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Global Environment Facility

GEF
Last updated: 1 June, 2011

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established in 1991 to assist developing countries in addressing global environmental priorities. The GEF operates as a partnership between three Implementing Agencies – UNDP, UNEP and the World Bank, and seven Executing Agencies (Asian, African, and Inter-American Development Banks, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), FAO, IFAD and UNIDO – to integrate global environmental benefits into county led development. UNDP has established a solid GEF portfolio aligning global environment priorities to national development goals, and has helped developing countries to access more than $3.3 billion in project financing from the GEF Trust Fund and associated LDCF and SCCF over the past 18 years, as well as leveraging a further $9.2 billion in co-financing.

Activities Funded

Activity Countries $Amount Date of agreement
Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management and the Development of Bio-energy Markets to Promote Environmental Sustainability and to Reduce Green House Gas Emissions in Cambodia Cambodia $2,363,000 Date of agreement: 2011
Mitigating Climate Change through Sustainable Forest Management and Capacity Building in the Southern States of Mexico (States of Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca) Mexico $5,000,000 Date of agreement: 2010
Third National Communication to the UNFCCC Brazil N/A Date of agreement: 2010
CBSP Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Ngoyla Mintom Forest Cameroon $3,500,000 Date of agreement: 12 November 2009
Transforming management of biodiversity rich community production forests through building national capacities for market-based instruments Mexico $7,000,000 Date of agreement: 15 September 2009
SFM Sustainable Forest and Biodiversity Management in Borneo Indonesia $2,527,273 Date of agreement: 24 June 2009
CBSP Sustainable Community Based Management and Conservation of Mangrove Ecosystem in Cameroon Cameroon $1,733,182 Date of agreement: 24 June 2009
Brazil Sustainable Cerrado Initiative Brazil N/A Date of agreement: 2009
Strengthening the Protected Area Network within the Eastern Montane Forest Hotspot of Kenya Kenya $4,650,000 Date of agreement: 2008
Effective Conservation and Sustainable Use of Mangrove Ecosystems in Brazil Brazil N/A Date of agreement: 2008
National Biodiversity Mainstreaming and Institutional Consolidation Project Brazil N/A Date of agreement: 2008
Partnerships for Conservation Management of the Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park, North Maluku Province Indonesia $999,954 Date of agreement: 7 May 2007
Dominican Republic - Demonstrating Sustainable Land Management in the Upper Sabana Yegua Watershed System N/A Date of agreement: 2006
Demonstrating Sustainable Land Management in Upper Watersheds of the Sabana Yegua Dam Dominican Republic $4,434,695 Date of agreement: September 2005
Forest Sector Development Project Vietnam $9,000,000 Date of agreement: 2005
Establishing Conservation Areas Landscape Management in the Northern Plains of Cambodia (CALM) Cambodia $5,179,250 Date of agreement: 2005
Second National Communication of Brazil to the UNFCCC Brazil N/A Date of agreement: 2005
Lambusango Forest Conservation, Sulawesi Indonesia $1,000,000 Date of agreement: 12 July 2004
Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Resource Management Plan for Marsabit Mountain and its associated Watersheds in Kenya Kenya $924,000 Date of agreement: 2004
Paraná Biodiversity Project Brazil N/A Date of agreement: 1 February 2002
Country Programme Framework for Sustainable Forest Land Management Vietnam N/A
Rehabilitation and Sustainable Use of Peatland Forests in Southeast Asia Indonesia $4,853,144
Conservation of Key Forests in the Sangihe-Talaud Islands Indonesia N/A
Promoting Sustainable Production Forest Management to Secure Globally Important Biodiversity Indonesia $11,300,000
SFM Strengthening Community Based Forest and Watershed Management (SCBFWM) Indonesia $7,700,000