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Operational Strategy2016-2020

PAGE inspires, informs and enables countries to put sustainability at the heart of economic policy and practice in order to achieve

the 2030 Agenda through inclusive green economy

ACT

ENABLE INSPIREthe reframing of economic policies around sustainability

macroeconomic, sectoral and thematic reform to drive and shift investment

transformative change by building the capacities of individuals and institutions

INFORM

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AcknowledgementsPAGE gratefully acknowledges the support of all its funding partners: European Union, Germany, Finland, Norway, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.

Operational Strategy – 2016-2020

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Table of conTenTs

FOrewOrd 3

1 IntrOductIOn 6

1.1 Structure of the Operational Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2 HOw PAGe cAtAlySeS cHAnGe 7

2.1 The Challenge and the Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.2 PAGE’s Alignment with the International Sustainability Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.3 The PAGE Value Proposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.4 The PAGE Approach: Catalysing Action at the Policy Riverbed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.5 The PAGE Theory of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.6 PAGE Principles and Values for Country Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.7 The PAGE Country Delivery Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.8 PAGE Global Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.9 Engagement Modalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.10 PAGE Management and Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.11 PAGE Financial Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.12 Resource Mobilisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.13 Delivering through Partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2.14 Country Sustainability Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.15 Evaluating Impact and Addressing Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3 PAGe deePenInG And exPAnSIOn: 2016-2020 PlAnS 25

3.1 PAGE Expansion Plans 2016-2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.1.1 Expansion Plans–Country Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3.1.2 Expansion Plans–Global Services and PAGE Secretariat Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.2 Budget to Support Countries, Global Services and Secretariat Functions 2016-2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3.3 Resource Mobilisation 2016-2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4 cOncluSIOn: turnInG StrAteGy IntO ActIOn 30

5 AnnexeS 31

Annex 1: Country Requests for Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Annex 2: PAGE Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Annex 3: Work streams in countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Annex 4: Global Logframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40


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Vision

Countries are transforming their economies to eradicate poverty, increase jobs and social

equity, strengthen livelihoods and environmental stewardship, and sustain growth in line with the

Sustainable Development Goals.

Mission

Countries reframe economic policy around sustainability and put in place enabling policy

conditions, reforms, incentives, business models, and partnerships, to catalyse greater action and investment in green technologies and natural,

human, and social capital.

PAGe at a Glance

2012 22 June PAGE conceived at Rio+20 Conference.

2013 February PAGE launched at UNEP’s Governing Council in Nairobi.

June –July Mongolia and Peru join PAGE. 2014 4-5 March The First Global PAGE Conference held in Dubai.

April-August Mauritius, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Ghana join PAGE.

13 June Mongolia adopts Green Development Policy.

26 June UNDP joins as a PAGE partner.

1 September Three PAGE green economy assessment tools launched.

6-17 October The first Green Economy Academy held, nearly 90 participants from 20 countries attend.

15 December Peru presents its roadmap towards a green growth strategy at the UNFCCC Climate Conference in Lima, Peru.

2015 7 July PAGE side event at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York. PAGE website – www.un-page.org – launched.

25 September PAGE launches call for applications at UN Summit on Sustainable Development event.

2-6 November Regional Green Economy Forum for Latin America held in Cartagena, Colombia.

9-13 November Regional Green Economy Forum for Africa held in Accra, Ghana.

16-18 December First Global Green Economy Learning Forum in Paris.

2016 Barbados and Kyrgyz Republic join PAGE.

Box 1: PAGe by the numbers

10

Current number of PAGE Partner Countries. The 10 countries are at various stages of developing national IGE strategies, identifying priority sectors and areas, and operationalizing plans.

32Number of additional countries that have requested support for transitioning to an inclusive green economy.

24million USD

Total resources mobilized by the end of September 2015.

43 5million USD

Total PAGE budget for 2016-2020.

66Number of countries represented by over 450 participants, including 27 ministers, at the First Global PAGE Conference in 2014.

300+Number of participants in PAGE regional and global academies, media trainings and outreach events.

500+Number of participants from Government, academia, civil society and the private sector that participated in the PAGE e-learning course on green economy in English and French.


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2015 marks a moment in time when the global community drew up a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity Achieving the Sustain-able development Goals (SdGs) and laying foundations for addressing climate change within the 2015-2030 window of opportunity can only be described as historic; and it is our firm conviction that it can only be accomplished through a collaborative approach that builds on and extends a vibrant network of partnerships - across disciplines, countries and stakeholders from around the globe

The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) is one such partnership, integrating the three dimen-sions of sustainable development in its advisory services, knowledge products and capacity building. PAGE supports countries in meeting their sustaina-bility commitments, particularly the SDGs related to economy, jobs, and the environment; but also indus-trial development and their national commitments to tackling climate change, through inclusive green econ-omy approaches.

PAGE connects countries with the collective expertise and broad convening power of five UN agencies – United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and United Nations Institute for Training and Research. Jointly we provide analytical support, technical assistance and capacity building services to

countries and regions to transform their economies into drivers of sustainability and social equity.

There is growing momentum among countries in reframing their economic policies and practices around sustainability to foster economic growth, cre-ate income and jobs, reduce poverty and inequality, and strengthen the ecological foundations of their economies. This represents a unique and challeng-ing opportunity for PAGE. PAGE currently assists ten countries and aims to expand its offer to at least an additional nine by 2020, while we have received requests from more than 30 countries to date. With the experience we gained in our first two years of operations, PAGE is now poised for expanded reach and enhanced impact. This operational strategy lays out our theory of change, our operational strat-egy, and plans for 2016-2020 – with a, look beyond to 2030.

We are grateful to our many partners – country part-ners, action partners, funding partners – who are making PAGE the successful example of UN col-laboration that it has become; and are particularly appreciative of the many contributions from our friends and colleagues who have helped to deepen and enrich this operational strategy. In this, we have embarked on a collective exercise, first mooted at Rio + 20 as a “common undertaking.” We invite you to join PAGE and its many partners in our efforts to contribute toward achieving inclusive and sustainable growth – the bedrock of the 2030 Agenda.

Achim Steiner UNEP

Guy Rider ILO

Magdy Martínez-Solimán UNDP

Li Yong UNIDO

Nikhil Seth UNITAR


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Box 1: Catalysing Change: PAGE Progress to Date

MongoliaThe Government of Mongolia adopted its national Green Development Policy (GDP) soon after joining PAGE. To support implementation of the GDP and contribute to achieving its targets, PAGE is assisting in developing green development indicators, a sustainable public procurement policy, green building codes, a national waste manage-ment strategy, scenarios through system dynamics modelling, an IGE learning strategy, and mobilising domestic private finance.

PeruAfter assisting the development of the Roadmap to a Green Growth Strategy, PAGE is supporting Peru in developing its national green growth strategy, options for policy reforms to green three key economic sectors, green industrial policy instruments, and operationalization of a green jobs policy as well as a biotrade strategy.

ChinaChina (Jiangsu province) joined PAGE in 2015. Work is underway to support the provin-cial Government in the identification of priority areas and sectors to further its progress toward an inclusive green economy.

GhanaTo support the operationalization of Ghana’s Shared Growth and Development Agenda (2014-2017), PAGE is assisting in the development of an IGE action plan and learning strategy, identification of opportunities for green industrial development and sustaina-ble trade, and IGE training for media and policymakers.

MauritiusThe new Government is developing a mid-term strategy, “Achieving Meaningful Change (2015-2019).” PAGE informs the strategy based on IGE assessment of 6 economic sectors, and assists in developing solid waste and industrial waste strategies, prepar-ing the Marshall Plan against poverty and social exclusion, advancing green skills and entrepreneurial development, and catalysing domestic finance.

SenegalPAGE assists in achieving SDG-aligned targets of Plan Senegal Emergent, the national development framework, by helping Senegalese parliamentarians in drafting a ‘strate-gic orientation document’ on IGE, mainstreaming IGE goals and targets in three key national strategies and policies, creation of integrated industrial platforms, and formu-lation of National Green Jobs Strategy and National Programme for Green Jobs.

South AfricaAn in-depth stocktaking exercise on IGE for development of a robust results based framework for the PAGE programme document for 2017-2019 is underway. PAGE support will focus on implementing existing national green economy policies through capacity building of learning institutions, national and local Government staff, the development of IGE indicators, and mobilizing domestic private finance.

Burkina FasoPAGE is providing support to integrate IGE goals and targets into the next development plan, provisionally titled ‘SCADD 2’ (2016-2020), by contributing recommendations for green fiscal policy reforms, green industrial policies, and revision of the National Investment Plan on the Environment and Sustainable Development, and establishment of a green economy platform.


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Box 2: Some Soundbites about IGE and PAGE

“We view the implementation of green economy policies by countries that seek to apply them for the transition towards sustainable development as a common undertaking….and recognize that the efforts of developing coun-tries that choose to implement green economy policies in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication should be supported through technical and technological assistance.”

The Future We Want, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 66/288, paras. 59 and 74

“The added-value of PAGE rests in the unique way it can address the three dimensions of sustainable development through a holistic approach: this approach is needed to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and therefore, this partnership could become the way forward at country level to achieve the SDGs.”

Joint Donor Inception Review of PAGE

“Even if we have very good will, both political will and public support, we don’t necessarily have the knowledge, expertise and technology to go the greener way. That’s where initiatives like PAGE will help very much. PAGE is not just a good idea, I think it is an imperative.”

Dr. Oyun Sanjaasuren, Minister of Environment and Green Development of Mongolia

“We strongly support initiatives such as PAGE. Only a profound transformation can shift economies worldwide onto a sustainable path, ensuring social inclusiveness and conservation of our natural resources.”

Ms. Barbara Hendricks, Minister for Environment of Germany

“The international community's adoption of the green economy testifies to the hope that GE inspires in both devel-oping and developed countries as a means of matching the needs of populations with the actual capacities of the planet's ecosystems.”

Mr. Abdoulaye Balde, Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Senegal

“At Rio+20 in June 2012, Korea announced its plans to expand green ODA by 2020 and to promote global green growth partnerships. Korea reaffirmed the commitment to green economy by playing an active role in this PAGE program. As one of the founding PAGE friends, it is such a pleasure to see that so many countries come together sharing common visions and ideas.”

Dr. Lee Jaehyun, Deputy Minister of Environment of the Republic of Korea

“Significant policy and institutional efforts are already underway to integrate the economic, social and environment pillars of sustainable development. In fact Ghana is regarded as a model in the West African region for pioneering the greening of its national development plans.”

Ms. Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development

"The climate issue is increasingly present as a result of the financial and economic crisis, which is also ideological. Therefore, PAGE opens the door to debate about what we should consider as green growth, and it is an element of our new vision for development as well."

Mr. Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Minister of Environment of Peru

“Our move towards a green economy is part of the country's long-term plan to grow the economy while mitigating the effects of climate change,"

Ms. Buyelwa Sonjica, Environmental Affairs Minister of South Africa

“The Partnership for Action on Green Economy is a model example of the United Nations System 'delivering as one' to support countries move to greener development paths. With five UN organizations working together, the government of Senegal is receiving a coordinated and complementary service, leveraging the expertise of these different agencies.”

Mr. Bintou Djibo, UN Resident Coordinator, Senegal

“[C]all on United Nations agencies, international financial institutions, …. to provide financial and technical sup-port …. in building inclusive green economies, aligning such efforts under the Africa Green Economy Programme and associated delivery platforms, such as the Partnership for Action on Green Economy….”

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There is a growing realization among public and pri-vate sector decision makers that we need to evolve to a new economic paradigm, capable of progressing and achieving the goals of sustainable development, and one that matches the ambition of countries as they embark on implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) seeks to put sustainability at the heart of economic policymaking. The Partnership supports nations and regions in reframing economic policies and practices around sustainability to foster economic growth, cre-ate income and jobs, reduce poverty and inequality, and strengthen the ecological foundations of their economies.

PAGE is a direct response to the Rio+20 Declaration, The Future We Want, which called upon the United Nations System and the international community to provide assistance to interested countries in devel-oping, adopting and implementing green economy policies and strategies. Bringing together the expertise and broad convening power of five UN agencies – United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and United Nations Institute for Train-ing and Research – and working closely with national Governments, private sector and civil society, PAGE offers a comprehensive, coordinated and cost-ef-fective package of analytical support, technical assistance and capacity building services to countries and regions to transform their economies into drivers of sustainability and social equity.

In its first two years, PAGE has set up a governance structure (with a Secretariat, Management Board and Donor Steering Committee) and centred the five agency partnership in a jointly developed results framework, with the overall objective to support coun-tries’ efforts to transform their economies to be greener and more inclusive. The expertise and delivery mod-els of each agency are brought together under a joint commitment to deliver on agreed outcomes and out-puts at national and global levels. Building on this joint agreement on results, PAGE partners have developed a business model that provides an integrated offer to interested countries, taking into account each agen-cy’s strengths and the specific country demand.

As the demand by countries for support on inclusive green economy (IGE) continues to grow, PAGE has developed this medium-term strategy. It lays out plans for supporting 20 countries by 2020 and includes a blueprint for mobilizing resources and augmenting partnerships to achieve this initial target. It also sketches out a growth trajectory to 2030 that aligns PAGE with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

1.1 Structure of the Operational Strategy

PAGE agencies have drafted this Operational Strategy to reflect a shared vision of how PAGE will evolve and grow to serve more countries. The Strategy builds on the original 2013 programme document, the recom-mendations provided in the PAGE Inception Review,1 and the lessons learned from the first two years of PAGE operations.

The first sections of the Operational Strategy pres-ent the PAGE approach to engaging with countries nationally and globally, the link to the global sustain-ability agenda, the process of change to which PAGE contributes, and the PAGE objectives and principles.

The Strategy then presents plans for global services, an overview of PAGE management and finances, as well as the resource requirements for supporting PAGE op-erations during the period 2016-2020. This is followed by sections on partnerships and the PAGE country sustainability plans, which explains arrangements for ensuring continuation of IGE work beyond the period of direct support by the PAGE global Trust Fund.

The following sections provide an overview of PAGE efforts to monitor progress, evaluate impact and incorporate lessons learned into future plans for more robust and results-oriented actions.

The final section describes the PAGE strategy for 2016-2020 and beyond, including plans for growing the Partnership and extending the PAGE offer to more countries.

1 An inception review of PAGE was conducted by representatives of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the European Commission (EC), the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), and the Korea Environment Institute from September to November 2014.

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2.1 The Challenge and the Change

The root causes of unsustainable development pat-terns can be traced back to the misallocation of capital to activities that generate economic benefits, but with negative social and environmental externalities. These activities are anchored in economic policies and prac-tices and sometimes deeply flawed national economic planning processes that historically have promoted short-term gains in income and GDP growth while undermining sustainable development.

The challenge is to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation and to increase opportuni-ties for women, youth and the poor in particular. To do so, economies must be transformed so that they remain or become competitive while safeguarding social and natural capital. This transition requires a shift away from business-as-usual. Government and the private sector must create opportunities to ensure long-term pros-perity in a resource-constrained world. An inclusive green economy and related concepts (such as circular economy, low-carbon economy, ecological civilization, living well, sufficiency economy, green growth, inclu-sive wealth,) provide such opportunities.2

An inclusive green economy, in its sim-plest expression, is low carbon, efficient and clean in production, but also inclusive in con-sumption and outcomes, based on sharing, circularity, collaboration, solidarity, resilience, opportunity, and interdependence. It is fo-cused on expanding options and choices for national economies, using targeted and ap-propriate fiscal and social protection policies, and backed up by strong institutions that are specifically geared to safeguarding social and ecological floors. It recognizes that there are many and diverse pathways to environmental sustainability.2

IGE requires the accumulation of a new generation of capital-natural capital, clean produced capital, healthy

2 UNEP 2015. Uncovering Pathways Towards an Inclusive Green Economy: A Summary for Leaders. See: http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/IGE%20NARRA-TIVE%20SUMMARY_Web.pdf

and green-skilled human capital, and social capital. At the same time, IGE requires a shift of consumption, investment and public spending, and the liberaliza-tion of trade towards environmentally friendly goods and services. This shift is perpetuated through new models of consumption such as the emerging sharing economy, new forms of investment such as public-pri-vate partnerships (PPP), new roles for public spending including sustainable public procurement and credit creation for socially desired projects.

The changes needed for greening the economy are unlikely to take place automatically; they often need to be mobilized by public policy, in particular, fiscal and investment policies, monetary and credit policies, trade policies, industrial policies, and pro-active labour policies, in addition to the more familiar rules, regula-tions, standards and other economic instruments.

Economic instruments can be used to account for environmental and social externalities in order to con-vey more accurate market signals to individuals and firms. These signals, such as price premiums for resource-efficient goods, incentivize investments in green products and services. Economic instruments have been identified by nations as key tools to meet both SDG and Intended Nationally Determined Con-tributions (INDCs) targets, including carbon pricing policies, reform of fossil fuel, agriculture and fish subsi-dies, low-interest loans, tax exemptions for clean and efficient technologies, taxes on pollution and waste disposal, among others. These instruments operation-alize the “polluter pays principle” through national fiscal policy frameworks and generate government revenue to invest in inclusive green growth without increasing budget deficits.

Market-based instruments such as sustainability and efficiency certification schemes shift consumer and private sector behaviour towards more sustainable consumption and production patterns. Tradable emis-sion permits leverage the efficiency of the market to reduce pollution at the lowest possible economic cost, optimize capital expenditure, and provide a competitive advantage for firms that minimize their environmental impact.

Through these instruments, policy makers can tar-get key IGE opportunities, such as promoting green technology, which is at the core of cleanly produced

2. How PAGE CAtAlysEs CHAnGE

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capital. In addition to generating financial capital, green technology reduces the pressure on natural capital and increases productivity, requires human capital to develop and deploy, and promotes shared prosperity.

IGE creates promising opportunities across in-come-levels to improve well-being and generate new sources of capital. Developing affordable and acces-sible green products and services can help improve the lives and environments of low-income consumers. The growing affluence of the new middle class and emerging economies presents key market growth op-portunities that can be captured with innovative and sustainable business models.

By operating on a decentralized level across sectors, these economic and market instruments support the necessary shifts in social capital, including influenc-ing consumer preferences, firm reputation and human resource management. Social infrastructure, such as education and skills training can increase employee and supplier productivity, enabling greater wealth gen-eration inclusive of women, youth, and marginalized groups.

These policy and market driven changes, however, are likely to bring about different net effects on jobs within and across sectors. It is important that while we seek to create new green job opportunities from these changes, we must also - through training and job placement services - ensure a fair and just transi-tion for those who will be negatively affected.

While countries, communities and industries have created successful small-scale “green and inclusive” models, focus on reframing economic policies around sustainability has not received adequate attention in the past. This has compromised the ability of such successful sectoral projects and models to scale up and become the default way of doing business.

Over the last few years, a range of ‘green’ develop-ment strategies, practices, and technologies have evolved to enable the meeting of human needs whilst avoiding environmental degradation. This has been accompanied by growing awareness of the economic, social and environmental benefits that a transition to an IGE offers. Over 65 countries have now embarked on inclusive green economy and related strategies, with 48 of them developing national inclusive green economy plans as the centrepiece of these strategies.3

A self-sustaining green economy requires contribu-tions from multiple sectors and players in the economy.

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Recent initiatives around the globe to integrate costs of climate change into the market through carbon pric-ing mechanisms indicate the importance of markets in mitigation. Such integration gives rise to the need for new economic instruments that measure the impacts of climate change and mitigation efforts, while domes-tic and international financing play key roles in the realization of green aspirations.

Taking note of the growing popularity of IGE as a policy and planning framework, Heads of State at the Rio+20 Summit recognised it as an important tool for achiev-ing sustainable development and poverty eradication. They called upon the UN system to provide support to countries interested in transitioning to a green econ-omy. PAGE is a direct response to this call.

2.2 PAGE’s Alignment with the International Sustainability Agenda

The ideas of a partnership on IGE, and for a set of global sustainable development goals, were both conceived at Rio+20. PAGE has become even more relevant since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the SDGs, which are ambitious, complex and cut across sectors as well as divides of low- and high-income countries. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers an historic opportunity to develop integrated and bal-anced approaches to sustainable development. PAGE brings together five UN agencies, whose mandates, expertise and networks combined can offer integrated and holistic support to countries on IGE, ensuring coherence and avoiding duplication. PAGE supports Governments to work across sectors, seeking the integration of policies and strategies that will enable them to achieve multiple SDG targets through IGE.

PAGE is aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustain-able Development in many ways, especially with SDGs related to the economy, jobs, the environment and climate change, and partnerships. First, IGE is an effective tool for achieving sustainable develop-ment and poverty eradication. In a green economy, growth in income and employment are driven by policies and investments that reduce carbon emis-sions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services.4 The 2030 Agenda includes each of these objectives, distributed across several of the

4 UNEP, 2011. Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication. See: http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/ger_final_dec_2011/Green%20EconomyReport_Final_Dec2011.pdf

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SDGs. Second, achieving the SDGs requires signifi-cant investments in social capital, natural capital, and financial capital.5 PAGE helps deliver on the SDGs by catalysing additional investment, as well as by creating a shift in existing investment towards these forms of capital through the reform of macroeconomic policies.

An initial review of the SDGs and their targets shows that most of them can be advanced through an IGE approach. PAGE is particularly well placed to deliver on SDG 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable eco-nomic growth, employment and decent work for all given its clear focus on generating sustainable growth, employment, income and wealth in an inclusive manner while reducing environmental risks. Fur-thermore, PAGE has evolved as an effective means of implementing the 2030 Agenda as called for by

5 World Bank, 2011. The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measur-ing Sustainable Development in the New Millenium. See: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/ENVIRONMENT/Resources/Chang-ingWealthNations.pdf

SDG 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. Target 17.16 Enhance the global part-nership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustain-able development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries is particularly relevant for PAGE. By offering financial support, technology, capaci-ty-building, trade promotion, and addressing systemic issues including promotion of policy and institutional coherence, PAGE is already providing an adequate response to SDG 17 in several countries. PAGE is par-ticularly well positioned to support countries in their efforts to access environmental goods and associated technologies and services, and to more actively par-ticipate in green global value chains. 6

6 Diagram adapted from “The United Nations Environment Pro-gramme and the 2030 Agenda.” See: http://www.unep.org/pdf/UNEP_and_the_2030_Agenda.pdf

Figure 1: How PAGE links to the SDGs6

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GOAL 1.No Poverty

GOAL 2.Zero Hunger

GOAL 3.Good Health And Well-Being

GOAL 4.Quality Education

GOAL 10.Reduced Inequalities

GOAL 9.Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

GOAL 7.A�ordable And Clean Energy

GOAL 11.Sustainable Cities And Communities

GOAL 15.Life On Land

GOAL 14.Life Below Water

GOAL 6.Clean Water And Sanitation

GOAL 17.Partnership For The Goals

GOAL 8.Decent Work And Economic Growth

Pro- mote Green In- vestment& Resource E�ciency

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CLEAN WATERAND SANITATION

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AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY

INDUSTRY, INNOVATIONAND INFRASTRUCTURE

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To advance the implementation of the international climate change agenda, which is reflected in SDG 13, PAGE activities create a conducive enabling envi-ronment and support for low-carbon development in economic sectors. A key marker in the transition to IGE is the decoupling of economic development from growth in emissions. It is clear that to achieve this decoupling it is necessary to reform perverse subsi-dies, increase public and private sector allocation for climate adaptation and mitigation measures, further develop climate-smart business models and mobilize private finance for climate stability and resilience. The link between an IGE enabling environment and climate reforms is being recognized; for example, the Inter-national Resource Panel concluded in 2014: “REDD+ is likely to be successful only if it is supported by an enabling environment that includes Green Economy elements….” 7

Given the focus on supporting policymaking, PAGE could contribute to deliver on some critical aspects of Target 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning and support partner countries in achieving their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), as committed in the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The shift in the UNFCCC approach toward Govern-ment-led INDCs expands the role of PAGE in partner countries as both INDCs and PAGE country work are determined by Governments and driven by country priorities. PAGE, in its role as convener, promotes the alignment and coordination of climate and IGE policies by bringing various Government and nongovernment stakeholders to build on existing or planned IGE and climate plans and initiatives, as well as develop joint synergistic efforts. For example, in Ghana, PAGE focuses in areas (such as resource efficiency in agro-industry and capacity building) with the explicit aim of contributing to the objectives of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda II, the National Climate Change Policy and Ghana’s nation-ally determined contributions.

PAGE’s alignment with the global sustainability agenda and the contribution it can make towards advancing countries’ sustainability ambitions have been recog-nized in the run up to the UN Summit on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For instance, at the 15th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in March 2015, Governments

7 International Resource Panel (2014). Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy. Nettside: http://www.unep.org/resourcepanel/Publications/BuildingNaturalCapi-talHowREDD/tabid/132320/Default.aspx

acknowledged PAGE in the Cairo Declaration on Managing Africa’s Natural Capital for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication:

As illustrated in Table 1, PAGE-supported activities, for example in Peru and Mongolia, are contributing to achieve several SDGs.

2.3 The PAGE Value Proposition

To adequately and effectively integrate environmental and social concerns into economic policy is a major challenge. The magnitude of this challenge helps explain the gap between general political commit-ments to sustainable development and the reality of developing and implementing concrete policies and programmes on the ground. PAGE is designed to sup-port, concretise and catalyse policy action that can turn these intentions into real transformational change.

PAGE has prioritized a number of factors that slow momentum to achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda, the transition to an IGE and the implementation of enabling economic policies, including: i) insufficient knowledge, evidence, and managerial and technical capacities to design and implement IGE frameworks; ii) limited engagement with the private sector and civil society in the policymaking processes; iii) weak coher-ence and lack of coordination mechanisms at national,

Call on United Nations agencies, international financial institutions, development partners, regional organizations, stakeholders and civil society to promote social and environmental entrepreneurship and to provide financial and technical support by fostering cooperation, knowledge-sharing and technology development on good practices in building inclusive green economies, aligning such efforts under the Africa Green Economy Programme and associated delivery platforms, such as the Partnership for Action on Green Economy, Africa Mining Vision and the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable production and consumption patterns”

Cairo Declaration on Managing Africa’s Natural Capital for Sustainable Development

and Poverty Eradication, Paragraph 1.7

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table 1: Selected examples of PAGE work in Peru and Mongolia, and its relevance to the SDGs.

Peru

PAGE supports Peru… Contributes to the following SDG targets:

…in developing its green jobs strategy and revision of regional youth employment plans, which will create new green jobs for young women and men.

Target 8.5 on full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people, and persons with disabilities.

...to promote employment in biotrade and ecotourism by signing an agreement with a tourism association.

Target 8.9 on sustainable tourism and Target 8.5.

…for developing a national cross-sectoral green growth strategy in collaboration with the Ministry of Environ-ment, the Ministry of Work and Employment Promotion, the Ministry of Production, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.

Target 17.14 on policy coherence for sustainable development.

…by initiating pilot projects in the area of sustainable quinoa production.

Target 2.4 on ensuring sustainable food production sys-tems and implementing resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity, and Target 17.11 on increas-ing exports of developing countries.

Mongolia

PAGE supports Mongolia… Contributes to the following SDG targets:

…for the development of green building codes and poli-cies, starting with green public school buildings.

SDG 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sus-tainable and Target 12.7 on sustainable procurement.

…to develop an industrial waste inventory report to feed into the national waste strategy with the aim of building up a recycling industry.

Target 8.4 on resource efficiency and on decoupling growth from economic degradation, and Target 12.4 on achieving the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle.

...in implementation of Green Development Policy in col-laboration with the Ministry of Environment and Green Development, the Ministry of Finance, the National Sta-tistical Office, the Ministry of Construction and Urban Development, among other Government agencies.

Target 17.14 on policy coherence for sustainable development.

...to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the public procurement process by incorporating sustain-ability principles in the national legal framework for public procurement.

SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and pro-duction patterns and Target 12.7 on sustainable procurement.

…to prepare the Government’s 2016-2020 PAGE Pro-grammatic Framework to bring together representatives from national and international public finance, as well as private sector for green investment.

Target 17.3 on mobilizing additional financial resources.

…for the development of green and inclusive financial products and services in collaboration with the banking sector and the Mongolian Sustainable Finance Initiative for mobilizing finance for achieving national develop-ment goals in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative.

Target 17.1 on strengthening domestic resource mobilization.


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subnational and local government levels; and iv) inad-equate public and private finance and investment in IGE. PAGE is designed to address these challenges by supporting countries in designing their national visions, strategies and action plans for a sustainable future in line with the 2030 Agenda.

PAGE activities bring together the national counter-part ministries and networks of five UN agencies to strengthen integrated policymaking processes as called for in the 2030 Agenda. In addition to pro-moting institutional and policy coherence, synergies and partnerships among Government agencies, and between public, private, civil society and academic sectors, PAGE projects make a strong business case for investing in sustainability. Through its empha-sis on national ownership, PAGE supports countries to build knowledge and consensus, and to cre-ate a collective commitment to plan and implement reforms that advance IGE and contribute to achieving the SDGs.

The added value of PAGE rests on the following elements:

1. PAGE has economy-wide reach: The collective convening power of the five UN partners and distinct expertise of each of them enables PAGE activities to cover macro, meso and micro levels of the economy and issues that cut across economic sec-tors. PAGE reaches out to the ministries of planning, labour, environment, transport, agriculture, industry, and education, among others. Similarly, PAGE reaches a broad segment of the private sector and civil society through the networks and constituencies of the multi-ple governmental partners involved.

2. PAGE delivers coherent and comprehensive action: As a result of its broad economic policymaking approach and close coordination among its partners, PAGE activities are synergistic and comprehensive. National plans and strategies are outlined, validated and endorsed across all relevant Government institu-tions and by civil society, ensuring that stakeholders are informed and empowered for coordinated action.

3. PAGE reduces transaction costs: Some of the key factors that reduce transaction costs for PAGE partners and for the countries they sup-port include: agreement on joint efforts and results frameworks to achieve a common objective; a high level of trust and transparency between partners; a shared governance mechanism for organizational and operational decision-making; the management of the PAGE Trust Fund under the rules of one agency; and collaboration with common national green economy

champions and leaders. Partner countries reduce transaction costs by working through PAGE with five UN agencies under a single set of administrative procedures and requirements. The Partnership also aims to reduce the costs of delivering development assistance for PAGE funding partners as efforts are streamlined and duplication is avoided.

4. PAGE offers unique, integrated technical capacity: Each of the PAGE partners contributes expertise in an area necessary to an IGE transformation. The pooling of five technical capacity areas and the joint delivery of activities by PAGE partners enables countries to put in place integrated policies based on best-in-class knowledge in environment, development practice, industry, labour and capacity building.

2.4 The PAGE Approach: Catalysing Action at the Policy Riverbed

The focus and area of action for PAGE is upstream, where policies that shape the full economy are cre-ated and propelled downstream. By working at the “policy riverbed,” PAGE has a broader catalytic effect downstream, in economic sectors and in the myriad initiatives undertaken in each of those sectors. As such, PAGE does not directly engage at project level. Rather, it helps to create a policy environment that enables and promotes investments and projects that are aligned with overall sustainability objectives.

Figure 2: PAGE at the Policy Riverbed

In Senegal, for example, PAGE facilitated policy engagement with a strategic orientation document on green economy produced by parliamentarians and members of the economic, social and environmental

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council, as well as a national strategy on green jobs. With these nationally owned engagement documents, PAGE provides operational support mainly by lever-aging existing nationally funded projects in three key areas: a national programme on waste management of $20 million, a national project on energy efficiency in buildings and use of local construction material of $6 million; and a national programme on opportunities for green job creation of $5 million. PAGE provides pol-icy and technical advice that complements activities of these three national initiatives. The expected result is national ownership demonstrated by national funding.

The Parliament of Mongolia adopted in 2014 the national Green Development Policy (GDP) which sets out a vision of participatory and inclusive economic growth, building on environmental sustainability. PAGE has provided political visibility to the GDP and fostered political momentum for green development in Mongolia through a series of high-level events including Minis-ters, development partners, academia, the banking sector and civil society. Moreover, PAGE has provided targeted support to make sure the overarching strate-gic objectives of the GDP are translated into specific changes in sectoral/thematic policies and regulations. For example, in the case of the construction sector, the GDP sets out that that the country will introduce appro-priate energy efficiency standards and rating system for green buildings to reduce heat loss through build-ings by 20 percent by 2020 and by 40 percent in 2030. In support of this goal, PAGE has signed an agreement with the Government of Mongolia to implement and develop sustainable green building projects on state-owned school buildings. Through the project a green school building design has been developed which can be applied to the 1,200 schools that need to be built

over the next 5-7 years. Beyond school buildings, the model design will also inform the national codes for green buildings, which should ultimately evolve into a national Green Building Rating System.

PAGE assists countries in transforming their economies by inspiring, informing and enabling change at various stages of the policy cycle (See Figure 3) as follows:

Ì The Partnership inspires governments and stake-holders to engage in the creation and reforming of economic policies towards sustainability.

Ì PAGE informs the policy process through technical support and analysis at both macro-economic and sectoral level.

Ì By building the capacity of key individuals and insti-tutions, PAGE enables countries to put a greener and more inclusive economy into action.

2.5 The PAGE Theory of Change

Reframing economic policies and practices around sustainability, creating an enabling macroeconomic environment, greening sectoral policies and projects, aligning financial regulations and markets with sus-tainable development planning, and building individual and institutional capacity are foundational elements of an inclusive green economy. This “reframing” is most likely when policymakers have a strong appetite and mandate for reforms to stimulate green growth and jobs for all, as well as for higher efficiency and inno-vation to reduce pressure on natural capital. Change happens when windows of reform are open, which is often in the early days after a new Government takes

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office. Therefore, the key components of the PAGE theory of change are to engage in countries where and when there is a demand and a need, as well as high-level political commitment to transformative change, which is often in the early days of a new administration, as illustrated in Figure 4 above.

The overall outcome to which PAGE contributes is for countries to “reframe economic policy around sus-tainability and put in place enabling policy conditions, reforms, incentives, business models and partnerships to catalyse greater action and investment in green tech-nologies and natural, human and social capital.” This

overall outcome is supported by four outcomes that correspond to the PAGE four strategic delivery areas.

Outcome 1: “Countries have reinforced and inte-grated IGE measures into SDG-aligned national economic and development planning through multi-stakeholder collaboration”To achieve Outcome 1, PAGE supports the develop-ment of policy proposals that take into account social, environmental and economic considerations and are evidence-based. PAGE works with and through key national Government ministries and supports IGE diag-nostics, assessments and policy analyses for sound

ImPActCountries are transforming their economies to eradicate poverty, increase jobs

and social equity, strengthen livelihoods and environmental stewardship, and sustain growth in line with the Sustainable Development Goals

OVerAll OutcOmeCountries reframe economic policy around sustainability and put in place enabling policy

conditions, reforms, incentives, business models, and partnerships to catalyse greater action and investment in green technologies and natural, human, and social capital

OutcOme 1Countries have reinforced and integrated inclusive

green economy (IGE) goals and targets into SDG-

aligned national economic and development planning through multi-stakeholder

collaboration

OutcOme 2Countries are implementing

evidence-based sectoral and thematic reforms in line with

national IGE priorities

OutcOme 3Individual, institutional and planning capacities for IGE action strengthened at the national and global level

OutcOme 4Countries have improved their knowledge base for

advancing IGE

Figure 5: PAGE Theory of Change: Impact and Outcomes


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policymaking. PAGE also catalyses public, private and civil society engagement in prioritizing key sectors and themes, targets, and investment options to ensure col-lective ownership and sustainability of IGE policies.

Outcome 2: “Countries are implementing evi-dence-based sectoral and thematic reforms in line with national IGE priorities”PAGE supports Governments in multidisciplinary research, scenario development and participatory processes to assist them in identifying IGE opportu-nities to reform policies, strategies and plans toward accomplishing Outcome 2. With its partners, PAGE develops tools and measurement frameworks to support analysis and monitor progress. PAGE also supports engagement of the finance sector to bring funding behind country-determined IGE priorities.

Outcome 3: “Individual, institutional and plan-ning capacities for IGE action strengthened at the national and global levels”Tailored training programmes to strengthen national institutional capacities for coordination, stakeholder participation, and implementation at the country level are the main tools for realizing Outcome 3. PAGE also creates global leadership and training opportunities to communicate and multiply effects and learning from national-level IGE experiences to a wider audience.

Outcome 4: “Countries have improved their knowl-edge base for advancing IGE”To achieve Outcome 4, which focuses on the global level, PAGE generates and shares IGE knowledge through South-South and North-South collaboration. Learning accumulated by the countries and PAGE partners is used to inspire change at global level through regional and global academies for policy makers, e-learning courses, international events and conferences, and relevant online information made available through the PAGE newsletter, website (www.un-page.org) and social media engagement.

PAGE recognizes that achievement of the desired over-all PAGE outcome and its four supporting outcomes depends largely on Government action. Attribution of policy change to PAGE is a challenge that PAGE endeavours to meet through the monitoring of results-based indicators developed under the PAGE logical framework (See Annex 4).

2.6 PAGE Principles and Values for Country Engagement

Building on the experience gained in its first two years of operation, PAGE work is guided by a set of principles.

These principles are reflected in PAGE country engage-ment values. Both the overall guiding principles and the more practical values that guide PAGE interaction in countries are described in this section.

Vision for transformative changePAGE supports action that leads to transformative change: a change that reshapes economies to eradi-cate poverty, strengthen livelihoods and environmental stewardship, and sustain growth. PAGE puts emphasis on strategic analysis and macro-economic, sectoral, and thematic policy reform. PAGE activities are nec-essarily ambitious to operationalize this transformative and systemic vision. Beyond the countries supported by PAGE, it aims to trigger a “multiplier effect” around the world to inspire other countries to also transform their economies. Delivering transformational change depends critically, among other things, on empow-ering policy champions, informing policy processes, enabling and financing policy action, and garnering national ownership. PAGE avoids large and heavy country project presence and its associated financial costs and risks for national ownership. Instead, PAGE works in partnership through existing institutions and organizations.

commitment to inter-ministerial engagement, and private sector and civil society inclusionPAGE believes that sustainability can only be put at the heart of economic policies and practices through multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration. Engagement with all relevant ministries/provincial departments is required to connect and synchronise sectoral policies, fuel action across economic sectors and achieve policy coherence. To generate acceptable policy options, civil society, including groups that rep-resent and advance the concerns and knowledge of women, youth, indigenous peoples, the poor and mar-ginalized groups, as well as the private sector must be engaged in a meaningful way. PAGE believes that a truly inclusive green economy will accrue benefits for all, rendering society fairer and economically dynamic.

driven by demand and Government ownershipThe aim of PAGE is to meet the demand of Govern-ments that demonstrate high-level commitment to lead transformative change. Request for PAGE sup-port must demonstrate inter-ministerial commitment (by at least two ministries). Country-level activities are likewise demand driven: national stakeholders identify priorities and help develop work plans based on broad consultation and dialogue. The aim is to ensure that activities are truly owned by the country/province to promote their long-term sustainability, reflecting the views of all relevant segments of civil society and pri-vate sector, in addition to policymakers.

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responsiveness, flexibility and dynamism PAGE believes there is no one-size-fits-all solution for greening growth, but that each country and sector requires a tailor-made approach that responds to its unique priorities and circumstances, driven by key ministries/provincial departments in cooperation with national stakeholders. If these priorities change and the country no longer shares the PAGE vision, PAGE can shift its support to other countries where there is higher demand and stronger opportunities to sup-port transformative change.

Integrated offerActivities are undertaken jointly by PAGE partners through coordinated work streams that contribute to achieving the 2030 Agenda through the development of an IGE. Cooperation built on trust is the basis of the PAGE value proposition. PAGE collaborates and seeks maximum synergies with other relevant initia-tives such as the UNDP/UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI), UNEP Finance Initiative, United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Devel-oping countries (UN-REDD), UNEP Inquiry for the Design of a Sustainable Financial System, the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consump-tion and production patterns (10YFP), The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) among others, to create change at national, state and local levels by increas-ing efficiencies and avoiding duplication. By pooling resources and undertaking joint activities that lead to greater impact, partnerships with these initiatives add value for the partner countries/provinces. (See more detail in section 2.13)

Inspiring change through knowledge sharingPAGE generates targeted knowledge that is appli-cable to and specifically relevant for the countries it supports. This knowledge is trans-disciplinary, focusing on the interdependence of sectors and on the impact of the economic pillar of sustainable development on the social and environmental pil-lars. The knowledge is also shared globally to inspire change and trigger IGE transformation in other parts of the world, through PAGE networks and meetings, the PAGExchange website, as well as other global communities of practice such as the Green Growth Knowledge Platform.

The above principles guide the way PAGE engages in countries. Before and during country engagement PAGE ensures:

1 country ownership: PAGE engagement is shaped and driven by key national ministries/

provincial departments, in cooperation with all relevant stakeholders.

2 Programmatic and policy reform focus: PAGE focuses on enabling strategic policy analysis and supporting macro-economic, sectoral, and thematic policy reforms, depending on appetite for reform and timing of policy cycle.

3 Activities are founded on national devel-opment planning: PAGE activities are linked to existing planning structures and processes for long-term sustainability.

4 trans-disciplinary collaboration: PAGE activ-ities are initiated in countries where key ministries/provincial departments have jointly expressed interest in collaborating with PAGE.

5 Broad based stakeholder participation: PAGE supports the active engagement of key stake-holder groups and societal partners in planning and implementation.

6 Joint commitment: Governments and PAGE partners work together based on collective commit-ment to achieve sustainable development for all.

7 equal partnership among all countries: PAGE is a partnership based on learning and exchange of ideas, innovations and practices among equals. PAGE offers opportunities for North-South-South learning and knowledge exchange.

8 commitment to results-based programming and allocation of effort: PAGE commits to engage with countries when and where its support is crucial for informing the policy cycle but may withdraw or put activities on hold if interest wanes or national priorities change, threatening the success of PAGE-supported efforts.

2.7 The PAGE Country Delivery Model

PAGE advisory services take into account the differ-ent starting points, needs and circumstances of each partner country and therefore differ from case to case. Core services include:

Ì Assessments for evidence-based policy propos-als, e.g., green economy modelling and policy assessments to enable policymakers to visualize the impact of their policy and investment decisions, green jobs assessments, green industry assess-ments, and public expenditure reviews;


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Box 3: Initial Lessons Learned from the PAGE Start-Up Phase

the first two years of engagement with PAGe partner countries generated a number of initial lessons, including the following:

PAGE has demonstrated strong convening power to engage and mobilise multiple national ministries. The five UN agencies, joining hands under the auspices of PAGE, have been able to mobilise relevant ministries in the part-ner countries to galvanize momentum for policy and investment reforms and draw the attention of policy makers, ministers, parliamentarians and bankers to IGE.

Recognizing and tapping into national policy cycles. Identifying the right entry points and time windows for policy analysis and reform is a key determinant of successful policy change. PAGE is aligning its actions with national policy cycles at the strategic, sectoral and thematic level to catalyse maximum impact.

Working through national leaders and change agents. Committed national leaders and change agents from the public and private sectors have been instrumental in stimulating change and inspiring policy reforms in line with the IGE approach. PAGE supports these agents of change by providing strong evidence, analysis and realistic pol-icy options. PAGE also connects green economy champions from different countries through regional and global events.

Enabling and empowering decision makers to drive policy analysis. PAGE offers a range of tools and methodolo-gies to analyse policy options and assess their impacts. To ensure that green economy assessments are driven by, and relevant to, national decision makers, PAGE puts emphasis on up-front efforts to strengthen the knowledge and skills of decision makers and help shape policy assessments in a way that they can directly contribute to policymaking.

Fostering ownership across government ministries and departments. Ministries of environment have an impor-tant role in promoting a green economy transition, however, for policy reform to take place, it is usually necessary to involve other sectoral ministries, including ministries of planning, finance, energy, agriculture, labour, education and related social portfolios. PAGE seeks the engagement of key sectoral ministries from the outset, starting with the PAGE application process, and establishes strong mechanisms for continuous cross-sectoral engagement, e.g., through inter-ministerial coordination committees in PAGE countries.

Ensuring effective governance and collective ownership for impact. Engagement and support of the private sector, organized labour and civil society is crucial for operationalizing a green economy transformation. PAGE facilitates setting up multi-sectoral stakeholder engagement mechanisms that are “fit for purpose” within each unique country context.

Linking national, regional and global capacity development. While the focus of PAGE is at the national or sub-national level, partner countries have highlighted the value of participating in global learning programmes and knowledge-sharing initiatives with other countries through global and regional PAGE activities. Responding to this demand, PAGE developed global online training, academies, forums and other opportunities to share experiences and knowledge at global and regional level.

Tailor-making the PAGE approach and developing national results frameworks. PAGE has the potential to make a significant contribution in many areas (e.g., policy analysis and reform), while other important areas (such as installing renewable energy capacity or providing loans for women entrepreneurs) may be more effectively covered by other development partners. Further refining and communicating what PAGE can–and cannot–offer and devel-oping national results frameworks that provide a common planning framework are therefore important aspects of PAGE planning and implementation.

Investing in local capacity for IGE. Working with local institutions, experts and think tanks is key for effective delivery and to ensure that PAGE leaves behind strong capacity on IGE when a partner country graduates from the support provided through the PAGE global trust fund. PAGE will thus be an asset for downstream inclusive green economy projects supported by other development partners and the national government well beyond the PAGE programming cycle.


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Ì Multi-stakeholder policy consultations and support for adoption of policies and plans;

Ì Identification of synergies with other national and provincial strategies, priorities and processes, such as climate change/low-carbon strategies, sustainable consumption and production national programmes, etc.;

Ì Sector-specific and thematic policy reform;

Ì Policy implementation and mobilization of finance; and

Ì Capacity development on IGE to enable and sup-port policy making as well as to maintain IGE efforts after the end of PAGE support.

PAGE efforts at national level comprise an inception and a programme implementation phase.8 Monitoring eval-uation and capacity building activities are carried out throughout these phases.

Ì The inception phase usually involves a scoping mis-sion and stocktaking; a PAGE inception workshop, stakeholder mobilization and foundational training; and development of results-based framework and programmatic planning.

8 Detailed overview of the scope, content and process of PAGE services has been published separately. See: Planning and Implementing a National PAGE Partnership: Guidance for PAGE Countries at http://www.un-page.org/files/public/page_country_guidance_note.pdf

Ì The programme’s implementation phase focuses on the development of sectoral and thematic strategies and operationalizing these country-de-termined IGE priorities. During the implementation phase, PAGE builds or strengthens key partner-ships with local and international organizations and associations that can take supportive action and ensure the sustainability of the initiative.

The PAGE delivery model is based on lessons learned in the first two years of PAGE, highlighted in Box 3.

2.8 PAGE Global Services

PAGE complements its country level engagement with global capacity building activities, global knowl-edge creation and knowledge sharing activities. PAGE offers global level training modules, courses, and tools that are interactive, multilingual and available online to encourage worldwide participation from Government, civil society and business. The Green Economy Acad-emy, organized every two years, and annual regional academies provide face-to-face, in-depth capacity development and skills building though knowledge sharing across countries and regions. These activi-ties also serve as platforms to connect national green economy champions and leaders, foster global and regional leadership, and provide opportunities to com-municate learning from national-level IGE experiences to a wider audience.

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inspire policymakers and the public by disseminat-ing IGE knowledge, “green” policy innovations and business practices, results and early success sto-ries, case studies, news stories and documentaries at national and international platforms. PAGE global services are fundamental to trigger an IGE “multiplier effect”. Through effective and coordinated commu-nications, the impact of PAGE will go well beyond the countries directly involved in the Partnership and serve as a catalyst to influence, support and promote action towards an inclusive green economy globally.

PAGE communication activities include: online presence through its website – www.un-page.org – which hosts the PAGExchange (online forum for sharing IGE sto-ries; see www.un-page.org/countries/page-exchange), the PAGE monthly newsletter, periodic publications, such as PAGE brochure, country flyers and annual report, and social media presence through Twitter and Facebook.

2.9 Engagement Modalities

PAGE engages with economically and geographically diverse countries in three ways. First, PAGE part-ner countries include small island developing states, landlocked countries, low-income and middle-income countries, and “emerging market” members of the G20. Second, PAGE involves countries to partner and support PAGE advisory services, contributing knowl-edge, sharing policy innovations, and demonstrating

global leadership on IGE and Agenda 2030. The main PAGE platform for the sharing of IGE related initiatives, policies, success stories and lessons is the PAGExchange. Third, PAGE funding partners are engaged in the development of the PAGE vision and operational strategy, and support PAGE oper-ations and activities. Figure 7 below illustrates the breadth and diversity of PAGE engagements around the world.

2.10 PAGE Management and Governance

PAGE is managed and governed by its Donor Steering Committee, Management Board, Technical Team, and Secretariat. Their roles are outlined below and further detailed in Annex 2.9

The Donor Steering Committee is a group of Gov-ernments and institutions that provide financial support to PAGE, follow the development and implementation of the programme and provide overall strategic guid-ance to the direction of PAGE.

The Management Board includes one director-level representative from each UN partner agency and is chaired and coordinated by UNEP. It agrees on the work programme and deployment of resources.

9 See also Planning and Implementing a national PAGE Partner-ship: Guidance for PAGE Partner Countries at http://www.un-page.org/files/public/page_country_guidance_note.pdf

PAGE partner countries

Peru

Senegal

Burkina Faso

South Africa

Mauritius

Ghana

Mongolia

ArmeniaAzerbaijanBhutan

BoliviaBangladeshChile

ColombiaEcuadorEgypt

KenyaLiberiaMexico

MoldaviaMozambiquePhilippines

RwandaSaint LuciaSeychelles

UruguayVietnam

PAGE funding partnersPAGExchange countries:

Kyrgyz Republic

European CommissionFinlandGermany

NorwaySwedenSwitzerland

United Arab Emirates

Republic of Korea

Haiti IndiaJamaica

TanzaniaUgandaUkraine

Barbados

Jiangsu province of China

Figure 7: PAGE Engagements Worldwide

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The Technical Team comprises UN partner repre-sentatives who develop the work plan for PAGE under the leadership of the PAGE Secretariat and ensure consistency of country and global activities.

The PAGE Secretariat serves as the central liaison point between the PAGE partners. It provides ser-vices to the Technical Team, the Management Board and the Donor Steering Committee, including organ-izing their meetings and implementing their decisions. It is also responsible for managing the PAGE Trust Fund, preparing resource mobilisation proposals, inter agency agreements for transfer of funds to PAGE partners, tracking progress on national and global products, preparing financial and technical reports for funding partners, organizing and supporting project evaluations and audits, and facilitating cooperation between PAGE and other relevant initiatives.

2.11 PAGE Financial Resources

PAGE is financially supported by the European Com-mission, Finland, Norway, Republic of Korea, Sweden and Switzerland. Their support and financial contribu-tions have been fundamental in establishing PAGE’s credibility and positioning it as a reliable partner for

national economic policy and planning processes. These countries first came together as “Friends of PAGE”, and are now more formally associated as PAGE funding partners. Their contributions as of March 2016 exceed USD 22 million, including PAGE-aligned funding from Germany provided directly to UNEP. Additional in-kind contributions and counter-part funding from the United Arab Emirates and PAGE partners amounting to almost USD 4 million were also secured (See Table 2).

2.12 Resource Mobilisation

PAGE resource mobilisation efforts have two dimen-sions: first, to mobilize the resources required to put in practice this Operational Strategy, and second, and as important, to support countries in leveraging additional funding beyond existing PAGE Trust Fund resources.

To operationalize this strategy, PAGE resource mobili-sation efforts focus on:

1 Strengthening the commitment of current PAGE funding partners by meeting or exceeding expec-tations for delivering on the current programme of work;

table 2: PAGE Financing - Secured and Pledged (2013-2017)*

USD Timeframe

Finland 1,645,725 2014-2016

Republic of Korea 2,525,984 2014-2017

Sweden 433,422 2014-2015

Norway 5,871,316 2014-2017

European Commission 9,461,585 2014-2019

Switzerland 1,554,404 2014-2017

Sub-Total 21,492,436

Germany** 1,184,211 2015-2017

Sub-Total 22,676,647

United Arab Emirates, in-kind 1,029,392 2014

PAGE Partners in-kind*** 2,400,000 2013-2015

Sub-total 3,429,392

Grand Total 26,106,039

* Contributions received and indicated pledges as of March 2016.** PAGE aligned funding provided directly to UNEP*** Estimated


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2. Reaching out to new funding partners through the resource mobilization channels of the five PAGE UN partners.

To help PAGE partner countries to mobilise additional resources, PAGE aims to play a catalytic role to lever-age funding for IGE at the country level by:

1. Supporting countries to apply for available environment and climate funding and use it for their IGE transition. PAGE will collaborate with exist-ing funding partners on making initial contacts with, for example, the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility, and others (See Table 5);

2. Assisting finance sector in developing green portfolios that can fund sustainable projects and advance IGE, for instance by linking with pro-grammes that build capacity among entrepreneurs to present bankable projects;

3. Join forces with other relevant initiatives includ-ing UNEP Finance Initiative, UNEP Inquiry, UNDP/UNEP PEI, 10YFP, UN-REDD, GGGI, among oth-ers, that can finance downstream activities as detailed in the next section.

2.13 Delivering through Partnerships

Transitioning to an IGE and implementing the 2030 Agenda will depend on the ability of diverse groups of stakeholders to work together towards a common goal while focusing on the specific activities at which each excels in a way that supports and is coordinated with the actions of others. Given the diversity and spread of the required actions to reframe economic policies and practices around sustainability, PAGE is well positioned to support delivery of the 2030 Agenda by building on its initial base of participating UN agen-cies and its strong collaboration with other relevant initiatives and partnerships. PAGE’s successful mod-els for cooperation, collaboration and synchronisation of activities with other institutions and peer initiatives are based on a strong sense of community, trust, and non-competitive behaviour.

PAGE partnerships have brought additional and diver-sified expertise and expanded the inclusive green economy community of practice (See Figure 8). PAGE partnerships aim to leverage additional resources and to provide higher quality and better value services for longer term engagement. Partnerships should also reduce coordination costs for national ministries by

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making PAGE a coordination mechanism for wider “greening” efforts (See Figure 9).

PAGE contributes to broader joint national-UN pro-gramming, whereby UN organisations and national government partners work together to prepare, imple-ment, monitor and evaluate activities aimed at achieving national priorities and international commitments arising from various UN conferences, summits, conventions and instruments, such as the SDGs and INDCs.

PAGE will continue reaching out to organizations and initiatives that are able to contribute to achieving PAGE’s principal outcomes in participating countries. These will, inter alia, include UN agencies, regional economic commissions and intergovernmental bodies, global alli-ances such as the Green Growth Knowledge Platform and the Green Economy Coalition, global and national think tanks, financial institutions, and knowledge, learn-ing and training institutions and partnerships. As these partnerships are based on actions in specific countries, partner institutions are referred to as ‘Action Partners’ in communications and outreach materials. The text box below exemplifies how PAGE is developing replica-ble models for delivering through partnerships.

2.14 Country Sustainability Plans

PAGE support for countries is time-bound and results-oriented. During the period when PAGE activ-ities are financed from the PAGE Trust Fund, the necessary national capacity, partnerships and ena-bling environment are put in place for continuation

of the transition to IGE and achievement of the 2030 Agenda under national programmes and projects to be funded through locally mobilized resources.

Figure 9: PAGE Country Interaction and Coordination with Partners

PAGE: Delivering through Partnerships

In Mongolia, PAGE coordinates with GGGI on the green buildings work stream, as well as with SWITCH Asia and 10YFP on sustainable public procurement, and with UNEP Finance Initiative on mobilizing domestic finance. Recently, collabora-tion with PEI, UN-REDD and FAO has gained new momentum in Mongolia. In Burkina Faso, PAGE, PEI and SWITCH Africa are delivering results under a joint country programme. In Mauritius, PAGE and SWITCH Africa have hired a joint coordinator and SWITCH is financing ‘greening’ of six sectors.

In Peru, UN-REDD is supporting the implemen-tation of the “National Forest Conservation Plan” with a special focus on forest conservation. GGGI’s work in Peru aims to help implement green growth by fostering the development of an eco-nomically viable forestry sector that generates socially inclusive benefits and optimal ecosystem services, while at the same time preserving natural capital. PAGE, UN REDD and GGGI have agreed on a joint effort to further refine the green policies to be simulated with the T21 model of the PAGE Green Growth Assessment with the aim of better capturing the inter-sectoral connections.


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Consistent with the theory of change outlined earlier, the PAGE approach entails policy reform that is cyclic and iterative. PAGE engagement and support will thus be sustainable to the extent that capacity for upstream policy analysis is fully embedded in national economic planning, and shared with all relevant stakeholders.

To deepen and expand results achieved through initial PAGE funding, PAGE therefore supports countries in developing a sustainability plan for the period beyond PAGE delivery. The objective of the sustainability plan is to mobilise resources to continue or to undertake initiatives planned or begun with PAGE support. The sustainability plan involves consultation with national stakeholders and requires local ownership, including the private sector and financial institutions representa-tives (i.e., banking, insurance and investment). To ensure coherence and impact, the sustainability strategy is de-veloped in close consultation with national programmes of the United Nations and PAGE funding partners, es-pecially the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) process and UN Country Teams.

The country sustainability plan explores mobilisation of funds from domestic private resources, as well as from multilateral and regional development banks and bilateral donors. The plan also considers resource mobilisation from the public sector, for example, to support the capacity of public institutions at local, provincial or national level, or to develop IGE public investment projects. It is expected that the ability to mobilise domestic funding will enhance the ability to attract private funding from abroad.

Elements of a sustainability plan might include:

Ì An overview of national policies and priorities for inclu-sive green economy and their alignment with SDGs;

Ì Achievements in advancing IGE in the country, including both PAGE-led and other activities;

Ì Strategy for continuation of IGE efforts in the coun-try, including:– strategic directions options, – risk management, – partnership and engagement, and – resource mobilisation.

In addition to having a country sustainability plan in place, a PAGE partner country should have accom-plished the following by the end of its period of PAGE support:

Ì The national development strategy has been reframed in line with overall IGE and SDG priorities;

Ì An effective national coordination mechanism for IGE is in place;

Ì Capacities to implement IGE policies across sec-tors have been developed and analytical capacities have been strengthened;

Ì Additional funding opportunities have been iden-tified and supported by national and international actors, and in particular by domestic financial mar-kets, finance institutions, and international capital markets; and

Ì Core IGE elements are integrated into training pro-grammes delivered by national institutions.

In Mongolia, for example, PAGE brought together the banking sector, development partners and other interested stakeholders, along with Government representatives, with the explicit goal of mobilizing commitment and financing for implementation of Mon-golia’s Green Development Policy and National Vision. These stakeholders established a mechanism for developing a joint programme in support of the Policy and Vision. This effort built on earlier PAGE mobilisa-tion efforts: the Mongolian Sustainable Finance Forum 2015, entitled Sustainable Finance: The Road to Green Economy, was held in partnership with UNEP Finance Initiative, the Mongolian Bankers Association and XAC Bank. The event brought together over 400 partici-pants from Government ministries, regulators, banks and other financial institutions, along with development finance institutions and international organizations, businesses and civil society representatives, to initiate a green financing framework to support green growth in Mongolia. The event centred on the establishment of a green credit fund as a potential incentive in financ-ing the country’s green development.

2.15 Evaluating Impact and Addressing Risks

PAGE takes a proactive approach to address the sig-nificant challenge of transforming to an inclusive green economy. PAGE partners have invested significant effort in identifying and overcoming risks related to operationalising the PAGE concept, including:

1. Possible financial or political instability in PAGE countries;

2. Strong vested interests that oppose adoption of green economy strategies at country level;

3. The complexity of delivery mechanisms and short-term funding affecting agencies’ capacity to deliver;


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4. A global policy shift away from the IGE concept; and

5. Attribution of PAGE results and consequent dif-ficulty in demonstrating impact and maintaining support for PAGE.

Several measures to address these risks are already under development or in use. To address points 1 and 2 above, measures include applying a highly structured and rigorous country selection process to ensure Government ownership and commitment, as well as ensuring the participation in, and validation of, each step of the process by key stakeholders, includ-ing women, youth and the poor. Through its country presence, PAGE monitors the local political landscape so as to anticipate political changes that may affect PAGE success and take adaptive measures, such as reach out to emerging political forces to gather PAGE additional support.

For example, PAGE has a three-pronged strategy in Peru to position PAGE and the IGE concept in the expected new national Government: 1) strengthen the PAGE multi-stakeholder platform, which in addi-tion to Government includes other political parties, civil society organizations and labour groups, by fur-ther engaging a key ministry that is less affected by changes in Government; 2) invite the two winning candidates of the first round of national elections to discuss in a public event the inclusion of green growth in their development plans; and 3) take the sectoral approach to the subnational level (by Peruvian region) to show its potential.

In countries where changes in Government have resulted in the loss of PAGE champions, such as Mau-ritius, PAGE reached out to all relevant Government ministries, as well as nongovernmental stakehold-ers, to identify specific workstreams to refocus PAGE efforts. In short, PAGE monitors, anticipates and takes action to maintain or acquire support throughout polit-ical transitions. As described in section 2.6, PAGE may also shift its support out of countries where political interest has been lost.

The complexity of delivery mechanisms and short-term funding affecting agencies’ capacity to deliver (point 3 above) are challenges PAGE addresses through open communication and trust with its partners. The Tech-nical Team, led by the Secretariat, collaborates closely to streamline reporting, jointly develop budgets and allocate funds as seamlessly as possible. For exam-ple, the Team agreed on a single country budgeting format and methodology that addresses the require-ments and constraints of each partner. PAGE has

likewise been open with its funding partners about the challenge of service delivery through short-term fund-ing. In response, funding partners are endeavouring to provide longer term support and have offered to assist with outreach efforts to mobilise additional resources for PAGE.

PAGE takes a proactive approach to a possible global loss of interest in the IGE approach in favour of other concepts (point 4 above). For example, in 2015, PAGE made important outreach efforts to align the PAGE offer with Agenda 2030 through events at key meet-ings and revisions to this Operational Strategy (see section 2.2). As the core principle of PAGE is country ownership, responding to countries’ changing prior-ities is intrinsic to PAGE operational modalities. As Governments develop their policies to achieve the SDGs, PAGE will work closely to ensure PAGE activi-ties support Government decisionmaking.

Change attribution is a challenge that PAGE has been addressing through the development of its log-ical framework. PAGE has established indicators for the log-frame and is identifying baselines and tar-gets for each so as to monitor progress in achieving the outcomes described in its Theory of Change. By monitoring both progress in relation to established indicators and change in conditions, PAGE aims to measure whether progress is going according to plan and to make timely adjustments to enable success.

In addition to monitoring progress, PAGE is committed to evaluating its performance. It seeks to answer: Is PAGE undertaking the right approach and activities? Are PAGE operations effective, coherent and optimise resources? What are lessons learned in PAGE opera-tionalisation that point to good practice and alternative approaches?

An inception review of PAGE was conducted by repre-sentatives of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), the European Commission (EC), the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), and the Korea Environment Institute from September to November 2014.

In 2016 a midterm evaluation of PAGE will take place to assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of PAGE results to date, and their contribution to achieving national priorities, informed decision-making, and knowledge generation. It will apply an inclusive approach, involving a broad range of stakeholders and partners with the objective of identifying key achievements, lessons learned and good practices, as well as constraints and challenges encountered.


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Based on current interest and resources, PAGE plans to expand the number of existing partner countries to assist an additional 10 countries, bringing the total to 20 by 2020. The 10 new countries will be chosen tak-ing into account the PAGE selection criteria described in the PAGE Application Form, in particular the crite-rion to demonstrate strong country ownership and a commitment to work across different ministries in approaching policy reform. It is foreseen that up-scal-ing to 20 partner countries will inspire change in their regions, in other parts of the world, and across differ-ent types of economies.

In addition to the 20 partner countries, many other countries including funding partners can benefit from PAGE through knowledge sharing, exchange of best practices and capacity building on IGE (under Out-comes 3 and 4). In addition to global training courses and knowledge sharing events, PAGE could offer tar-geted, shorter term support to countries that are not yet ready to meet the selection criteria but still express interest in IGE. Engaging countries in these activities will help to develop interest in PAGE and encourage their application to join PAGE at a later date. PAGE will thus undertake a brief survey and needs analysis to determine demand for “rapid response” from coun-tries for targeted engagement and capacity building.

In the longer term, PAGE services may be extended to an even larger number of countries–e.g., 30 or more by 2030–to support them in achieving the SDGs. The results of the 2016 midterm evaluation will be instru-mental in developing such longer term plans.

3.1 PAGE Expansion Plans 2016-2020

3 1 1 expansion Plans–country engagement

The core offer of PAGE at country level includes sup-port for applied policy analysis, policy design and initial piloting, usually for a four-year period. These efforts are accompanied by foundational and institutional capac-ity building and stakeholder mobilization to ensure continuation of IGE efforts beyond the PAGE-sup-port period. Details of the PAGE offer are provided in Sections 2.7 and 2.8; an overview of current PAGE activities in the eight countries is included in Annex 3.

For budgeting purposes, it is estimated that the 20 countries expected to be part of the Partnership by 2020, including the existing 10 and 10 new ones, will on average receive an annual support of USD 500,000 or USD 2 million in total over a four-year period. The annual budget allocation per country is estimated based on initial experiences in Mongolia and Peru, however budgets will be adapted to countries’ actual needs. PAGE recognizes that countries differ in their starting points, level of ambition, and pathways to a greener and more inclusive economy. For exam-ple, some countries might require support for only two years to launch activities in one sector. Although countries may join PAGE in one calendar year, support activities may start later that year or the following year subject to availability of funding.

During the four-year period of PAGE engagement, PAGE will support countries to establish national-level structures to leverage action, investment and fund-ing for the future (e.g., through a national trust fund, joint UN programming, domestic budget support, etc.) to enable activities commenced with PAGE support to continue beyond the end of the four-year support period. The country sustainability plan is further elab-orated in section 2.14.

In the period 2016-2020 PAGE will:

•Continue to provide support to Mongolia and Peru through 2017;

•Continue to provide support to Burkina Faso, Sene-gal, Ghana and Mauritius through 2018;

•Continue to provide support to South Africa and China (Jiangsu Province) through 2019;

•Provide support to Barbados and Kyrgyz Republic through 2020; and

•Progressively include up to 10 additional countries based on their expressed demand and applications, over the next four years.

The tentative planning, as shown in Figure 10, is that three new countries join in 2016, including Bar-bados, Kyrgyz Republic, which have been selected.

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Figure 10: Planned Country Engagement

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Countries Joining PAGE Time Period for Support Estimated Funding Required for the Period 2016-2020

2013: Peru and Mongolia 2016-2017 2 million

2014: Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Mauritius

2016-2018 6 million

2015: China and South Africa 2016-2019 4 million

2016: Barbados, Kyrgyz Republic & another new country

2016-2020 6 million

2017: 4 new countries 2017-2020 8 million

2018: 3 new countries 2018-2020 (2021) 4.5 million

2019: 2 new countries 2019-2020 (2022) 2 million

Total Direct Support to Countries 2016-2020 32.5 million


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Four additional countries would join in 2017 and then again three additional countries in 2018 and two in 2019, reaching a total of 20 in 2020, as illustrated in Figure 10.

As 10 new partner countries join PAGE over the next four years, PAGE support for the first 10 PAGE countries will conclude (see Section 2.14 on Country Sustainabil-ity Plans). The total number of countries receiving sup-port simultaneously will thus peak in 2018 (16 countries in total) and then gradually diminish. Countries joining in 2018 and 2019 may consequently require support beyond the timeframe of this Operational Strategy, as identified below, but their funding needs are only pre-sented up to 2020. The total budget allocation for sup-porting 20 countries from 2016-2020 is estimated to be USD 32.5 million, as detailed in Table 4.

3 1 2 expansion Plans–Global Services and PAGe Secretariat Support

PAGE will continue to complement its country-level engagement with global capacity building activities, global knowledge creation and knowledge sharing activities. These will include a new modelling tool that connects IGE modelling with targets of the SDGs, as well as global-level training modules, courses, and tools that are interactive, multilingual and available online to encourage worldwide participation from Government, civil society and business.

The total budget for global capacity building activ-ities (Outcome 3) is estimated at USD 3 million. Additional USD 3 million are estimated for Global Knowledge Creation and Sharing (Outcome 4 includ-ing Communication).

The functions of the PAGE Secretariat, described in section 2.10, will support national and global activities. The total budget allocation for the PAGE Secretariat for five years is estimated to be USD 5 million.

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3.2 Budget to Support Countries, Global Services and Secretariat Functions 2016-2020

The estimated total budget as described above dur-ing 2016-2020 including country engagement, global services and secretariat functions is USD 43.5 mil-lion. Table 4 presents the budget by year and main services.

3.3 Resource Mobilisation 2016-2020

In terms of resource mobilization for 2016-2020 period, PAGE is off to a good start. By March 2016, fund-ing partners have committed and indicated pledges amounting to USD 16.47 million or almost 38% of the total funds needed.

For the remaining amount, PAGE has developed a plan which covers not only continuing cooperation with current funding partners, but also engaging with additional bilateral donors and multilateral sources of funding.

PAGE is particularly well placed to engage with the Green Climate Fund. The shift to Government-led Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) highlights the need – that PAGE can help address – for policy foundations to allow resource mobilization from various sectors and stakeholders in order to meet

the countries’ 2030 targets. PAGE support for gov-ernments promotes changes at macro and sectoral level policies that lead to downstream effects result-ing in greening of economic activities that ultimately contribute to the INDC targets. For example, PAGE’s policymaking assistance in Mauritius includes support for efficient waste management strategy and address-ing poverty and social exclusion through stimulation of expertise and employment in green jobs. These developments, coupled with a strong effort to involve domestic finance in green economy, are expected to result in new green projects that reduce carbon emis-sions and establish strong green infrastructure in the longer term. PAGE has prioritized the following from the global sources of financing for sustainable devel-opment for 2016-2020 period.

Figure 12: Contributions and Pledges to PAGE and Funding Gap for period 2016-2020*

* Norway funding is linked to annual parliamentary approval processes.

** Germany has pledged PAGE-aligned funds of 855,541 for 2016-2017.


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Sources Services Offered and Links to PAGE

Green Climate Fund(GCF)

• GCF aims to provide support to developing countries to adapt to climate change and limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and seeks synergies between adaptation and mitigation actions. GCF has raised USD 10.2 billion in pledges and aims to mobilise USD 100 billion by 2020.

•PAGE partner UNDP is an accredited entity. Accredited entities develop and submit funding proposals, oversee management and implementations of projects, deploy finan-cial instruments, and mobilise private sector capital.

The GCF has 8 strategic impact areas, all aligned with PAGE activities:Reduce emissions from:

1. Energy generation and access2. Transport3. Forest and land use4. Buildings, cities, industries and appliances

Increase resilience of:1. Health, food and water security2. Ecosystems and ecosystem services3. Livelihoods of people and communities4. Infrastructure and built environment

Global Environment Facility(GEF)

•GEF priorities are aligned with PAGE, targeting biodiversity and climate change, land degradation, and chemicals and waste. GEF projects can be multi-agency and multi-fo-cal area, in line with PAGE activities.

•PAGE partners UNEP and UNDP are implementing agencies. Complementary GEF pro-jects can be pursued by GEF implementing agencies.

•PAGE may be able to pursue GEF accreditation as a “Project Agency” in the near future. •In 2014 GEF received record levels of funding, with 30 donor countries pledging

US$ 4.43 billion to prevent environmental degradation, with increasing emphasis on projects that address the underlying causes of environmental degradation.

New Development Bank (NDB) Founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

•NDB will mobilize resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in developing countries and emerging economies through loans, guarantees, equity and other financial instruments. It will support public and private projects for economic and social development respectful of the global environment.

•PAGE is eligible for support through financial instruments for projects undertaken in member countries. (NBD membership is open to all members of the UN.)

•NDB and PAGE share a focus on sustainable development and two NDB founding mem-bers, China and South Africa, are PAGE countries.

•The initial capital contribution from founding members, US$ 50 billion, has the poten-tial to reach $100 billion with contributions from other member countries. The NDB was officially launched in July 2015, and both ordinary operations and Special Funds resources will be made available.

EU Blending Mechanism

•The Mechanism can leverage an EU grant in a strategic way to attract additional financ-ing. The EU grant contribution can be in the form of an investment grant and interest rate subsidy, technical assistance, risk capital, or guarantees.

•Blending is particularly beneficial to stakeholders because it enables governments to tap into new financing sources, increases public services to the final beneficiaries, reduces risk for financiers, and maximizes the impact of EU aid.

•EU blended mechanisms are channelled through seven regional facilities into several sectors, notably energy, transport, water and sanitation and the private sector. About 65 per cent of EU grants allocated supported energy and transport initiatives. Climate action through blending is a particularly promising area, with 27 per cent of EU projects funded by blending addressing climate change as the main objective.

•Blending mechanisms in climate action, such as the Climate Change Windows and the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund align with PAGE priorities for low-carbon and energy efficient growth.

table 5: Potential Sources of Additional Funding to Support PAGE Countries


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In its first two years, PAGE has succeeded in engaging strategically with national Governments in their efforts to promote an inclusive green economy. PAGE has gal-vanized UN agencies, funding partners and external partners in the build-up and effective delivery of their support. Taking off from a holistic concept born out of Rio+20, PAGE has evolved into a fully functioning partnership that serves a growing number of countries in addressing the challenging task of reframing eco-nomic policy around sustainability to deliver on jobs, enhanced social equity and prosperity for all.

In the 2016-2020 period, PAGE intends to assist up to 20 countries at their request on shaping, implement-ing and stimulating long term growth and employment. Through the reframing of macro, fiscal, industrial, sector, labour and trade policies, countries can also improve resource efficiency and environmental resil-ience. In doing so PAGE will build on initial experiences and achievements as reflected in the PAGE Inception Donor Review and actively seeking collective learning and knowledge sharing including through independ-ent evaluations.

At country level PAGE will drive upstream policies that frame economic development with the aim to ensure downstream implementation in key economic sectors that make prosperity for all – women, men, youth and poor alike – possible on a healthy planet. PAGE will pur-sue its principles and values for country engagement and inclusive dialogue, maintaining its central tenet of country ownership toward an IGE transformation.

PAGE will continue to nurture and expand partner-ships that catalyse further IGE action and achievement of the 2030 Agenda for people, planet and prosper-ity, where economic growth, environmental protection and social justice are mutually supportive and pursued together. Such partnerships and cooperation will also bring synergies in the follow up to the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as countries adopt and implement low-carbon policies and strategies. The value added of the expertise, tools and networks of PAGE is to link these efforts with inclusive, job-rich economic growth strategies that preserve and enhance the natural environment.

Motivation is high. Demand is strong – and so are expectations. Indeed, transformative change is both urgent and possible if we are all on the same PAGE!

4 cOncluSIOn: turnInG StrAteGy IntO ActIOn

…collaboration between several UN agencies on a common task is not only possible, but may, in some cases, be the only way of addressing complex and multi-sector issues such as the green economy.”

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5. Annexes

Annex 1: Country Requests for SupportStatus # Country Remarks

PAGE Countries

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Burkina Faso Letter from Prime Minister

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Ghana Letter from Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation

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Mauritius Letter from Prime Minister's office

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Mongolia Letter from Prime Minister

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Peru Letter from Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Labour

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Senegal Letter from Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development

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South Africa Letter from Minister of Environmental AffairsLetter from the Chief Policy Advisor on Sustainable Development

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China (provincial level) Joint letter from Environmental Protection Department of Jiangsu Province and Jiangsu Development and Reform Commission

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Barbados Joint letter from Minister of Environment and Drainage, Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, and Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development with concept note for PAGE support

10

Kyrgyz RepublicLetter from Ministry of Economy along with letters of support from Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Agriculture and Melioration, State Agency for Environment Protection and Forestry, Ecological Movement of Kyrgyzstan "Aleyne" and Eco-logical Movement "BIOM" with application for PAGE support


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Status # Country Remarks

Formal Requests

11

Algeria Letter from Minister of Spatial Planning and Environment for IGE train-ing support

12

Brazil (state level) Letter from the Governor of Mato Grosso State and letters of support from the Cities Minister, the Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, as well as five nongovernmental agencies for PAGE support

13

Cape Verde Letter from Ministry of Environment for PAGE support

14

Comoros Letter from the Vice President in charge of Environmental Protection for IGE support

15

Cote d'Ivoire Letter from Ministry of Environment for PAGE support

16

Ecuador Letter from Ministry of Environment for IGE support

17

Egypt Letter from Ministry of Environment for PAGE support

18

Jordan Letter from Ministry of Environment for PAGE support

19

Niger Letter from Prime Minister and application for PAGE support

20

Pakistan Letter from Minister of Environment for PAGE support

21

Seychelles Letter from Ministry of Environment and Energy for IGE support

22

Tunisia Letter from Ministry of Environment for IGE support

23

Turkmenistan Letter from the Minister of Nature Protection as Chairman of The Interstate Commission on Sustainable Development (ICSD), on behalf of five Central Asian countries: Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with application for PAGE support


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Status # Country Remarks

Verbal Requests

24

Armenia Verbal request from Ministry of International Economic Integration and Reforms

25

Bhutan Verbal request from Ministry of Environment to UNEP ROAP

26

Colombia Verbal request from Minister of Labour and Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development

27

Dominica Verbal request from the Ministry of Health and Environment at Carib-bean Regional GE Conference 2015, Jamaica

28

Jamaica Verbal request from the Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change at Caribbean Regional GE Conference 2015, Jamaica

29

Kenya Verbal request at UNEP Governing Council

30

Montserrat Verbal request from the Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Housing, Envi-ronment and Trade at Caribbean Regional GE Conference 2015

31

Morocco Verbal request from Minister of Environment during Dubai Confer-ence for IGE support

32

Mexico Verbal request from Minister of Environment at PAGE launch event.

33

Saint Lucia Verbal request from Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Social Integration.

34

Saint Vincent and Grenadines

Verbal request from the Minister of Health, Wellness and the Environ-ment at Caribbean Regional GE Conference 2015, Jamaica

35

Uganda Verbal request from Minister of Environment

36

Vietnam Verbal request from the Ministry of Industry and Trade


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Annex 2: PAGE Governance

Donor Steering Committee

The Committee comprises Governments that provide financial support to PAGE, follow the development and implementation of the programme and provide overall strategic guidance to the direction of PAGE. The Donor Steering Committee receives an aggre-gated annual report on the PAGE progress and makes recommendations to guide the Management Board and the Technical Team on strategic aspects of implementation.

PAGE Management Board

The PAGE Management Board includes one direc-tor-level representative from each UN partner agency and is chaired and coordinated by UNEP. The board agrees on the overall work programme of PAGE and

related deployment of resources. It also makes the final decision on new countries joining PAGE.

PAGE Technical Team

Made up of UN partner representatives, the Technical Team meets on a quarterly basis – or more often as needed – to plan and share progress on the imple-mentation of activities. The Team develops the work plan for PAGE under the leadership of the PAGE Sec-retariat and ensures consistency of country and global activities. It also makes proposals to the Management Board for strategic decisions. Under the Technical Team there are country teams, with designated staff members from each partner agency, one being the lead agency each country. Focal points from lead agencies work in close cooperation with national coor-dinators and government counterparts for PAGE.

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The Secretariat is hosted by UNEP, providing services to the Technical Team, the Management Board and the Donor Steering Committee. The PAGE Secretariat serves as the central liaison point between the PAGE partners and assists with the coordination of the programme, under the direction of the Technical Team. The PAGE Sec-retariat’s work involves communication, funds management, programme planning, coordination and monitoring.


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National level

At the country level, PAGE activities are directed and overseen by either a National Steering Committee (NSC), specific to PAGE, or an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC), with a larger mandate that cover areas supported by PAGE. The Committees direct and supervise the PAGE country work and typically consist of high-level represent-atives of key national ministries and UN representatives in the country.

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Annex 3: Work streams in countries

Country Activities

Mongolia The PAGE partnership in Mongolia has directly linked the development and implementation of the Green Development Policy (GDP), by providing technical support, fostering political commitment, and modelling economic, social and environmental implications of GDP targets. For this, the following results have been agreed with the Government:

• Capacity building for long-term macro-economic planning and forecasting through system dynamics modelling linked to the Green Development Policy;

• Support for development and adoption of green economy indicators and measurements, taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals;

• Action developed and implemented for the inclusion of sustainability principles in the national legal framework for public procurement;

• Support for the development of green building codes and policies in Mongolia, to be applied to new education buildings constructed with public funds;

• Technical support through applied research to explore recycling opportunities under the National Waste Strategy Development Process;

• Green development learning strategy developed and implemented to support sustainable human capacity development under Mongolia’s Green Development Strategy;

• Mobilizing finance for achieving national development goals and development of green and inclusive financial products and services by supporting the Mongolian banking sector.

Peru The overall objective agreed with the government of Peru is to integrate the concept of green growth into Peru’s development policies through the formulation and implementation of IGE public policy proposals. PAGE assistance is focused on the following areas:

• Support for the development and adoption of a Green Growth Strategy and Green Jobs Strategy drawing on the analysis provided by a green economy assessment and green jobs assessment;

• Development of options for policy reforms in the three key sectors analysed in the green economy assessment and green jobs assessment: forestry, agriculture and transport;

• Support to the development of green industry policy instruments drawing on the analysis and recommendations provided in a green industry assessment, and support to clean production;

• Operationalization of national green jobs policy at sub-national level through support for the greening of regional youth employment plans;

• Support to the operationalisation of Peru’s biotrade strategy with an implementation plan;

• Support with technical assistance in the elaboration of fiscal and trans-sectoral green growth policies and instruments, including incentives for private and public green invest-ment and green taxation;

• Create stronger synergies and linkages with the work of other initiatives and stakeholders in the country, such as REDD+, GGGI and GIZ.


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Country Activities

Mauritius PAGE is supporting the government of Mauritius on different aspects of the new govern-ment programme (2016-2020), Achieving Meaningful Change. PAGE is collaborating with SWITCH Africa Green (SAG) on complementary work streams including capacity building, green entrepreneurship and green skills development. Building on the results of a green economy assessment and a fiscal scoping study already completed under earlier UNEP led IGE projects, and on the PAGE supported “Marshall Plan Against Poverty”, PAGE supports the following outputs in Mauritius:

• Analysis of financial and economic implications of different options for solid waste man-agement and recommendations on different technology options, strategies to engage the private sector and creation of green jobs;

• Development of industrial waste strategy based on an analysis of industrial waste and waste characterization and capacity building for Mauritian businesses on dealing with industrial waste;

• Initiatives to mobilize sustainable finance from private sector for investing in green sectors to achieve national development goals, including a mapping of existing green products and services;

• Assessment of business opportunities in emerging green sectors and provision of tech-nical support to adjust and improve the assistance provided to entrepreneurs by national business development service providers;

• Training of trade unions on green economy and green jobs and to develop an action plan for promoting green jobs creation at national level.

Burkina Faso The primary objective for PAGE is to integrate IGE goals and targets into the next develop-ment plan, the National Programme for Economic and Social Development (PNDES), which is currently under development and will be adopted in May, 2016. A joint workplan has been developed with two other major joint UN initiatives – the Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI), and SWITCH Africa Green. The challenging political environment has delayed the process of the formulation of the new development plan. Elections for a new government took place in November 2015, and the new government created the Ministry of Environment, Green Economy and Climate Change, which has formally requested PAGE’s continued support. The provisional outputs identified are as follows:

• Provision of inputs into the national development planning process based on the Green Economy Assessment completed in 2015;

• Support on green fiscal policy and reform options with an aim to help in the implementa-tion of the next national development strategy;

• Support for potential green industrial policies through a Green Industry Assessment in order to promote green industrialization;

• Revision of the National Investment Plan on the Environment and Sustainable Develop-ment and provide policy suggestions in line with new government priorities to assist with implementation of the new development strategy’s green economy components;

• Formulation of a green economy platform in early 2016 to raise awareness of opportunities for a green economy transition and capacity building.


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Country Activities

Senegal The PAGE Senegal programme is geared towards supporting the implementation of the Plan Senegal Emergent (PSE), the national development framework and its five-year Priority Action Plan (PAP 2014-2018). Activities support both the ‘greening’ of this development plan and the further operationalization of the elements in the plan related to green economy, particu-larly Senegal’s beacon project on green jobs. The following outputs have been identified:

• Support for the operationalization of the ‘Plan Senegal Emergent’, the national planning framework integrating IGE goals and targets, and the national green jobs strategy, a com-ponent of the National Employment Policy 2015-2019;

• Support to the development of a green industry strategy drawing on the analysis provided by a green industry assessment.

• Support to operationalization of Senegal’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) plan;

• Support to greening interventions on energy efficiency, sustainable construction, waste management and green entrepreneurship;

• Inclusion of sustainability in the national legal framework for public procurement; Analysis of options for reforming subsidies in the energy sector with a view to promoting green financing;

• Supporting the implementation of the program for the promotion of green jobs (PACEV).

Ghana PAGE in Ghana supports the country to identify priority areas and provide guidance on key strategies and policy implementation. Specifically PAGE will assist in the implementation of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (2014-2017) (GSGDA II). PAGE will also build on Ghana’s National Climate Change Policy and on UNDP-UNEP’s Green Economy Scoping Study and Assessment, which was completed in the country in 2013. PAGE in Ghana completed its inception in 2015, during which it identified and mapped green economy activ-ities in relation to the national planning processes, and completed first thematic assessments capacity building activities. Provisional activities are as follows:

• Development of a Green Economy Action Plan based on the analysis provided by a green economy assessment focused on 3 key sectors for greening the economy: forestry, energy and agriculture;

• Development of a green economy learning strategy based on a needs assessment and capacity building on IGE for different stakeholder groups;

• Support the development of an IGE knowledge sharing platform in collaboration with national training and research institutes;

• Analysis of challenges and opportunities of green industrial development and sustainable trade.


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Country Activities

South Africa An in-depth stocktaking exercise is underway to determine the specific results framework and work plan, support will focus on implementing the existing national green economy pol-icies, through capacity building both among learning institutions and at the level of national and local Government staff as well as the development of indicators. PAGE support is being designed to reinforce and complement other support programmes on green economy by GIZ and UN agencies, such as SWITCH Africa Green (by UNEP) and the Free State Green Jobs Summit (by ILO). Following activities are planned in the initial phase:

• Results framework development for multi-year PAGE programme for South Africa 2016-2019 through multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder engagement including green economy indicators and assessment of the current state of green jobs;

• Analysis of Green Industry and Trade Sector [industrial segment to be determined] with potential for analysis of exports of sustainably manufactured products and possible meas-ures to enhance the sustainability of the sector;

• Improvement of green economy knowledge sharing through an interactive facility (or hub) where green economy achievements are catalogued, good practices and tools are availa-ble and practitioners’ networks can be accessed;

• Development of an introductory green economy course for South Africa to be delivered through a national institution.

People’s Republic of China (Jinagsu province)

PAGE is supporting Jiangsu Province of China in the preparation of the Provincial 13th Five-Year-Plan and aims to identify major challenges to the implementation of the latest provincial Five-Year-Plan as well as exemplify successes and good practices at the policy, business, and sub-provincial levels. In addition to analysis and assessment reports, PAGE will engage wide-ranging local stakeholders in capacity building activities on green finance, green jobs, green industry, green technology, trade and inclusiveness in a green economy, among others. The initial phase of the PAGE support in Jiangsu will:

• Exemplify the province’s green economy successes and good practices in partnership with the Green Growth Knowledge Platform;

• Produce a stocktaking report of the major green economy policies, strategies, and plans, including those embedded in the 13th Five-Tear Plan, provides examples of successes and good practices, and prioritizes major challenges.

• Support the establishment of a network of cities interested in green economy


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agno

stic

s, a

sses

smen

ts a

nd

anal

yses

Stra

tegy

doc

umen

ts b

ased

on

sect

oral

and

them

atic

stu

dies

Rep

orts

from

PA

GE

sect

oral

or

them

atic

mob

iliza

tion

even

ts

Tech

nica

l pap

ers

on s

ecto

ral a

nd

them

atic

pol

icy

mea

sure

s/ac

tion

plan

s/in

vest

men

t pro

posa

ls

Coo

pera

tion

agre

emen

ts

Act

iviti

es a

nd p

roje

cts

linke

d to

PA

GE

initi

ativ

e

Sect

or a

nd th

eme

focu

sed

IGE

expe

rtis

e is

ava

ilabl

e

Inte

rdis

cipl

inar

y re

sear

ch, m

ulti-

stak

ehol

der

part

icip

ator

y pr

oces

s an

d in

ter-

min

iste

rial c

oord

inat

ion

is

alig

ned

A c

onvi

ncin

g bu

sine

ss a

nd

inve

stm

ent c

ase

is m

ade

to in

spire

pr

ivat

e se

ctor

and

fina

ncie

rs to

su

ppor

t im

plem

enta

tion

of IG

E

Gov

ernm

ent c

omm

itmen

t and

le

ader

ship

is s

usta

ined

to fo

llow

th

roug

h po

licy

refo

rm

Out

com

e 3

:

Indi

vidu

al, i

nstit

utio

nal a

nd

plan

ning

cap

aciti

es fo

r IG

E ac

tion

stre

ngth

ened

at t

he n

atio

nal a

nd

glob

al le

vel

3.1

Num

ber

of p

eopl

e us

ing

know

ledg

e an

d sk

ills

acqu

ired

from

the

PAG

E tr

aini

ng a

nd

capa

city

dev

elop

men

t act

iviti

es

3.2

Num

ber

of n

atio

nal i

nstit

utio

ns

whi

ch d

eliv

er IG

E po

licy

anal

ysis

, IG

E tr

aini

ng, d

evel

op IG

E re

late

d po

licie

s an

d le

ad r

elat

ed p

olic

y pr

oces

ses

and

stak

ehol

der

cons

ulta

tions

Impa

ct e

valu

atio

n of

trai

ning

pr

ogra

mm

es


43

Inte

nded

Res

ults

Indi

cato

rsSou

rces

/Mea

ns o

f Ve

rifica

tion

Ass

umpt

ions

/Ext

erna

l Fac

tors

Out

puts

:

3.1

Cap

acity

dev

elop

men

t sup

port

de

liver

ed to

nat

iona

l ins

titut

ions

3.2

Nat

iona

lly ta

ilore

d tr

aini

ng

prog

ram

s de

velo

ped

and

deliv

ered

3.3

Glo

bal a

nd r

egio

nal l

eade

rshi

p an

d tr

aini

ng p

rogr

ams

and

pack

ages

dev

elop

ed a

nd

deliv

ered

for

indi

vidu

als

and

inst

itutio

ns

3.1.

1 N

umbe

r of

nat

iona

l ins

titut

ions

ha

ving

str

engt

hene

d th

eir

capa

city

to d

eliv

er IG

E po

licy

anal

ysis

or

trai

ning

or

to

lead

pol

icy

and

stak

ehol

der

cons

ulta

tion

proc

esse

s

3.2.

1 N

umbe

r of

peo

ple

trai

ned

thro

ugh

natio

nal l

evel

trai

ning

pr

ogra

mm

es

3.2.

2 P

erce

ntag

e of

par

ticip

ants

who

re

port

hav

ing

incr

ease

d th

eir

capa

city

in IG

E re

late

d is

sues

th

roug

h na

tiona

l tra

inin

gs

3.3.

1 N

umbe

r of

peo

ple

that

hav

e be

en tr

aine

d on

IGE

in g

loba

lly

or r

egio

nally

offe

red

on-li

ne

trai

ning

and

on-

cam

pus

trai

ning

pro

gram

mes

3.3.

2 P

erce

ntag

e of

par

ticip

ants

who

re

port

hav

ing

incr

ease

d th

eir

capa

city

in IG

E re

late

d is

sues

in

glo

bal a

nd r

egio

nal t

rain

ing

prog

ram

mes

3.3.

3 N

umbe

r of

IGE

trai

ning

pr

ogra

mm

es a

nd s

peci

fic

trai

ning

mod

ules

bei

ng o

ffere

d to

cou

ntrie

s (a

t glo

bal a

nd

natio

nal l

evel

)

Trai

ning

mat

eria

ls

Rep

orts

of t

rain

ing

activ

ities

Par

ticip

ants

list

s

Feed

back

form

s

Surv

eys

with

trai

nees

Ava

ilabi

lity

of m

ulti-

lingu

al c

apab

ilitie

s an

d m

ater

ial t

o m

eet t

he n

eeds

of

the

coun

try

Inte

rest

of s

take

hold

ers

and

chan

ge

agen

ts in

bui

ldin

g th

eir

capa

city

on

IGE


44

Inte

nded

Res

ults

Indi

cato

rsSou

rces

/Mea

ns o

f Ve

rifica

tion

Ass

umpt

ions

/Ext

erna

l Fac

tors

Out

com

e 4

:

Cou

ntrie

s ha

ve im

prov

ed th

eir

know

ledg

e ba

se fo

r ad

vanc

ing

IGE

4.1

Num

ber

of P

AG

E st

akeh

olde

rs

and

coun

trie

s re

port

hav

ing

mad

e us

e of

PA

GE

know

ledg

e pr

oduc

ts fo

r th

e im

plem

enta

tion

of IG

E pr

iorit

ies

at n

atio

nal l

evel

Impa

ct e

valu

atio

n am

ong

PAG

E co

untr

ies

Out

puts

:

4.1

IGE

know

ledg

e pr

oduc

ts

gene

rate

d an

d sh

ared

thro

ugh

Nor

th-S

outh

-Sou

th c

olla

bora

tion

4.2

Glo

bal I

GE

advo

cacy

, out

reac

h an

d co

mm

unic

atio

ns s

trat

egy

deve

lope

d an

d pu

t in

prac

tice

4.1.

1 N

umbe

r of

IGE

know

ledg

e pr

oduc

ts g

ener

ated

and

mad

e av

aila

ble

on P

AG

E w

ebsi

te fo

r na

tiona

l lev

el a

pplic

atio

n

4.1.

2 N

umbe

r of

glo

bal a

nd r

egio

nal

know

ledg

e sh

arin

g ev

ents

and

di

alog

ues

held

in c

oope

ratio

n w

ith o

ther

par

tner

s

4.1.

3 N

umbe

r of

inst

itutio

ns a

nd

initi

ativ

es c

olla

bora

ting

unde

r a

wid

er P

AG

E ne

twor

k

4.2.

1 N

umbe

r of

use

rs v

isiti

ng th

e gl

obal

PA

GE

web

site

per

qu

arte

r

4.2.

2 N

umbe

r of

mon

thly

PA

GE

new

slet

ter

subs

crib

ers

4.2.

3 N

umbe

r of

UN

PA

GE

Twitt

er

follo

wer

s (P

AG

EXc

hang

e)

4.2.

4 N

umbe

r of

vie

ws

on P

AG

E Yo

uTub

e ch

anne

l

Pub

lishe

d re

port

s/pr

oduc

ts

Age

nda

of g

loba

l and

reg

iona

l di

alog

ues

Rep

orts

/min

utes

of k

ey e

vent

s/

Par

ticip

ant l

ists

PAG

E w

ebsi

tes,

tw

itter

acc

ount

s st

atis

tics;

Ann

ual r

epor

ts: l

ist o

f ins

titut

ions

pa

rtne

ring

with

PA

GE

at g

loba

l and

na

tiona

l lev

el

Abi

lity

of P

AG

E pa

rtne

rs to

dev

elop

kn

owle

dge

and

supp

ort t

hink

tank

s to

pro

duce

qua

lity

prod

ucts

Inte

rest

in c

oord

inat

ion

and

coop

erat

ion

from

oth

er r

elat

ed

mec

hani

sms,

pro

gram

mes

and

or

gani

satio

ns (

such

as

GG

KP,

10Y

FP

etc.

)

Effe

ctiv

e pa

rtic

ipat

ion

of d

evel

opin

g an

d de

velo

ped

coun

trie

s in

PA

GE

know

ledg

e an

d ne

twor

king

eve

nts


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European Union,

Germany,

Finland,

Norway,

Republic of Korea,

Sweden,

Switzerland,

The United Arab Emirates.

Launched in 2013, The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) has emerged as one of the United Nations Systems’ principal responses to the call at Rio+20 to assist interested countries in developing, adopting and implementing inclusive green economy policies and strategies.

PAGE brings together the expertise, convening power and networks of five UN agencies – United Nations Environment Programme, International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and United Nations Institute for Training and Research – to support countries in addressing one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century: transforming their economies into drivers of sustainability.

The Partnership supports nations and regions in reframing economic policies and practices around sustainability to foster economic growth, create income and jobs, reduce poverty and inequality, strengthen the ecological foundations of their economies and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

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