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Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

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	Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Website
	Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat Website
	Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol (MFMP)
	Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
	Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF)
	Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD)
	The Action Learning Program on Participatory Processes for PRSP
	Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP)
	Com+: Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development

Partnerships

Partners are vital to the World Bank in fulfilling our environmental goals and responsibilities to international conventions and global initiatives. Some of the parternships that the World Bank is involved in to address sustainable development include:

Since 1971, the Bank has been a strong supporter of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) – a network of 16 international agricultural research centers that mobilize cutting-edge science to reduce hunger and poverty in developing countries, improve human nutrition and health, and protect the environment.
As an implementing agency of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol (MFMP), the Bank works with the UNDP, UNEP, and UNIDO to help countries address global environmental challenges and meet their international environmental obligations.
Recognizing that global warming will have the greatest impact on its borrowing client countries, on July 20th, 1999 the Executive Directors of the World Bank approved the establishment of the Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF). The PCF, with the operational objective of mitigating climate change, aspires to promote the Bank’s tenet of sustainable development, to demonstrate the possibilities of public-private partnerships, and to offer a "learning-by-doing" opportunity to its stakeholders.
In fiscal 2001, the Bank joined Conservation International and the Global Environment Facility to launch a $150 million Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF) to protect the world’s threatened ‘biodiversity hotspots’—highly threatened regions where some 60 percent of all terrestrial species diversity are found occupying only 1.4 percent of the planet’s land surface. The Fund will help find solutions that allow poor people to have a better way of life while at the same time conserving the biodiversity on which their long-term survival depends.
The Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD) is a multi-donor trust fund providing grant resources for World Bank activities which mainstream environmental, social and poverty reducing dimensions of sustainable development. It is intended to help develop Bank and client country capacity, promote inclusion of these cross-cutting issues into World Bank operations, and foster cooperation between different units in the World Bank and with the United Nations and other external agencies and groups.
The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) enhances the poverty impact of country actions and development assistance. Its underlying principles is that the PRSP should be prepared through a country-driven process, including broad participation, that promotes country ownership of the strategy and its implementation. The Action Learning Program on Participatory Processes for PRSP is an interactive learning tool at the national level to reduce poverty.
The Com+ alliance is a partnership of international organizations and communications professionals from diverse sectors committed to using communications to advance a vision of sustainable development that integrates its three pillars: economic, social and environmental.
By offering a platform to share expertise, develop best practice and create synergies, Com+ hopes to actively support creative and inspiring communications across the world.

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