3.2: Equity, Poverty, and the Environment

To reduce poverty by promoting policies that more equitably distribute environmental benefits and costs.

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Focuses on the distribution of nature-based public revenues, private profits and market shares from natural commodities, and select ecosystem services. Advances the reform of policies that help alleviate rural poverty (75% of the planet’s over 6 billion people live on less than $2 a day), by engaging their self-interest in improving resource stewardship. Target outcomes likely before 2012 include: - Government of Uganda adopts new oil policies, instruments and/or investments that reflect the importance of distributional equity in local development and poverty reduction. Our partners, ACODE and UWS, will guide the development of these innovations. - Government of Cameroon develops new regulations and guidelines that improve the implementation and enforcement of the benefit-sharing provisions in the national Forestry Act. Our principal partner — NESDA- CA — will guide the development of these innovations.

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