GEF 2020: Strategy for the GEF
GEF2020 strategy calls for the GEF to focus on the drivers of environmental degradation, support broad coalitions of stakeholders and innovative and scalable activities.
Gender Equality Action Plan
Mainstreaming gender through GEF programs and projects presents opportunities to increase the effectiveness of its investment in enhancing global environmental benefits. The GEF recognizes gender equality as an important social goal in and of itself, with associated implications for the projects that receive GEF support. The GEF aims to achieve global environmental benefits and sustainable development by promoting issues related to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Forests and the GEF: A Brief Look at two Decades of Support for Forests
Over its 24-year history, the GEF has recognized the multiple functions of forests and promoted appropriate management systems to develop long-term, sustainable approaches to maintaining forests, the goods and services they provide, and the livelihoods they support.
Sustainable Land Management Financing in the GEF: A primer for the sixth GEF replenishment phase (GEF-6)
This Primer is primarily intended for entities looking specifically to design projects on sustainable land management (SLM) for submission to the Global Environment Facility (GEF). This Primer addresses all aspects of developing of such a project, including priorities of the GEF as financial mechanism of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
Guidelines for the Implementation of the Public Involvement Policy
The need for stakeholder engagement, including information dissemination, consultation, and stakeholder participation, is a cornerstone feature of the work of the GEF. This has been recognized very early in the GEF, when the Council approved the Policy on Public Involvement in GEF Projects.
From Community to Cabinet: Two Decades of GEF Action to Secure Transboundary River Basins and Aquifers
Two Decades of GEF Action to Secure Transboundary River Basins and Aquifers
Taking Tropical Deforestation out of Commodity Supply Chains
Many globally traded agriculture products have become indispensable fixtures in the human food chain; making their way into a vast array of foods and goods consumed by billions of people around the world. They represent a significant part of the global commodities trade and have become dominant economic forces in many national and local economies. The environmental footprint of these products in the quest to feed a growing population and meet the aspiration of a rising global middle class has been nothing short of dramatic.
Innovative Financing for the Global Environment
Drawing on its experience in utilizing debt, equity and risk mitigation products in the past, the GEF is now launching a $110 million pilot program to demonstrate and validate the application of non-grant financial instruments to combat global environmental degradation.
