WWF: Government and Aid Agency relationships: approaches
... to sustainable development and poverty alleviation
WWF's mission and the culture behind it, from which grew such seminal documents as The World Conservation Strategy and Caring for the Earth, is in close alignment with International priorities and processes. Millenium Development Goal number 7 (the reversal of environmental degradation) and its various elements concord closely with WWF's mission, as does the goal of creating sustainable partnerships for development (Millenium Development Goal number 8).Conservation must integrated with people
Our belief is that for conservation to be effective, it must be fully integrated with the needs and aspirations of people at all levels and from all walks of life. This has led WWF to seek ways of working that engage broad cross-sections of stakeholders, deal with root cause issues and examine them from different environmental and socio-economic perspectives, empower all people and particularly the most vulnerable to actively participate in the sustainable governance of natural resources, and to try and effect changes in policy frameworks at all levels to protect and sustain life on earth.
Poverty Reduction
One example of this is the engagement of many of WWF's national offices, and through them many national NGOs, in the review and assessment of the environmental components of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). The purpose of this being to assure that poverty reduction and development plans are as environmentally sustainable as possible.
In another dimension, WWF works closely with governmental partners to support and assure active implementation of a number of the Multilateral Environmental Agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Nairobi Convention, to name but a few.
