolas, europeas e internacionales PCT. El registro permite además la presentación de recursos administrati	Actualmente sólo está completamente operativo la solicitud de marcas y nombres comerciales. El 17% de las solicitudes de marcas y el 24% de las de nombres comerciales llegó por esta vía, lo cual	Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas (MAP)

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United States of America /Government	Encouraging Conservation on Agricultural Lands through Incentives and Technical Assistance	U.S. natural resources conservation programs (e.g., Conservation Reserve Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program) help farmers reduce soil erosion, enhance water supplies, improve wa	Targeted conservation programs can help farmers and ranchers meet environmental challenges on their land. Key to success is a focus on national environmental priorities (such as water quality, soil

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Lithuania /Government	Energy Efficiency/Housing pilot project	1) To develop and implement measures which have been provided for in the Lithuanian Housing Strategy and its implementation documents; 2) To take part in development and introduction of a housing mo		Ministry of Economy Engineering-consultancy companies Ministry of Environment Association of Municipalities Central Project Management Agency Municipalities

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Kenya /Government	Farmer Field School for up-scaling soil management technologies, western Kenya	The dominant farming system in western Kenya is a crop-livestock mixed system where intercropping of maize and common bean is closely integrated with livestock production. The population density ra	1.Village immersion: The facilitators of the planned FFS enter into a community. They hold a series of meetings with the local leaders and administrators in which they explain the objectives and goa	Rockefeller Foundation (donor), Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Ministry of Agriculture, Local NGOs: Vi-Agroforestry, Community Mobilization Against Desertification Others: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Nairobi office, The Rockefeller Foundation

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Major Groups	Farming for Energy, for Better Livelihoods in Southern Africa (FELISA)	• Produce cleaner, renewable energy • Reduce carbon emissions • Provide for domestic energy needs of African countries • Provide employment to rural labourers • Boost rural economies of		SADC, Southern African states and energy consumers, Southern African biodiesel farmers

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Mali /Government	Gestion Améliorée de l’Environnement : Femmes et les Energies Nouvelles et Renouvelables (FENR)

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Major Groups	Guatemala Radio Project	Strengthening community radio stations’ ability to produce quality content for broadcast to indigenous peoples throughout the country. Building local capacity to sustain the project beyond Cultural	Initially, many deputies didn't object to legalizing stations that truly represented their communities. But they would not support legislation to give partisan, religious, or commercial stations free

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Jordan /Government	Jordan Cleaner Production Programme (JCPP)	The programme aims to establish a national and regional capcity to ensure the sustainable application of the concept of cleaner production by the industry. More specifically, it aims to: - Provid	The JCPP is serving as a coordinating and catalytic role for cleaner production by conducting in-plant demonstrations, organizing training programmes, promoting CP technology investment projects, pro	the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Environment, Amman Chamber of Industry, Zarqa Chamber of Industry, the Royal Scientific Society, Energy Research Center, the Jordan University of Science and Technology, the Friends of Environment Society, as the Program's Secretariat

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Netherlands /Government	Knowledge Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR Netherlands)	The objective of CSR Netherlands is to promote CSR amongst its primary target group, namely businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs. CSR Netherlands seeks to realise its obj	The Knowledge Centre reaches beyond its immediate membership, as shown by the involvement of a wide range different participants in its workshops, events and projects.

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Canada /Government	Le site Internet spécialisé Agroenvironnement d’Agri-Réseau : un accès rapide et gratuit à l’information scientifique et technique de pointe en matière d’agriculture et d’environnement.	Le site Internet Agri-Réseau s’est donné pour mission d’offrir un accès rapide et gratuit au savoir et à l’expertise du réseau agricole et agroalimentaire québécois par l’intermédiair	Pour que le site spécialisé Agroenvironnement remplisse ses objectifs, il doit rester vivant par l’ajout continuel d’information traitant de sujets d’actualité. Les statistiques d’achaland	Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec

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Switzerland /Government	Minergie: More life quality, less energy consumption	To increase energy efficiency in the building sector through the introduction of a volontary quality label		Different actors and institutions in Switzerland: building owners, architects and engineers, construc-tion and renovation business, Government and local authorities

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Nigeria /Government	NEED TO ENSHRINE INTEGRATED CAPACITY INTO UNSKILLED CIRCUMSTANTIAN PROFESSIONS IN NIGERIA.	LATER, PLEASE.	NONE.	WE ARE IN GROUPED PARTNERSHIP. THE INITIAL TASKS HAVE BEEN GRASSROOT ORIENTATION CONSISTING OF VARIOUS SCHORLARS AND PUBLIC CONCERNS. WE NEED MORE FORMIDABLE INTERNATIONALPARTNERS FOR ASSOCIATION AND EXCELLENCE.

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Australia /Government	Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Pacific	To dispose of stockpiled POPs, including agricultural pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from old electrical transformers in 12 Pacific island countries: Fiji, Cook Islands, Federated St	Clear, rigorous management protocols (in accordance with national and international regulations) ensured the managing contractor kept physical risks as low as practicable. Political and weather risk	AusAID worked with the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) to determine Pacific island member countries’ priorities for waste management. SPREP undertook initial investigatory work on the scale of the problem and subsequently worked with the contractors engaged by AusAID to implement the project. Environment ministries in the participating countries have been partnered by Australian Government counterparts to negotiate the permitting requirements for moving hazardous waste between countries. State and local government agencies have oversighted the safe transport and destruction of Pacific persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Australia.

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Mexico /Government	Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR)	The primary goals of the project are: 1) To encourage reductions of pollutant releases at national level and transfers from industrial activities; and 2) To foster the use of PRTRs and PRTR data by	Challenges encountered include: - Lack of political willingness to provide public access for environmental information; - Lack of economic resources The establishment of legal instruments for e	EPA CCA Industry States’ authorities Environment Canada

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New Zealand /Government	RECOVERY Ozone Protection Company	To promote the facilitate the collection, storage and disposal of all ozone depleting substances during the phase out period.

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United States of America /Government	Research coordination to Overcome Barriers to Microirrigation	Although microirrigation has proven to be an efficient irrigation method, it has been adopted on only a fraction of the land area appropriate for the technology. An irrigation survey conducted in 200	Microirrigation has significant potential for improving irrigation efficiency and nutrient management, but continued research is needed to overcome barriers to microirrigation adoption on an internat	US Land Grant Universities, dryland farmers

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Trinidad and Tobago /Government	Scitechknowfest - National Energy Exhibition and Demonstration	To demonstrate all aspects of energy, both primary and renewable, to schoolchildren ranging from 7-18 years of age.	In order to provide consumer education and awareness raising regarding energy management for school children, it is important to demonstrate all aspects of energy.	The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries, NALIS, Energy Companies (State and Private), Secondary Schools and Pupils.

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Bangladesh /Government	Social Marketing and Promoting Private Sector in Bengladesh	To improve hygiene by increasing public awareness	Key Factors for Success -- The Campaign has created a stronger link between raising awareness about sanitation and making information available for consumers on technologies and services. -- Privat	UNICEF

Issue	Africa
Theme	Natural resources management
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Belgium /Government	A multi-approach tool for the volcanic risk management of the Goma region (North Kivu) (GORISK)- “STEREO” programme	The GORISK project is oriented towards the improvement and implementation of techniques dedicated to the study and monitoring of the Nyiragongo.	An important GORISK segment concerns the ground deformations monitoring that are amongst the most important parameters to monitor; it is addressed by both space borne and ground based observations. V

Issue	Africa
Theme	Poverty reduction
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Intergovernmental Organization	ACP – EU Water Facility	The overall objective is to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development through the achievement of the specific Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and World Summit for Sustainable De	The response to the Facility has shown a high and unsatisfied level of demand for this kind of finance. It has demonstrated its added value in allowing new partnerships for investment in infrastructu	ACP countries

Issue	Africa
Theme	Natural resources management
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United States of America /Government	Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment	A new publication -- Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment -- documents environmental change at more than 100 locations spread across every country in Africa. The Atlas, produced by the African	Those who read this Atlas and reflect upon its images will gain a deeper understanding of environmental impacts upon Africa’s people, land, plants, animals, air and waters. The pace and scale of c	Those interested in changes in, uses of, and trends in African land and water.

Issue	Africa
Theme	Means of implementation
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Belgium /Government	Agribusiness Development Academy Programme 2005-2009- Project in South Africa	Training of emerging farmers in agribusiness Constraints and challenges: Limited capacity for project implementation if one does not want to count on external consultants only		Department of Agriculture; Limpopo - South Africa

Issue	Africa
Theme	Health priorities
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Major Groups	Business Alliance Against Chronic Hunger	To reduce hunger in Africa by strengthening specific food value chains through business development and market linkages. Companies implement these solutions in partnership with governments, NGOs, int	Through BAACH, businesses leverage their expertise and capabilities to improve value chains – from production, processing and packaging to retailing and marketing – to increase food supplies, nut	• Unilever • Sealed Air • General Mills • TNT • Nike • Technoserve • The MDG Centre • The Rockefeller Foundation

Issue	Africa Land
Theme	Integrated land management Natural resources management
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United Republic of Tanzania /Government	Conservation Agriculture for sustainable crop production, Tanzania	Conservation tillage, zero or minimum tillage, is one of the practices that has proved to combat soil degradation efficiently. While millions of hectares of farm land are already under zero tillage i	The advantages of reduced and minimum tillage against conventional mechanical tillage practices are: • Saving farm power and labour requirements due to the elimination of ploughing and the reducti	FAO Tanzania

Issue	Africa Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Poverty reduction Increasing access to energy for the poor
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Intergovernmental Organization	EU Energy Initiative for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development	- To contribute to providing the access to energy necessary for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly that of halving the number of people in extreme poverty by the year 2	The Initiative has been successful in improving coordination, dialogue and synergies and in creating a number of funding and capacity building instruments that contribute to improved energy access.	governments, other international energy initiatives, NEPAD, etc

Issue	Africa
Theme	Poverty reduction
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United States of America /Government	Expanding Trade Opportunities and Building Prosperity in Africa	Signed into law in May 2000, the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) legislates reduced barriers to trade, increasing exports, creating jobs, and expanding opportunity for sub-Saharan Afri	While the absence of import duties under AGOA increases the competitiveness of African exports, certain factors like inefficient energy supplies, the high cost of electricity and limited access to fi	Sub-Saharan African exporters.

Issue	Africa Desertification
Theme	Natural resources management Efforts to reverse or mitigate desertification
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United States of America /Government	Management of Natural Resources and Desertification in Africa: The Transformational Change in Namibia	In Namibia, wildlife-based enterprises (mostly in the tourism sector) managed by rural Namibian communities contributed to significant increases in both rural revenues and large mammal populations.	In this example, rural people built opportunities using innovative natural resources management technologies to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of climatic changes, while pulling them	Government of Namibia and Community Conservancies

Issue	Africa Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Education Natural resources management Sustainable development for Africa Poverty eradication
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Major Groups	Reach Out Inner City Project	To harness the energy and leadership potential of young people so that they may become advocates of change within their own communities. JEP believes that change will benefit the community and ensure	Partnership with the local municipality, through the Johannesburg Development Agency, resulted in jobs for some of the young people in the project. Several of the young people, who had been trained i	Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA)

Issue	Africa
Theme	Poverty reduction
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United States of America /Government	Strengthening Africa’s Export Competitiveness	The African Global Competitiveness Initiative (AGCI) is a $200 million, five-year Presidential Initiative that promotes the export competitiveness of enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa. The goal is t	• Inefficient energy supplies and the high cost of electricity and telecommunications hinder export competitiveness, as do high transportation costs. Investment in electricity, in particular, is c	Small and medium sized African enterprises.

Issue	Africa
Theme	Natural resources management
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United States of America /Government	Transformational Change in Senegal: Natural Forest Management	In Senegal, USAID’s Wula Nafaa (Benefits of the Bush) Program has helped rural populations better manage local natural forest resources, strengthen and diversify their economies and reduce and even	Lessons Learned: The revenues from properly managed natural products and natural forests were much greater than occurred prior to the Wula Nafaa (Benefits of the Bush) Program. • Rural producer	Rural communities in Senegal

Issue	Africa Rural development Cross-cutting issue Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation Poverty reduction Means of implementation related to agriculture Sustainable development for Africa Means of implementation related to rural development
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United States of America /Government	Working with Domestic Banks to Expand Credit: Loan Guarantees for Private-Sector Agricultural Development	USAID uses the Development Credit Authority to issue partial credit guarantees to encourage lending by financial institutions in developing countries. Capital there often lies dormant because banks	The unwillingness of banks in developing countries to lend on the basis of potentially profitable business and investment plans, rather than collateral, can be overcome by partial loan guarantees. T	In-country financial/lending institutions

Issue	Agriculture Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Gender equality Agriculture, hunger and food security
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Major Groups	Agri-Business by poor women integrating livestock-crop systems and Vermi-composting for sustainable agriculture and empowerment	To help improve livelihoods of women farmers To promote organic farming To wipe out myths that women cannot undertake any agri-business Agakhan Rural Support programme (India) provided technical	1.The women learnt to earn income through composting and ways of handling business 2. The women learnt ways of diverting to other ventures for sustenance of livelihoods 3. The women are ‘change	Women farmers from across State and Jambur women group, Farmers’ Training Centres (FTCs)

Issue	Agriculture Africa
Theme	Poverty reduction Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
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Major Groups	Agricultural Workers and Integrated Production and Pest Management, Uganda	The aim of this initiative is to keep pest populations below economically damaging levels and to restrict pesticide use to amounts that are economically justified and reduce risks to human health and	Innovative elements - The practice gives agricultural workers knowledge and skills on IPPM so that when instructed by an employer or manager to use a pesticide, they can suggest alternative IPPM tech	Global Pesticide Project Swedish Trade Unions, Global IPM Facility IGOs: IUF and Global Integrated Pest Management Facility Research Institution: CABI Bioscience

Issue	Agriculture Africa
Theme	Poverty reduction Means of implementation related to agriculture
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Major Groups	An integrated approach – gender sensitization workshops and training on access to technology - for shea butter extraction for Gbimsi women in Ghana	.To promote small-scale industrialization 2.To generate income to support and to sustain the livelihoods of women 3. To transfer appropriate technology to small-scale industrialist through traini	1 Dealing with a completely illiterate group was a major obstacle at the initial stages but the frequent organization of gender training sessions helped to boost the confidence of the women, which co	Villinkrikri group of Gbimsi

Issue	Agriculture Cross-cutting issue Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Health and sustainable development Rural infrastructure and social services Poverty eradication Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Sustainable development in a globalizing world Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
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Intergovernmental Organization	Bangladesh Fresh Water Flood Relief: Animal Welfare in Disaster Management and Risk Reduction	WSPA Disaster Management teams across the world aim to provide relevant and immediate animal relief aid in disasters by: • Creating a highly trained Disaster Management teams for rapid response,	There were a number of lessons learned in the Bangladesh fresh water floods: • Lack of WSPA animals welfare member societies in Bangladesh delayed on-the-ground care, • Valuable time was spent	Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock), District and Village Councils, Bangladesh Police force, Bangladesh National Army, BRAC Agro and Salt Industry, Human Development Program (Local NGO Partner)

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
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Germany /Government	Biocontrol-based IPM for the Diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella), Eastern and Southern Africa	Cabbage is one of the most important vegetables grown in East Africa. It provides necessary dietary vitamins and minerals in a maize-based diet and generates substantial income for the producers and	In spite of long-lasting efforts to improve DBM management through biological means, long-term studies of the impact of its parasitoids are scarce. In many biological control projects, very little o	German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Issue	Agriculture Africa
Theme	Natural resources management Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
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Intergovernmental Organization	Biocontrol-based IPM for the Diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella), Eastern and Southern Africa	The objective of this project is to introduce biological control scheme of DBM which avoids the environmental and human health costs, as an important alternative to synthetic pesticides. To develop	In spite of long-lasting efforts to improve DBM management through biological means, long-term studies of the impact of its parasitoids are scarce. In this project, observations on DBM and the local	Donor German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) NGOs: International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)

Issue	Agriculture Cross-cutting issue Rural development Africa
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Poverty reduction Natural resources management Rural infrastructure and social services Agriculture, hunger and food security Sustainable development in a globalizing world Means of implementation related to rural development
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United States of America /Government	Building Agricultural Value Chains in Zambia for Retail Input Services	Following an assessment showing that Zambia’s smallholder farmers were poorly served by the agricultural inputs industry, the USAID-funded Production, Finance and Technology (PROFIT) project decide	A competitive value chain for agricultural input services is critical to the competitiveness of the principal food crop (maize) and cash crop (cotton) value chains. • Rural smallholders are a po	Small holder farmers

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Natural resources management Agriculture, hunger and food security
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United States of America /Government	Changing Importance of Livestock in Agricultural Economies and Global Trends	Of the one billion rural poor, two-thirds or 660 million people depend on livestock. Livestock production is the largest single agricultural sector in most developing countries and accounts for up t	An integrated approach is required to incorporate policies, technologies and institutional capabilities. Animal agriculture cannot be separated from a farming system without severing the vital link t	Livestock farmers worldwide and U.S. Land-Grant Universities

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)	The policy aims at the sustainable production of food and non-food products, safeguarding the countryside and providing environmental services, employment in rural areas and helping to reinforce the	Integrated approaches involving all rural actors, whether they are farmers, foresters or local enterprises, can contribute enormously to a region's ability to derive sustainable benefit from its natu

Issue	Agriculture Drought
Theme	Adaptation to drought Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
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Kenya /Government	Conservation agriculture for smallholder farmers in dryland areas, Laikipia District, Kenya	The goal of Conservation Agriculture(CA) is to maintain and improve crop yields and resilience against drought and other hazards, while at the same time protect and stimulate the biological function	• Dolichos lab used in CA as a source of soil cover was highly adopted by small scale farmers in the district. This was due to the fact that apart from the property of fixing Nitrogen in the soil,	German Trust Fund Ministry of Agriculture (Kenya) FAO

Issue	Agriculture Land
Theme	Integrated land management Integrated land planning Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
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Kenya /Government	Conservation agriculture for smallholder farmers in dryland areas, Laikipia District, Kenya	- Maintain and improve crop yields - Enhance resilience against drought and other hazards - Protect and stimulate the biological function of the soil - Shift weed management from mechanical means	- An essential element of conservation agriculture (CA) is planning crop sequences over several seasons, to minimize the build-up of pests or disease and to optimize plant nutrient use by synergy bet	German Trust Fund Ministry of Agriculture (Kenya) FAO

Issue	Agriculture Rural development Land
Theme	Integrated land management Integrated land planning Natural resources management Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
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Major Groups	Conservation farming in Zambia	These practices aim to improve soil structure and water retention and reduce the need for chemical fertilizers while at the same time increasing crop yield.	Input supply and credit necessary for smallholders. Extension support is needed, as well as labor management, weed control, credit and input availability for further expansion. Careful planning will	Farmers Union (ZNFU) and Conservation farming unit (CFU) GART for research, Dunavant Cotton Co. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF)International Food Policy Research Centre (IFPRI) The Cooperative League of the USA (CLUSA), and the Land Management and Conservation Farming (LMCF)

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation related to agriculture
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United States of America /Government	Creating Markets and Market Access in West and East Africa: Leveraging Communication Networks to Distribute Critical Market Information	USAID supports a variety of projects that use information and communications technology (ICT) to improve regional markets; improve market access for smallholder farmers; and, increase food security b	Better Information and communication technology can supply traders with improved early warning marketing and trade information that lead to more efficient and competitive transactions in food trade b	Smallholder farmers

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation related to agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Creating Markets and Market Access in West and East Africa: Leveraging Communication Networks to Distribute Critical Market Information	USAID supports a variety of projects that use information and communications technology (ICT) to improve regional markets; improve market access for smallholder farmers; and, increase food security b	Better Information and communication technology can supply traders with improved early warning marketing and trade information that lead to more efficient and competitive transactions in food trade b	Smallholder farmers

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Cross-cuting agenda, Agriculture - Environment	To incorporate the environmental dimension in the areas of action and the programs of promotion for the agricultural and fishing production in order to advance in sustainable development improving	Building basic agreements and explicit commitments between different Secretariats and entities of the federal and state governments has proven to be a valuable tool in order to obtain measurable resu	SECRETARÍA DE AGRICULTURA, GANADERÍA, DESARROLLO RURAL, PESCA Y ALIMENTACIÓN (SAGARPA) Y SUS ORGANISMOS SECTORIZADOS

Issue	Agriculture Land Rural development Energy for Sustainable Development Climate Change Industrial Development Human Settlements Inter-Linkages
Theme	Job Creation and Enterprise Promotion Greenhouse gas sinks Adaptation Integrated land planning Managing transportation demand (e.g. improved city planning, promotion of public transit, intermodal shifts) Integrated Planning and Decision-Making Environmental Management Information systems on land Means of implementation related to land Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Means of implementation related to rural development
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Major Groups	East New York Farms! Growing a Community Food System	Objectives 1. To nurture local food systems through agricultural development that contributes to economic, environmental and social justice. 2. To enhance the capacity of more than 30 urban growers	1. Urban agriculture has multiple uses – greening, food production, education, income generation and community revitalization. 2. Moving from individual urban agriculture projects to a wider suppo	Pratt Institute for Community Development United Community Centers East New York Food Policy Council and Food Coop East New York Gardeners’ Association East New York Planning Group Greenthumb and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Just Food “Brooklyn’s Bounty Network” of Independent Brooklyn Farmers’ Markets New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Brooklyn District Public Health Office and Brooklyn Task Force on Food and Fitness Farmers’ Market Federation of New York

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Effective Strategies for Animal Waste Management on Large Farms in the U.S.	Environmental concerns from livestock and poultry operations are regulated by national laws, as well as state and local regulations and zoning. As livestock and poultry farms in the United States ha	Applied research programs coupled with education, information and cost-share programs can help farmers and ranchers find cost-effective ways to comply with requirements.	Livestock and poultry producers.

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Empowerment for food security 2005-2009- Project in South Africa	Enhancing food security at household level through: 1. increase of agricultural production, storage and preservation 2. improved food diversification 3. improved income 4. improved food distribut	1. Strong focus on household level 2. All agricultural activities with strong emphasis on sustainable natural resources management 3. Use of local facilitators instead of external consultants 4. J	Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs, Kwazulu Natal – South Africa

Issue	Agriculture Rural development Land Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Integrated land management Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Integrated land planning Natural resources management Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Encouraging Conservation on Agricultural Lands through Incentives and Technical Assistance	Overview U.S. natural resources conservation programs (e.g., Conservation Reserve Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program) help farmers reduce soil erosion, enhance water supplies	Targeted conservation programs can help farmers and ranchers meet environmental challenges on their land. Key to success is a focus on national environmental priorities (such as water quality, soil	Land management stakeholders.

Issue	Agriculture Africa
Theme	Poverty reduction Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Ending Hunger by Transforming African Agriculture	The U.S. Presidential Initiative to End Hunger in Africa (IEHA), which began in 2002, focuses on improving smallholders’ productivity and increasing rural incomes in order to alleviate hunger and p	An integrated and comprehensive approach to investments in agriculture (i.e., improved policy, technology and links to markets) can increase productivity and trade. This, in turn, can have a direct	African farmers and agribusinesses.

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Means of implementation related to agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	European Action Plan for Organic Food and Farming (EAP)	To set out policy measures to provide the conditions that allow the organic sector to develop and thereby make the most of its market potential; to facilitate imports of organic produce from developi	Significant progress has been achieved on most actions; the first phase of regulatory reform has been finalised	public online consultation and hearing, stakeholder group, Member States, other EU institutions (Parliament, Council)

Issue	Agriculture Africa Rural development Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Education Poverty reduction Natural resources management Sustainable development for Africa Poverty eradication Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Farmer to Farmer Extension System in Kenya	Kenya is primarily an agricultural country in which agriculture and agriculture-related activities are responsible for up to half of the economic activity in the country (IEA, 2001). The role of the	Improved technical skills of farmers and their ability to cope with uncertainty. Increased food productivity and market opportunities as farmers were able to come together at the local level not only	FAO Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteers for Technology Transfer, Market Chain Development and Strengthening Local Organizations	The John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer (FTF) Program transfers knowledge and expertise of U. S. agricultural producers and businesses to developing and middle-income countries, and emerging democracies.	Transferring technical knowledge and expertise to individuals and institutions through volunteers can help build local capacities and introduce new productive technologies and innovations in rural ec	Agricultural producers and businesses in developing and middle-income countries.

Issue	Agriculture Rural development Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Other regional initiatives
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Farmers exchange and the implementing of ecologically sustainable methods	For the Bangladesh farmers to learn about ecologically sustainable methods from other farmers in Tamil Nadu, India and (The Swedish NGO Swallows organized the exchange) and then implement it back in	After this exchange, there was great knowledge diffusion when the farmers came back, the gains were higher ecological sustainability in the farmers’ production and a better self-confidence amongst

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Food Security Learning Center	The Food Security Learning Center (FSLC) was created in 2002 to serve as an online hub of information exchange for the U.S.-based food security movement, and increasingly, for international partners.	The FSLC highlights lessons learned in the U.S. food security movement though model program profiles for 13 different topics, as well as a searchable database of U.S. Department of Agriculture Commun	Stakeholders/Partners: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Community Food Security Coalition

Issue	Agriculture Land
Theme	Integrated land management Integrated land planning Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	From agroforestry to improved livelihoods in Chebarus village	The main goal of agroforestry is to protect dry lands against erosion and to increase the farm productivity through sustainable agriculture. More specific objectives can be defined as follows: - Re	- Agroforestry has the potential of not only increasing farm productivity and profitability (for example maize yields can be boosted from 222kg to 2.2~5.6t/ha), but also diversity, by generating a ra	Bread for the World

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Gender and Property Rights: Giving Women a Place at the Table	Women’s access to land and natural resources has been recognized as an important development issue, touching on issues of justice and economic empowerment. Secure property rights for women can alt	Gender must be taken into account from program inception. Including women in project activities often requires refinement of approaches and adaptation of established mechanisms. Educating both men a	Women farmers

Issue	Agriculture Land
Theme	Integrated land management Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Genetic and ecosystem biodiversity programme	- Conserving and restoring natural spaces and the agricultural landscape and to create an environment favourable to the survival and reproduction of wild flora and fauna on land withdrawn from produc	When arable production ceases, it must be for a minimum of 20 years so as to create : - Habitats for wild fauna and flora - Variously structured natural environments protected - Reduced	great stakeholder consultations, local participation

Issue	Agriculture Drought
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Global Agricultural Monitoring systems by integration of earth observation and modeling techniques (GLOBAM)- “STEREO” programme	The overall objective of the project is to fill the gap between the current state of the art for local crop monitoring and the wide-scale operational system requirement. The overall research strateg	A major gap exists between the remote sensing operationally used and the current scientific state of the art in EO crop monitoring. There is a lack of relevant field data over large areas, and these

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Global Monitoring for Food Security (GMFS)	GMFS aims to provide earth observation based services and encourage partnerships in monitoring Food Security and related environmental processes in Africa, by concerting efforts to bring data and inf		Participation: PPS Science Policy Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Honduran farmer school	Several Farmer Schools was organized by ANAFAE to promote practical application of research for ecological agriculture and best practices and learning among participating partners. In order to gradua	Proper capacity building for the right groups can catalyze appropriate processes for development. The Farmer Field Schools have proven to be a reliable and practical mechanism to achieve results in r	FIPAH, Asociación de CIALES • World Vision • APAS, Asociación de Productores Agropecuarios de la Sierra • COMUCAP, Cooperativa de Mujeres • Vecinos Mundiales • CTSAR, Centro Técnico San Alonzo Rodríguez • CONAGRO, Consultores Agropecuarios • ADROH, Asociación para el Desarrollo de Occidente • ACAN, Asociación Campesina Nacional • CEASO, Centro de Enseñanza-Aprendizaje El Socorro Pastoral Social – Cáritas Comayagua Participatory Research in Central America (IPCA)

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Improving Food Security and Nutrition Policies and Programme Outreach- Project in Malawi	The project aims not only at improving food security but also the nutrition situation of approximately 29,000 food insecure households in two districts in Malawi, Kasungu and Mzimba.		Malawian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development Department of Nutrition and HIV and AIDS UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Issue	Agriculture Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Gender equality Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Increased Incomes for Smallholder Farmers in Ghana through Agricultural Exports	In Ghana, the Trade and Investment Programme for Competitive Export Economy (TIPCEE) Program helps smallholder farmers improve their incomes from exports in a variety of value chains (including mango	By finding practical ways to use information and communication technology, smallholder farmers can integrate into supply chain systems, be a competitive alternative to industrial farming, and manage	Women farmers

Issue	Agriculture Land Cross-cutting issue Rural development Africa
Theme	Integrated land management Rural development and poverty reduction Education Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Natural resources management Means of implementation related to land Sustainable development for Africa Poverty eradication Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Burkina Faso /Government	Integrated crop-livestock farming system, Burkina Faso	• Participation and collaboration between local farmers and IFAD project. • Project research activities based on farmers’ demand, adapted to local conditions and managed by producers. • Par	Impacts on natural resource base - Building of stone rows has not only helped in controlling runoff and soil erosion but has also conserved moisture. The crops and residues produced were mostly recyc	Donors - Government of Burkina Faso, Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC) and International fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Government Institution: Natural Resource Management and Production System Department (INERA) IGO: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) NGOs: Canadian International Development Research Center (IDRC)

Issue	Agriculture Africa
Theme	Poverty reduction Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Integrating Smallholder Producers into Vibrant Dairy Product Value Chains in Kenya	About 600,000 smallholder farmers produce milk in Kenya on farms of less than two hectares that support two or three dairy cows. Since September 2002, USAID\Kenya has supported a consortium of organi	Smallholder dairy farms in Kenya milking two to three cows can be highly productive when provided with training, technical assistance and access to market-based inputs. Project impacts can be sustain	Samll holder dairy farmers in developing countries.

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation related to agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Le plan d’accompagnement agroenvironnemental : une démarche sur mesure pour aider les agriculteurs à prendre le virage agroenvironnemental	La démarche d’accompagnement agroenvironnemental ferme par ferme élaborée par le ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec vise deux objectifs : appuyer con	Pour les agriculteurs, avoir la possibilité de s’adresser à des conseillers experts en agroenvironnement correspond à un véritable besoin. On compte aujourd’hui 83 clubs-conseils en agroenvir	Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada

Issue	Agriculture Cross-cutting issue Land Africa
Theme	Integrated land management Means of implementation Means of implementation Poverty reduction Integrated land planning Access to and distribution of land Information systems on land Poverty eradication Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Sustainable development in a globalizing world Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Making the Edible Landscape	One objective was to increase the technical capacity and social awareness of design professionals and students. Site plans were validated through implementation with municipal partners. The project a	It is very beneficial to have a clear, concise, and measurable project results framework. South-South communication for knowledge sharing is useful and much valued by southern participants, but re	Promotion of Sustainable Development, Peru Municipal Development Programme for Eastern and Southern Africa Institut africain de gestion urbaine University of Beijing Harvard Centre for Urban Development Studies HABITAT Sustainable Cities Programme

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Natural resources management Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Networking for Sustainable Agriculture	- Help farmers, especially smallholders, to manage sustainably their environment - Enable farmers to identify problems and to experiment and innovate, using locally available resources - Organize	- PELUM-Tanzania’s emphasis on participatory approaches has promoted farmer-to-farmer delivery of extension services, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the development activities, leadi	Misereor Germany

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Nutrient Management in Agriculture to Increase Productivity and Protect the Environment	The use of fertilizers and manures to enhance soil productivity can greatly increase the productivity of agriculture. Fertilizers have been crucial to the increases in productivity achieved by the g	Research has provided information on many practices that can be applied to greatly reduce the impacts of fertilizers and manures used in agriculture. There are two challenges to putting them into pr	Farmers, U.S. Land-Grant Universities

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Organic producers and processors of Zambia	Objectives: To evaluate what kinds of support to on-farm conservation that are the most effective, and what their pre-conditions for success are for grass-roots development workers in e.g. community	Crucial is the provision of a technical advisory service to members on organic and specialized crop production, improved processing and storage to ensure standards. Market research and trials for n	UK Darwin Initiative for the survival of species, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), German ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and German Agency for Technical Cooperation+, Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products, Zambia Natural Farmers Union, Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust (GART), SADC Plant Genetic Resource Centre (SPGRC), national Plant Genetic Resource Centre (NPGRC) OPPAZ-GART extension program (funded by Netherlands Embassy) Zambia Export Growers Association (ZEGA) Training Trust (Natural Resources Development College/NRDC, Lusaka) and GART (Chisamba). ASNAPP for Southern Africa program is bonded by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and works alongside OPPAZ.

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation related to agriculture Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Prime-Vert : un programme pour aider les agriculteurs à se conformer aux impératifs environnementaux d’aujourd’hui	Élaboré par le ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec, le programme de soutien financier Prime-Vert a pour but d’aider les producteurs agricoles à releve	Le programme Prime-Vert donne aux agriculteurs les moyens d’agir. Grâce aux subventions distribuées, les aspects théoriques cèdent la place aux aspects pratiques. Jusqu’à maintenant, ce sont	Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs du Québec

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Australia /Government	Signposts for Australian Agriculture	The Signposts for Australian Agriculture project looks at the role of agriculture in natural resource management, economic growth and community life. Signposts aims to develop a framework for consist	One of the key challenges in designing and implementing Signposts has been the availability and comparability of data. In some instances key components of data were unavailable and in others time-fra	Signposts for Australian Agriculture is a collaborative project involving the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, its Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS) and the Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs). The project is managed by the National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) and draws upon advice and data from RDCs, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ABARE), and state and territory agencies and industry bodies.

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Small holder common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) seed production, Malawi	CRSP’s program aimed at making seeds of improved bean varieties more readily available to smallholder farmers. This was achieved by involving them in seed multiplication. The program targeted low i	Impacts on livelihood of the practice users - Actual: Seventeen farmers around Bunda College of Agriculture received a total of 352 Kg of seeds and harvested 3607 Kg, increasing the amount tenfold.	Research Institution: CRSP at Faculty of Development Studies, Bunda College of Agriculture, Lilongwe, Malawi Government Institution: Seed Inspection Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture NGOs: Total Land Care, Concern Universal, Action Aid

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Means of implementation related to agriculture Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Strengthening Capacities of Member-Owned, Self-Governing and Market-Oriented Cooperatives	Cooperatives (co-ops) are member-owned, democratic, community-based businesses. The USAID Cooperative Development Program strengthens the development of cooperative systems in developing countries an	Agricultural co-ops are a successful rural development model that allows for increased economic benefits and the ability for members to direct and control their own development. The peer-to-peer appr	Rural communities

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education: Grants and Information to Improve Profitability, Stewardship and Quality of Life	Since 1988, the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has helped advance farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound and good for communities through a nationwi	There is growing interest in profitable alternatives in agriculture, and an increasing need for innovative, practical solutions to issues facing farms, ranches and rural communities across the nation	U.S. Land Grant Universities and Colleges

Issue	Agriculture Land
Theme	Integrated land planning Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP)	In 1991, the National Research Council (NRC) outlined a strategy for U.S. universities to collaborate with host country institutions to carry out integrated, multidisciplinary research organized acro	Building participatory, science-based development for sustainable agriculture and NRM systems requires adaptation and local commitment. It involves building the human resources and the institutions	U.S. Universities and Host Countries

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Natural resources management Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Sustainable Natural Resource Management- Project in South Africa	Increasing the agricultural production in 2 pilot areas of the province but with very specific eye for sustainable natural resources management	1. Food comes first, only afterwards farmers are prepared to invest in sustainability; 2. There exists limited capacity for project implementation if one does not want to count on external consulta	Department of Agricultural and Environmental Affairs Kwazulu Natal - South Africa

Issue	Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Rural infrastructure and social services Means of implementation related to agriculture Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Technology Can Improve Financial Services Available to Dispersed, Hard-to-Reach Rural Populations	Expanding access to finance in rural areas is critical for sustainable development, yet challenging due to transaction costs associated with dispersed populations and weak or missing infrastructure.	Use of appropriate technologies can improve access to rural financial services, including credit, savings, payments, and remittance receipts. These relatively low-cost technologies are an efficient	Rural businesses.

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Use of genetic resources to promote sustainable rural livelihood in South Africa	The objectives are to: - Generate understanding of agrobiodiversity policy issues and experiences in South Africa. - Raise awareness of the value of indigenous resources in promoting rural liveliho	The value of many indigenous breeds, e.g. marginalized and neglected livestock breeds, must be recognized	The World Conservation Union is the world’s largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 83 States, 110 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership.

Issue	Agriculture Water Land
Theme	Integrated land management Integrated land planning Integrated Water Resource Management Information systems on land Water Quality, Ecosystem Management, Disaster Prevention Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Watershed Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices (WEBs)	The overall objective of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Watershed Evaluation of BMPs (WEBs) project is to quantify, on a sub-watershed scale (~300 ha), the relative environmental and eco	The WEBs project has encountered various learning opportunities that can be used to improve upon a future phase of WEBs. Past Project Challenges •Some key experimental and logistical challen	Federal Departments: (Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Health Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Space Agency) USDA CEAP The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) has been underway for approximately the same length of time as WEBs. Both projects have similar objectives, however, CEAP is being conducted on a more expansive basis. The differences in the two approaches are seen by both AAFC and the USDA as complementary. The two projects are collaborating by sharing findings and insights, and participating in each other’s conferences and workshops. Individual Watershed Partners: In addition to the involvement of Ducks Unlimited Canada and local landowners and producers in individual watershed projects, other watershed partners include: Salmon River Watershed (British Columbia) Lower Little Bow Watershed (Alberta) South Tobacco Creek/Steppler Watershed (Manitoba) South Nation Watershed (Ontario) Bras d’Henri and Fourchette Watersheds (Quebec) Black Brook Watershed (New Brunswick) Thomas Brook Watershed (Nova Scotia)

Issue	Agriculture Land Cross-cutting issue Rural development Human Settlements
Theme	Integrated land management Job Creation and Enterprise Promotion Education Health and sustainable development Gender equality Improved Housing Rural infrastructure and social services Information systems on land Means of implementation related to land Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Rural development and poverty reduction Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Poverty eradication Sustainable development in a globalizing world Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Ya'an Dairy Goat Project	Objectives 1. To nurture local food systems through agricultural development that contributes to economic, environmental and social justice. 2. To enhance producers’ capacity to improve their qua	Lessons Learned: 1. Creative incentives help ensure pass-ons. (Only one Saanen goat was distributed to one original recipient family at a time. Changes were barely noticeable and happened slowly. S	Ya’an City Bureau of Animal Husbandry Sichuan Agricultural University

Issue	Agriculture Land Drought
Theme	Integrated land management Adaptation to drought Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Zaï technology in Burkina Faso	Alternative farming methods including; dry-season land preparation using minimum tillage methods (either ox-drawn rip lines or hand-hoe basins laid out in a precise grid of 15,850 basins per hectare)	Zaï will prove most viable in areas with rainfall between 300 and 800 mm per year. With additional extension support, further expansion is possible into surroundings regions. It works best in areas	Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation (ISWC), OXFAM, Rural Development Fund (FDR II)

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Agriculture, hunger and food security
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Zinc fertilizer boosts yields and public health in Central Anatolia	• Actively promote efficient and responsible production and use of plant nutrients to maintain and increase agricultural production worldwide in a sustainable manner. • Improve the operating en	The Turkish farmers were able to increased the use of the zinc-fortified fertilizer per year within a few short years	Toros Agri Industry and Trade Company

Issue	Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	“One-stop information” Source on Sustainable Agriculture and Energy for Farmers and Ranchers	The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is a unique technical assistance service provided through a public/private partnership between USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service and the	One important way to encourage adoption of sustainable agriculture practices is to provide tailored technical assistance that is free, up-to-date, and easy to understand. Having a “one-stop” app	Farmers and ranchers.

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Climate Change
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer Measures addressing transboundary air pollution Adaptation Monitoring of atmospheric conditions Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Developing Advanced Atmospheric Modeling Tools	• Develop better atmospheric modeling tools • Reduce air pollution • Examine and assess different emission control strategies • Limit greenhouse gas emissions		United States Environmental Protection Agency, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,international climate research departments and organisations,

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Acid Rain	Canada is currently addressing acidification as a long term problem needing a long term solution that will protect ecosystems from damage due to acidification and enable recovery of ecosystem structu	Canada has made remarkable progress over four decades in assessing acidification impacts and reducing acidifying emissions: a) important advances in scientific understanding since the 1960s b) broa	Industry and Industry Associations Environment Canada

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Thailand /Government	Air Pollution Management focusing on Sulfur Dioxide over the Last Ten Years in Mae Moh	1) To reduce Sulfur Dioxide in ground level at Mae Moh area; 2) To reduce Sulfur Dioxide emission from Mae Moh power plant.		Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) US EPA Local people Local government agency Department of health, Ministry of Public Health USAID

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Monitoring of atmospheric conditions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Bahrain /Government	Air Quality Monitoring Programme	1) To monitoring of atmospheric pollutant at different number of geographical locations in Kingdom of Bahrain; 2) To generate daily, weekly, monthly and annually ambient air quality reports; 3) To ut

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Air quality improvement programmes (Programas para mejorar la calidad del aire)	1) To introduce low sulfur fuels for cleaner transportation; 2) To introduce massive public transportation systems (urban and inter-urban); 3) To reduce emissions from power plants and refinery i	Policy integration Need for science based decisions	Local NGOs Industry Local environmental authorities private transport

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Indoor air pollution Renewable energy including hydro power Consumer education and awareness-raising Energy and rural development Energy efficiency and demand-side management Increasing access to energy for the poor Innovative financing solutions and technology transfer Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Aisha Solar Cooking Project	There were three main objectives in the project. First, to test whether solar cooking--and the ultra-low-cost cooking device known as the "CooKit"--would be accepted and used by low-income African wo	The Aisha Solar Cooking Project was one of four field projects begun in Africa by Solar Cookers International in the 1995 to 1997 period, but the Aisha project yielded the most clear-cut and professi	UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ethiopia's Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs, women's groups and elders' committees of the Aisha refugee population, refugees who worked on the project, the refugees who benefitted from the project, SCI donors

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	BenMAP International Model to Estimate Health Benefits of Air Quality Improvements	1) To reduce health risks from air pollutants; 2) To address air pollution from transportation and major industrial sources (as well as non-point or area sources; 3) To introduce health risk asses	It is important to emphasize follow-up after training sessions to support case study applications of the model.	private consultants research institutes academic institutions Governments (national and regional)

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	R and D in cleaner fuels and air pollution abatement technologies Renewable energy including hydro power Advanced energy technologies Fuel efficiency and cleaner fuel for transportation Consumer education and awareness-raising Phasing out leaded gasoline Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Bioethanol in Brazil	In Brazil, bioethanol has been used as a commercial liquid fuel for many years, with the Government being the first to initiate the promotion of bioethanol through the PROALCOHOL Programme in the 70s	• Consumers will choose bioethanol and flexifuel cars at competitive prices if they are readily available. The government should hence ensure through subsidies competitive prices for biofuels and b	Brazilian government, Brazilian people, consumers, sugar farmers, ethanol producers, flexi-fuel/bioethanol fuelled car manufacturers and retailers

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Sweden /Government	Biofuels Health and Environment (BHM)	To characterize emisions from different biofuel heating equipment.	Important conclusions have been to demonstrate the benefits of using modern low emission type wood stoves or wood pellet burners compared to traditional wood boilers currently used. Other important

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development Climate Change
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer R and D in cleaner fuels and air pollution abatement technologies Advanced energy technologies Phasing out leaded gasoline Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Buses Run on National Gas in Brisbane	-Using renewable energy and cleaner fuels in public transport -Cleaner air -Decrease emissions		Brisbane Local Council, Brisbane Bus Authority, people who use buses in Brisbane, people who live in Brisbane

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	CFC Production Clossure in Mexico	To phase out the consumption of CFC	When the Program of the United Nations (UNEP) proposed the control of the chemical substances based on scientific research, there was a high international and country resistance. Mexico recognizes	ONUDI QUIMOBASICOS

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources Energy efficiency and demand-side management
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Germany /Government	China: Energy Efficiency of Coal Power Plants	Over the last twenty years, electricity production in China has risen at a rate of nine per cent per year. Given the rapid economic growth, demand for energy in China will continue to increase. Altho	The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, in collaboration with the Thermal Power Research Institute in Xian, began upgrading the combustion technology in coal-fired power	GTZ, KfW, Chinese Coal Plant Operators, Chinese Research Institutes (Thermal Power Research Institute in Xian)

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Industrial Development
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources Cleaner industrial technology development and transfer
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Switzerland /Government	Clean technology promotion and dissemination in small scale foundries in India	India’s small-scale foundries contribute significantly to the country’s industrial production and provide employment to a large number of people. Meeting the statutory emission norms is essential	The project is characterized by an innovative holistic systems approach with special emphasis on the following four dimensions: dissemination activities, energy and environment technology, integrated	The Government of Switzerland, represented by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; NGOs (TERI), foundries in India, Foundry Industry Association of India

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Climate Change Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Voluntary initiatives Policies and programmes to address air pollution from transportation sources Monitoring of atmospheric conditions Renewable energy including hydro power Consumer education and awareness-raising Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources Mitigation policies/measures Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Climate Alliance	• Promote and facilitate cooperation between European cities and indigenous peoples • Promote awareness of and facilitate initiatives to protect rainforests • Disseminate experiences and best		European local authorities, inhabitants of European participating cities, indigenious rainforest peoples

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Thailand /Government	Commercial Refrigerator Terminal Umbrella Project	To phase out the use of CFCs in commercial refrigerators by substituting CFC-12 with HFC-134a and substituting CFC-11 with HFC-141b.		SMEs

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Denmark /Government	Danish Refrigeration Installer Environmental Scheme - Montreal Protocol	To ensure the ceanest technology is used in the refrigeration	Since 1992 the sector has spent about DKK 9 million on the scheme, which today can be considered as a reasonably successful and a natural part of environmental protection measures in Denmark. However

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development Climate Change Industrial Development
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer Adaptation Industrial developments impact on poverty and social development Renewable energy including hydro power Advanced energy technologies Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources Energy and rural development Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol Cleaner industrial technology development and transfer Increasing access to energy for the poor
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Development of Wind Energy Industries in India	Promote development of renewable energy Foster new local enterprises		Indian government, Indian state governments and local authorities, Indian rural communities, Indian researchers and developers of wind technology, Indian exporters of wind technology

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Finland /Government	Energy taxes (incl. traffic fuels)

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Finland /Government	Environmental guidelines for transport sector till 2010	1) To reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions; 2) To reduce other exhaust emissions and improvement of air quality; 3) To reduce noise emissions and reduce the number of people annoyed

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Externalities of Electricity Generation in Mexico	Policy goal is to reduce air pollution in Mexico, especially in critical zones where power plants and refineries are major contributors to air emissions. To implement programmes and new standards, th	Some information is difficult to obtain in developing countries and some international references are needed when no local data is available. It is possible to estimate environmental damage of e	National Institute of Ecology National Meteorological Service CFE (Comisión Federal de Electricidad, Electricity Decentralized Public Entity of Federal Government) Secretariat of Health Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean of United Nations Secretariat of Energy

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development Climate Change
Theme	Greenhouse gas sinks Policies and programmes to address air pollution from transportation sources Energy efficiency and demand-side management
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Switzerland /Government	Heavy Vehicle Fee	Reduction of GHG and other emissions caused by heavy vehicles	Since its introduction in 2001, the HVF has curbed road freight mileage by 8% since its inception.	Government of Switzerland, various associations in the transport sector

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from transportation sources Fuel efficiency and cleaner fuel for transportation
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Heavy-Duty Diesel Retrofit Demonstration Project in Mexico City (Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles	To reduce health risks from air pollutants; To dramatically lower particulate emissions by encouraging and assisting a move to ULSD and cleaner technologies for both new and existing vehicles; To p	The following approaches taken by the project were found to be highly valuable: setting up a senior level multi-partner planning process through an advisory board and technical committee helped advan

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Sweden /Government	Incentive to achieve national air quality objectives	The overall goal is to hand over a sustainable society to the next generation the timetable is set at 2020 (2050 for the climate objective). For each general objective, specific targets were set out		Bioenergy Group in Växjö Ltd research centres Swedish Energy Agency Swedish Business Development Agency EU energy information offices energy companies boiler manufacturers Växjö University Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden bio-energy consultants biomass fuel suppliers

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Indoor air pollution
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Finland /Government	Increase citizens awareness about the impacts of indoor air pollution	1) To improve the consumers understanding of the health effects of indoor climate and their possibilities to improve it; 2) To increase the knowledge and sense of responsibility of building owners

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Inspection/maintenance (I/M) program for gasoline vehicles in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.	The goal of this initiative was to develop an incentive through the I/M program to motivate the automobile manufacturers in Mexico to introduce better emission control technologies in the models dest	AMIA found that the cost of adopting a new standard would be too high, that regulatory efforts should concentrate on old vehicles, that altitude and fuel quality played against more stringent standar	Metropolitan Environmental Commission (CAM, Comisión Ambiental Metropolitana) Secretariat of the Environment for the Federal District (SMA Secretaría de Medio Ambiente del Distrito Federal) Mexican Automotive Industry Association (AMIA; Asociación Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz) Secretariat of Ecology for the State of Mexico (Secretaría de Ecología del Estado de México)

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Indoor air pollution
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Integrated Program Models for Cleaner Cooking in Bangladesh and Peru	To mitigate indoor air pollution and improve health among poor households in Bangladesh and Peru.	Previous government and donor programs have overemphasized technology, without considering the need to affect behavior change, and address market access and health impacts.

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland /Government	Local transport strategy	To achieve an efficient, equitable and safe transport system which improves the quality of life of people living within the local authority by reducing traffic on the roads and supports air quality t	Policies promoting cleaner transportation measures and technology (e.g. vehicular technology, mass transit systems), reduced demand in vehicle-miles-traveled, modal shifts.	Private Sector Regional Government (Greater London Authority) Government NGOs CBOs

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Low sulfur fuels and vehicle emissions standards	Mexico is currently passing new fuel quality and vehicle standards: 1) To reduce the sulfur content in gasoline and diesel; 2) To improve emissions from both new and in-use vehicles; 3) To update env	PEMEX investment for fuel desulphurization is estimated at around 2000 million dollars.	PEMEX Association of the Manufacturers of Buses, Trucks and Trailers Mexican Automotive Manufactures Association Federal District Government, Metropolitan Environmental CommissionNational Institute of Ecology, National University of Mexico Secretariat of Communications and Transport Secretariat of Health Secretariat of Energy Secretariat of Economy, Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit Secretariat for Finance and Public Credit Secretariat of Economy

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from transportation sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Netherlands /Government	Lower speeds at pollution hotspots	To reduce emissions of fine particles and nitrogen oxides from cars and delivery vehicles by setting lower speed limits	By reducing the limit to 80 km/hr (100 km/hr in some places) and strictly enforcing the limit with cameras, a more steady traffic flow is secured. It is largely this steadiness that reduces emissions

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Renewable energy including hydro power Advanced energy technologies Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Manure-Digester-Fueled Generators: Dairyland Power Cooperative, Wisconsin	To construct manure digestion facilities throughout the service territory totaling 25 MW of generating capacity. These facilities operate as base load facilities, providing reasonably priced energy	Due diligence, a team effort, and the coordination with communities are essential in finding common interests and goals on a regional basis for a successful landfill gas-to-electricity program.	Rural Development U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency Ag Star Program, and Microgy (subsidiary of Environmental Power Corp., Portsmouth, New Hampshire), and local energy cooperatives and farmers.

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Monitoring of atmospheric conditions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Mexico National Emissions Inventory.	The main objectives of this project are: 1) To develop the first National Emissions Inventory for Mexico to help institutional efforts in air quality management; 2) To meet the requirement of Méx	Information on emissions from point sources was disperse, of variable quality and format. Data needed for estimating emissions from other sources was scarce, leading to the use of US-based emission f	Western Governors’ Association (WGA) US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Comission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Monitoring of atmospheric conditions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Mexico National Emissions System (SINE; Sistema Nacional de Emisiones)	The main objectives of this project was to build a system that could bring together information from the National Emissions Inventory, the Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventory and the Mexico Pollutan	Information databases have different formats. Bringing together the needs of the different research areas and making them compatible was a major challenge. Data management and quality assurance a	Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Secretariat for Environment and Natural Resources

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Monitoring of atmospheric conditions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Sweden /Government	Models for dispersion of air pollution application	Models have been used for a variety of purposes: 1) Compliance checking with air quality standards; 2)Modelling of air quality changes in response to different abatement strategies; 3) Assessment of

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	NEC-programme for Flanders	The aim of the programme is to make sure that the obligations of the European NEC-directive and the Göteborg-protocol (LRTAP) are met.

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Australia /Government	National Halon Management and Banking Program	To establish a National Halon Management and Banking operation in India; To establish a critical halon users and protected facilities database; To establish a Halon Management Group / Advisory Foru

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Indoor air pollution Energy and rural development Increasing access to energy for the poor
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Partnership for Clean Indoor Air – Improving Stove Design and Performance for Home Cooking and Heating	•The idea of a stove camp is to allow consultants to present some of the ideas and guidelines for stove design and manufacturing and teach basic classes on combustion, health, safety and other stov	•Proper use of insulation and manufacturing insulative ceramics from local materials are an important part of the training program. A variety of materials were provided including: several types of	Shell Foundation, Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, Aprovecho Research Center

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Indoor air pollution Energy and rural development Increasing access to energy for the poor
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Partnership for Clean Indoor Air – Pilot Projects	Improve awareness of the dangers of indoor air pollution and the benefits of improved cooking/heating alternatives to more than approximately 1 million people via advertising and public service campa		US AID, Shell Foundation, World Health Organization, the Italian Ministry of Environment and Forests, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), and many other partners.

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from transportation sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
New Zealand /Government	Projects to Reduce Emissions (PRE)	To provide incentives to initiatives that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions prior to and during the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period.

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Thailand /Government	R & D programme in the area of air quality management : Bangkok Metropolitan Area	To build up knowledge-based tools and good practice to improve environmental management.		Pollution control Department (national policy agency)

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia /Government	Refrigeration Management Plan	Training of the service technicians; Training of customs officers and providing equipment for identification and control of ozone depleting substances on border check-points; Establishment of refrige

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Industrial Development Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Promoting industrial development: framework conditions Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management Indoor air pollution Industrial developments impact on poverty and social development Corporate social responsibility Cleaner industrial technology development and transfer
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Shell: Searching for Sustainable Solutions to Indoor Air Pollution	• Reduce the number of people affected by indoor air pollution • Provide cleaner stoves and cleaner fuels to poor rural households • Reduce the time women spend collecting firewood and cook		Breathing Space (Shell), Gautamalan and Indian governments, rural women and girls in Guatamala and India, female entrepreneurs

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Climate Change Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer Voluntary initiatives Adaptation Advanced energy technologies Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources Mitigation policies/measures Energy efficiency and demand-side management Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Sustainability Upstream and Downstram	Improved energy efficiency Reduction of emissions and pollutants Reduced power consumption Improved energy efficiency in other industry sectors through their use of aluminium	- Improved process controls and natural ventilation reduce power consumption - Liquid natural gas instead of fuel oil in the cathouses and propane in the anode baking furnace reduce emissions and po	Hydro, Hydro industrial workers, surrounding communities

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Climate Change Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Greenhouse gas sinks Energy sector reforms (e.g. Energy laws, legal and regulatory initiatives) Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Switzerland /Government	Tax on Volatile Organic Compounds	Reduction of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which have sufficiently high vapor pressures under normal conditions to significantly vaporize and enter the atmosphere. VOCs contribute to air pollutio

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Finland /Government	Taxation of vehicles	To improve the environmental effectiveness of the tax instrument.

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Bahamas /Government	Terminal Phaseout Management Plan (TPMP)	To reduce and eventually eliminate the importance of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)		The National Ozone Unit World Bank

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Finland /Government	The Air Pollution Control Programme 2010	The Air Pollution Control Programme 2010 has been specifically designed to transpose the European Union National Emission Ceilings Directive. The implementation of this directive throughout Europe sh

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	R and D in cleaner fuels and air pollution abatement technologies
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Netherlands /Government	Transition to Sustainable Mobility	The Sustainable Mobility Platform is working for a transition to sustainable mobility so as to retain mobility at an affordable cost, without dependency. ThePlatform’s activities are directed towa	The Platform is concentrating on accelerating the market introduction of sustainable fuels and vehicle technologies, particularly projects which may be commercially feasible for the Netherlands in th	Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management and the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment.

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Vehicles Engines and Fuels	The Plan of Action sets out a plan to develop new Canadian emission standards for vehicles and engines, aligned with those of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Regulations under the		Industry and industry associations

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Industrial Development
Theme	Cleaner industrial technology development and transfer Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Switzerland /Government	Vertical Shaft brick Kiln Technology Transfer Program; Clean Building Materials for Nepal	Emission from the brick kilns are the major source of pollution in the Kathmandu Valley. To achieve healthy air quality, both stack and fugitive emissions from these kilns have to be reduced by using	One lesson learned is that technology transfer is a process which requires patience to adapt to the local environment, persistence to achieve goals and rigorous follow-up to generate an impact. Anoth	The Government of Nepal; different actors/companies/associations of the private sector in Nepal, different NGOs in Nepal, CBOs

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development Industrial Development
Theme	Promoting industrial development: framework conditions Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management Indoor air pollution Industrial developments impact on poverty and social development Renewable energy including hydro power Advanced energy technologies Consumer education and awareness-raising Energy and rural development Cleaner industrial technology development and transfer Increasing access to energy for the poor Innovative financing solutions and technology transfer Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	WLPGA/UNDP LP Gas Rural Energy Challenge South Africa	• Provide off-grid electricity to rural communities in developing countries • Provide rural communities with cleaner, safer, and sustainable energy • Liberate women from time-consuming colle	• Partnership with UNDP was helpful in attracting high-level government officials and key gatekeepers from the supply industry to meet and discuss the way forward • In South Africa, partnership	WLGPA, UNDP, rural unelectrified communities in developing countries, women and girls in rural unelectrified communities in developing countries

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development Industrial Development
Theme	Indoor air pollution Industrial developments impact on poverty and social development Energy and rural development Increasing access to energy for the poor Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Women in Bangladesh Make Battery-Powered Lamps	• Provide energy to a remote community where grid extension is unlikely in the next couple of decades • Replace kerosene lamps with more energy efficient, less fire prone, and healthier energy s	• Using women’s existing knowledge in project design and implementation improves the success of rural development • Providing compensatory training for gaps in technical and business knowledg	World Bank (ESMAP), Bangladeshi rural communites, particularly female entrepreneurs

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from transportation sources Consumer education and awareness-raising Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Youth Bike to Raise Awareness in Europe	• Make young people aware of the harmful causes and effects of air pollution and climate change • Make young people aware of the ecological impact of their daily choices • Connect young peopl		European Youth for Action, Ectopia promoters, facilitators, and participants, host cities, European youth

Issue	Air pollution/Atmosphere Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Energy sector reforms (e.g. Energy laws, legal and regulatory initiatives) Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management Indoor air pollution Renewable energy including hydro power Energy and rural development Energy efficiency and demand-side management Energy sector reforms Increasing access to energy for the poor Innovative financing solutions and technology transfer Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Germany /Government	“Sustainable Energy for Development”	More than two billion people – one third of the world's population – are lacking access to modern and clean energy. Their most important source of energy is firewood and plant residues. It is mos	The pledge of the German government to achieve new commitments of 1 billion euros within five years has been fulfilled after just three years. More than half of these commitments aim at promoting ren	Governments, state and parastatal institutions, (private companies)

Issue	Chemicals Agriculture
Theme	Sound management of toxic chemicals Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	SAgE pesticides et IRPeQ Express	IRPeQ Express et SAgE pesticides (pour santé, agriculture et environnement) sont des outils conviviaux développés dans le but de permettre à tous les utilisateurs de pesticides de faire des choix	Le développement de l’IRPeQ, de SAgE pesticides et de l’IRPeQ Express a demandé un travail rigoureux et colossal. Non seulement a-t-il fallu rapatrier toute l’information en un seul et même	Centre de référence en agriculture et agroalimentaire du Québec

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Uganda /Government	Adaptation and Mitigation Policies and Measures	To identify and evaluate potential adaptation measures, and incorporate them into the country's development policy and management practices such as the PEAP, National Environment Action Plan (NEAP),	The study enhanced the capacities of the participating institutions in Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation Analysis and also identified some areas in which more capacity needs to be developed. H

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Denmark /Government	Adaptation to climate change	A survey of experiences on adaptation to climate changes in relevant countries. The current study has the following objectives: 1) To collate information about climate adaptation measures adopted

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Uganda /Government	Capacity Development for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)	1) To assist Uganda to understand the opportunities offered by CDM; and 2) To develop necessary institutional and human capabilities that will allow the implementation of CDM in Uganda. The expe	The review of the above projects reveals the following lessons: Due to lack of both financial and institutional capacity, the project activities did not continue after the projects ended. This led

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Clearinghouse on Climatic Change	The main objective is to fulfill the sixth Article of the UNFCCC, diffusing and providing access to every public about information on climatic change and its effects.	The baseline study was conducted during the summer of 2004, when schools are on vacation, and Mexico City experiencee heavy rain. Therefore, it was not possible to generalize results to determine tru

Issue	Climate Change Africa
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer Greenhouse gas sinks Voluntary initiatives Adaptation Domestic and international emissions trading Natural resources management Carbon sequestration Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Come rain or shine - integrating climate risk management into African development operations	* Africa faces a number of special challenges that make it more vulnerable to climate change than other parts of the world: Key economic sectors – specifically agriculture, and other natural resour	* While mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to limit long-term climate change, in the short term adaptation is the only option to manage the impacts of climate change and maximize devel	African Development Bank, the Climate Information for Development – Africa (ClimDev Africa) programme, the Climate Adaptation for Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture (CARLA) project in Malawi. The AfDB is also working with the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa to implement the ClimDev programme.

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Adaptation Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG/ECP) Climate Change Action Plan	The Climate Change Action Plan was adopted by the Eastern Canadian Premiers and New England Governors in 2001. It focuses on nine areas of action with an impact on various sectors of the economy. The	- Deployment of infrastructure and the required links between governments to implement the Plan. - Each government has its own way of operating (eg. procurement policy) and this complicates joint de	The Climate Change Action Plan is implemented jointly by the Eastern Canadian provinces and New England states. NGOs are consulted periodically on various topics. They issue an annual "report card" on the governments' efforts to meet the Plan objectives.

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Greenhouse gas sinks
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Elaboration of the two Mexico's National Communications	The main objectives of National Communications are: 1) To elaborate and periodically update inventories of emissions of GHG; and 2) To carry out studies of mitigation and of evaluation of the vuln	Elaboration of national Communications should be made on an ongoing basis. Capacity building and technology transfer are very much needed.

Issue	Climate Change Energy for Sustainable Development Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Voluntary initiatives Adaptation Managing transportation demand (e.g. improved city planning, promotion of public transit, intermodal shifts) Renewable energy including hydro power Advanced energy technologies Consumer education and awareness-raising Energy efficiency and demand-side management Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Energie-Cities	• Develop local initiatives through exchange of experience, knowledge transfer and the organization of joint projects • Strengthen local roles and skills in energy efficiency, the promotion of r		European cities, municipalities and local authorities, the European housing and construction industry, European energy consumers, the European hotel and services industry, inhabitants of European cities

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
China /Government	Energy Efficient Refrigerator Project	The China Refrigerator Project’s goal was 1) To reduce energy consumption through promotion of improved refrigerator energy efficiency, contributing to the protection of the global environment by	Through effective consumer awareness campaigns and training for the manufacturers, the following barriers were overcome: 1) Consumers highly sensitive to the first-costs of their purchases which re

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Bulgaria /Government	Green Investment Scheme (GIS)	1) To decide on the establishment of a Green Investment Fund and its basic conditions; 2) To elaborate on the design of the GIS; 3) To train emissions trading specialists in the responsible agencie		The National Trust EcoFund

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
/Government	Implementation of the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol through domestic	To phase out ozone depleting substances The primary obstacle is the availability of technically and economically feasible alternatives to uses of ozone depleting substances. This is especially ev	The speed and effectiveness of international efforts to reduce ozone depletion is unprecedented in global environmental forum. The total amount of ozone depleting substances in the lower atmosphere

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer Adaptation Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Implementing Improvements in Systematic Climate Observations	• Improve climate observing systems • Help participants understand the UNFCCC guidelines for reporting on systematic observations • Identify national and regional needs and deficiencies for	• As a small secretariat, GCOS must rely on collaboration with regional organizations, which enables GCOS both to utilise existing regional expertise and to develop relationships with those most ca	Global Climate Observing System, UNFCC, climate researchers & developers in climate technology, developing governments, communities in developing states affected by climate change

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Bulgaria /Government	Joint Implementation Capacity Building	1) To introduce Bulgarian Joint Implementation guidelines;2) To enhance the process for preparation of national greenhouse gas inventories and; 3) To prepare institutional and legal structures for JI		Energy Institute NIRAS/EcoSecurities Danish Environmental Protection Agency EnEffect

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Australia /Government	Low Emission Technology	In 2004, the Australian Government issued an energy policy statement, entitled Securing Australia’s Energy Future. To achieve energy prosperity, security and sustainability, the Australian Governm	Australian industry has been a major partner in many of the low emission technology initiatives. A major collaboration is COAL21 which is a partnership between the coal and electricity industries, A

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Uganda /Government	Market Based Mechanisms to reduce emissions (such as CDM Joint Implementation): UNEP / DANIDA Capacity Building Projects	The specific objectives of the project in Uganda were: 1)To build technical capacity between key and relevant institutions, including the private sector which will play an important role in the imple	The forestry, Energy and Transport sectors were considered for the study. An extra task Force on socio-economic issues was also formed to look at cross-cutting issues. At the end of the project: 1

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Sudan /Government	National Climate Change Programme	The main objective is to develop a national adaptation programme of action to respond to adaptation needs at different levels. The main challenge is to integrate this programme into national developm	Challenges were: lack of resources, relevant expertise and relaible data. Lessons learned included: 1) Identification of Adaptation options has to follow both bottom up and top down approaches;	Ministry of Water NGOs Ministry of Energy Ministry of Health Ministry of Agriculture State Governments Farmers Union Pastoralist Union Sudanese Environmental conservation Society Research and Academic Institutions International Institutions Stockholm Environment Institute Boston Centre

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Seychelles /Government	Reduction of Vulnerability to Human Settlement due to flooding as a result of increase weather event	The two priority areas needs to be addressed are: 1) To deal with existing flooding problems on Mahé the main island of Seychelles and inner islands such as Praslin and La Digue; due to extreme we	Main obstacles faced were the lack of technical and financial capacity to predict flooding. The flooding caused severe economic impact, extensive damage to properties , damages to the agriculture	GEF Adaptation Fund

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Seychelles /Government	Southeast Monsoon Variability and impacts in the southwest Indian Ocean: Predicting water resources	1) To analyze the oceanography and climate related to extreme dry/wet spells; 2) To explain the causes and mechanisms governing rainfall and water resource variability; 3) To answer questions related	There is a lack of knowledge on the near equatorial convection in the SWIO during the southeast monsoon. Many models are incorrectly predicting the transient convective waves during the southeast mon	GEF Adaptation Fund

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Adaptation
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
New Zealand /Government	Support to Pacific climate change initiatives include:			Pacific SIDS, SPREP, AusAID

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Technology innovations and transfer
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Uganda /Government	Technology Innovations and Transfer

Issue	Climate Change Energy for Sustainable Development Air pollution/Atmosphere
Theme	Policies and programmes to address air pollution from transportation sources Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management Advanced energy technologies Consumer education and awareness-raising Policies and programmes to address air pollution from other major point sources Phasing out leaded gasoline Control measures derived from the Montreal Protocol Technology innovations and transfer Voluntary initiatives Adaptation R and D in cleaner fuels and air pollution abatement technologies Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions Energy efficiency and demand-side management Reducing health risks from air pollutants
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	The Clean Air Initiative	• Improve air quality in cities and thus provide a better standard of living • Promote public-private partnerships in improving air quality • Promote awareness and enhance scientific knowledg		Local authorities, companies, NGOs, the oil industry, inhabitants of participating cities, particularly in developing cities, people most affected by air pollution particularly children

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Greenhouse gas sinks
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Uganda /Government	The Greenhouse Gas Inventory Project	1) To conduct an inventory which gives a comprehensive list of emissions of greenhouse gases by source and removals by sinks in Uganda; 2) To formulate a number of recommendations, including enhan	The institutions which participated in this project gained some capacity on the methodologies for GHG emission estimation. The Inventory is however supposed to be up-dated annually but this has not b

Issue	Climate Change
Theme	Adaptation Mitigation policies/measures
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Switzerland /Government	Vulnerability Assessment and Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Semi-arid Areas in India	The overall goal of the Program is to secure the livelihoods of rural poor and vulnerable communities by promoting adaption measures. The coping capacity of rural communities in semi-arid areas shal	To achieve the Program's objectives four different program components have to be combined which help to define the way of implementing activities: 1) research and analysis; 2) natural resource manag	The MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, the National Institute of Agriculture Extension Management (MANAGE) and Action for Food Production (AFPRO), (both based in Hyderabat), INFRAS (Zurich), Intercooperation (Bern). A committee is responsible for overall steering and guidance.

Issue	Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Education Health and sustainable development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Grassroot soccer in South Africa	The goal of the program is to put 1.25 million African youth through the GRS program by the end of 2010 and leave a lasting legacy in southern Africa. To have the most effective HIV prevention educat	The GRS HIV/AIDS Education Program significantly improves student knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of social support related to HIV/AIDS. Help students feel they are supported by their commun	The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Kellogg Foundation – Bloemfontein, South Africa DeBeers – Lime Acres and Danielskuil, South Africa, Barclays Bank/Ministry of Education - Lusaka, Zambia, International Organization for Migration - Lusaka, Zambia, Youth Health Organization - Gabarone, Botswana, Mercy Corps – Liberia and Sudan, Johns Hopkins/AED

Issue	Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production Education
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Guyana Youth initiative	A youth training program to promote personal and community transformation. Many issues are covered in the training including environmental protection. The training material touches upon the main conc	Both facilitators and participants felt very positively about the program, and valued the knowledge they gained, the skills and confidence they developed, and the bonds of friendship and cooperation	Nancy Campbell Collegiate Institute Canada, Help and Shelter, Ministry of Health, Conservation International, Iwokorama, National Commission on the Rights of the Child, Gender Equity Programme, Canadian High Commission, CIDA

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Rural development Africa Agriculture
Theme	Poverty reduction Changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production Health priorities Health and sustainable development Rural infrastructure and social services Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Other regional initiatives Means of implementation Rural development and poverty reduction Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Natural resources management Sustainable development for Africa Poverty eradication Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Home-Grown School Feeding around the world	To understand the scope for the development of school food systems that contribute to the economic, social and enironmental goals of sustainable development; to identify the potential of local food	The re-localization of the food system through school food reform has an invaluable contribution to make to achieving the main goals of sustainable development (i.e., more equitable forms of economic	Economic and Social Research Council (UK), British Academy, World Food Programme

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Africa
Theme	Poverty reduction Health priorities Gender equality
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Housing in Tanzania, Provision of adequate and affordable shelter through housing cooperatives	The focus of the project has been on empowering low-income communities particularly women to enable them participate fully and effectively in the development of human settlements. One of the roles of	The real achievement is for those who have acquired land for housing construction. The stage of acquiring land has taken a long time and still one group has not succeeded yet. One lesson that we lear	NGOs, local and national governments

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Drought Land Climate Change Rural development
Theme	Means of implementation related to drought Voluntary initiatives Rural development and poverty reduction Adaptation to drought Integrated land planning Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Natural resources management Information systems on land Means of implementation related to land Sustainable development of small island developing States (SIDS) Sustainable development in a globalizing world Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Australia /Government	International Forest Carbon Initiative	The International Forest Carbon Initiative (IFCI) seeks to demonstrate that reducing emissions from deforestation can be part of an effective international response to climate change. Global defor	As the International Forest Carbon Initiative is a relatively new program, lessons learned are forthcoming.	- Government of Australia: Department of Climate Change; Australian Agency for International Development; other relevant agencies, such as the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; other donors (international institutions, other stakeholders including community groups, non-government organisations and industry) - Government of Papua New Guinea - Government of Indonesia - World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership - Clinton Climate Initiative

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Land Rural development Africa
Theme	Integrated land management Poverty reduction Health priorities Information systems on land Means of implementation related to land Means of implementation Rural development and poverty reduction Integrated land planning Natural resources management Access to and distribution of land Poverty eradication Sustainable development in a globalizing world Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	International Model Forest Network	The model forest concept was initially developed in Canada in the 1990s by the Canadian Forest Service(CFS)—Natural Resources Canada(CFS-NRCan), and was launched internationally at the 1992 UN Conf	In the early 1990s, the model forest idea was very much an untested prototype. As such, there was a steep learning curve involved in its application and a fair amount of risk. However, with each use	All levels of government, Aboriginal peoples, environmentalists, industry managers, landowners, members of forest-dependent communities, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, outdoor enthusiasts, parks officials and scientists.

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Rural development Agriculture
Theme	Education Gender equality Means of implementation related to agriculture Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Internet-based Information Resource Centre for women, Uganda	The goal was to empower small-scale entrepreneurs. WIRES provides online information on animal rearing, crop growing, trade, and women's issues, and each subject area covers best practices, market pr	CEEWA-Uganda employs local people to manage the telecentres and provides computer-training courses on CD-ROM. So far women have been using the telecentres primarily to communicate with other entrepre	The Council for the Economic Empowerment for Women of Africa (CEEWA) - Uganda Chapter, which is affiliated with the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET).

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Energy for Sustainable Development Climate Change Agriculture Industrial Development Land Rural development Air pollution/Atmosphere Inter-Linkages
Theme	Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management Education Means of implementation related to land Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Cleaner industrial technology development and transfer Technology innovations and transfer Managing transportation demand (e.g. improved city planning, promotion of public transit, intermodal shifts) Environmental Management Industrial developments impact on poverty and social development Corporate social responsibility Carbon sequestration Market-based mechanisms to reduce emissions Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture Reducing health risks from air pollutants Changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production Industrial waste minimization, recycling and re-use Integrated Planning and Decision-Making Consumer education and awareness-raising Energy and rural development Greenhouse gas sinks Rural development and poverty reduction Adaptation Resource use efficiency in industry Poverty eradication Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Model Farm Project: Sustainable and Humane Livestock Production	The Model Farm Project is a partnership between the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and the Food Animal Initiative (FAI). The aim is to establish an international network of comme	Individual farmers are the cornerstone of the Model Farm Project. Only by working with existing farmers and producers to demonstrate the commercial viability of humane and sustainable farming can th	Food Animal Initiative (FAI); Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, China Agriculture University; Wylton International Inc.; Welfare Quality Project; Sao Paulo University

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Agriculture Rural development
Theme	Means of implementation Natural resources management Poverty eradication Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Sustainable development in a globalizing world Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Modernizing Agrifood Markets : Including Small Producers in Dynamic Markets	Regoverning Markets is a multi-partner collaborative research programme analyzing the growing concentration in the processing and retail sectors of national and regional agrifood systems and its impa	The extent of market restructuring Market restructuring may be fast but it is not linear and can be patchy and uneven. Drivers (FDI, urbanization, etc) interact in very unpredictable ways. Substan	Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary (Csaba Csaki) Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), China (Jikun Huang) Tegemeo Institute of Egerton University, Kenya (James Nyoro) Akdeniz University, Turkey (Ali Koç) Latin American Centre for Rural Development (RIMISP), Chile (Julio Berdegué) Targa-Aide, Morocco and Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco (Abdelaziz Sbai) Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan (Abid Suleri) University of the Philippines Mindanao, the Philippines (Larry Digal) University of Pretoria, South Africa (Andre Louw) Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), France (Estelle Biénabe)

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Drought Land Desertification Rural development Agriculture
Theme	Rural development and poverty reduction Adaptation to drought Integrated land planning Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Desertification and land degradation information systems Information systems on land Means of implementation related to land Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	National Agri-Environmental Health Analysis and Reporting Program	The objective of NAHARP is to establish a departmental capacity to evaluate and regularly report on the general state and trends of agriculture’s interactions with the environment in key priority a	Please see Executive Summary in Environmental Sustainability of Canadian Agriculture: Agri-Environmental Indicator Report Series - Report #2 (http://www.agr.gc.ca/env/naharp-pnarsa/index_e.php?page	NAHARP is an ongoing multidisciplinary effort based on strong collaboration between expert teams in Research Branch (EHNP), PFRA, Strategic Policy Branch (RAD, AEPB) and NLWIS. Specific program activities are also closely linked with other APF programs (WEBS, NAESI, GAPS, etc.). Several activities operate under guidance of expert advisory teams comprised of academics and other subject matter experts from within and outside federal government.

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Land Agriculture Drought Rural development
Theme	Integrated land management Means of implementation related to drought Changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production Information systems on land Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Drought preparedness and early warning Rural development and poverty reduction Adaptation to drought Integrated land planning Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Natural resources management Sustainable development in a globalizing world Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Australia /Government	National Landcare Program	The objective of the National Landcare Program (NLP) is to foster the landcare ethic of caring for land, water and biodiversity. It targets the adoption of sustainable management practices by Austral	Landcare has a very strong ‘brand recognition’ and is recognised by over 85 percent of the community. Recent reviews have concluded that the NLP remains highly relevant to the Australian Gove	The National Landcare Program operates in partnership with all Australian state and territory governments, as well as a wide range of industry, farming and community groups.

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Rural development Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation Changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production Institutional framework for sustainable development Education Health and sustainable development Rural infrastructure and social services Agriculture, hunger and food security Other regional initiatives Rural development and poverty reduction Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Poverty eradication Sustainable development of small island developing States (SIDS) Sustainable development in a globalizing world Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Politique nationale de la ruralité 2002-2007 (PNR1), Politique nationale de la ruralité 2007-2014 (PNR2)	La ruralité québécoise a traversé avec plus ou moins d’acuité des changements radicaux depuis un demi-siècle. La mondialisation, les technologies de l’information et des communications, l�	Depuis plus de 40 ans, le gouvernement du Québec œuvre en développement régional en se préoccupant des questions rurales. Un mouvement de mobilisation en faveur du monde rural est lancé en 1991	 91 Municipalités Régionales de Comté  134 agents de développement rural , employés par les 91 Centre locaux de développement (CLD) gérés par les MRC  Partenaires nationaux de la ruralité: o Solidarité rurale du Québec (instance-conseil en ruralité) o Fédération Québécoise des Municipalités (FQM) o Association des CLD du Québec (ACLDQ) o Union des municipalités du Québec (UMQ)

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Land Rural development Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation Rural development and poverty reduction Integrated land planning Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Natural resources management Access to and distribution of land Information systems on land Poverty eradication Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture Means of implementation related to rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Regulating Rights Under the Water Law (Bolivia)	- To deepen and strengthen capacity of the Interinstitutional Council of Water (CONIAG), the Chancellery of Bolivia and the Commission for the Integrated Management of Water in Bolivia (CGIAB) for th	Using an advanced mathematical model, developed by the Danish Hydraulic Institute, researchers simulated how effective various approaches to allocating water rights would influence a new water law.	Consejo Interinstitucional del Agua (CONIAG)

Issue	Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Health and sustainable development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Remote Sensing tools to study the Epidemiology and Space/Time dynamics of diseases (EPISTIS)- “STEREO” programme	To strengthen the Belgian pool of expertise on the topic of remote sensing and spatial analysis and modeling in epidemiology through jointly providing tools improving the analysis of the space-time d

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Land Desertification Drought Rural development Agriculture Water Africa Climate Change Energy for Sustainable Development Human Settlements Sanitation Inter-Linkages
Theme	Means of implementation related to drought Safe Drinking Water NEPAD and other cooperation frameworks Education Institutional framework for sustainable development Poverty reduction Gender equality Health and sustainable development Mobilizing Financial Resources Information systems on land Means of implementation related to desertification Means of implementation related to land Means of implementation related to agriculture Agriculture, hunger and food security Drought preparedness and early warning Integrated land planning Natural resources management Strategic planning frameworks to combat desertification Desertification and land degradation information systems Carbon sequestration Water Use Efficiency Sustainable development for Africa Means of implementation related to rural development Integrated planning of sustainable agriculture Efforts to reverse or mitigate desertification Integrated land management Job Creation and Enterprise Promotion Means of implementation Domestic and international emissions trading Health priorities Integrated Planning and Decision-Making Integrated Water Resource Management Rural infrastructure and social services Energy and rural development Improving Sanitation Other regional initiatives Greenhouse gas sinks Means of implementation Rural development and poverty reduction Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic, social development Access to and distribution of land Water Quality, Ecosystem Management, Disaster Prevention Poverty eradication Monitoring and Evaluation Sustainable development in a globalizing world
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	The CRSP Program: a problem model approach to capacity building and agricultural development	The goal of the GL-CRSP is to increase food security and improve the quality of life of people in developing countries while bringing an international focus to the research, teaching and extension ef	• Long-term commitment is critical. The GL-CRSP model necessitates a long-term time commitment for projects to enable the generation of knowledge regarding specific development problems and issues	• USAID • USAID Missions • USDA • The GL-CRSP is a USAID funded research and development organization linking US universities with universities, institutions, and organizations in developing countries. Each GL-CRSP project is led by a principal investigator from a major US university. Current partnerships with US universities include, but are not limited to: Texas A&M, Iowa State University, Syracuse, Cornell University, Yale, University of Vermont, University of California Davis, University of California Los Angeles, Utah State University, University of Wyoming, Indiana University, and Purdue University. • Partnerships with universities in developing countries include, but are not limited to: Egerton University, Moi University, University of Ghana, Haromaya University, Hawaassa University, Makerere University, Sokoine University of Agriculture, University of Nairobi, and the Agricultural University of Mongolia • Major partnerships with governmental organizations currently include, but are not limited to: government ministries of health, marketing, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and agricultural development in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, and Mongolia; National Parks in Tanzania, and regional and local development commissions and bureaus in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda • Major partnerships with NGOs and Institutions include, but are not limited to: FEWS-NET, First Voice Africa, Food for the Hungry International, IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Mercy Corps Mongolia, Arid Lands Information Network, Farm-Africa, Save the Children-UK, Tanzanian Wildlife Conservation Society, World Food Program, Freedom from Hunger/Ghana, Heifer International, AMPATH, and the World Bank Sustainable Livelihoods Program

Issue	Cross-cutting issue
Theme	Education Health and sustainable development Sustainable development for Africa
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Tshepo Themba Multi-Purpose Centre	To provide various services to youth leaders, youth clubs, individuals, professionals, and youth workers. The training includes computer, life skills, and enterprise and leadership development. SAAYC	One of the main drawbacks was that most of the sponsors and venture capitalist preferred to invest in programs that offered short-term and visible returns, whereas developing leadership qualities and	Youth Development Network (YDN), the Centre for Education and Enterprise Development (CEED), Joint Enrichment project (JEP)

Issue	Cross-cutting issue Drought Water
Theme	Means of implementation related to drought Safe Drinking Water Means of implementation Adaptation to drought Integrated Water Resource Management Water Quality, Ecosystem Management, Disaster Prevention Poverty eradication Water Use Efficiency Monitoring and Evaluation Sustainable development in a globalizing world Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Canada /Government	Water Demand Initiative: WADIMENA	Overcoming an acute and worsening water shortage Low annual rainfalls and a low per capita volume of renewable water resources make the Middle East and North Africa region the most water-scarce ar	On the Ground: Learning from experience WaDImena aims to translate awareness into action with tangible impacts and policy level results. Regional exchanges have, for example, offered lessons to Sy	Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Desert Development Center, American University in Cairo (DDC/AUC), Egypt. Environmental Research Center, Royal Scientific Society (ERC/RSS), Jordan. Middle East Center for the Transfer of Appropriate Technology (MECTAT), Lebanon. Institute of Environmental and Water Studies (IEWS), Birzeit University, Palestine. Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), Gulf countries. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Morocco. Water and Environment Center (WEC), Sana’a University,Yemen. National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Algeria. National Center for Agricultural Studies (CNEA), Ministry of Agricultural and Hydraulic Resources, Tunisia.

Issue	Desertification
Theme	Strategic planning frameworks to combat desertification
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Desertification Strategies in Shenyang, China	The project is aimed at combating desertification. The known challenges in this regard are: 1. Lack of the necessary infrastructure, mostly in a developing country context, to handle increases in	Members learnt how to combat desertification by planting windbreaks to protect farmlands.

Issue	Desertification Drought
Theme	Means of implementation related to drought Efforts to reverse or mitigate desertification
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	VGT4AFRICA	The goal is to set up, in the framework of GMES, an operational capacity based on the SPOT VEGETATION system and timely distribution system of VEGETATION data and high level derived products to all A		Participation: PPS Science Policy

Issue	Drought
Theme	Means of implementation related to drought Adaptation to drought Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Analyzing Tribal Drought Management: A Case study of the Hualapai Tribe	The intention of this research is to provide a specific case study of drought impacts and management on a reservation, highlight concerns that are unique to reservations, and stimulate additional res	During interviews, tribal officials were also asked to provide general recommendations and lessons learned that may benefit other drought planners: • Develop a drought plan to better understand d	Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) Hualapai Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources

Issue	Drought
Theme	Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Climate change impact on the sustainable use of Lake Tanganyika fisheries (CLIMFISH)- “STEREO” programme	General objectives of the initiative are to: 1. Investigate the impact of recent environmental changes on the fisheries of Lake Tanganyika using weather and limnological monitoring, fisheries statis

Issue	Drought
Theme	Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Climatic and Anthropogenic Impacts on African Ecosystems (CLANIMAE)	Objectives of the intiative are to: 1. Evaluate the current health of ecosystems and their resilience to anthropogenic impacts 2. Model the range of their possible responses to future climate chang	Global studies of historical land use have focused on large-scale landscape modifications that can potentially affect global climate via their effects on surface albedo, aerosols, and the carbon cycl

Issue	Drought
Theme	Adaptation to drought
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Cooperation Walloon region - Burkina Faso and Mauritanie	1. Preservation and protection of the forest galleries in the Sourou valley (Burkina-Faso): participative approach with local population for the protection of the slopes of the valley, water reserves		1. FUL – Fondation Universitaire de Luxembourg (ULg : Université de Liège) 2. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) -Mauretania 3. COPROD (local NGO Burkina-Faso

Issue	Drought
Theme	Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Belgium /Government	Development of a remote sensing derived tool to assess the impact of conservation policy measures and drought on East African ecosystems (ENDELEO)	1. To assess the impact of a change in conservation policy and practices in drought vulnerable areas using space borne remote sensing imagery. 2. To define, develop, and put in place remote sensing	The involvement of the civil society in the conservation and management of those natural assets is still impeded by a lack of access to regularly updated information, such as on the location and exte

Issue	Drought
Theme	Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Dry-Net project	To integrate environment issues in development cooperation frameworks through civil society action while reinforcing civil society's capacity to participate effectively in sustainable land management		various NGOs

Issue	Drought Desertification
Theme	Desertification and land degradation information systems Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	European Drought Centre	- To enhance European co-operation and coordination in draught related activities in order to mitigate the impacts of droughts on society, economy and the environment - To promote collaboration an		European, international scientists

Issue	Drought
Theme	Means of implementation related to drought Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Czech Republic /Government	Exploration of water resources in Ethiopia focused on drought-affected areas	The main objective of the project was the transfer of know-how in developing hydrogeological and hydrochemical maps and evaluation of regional hydrogeological characteristics.

Issue	Drought Africa Desertification Cross-cutting issue Agriculture
Theme	Means of implementation related to drought Means of implementation Adaptation to drought Poverty reduction Strategic planning frameworks to combat desertification Sustainable development for Africa Poverty eradication Agriculture, hunger and food security Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Major Groups	Livestock - coping with drought in Namibia	To cope with drought in the communal areas and freehold (commercial) farms.	The main lessons learned from dealing with the 1992/93 drought, and from the administration of drought subsidies in previous and subsequent years, are summarised below. 1. An effective early warnin	ODI-Pastoral Development Network

Issue	Drought
Theme	Drought preparedness and early warning
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	U.S. Contributions to the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System	Tsunamis are the most difficult of all the natural hazards to prepare for, detect, analyze, and warn against. During the two-and-a-half years following the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the US	Disaster management is strengthened with an end-to-end, multi-hazard disaster warning system. The weakest link in the chain (from event detection to communications and response at the community leve	Those subject to damage/destruction by tsunamis

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Fuel efficiency and cleaner fuel for transportation
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Trinidad and Tobago /Government	The Phase Out Of Lead In Gasoline	To phase out leaded gasoline from the fuels used for transportation. Up to April 2004, Trinidad and Tobago continued to produced a gasoline in which tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) was added as an octane	The refinery had indicated that it could remove lead to a lead of 0.05 g/l of Pb, that is, one third of the lead concentration in gasoline at that time of 0.15 g/l of Pb and still be able to adequate	Petrotrin, Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards, UWI Engineering Institute, Vechicle owners, NPMC and Gas Station Owners.

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Energy and rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Suriname /Government	A energy pilot project in Poketi	To provide electricity in the Poketi community with energy supply from hydropower	1) Community members were not directly involved; 2) After the project was completed, it was handed over to a management unit which had no technical knowledge of the small scale hydro power plant.	Ministry of natural resources Organization of American States (O.A.S)

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Energy and rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Afforestation for biofuel	Increase access to energy for the poor Sequester carbon Catalyze greenhouse gas sinks	Sustainability, scalability and transferability: This project was based on a successful project in India also managed by ICRISAT. As part of the India project, the village was able to sell carbon o	EIP-Niger

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Increasing access to energy for the poor
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Amazonia Energy Initiative	Objectives: Design and start the Amazonia Energy Initiative (AEI) aimed at increasing energy access for isolated communities in the Amazon region while promoting productive and efficient energy use.	Institutional models and facilitating policy environment is critical to solving energy access issues. Financing and access to finance is a key barrier to energy access.	REEEP

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Consumer education and awareness-raising
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Fiji /Government	Appliance Labelling Programme for Refrigerators and Freezers in Fiji	1) To assess consumer response to energy efficiency labels with a view to deciding on a comprehensive scheme that would encompass all retailers of refrigerators and freezers in Fiji and could be exte	The survey revealed that customers including sales staff in retail stores were not really aware of the significance of the energy rating label and its impact on their household energy bill. Generall

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management Energy and rural development Increasing access to energy for the poor
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Asia-Pacific Regional Energy Programme for Poverty Reduction (REP-PoR)	Efforts by countries in the Asia-Pacific region to meet the MDGs, especially the goal of halving the number of poor, will be impaired unless adequate attention is paid to the crucial role energy serv	The REP-PoR will carry out a gap analysis of access to energy at national levels in the Asia-Pacific region examining policies, capacities and knowledge repositories at the national level. Overall, t	Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshal Islands, Federated Sates of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, Tokelau, Nieu and Vanuatu.

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Energy efficiency and demand-side management
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Barrier Removal for Residential Energy Efficiency	Objective: To improve the institutional capacity of local and national governments to formulate policies that promote the development and implementation of residential energy efficiency projects, es	Home owners associations and housing management and maintenance companies have a key role in promoting buildings energy efficiency; There are limited incentives for improving energy efficiency in th	REEEP, USAID

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland /Government	Beacon Council Sustainable Energy Programme	1) To demonstrating policy innovation and best practice in sustainable energy provision; and 2) To highlight leadership skills required to empower communities	Cornwall Council established a consortium called the ‘Cornwall Sustainable Energy Partnership bringing together public health, business, education and energy suppliers. They have established planni	Private Sector Community groups Schools Science Academia The Government

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Energy efficiency and demand-side management
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Building Energy Efficiency Codes in Russia and Kazakhstan	Objective: Improve compliance with new building energy codes and provide training and resources to enable designers to go beyond compliance. Help building officials to better implement and enforce	Enforcement and implementation of building codes by officials is more important than development of the codes; Training has to be carried out for officials who enforce the codes as well as architech	REEEP, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Institute for Building Physics (Moscow), NRDC

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Advanced energy technologies Fuel efficiency and cleaner fuel for transportation Energy and rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Building National Capacity for Biofuels Production	Increased production of biofuels will require increased production of crops for fuel, especially corn. In 2005 ethanol production utilized 14% of U.S. corn production. Increased ethanol production	By products from biofuel production can be used for livestock feed. The production of biofuels provides new employment opportunities for rural communities, and benefits farmers by creating additiona

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Consumer education and awareness-raising Energy and rural development
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Australia /Government	Bushlight - Indigenous Renewable Energy Services	Bushlight’s goal is to improve livelihood opportunities in remote indigenous communities through the application of sustaianble renewable energy services. It provides design, information and educa	During the first two years of Bushlight, the availability of funding for capital works was a major challenge. This resulted in delayed implementation of the capital works plan. These funding issues

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Renewable energy including hydro power
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Capacity Building in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Regulation and Policy-Making in Africa	Objective: Enhance capacity of regulators and policy makers of Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia in terms of energy efficiency and renewable energy and adapt the REEEP ‘Regulation and Sustainable Energy�	Existing energy regulatory frameworks were heavily skewed towards electricity regulation and for developed electricity markets. These need to be adapted to the needs of developing countries;	REEEP

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Jordan /Government	Capacity-Building for CDM Project Development in the Energy Sector	- Develop the capacity among energy sector staff; - Identify and apply baseline parameters in accordance with international agreements; - To be able to prepare successful investment energy proposal		Ministry of Environment

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Innovative financing solutions and technology transfer
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
United States of America /Government	Clean Energy Financing in Central America	To facilitate financing for clean energy projects by demonstrating how mezzanine instruments can transform local lending practices		Triodos Renewable Energy for Development Fund FinnFund (a Finnish development bank) BIO (a Belgian development bank) Central Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development Industrial Development
Theme	Advanced energy technologies Energy efficiency and demand-side management Cleaner industrial technology development and transfer
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Switzerland /Government	Cleaner Production Centers	Reduction of air pollution which is caused by industrial production		Government of Switzerland represented by the ; UNIDO; the two Swiss reference centers are the Federal Institute for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), University of Applied Sciences, Basel (FHBB)

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Capacity-building in energy policy formulation and management
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Mexico /Government	Climate Change Strategy for the Energy Sector	1) To develop a series of projects mitigation and sink projects for participation in the CDM; 2) To negotiate and determine the Energy Sector’s position in Climate Change issues, towards the Inter	The Energy activities are mainly responsible for the emission of Green House Gases in Mexico, but they are also the most important opportunity areas for mitigation and capture. The additional resourc	Energy Sector Utilities (PEMEX, CFE, and LyFC) Promotion (CONAE and FIDE) Regulatory (CRE) Institutions Institutes (IIE and IMP)

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Renewable energy including hydro power
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners
Intergovernmental Organization	Compiling RES Legislation for Kazakhstan	Objective: To generate support for renewable energy for inclusion in the legislation of Kazakhstan. Challenge: Influence of the government climate policy on the renewable energy legal framework.	It is important to engage the industry and investors while developing the renewable energy legislation to guarantee succesful implementation. Legislative frameworks should be followed by plans for i	REEEP

Issue	Energy for Sustainable Development
Theme	Renewable energy including hydro power
Country/Organization Type	Initiative Title	Objectives/Challenges/Constraints	Results/Lessons learned	Key implementation actors/Partners