Practitioner's guide : capacity development for environmental sustainability

Capacity development and environmental sustainability are both central to UNDP's mandate and programming. The purpose of this Practitioner's Guide is to provide practical guidance to UNDP staff, partner countries and other development partners on the nature of environmental capacity and how to support capacity development for environmental sustainability (CDES ). The guide builds on UNDP's Practice Note on Capacity Development and Practice Note on Capacity Assessment and incorporates best practices from CDES experience to date. The main text of this guide presents the UNDP approach to CDES , including guiding principles, an analytical framework and a five-step process that can be adapted to various settings. Annex A provides practical tools to implement this approach, Annex B provides case studies, and Annex C lists references.