MEDIA ADVISORY: Foster Access to Green Technologies to Alleviate Poverty

MEDIA ADVISORY: Foster Access to Green Technologies to Alleviate Poverty

November 17, 2006

    An Inception Workshop between UNDP and the Government

    An inception workshop will take place on Tuesday, 21
November 2006, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Yuyang
Hotel. The workshop introduces a 4-year project, jointly
run by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in
China and the Chinese government, aiming to foster access
of poor communities to green technologies in China.

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http://211.154.41.99:9080/xprn/sa/20061107113358-34.jpg )
 
    Entitled "Green Poverty Reduction in Poor Areas of
China", the project is designed to support Chinese
government efforts to alleviate poverty through innovative
"green technologies" in five provinces: Guizhou,
Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Xinjiang and Yunnan, jointly
established by UNDP, Ministry of Science and Technology
(MOST), and the China International Center For Economic and
Technical Exchanges (CICETE) under the Ministry of
Commerce.

    With a total budget of US$ 8.585 million," the
4-year project is designed to combine poverty alleviation
with environmental improvement and rural energy development
in poor communities, through sustainable methods such as
planting trees in Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan to develop
bio-diesel production; growing Jarrah Dayun in arid areas
in Xinjiang as a raw material for traditional medicine; and
providing small-scale wind turbines to poor herdsmen in
Inner Mongolia.  

    Representatives from the UN and government ministries
involved in the project will speak at the workshop. Local
government officials and experts from pilot project sites
in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia will introduce the project
design and implementation based on local conditions and
advantages. 
 
    WHAT:       Inception Workshop on Green Poverty
Reduction Project 
 
    WHERE:      2nd Floor, Yuyang Hotel  
                  
    WHEN:       9:00 - 11:00 AM, Tuesday, 21 November 2006

 
    WHO:                  
                Ms. Alessandra Tisot, UNDP Senior Deputy
Resident
                Representative in China

                Ms. Wang Weili, Deputy Director General,
CICETE, Ministry
                of Commerce 

                Mr. Shi Dinghuan, State Councilor on behalf
of the MOST
 
                Mr. Wu Zhong, Director General,
International Cooperation
                Department, Poverty Reduction Office of the
State Council

    To confirm your participation, kindly contact  Ms. Wu
Tao, Programme Assistant of UNDP China, by Monday, 20
November, at 8532 0714, or [e-mail]
 
    UNDP fosters human development to empower women and men
to build better lives in China. As the UN's development
network, UNDP draws on a world of experience to assist
China in developing its own solutions to the country's
development challenges. Through partnerships and
innovation, UNDP works to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals and an equitable Xiao Kang society by
reducing poverty, strengthening rule of the law, promoting
environmental sustainability, and fighting HIV/AIDS. 
http://www.undp.org.cn 
 
    United Nations Development Programme
    2 Liangmahe Nanlu, Beijing

SOURCE  United Nations Development Programme