Transcript Slide Title Here - Global Environment Facility

Overall Objective of the
Programmatic Approach
To secure larger-scale and sustained
impact on the global environment through
integrating global environmental objectives
into national or regional strategies and
plans using partnerships*.
* See the GEF/C.33/6 Document “From Projects to Programs: Clarifying the
Programmatic Approach in the GEF Portfolio, March 21, 2008
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Added value of the programmatic
approach
Countries
A more strategic interaction with the GEF - especially under the RAF
Opportunities to pool resources from various GEF focal areas
Opportunities to secure financing and mobilize co-financing
Country driven process + ownership
Agencies
Better predictability & communication, less transaction costs
More strategic with countries based on their comparative
advantage
GEFSEC
Maximize Global Benefits by more synergies: a cost efficient
process
Enhance GEF catalytic role to leverage additional financing
Easier to monitor and evaluate
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Principles
 A programmatic approach needs to be consistent with
the GEF focal area strategies to maximize and scale up
global environment benefits
 Enhanced opportunities to generate synergies across
GEF focal areas and with partners
 A GEF programmatic approach will be undertaken in
partnership with all partners
 An enhanced scope for catalyzing actions, replication,
and innovation
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Principles
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Be country-owned and build on national
priorities
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Emphasize GEF’s catalytic role and
leverage of additional financing from other
sources
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Be based on an open and transparent
process of multi-stakeholder representation from dialogue to implementation
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Be cost-effective
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TERRAFRICA: Strategic Investment Program
for Sustainable Land Management (SIP)
 An inter-agency program co-financed by GEF for
SLM up-scaling in Sub-Saharan Africa
 Priority support in Land Degradation to SSA
countries for GEF4
 $150m in grants for strategic portfolio of
operations, with a 1:4 co-financing ratio
 A Platform developed under UNCCD and
NEPAD and involving countries, financial and
technical institutions
 Enabling environments and investments Actions 5
The SIP in brief
• 40 projects involving 25 countries, including:
– Country-specific projects
– Regional: Multi-country
– Regional: Transboundary – focusing on specific
ecosystems
• >$800 in co-financing involving a wide-range of
donors
• Type of Investments: Policy and investment
frameworks for SLM, Knowledge management and
decision-support systems for SLM, Direct investment in
SLM interventions, Strengthening the role of Civil Society
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Organizations in SLM
Strategic Program for West Africa
Sub-component on Biodiversity
• Coordinating GEF Agency: World Bank
• GEF Implementing Agencies : WB, UNDP, FAO, UNEP
• $39 million from Biodiversity and Climate change
• Priority Focus Areas: 1) development of protected areas
networks, 2) sustainable use of natural resources, and 3)
poverty reduction among communities living in the
surroundings of protected areas.
NUMBER OF PROJECTS: 21 (11 PIFs approved or pending;
need to speed up PIF processing in Mauritania, Chad, Nigeria,
Senegal, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin (Trust Fund) +
regional projects on capacity building and knowledge management
with the WB)
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Strategic Program for West Africa
Sub-component on Energy
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Coordinating AGENCY: UNIDO
OTHER GEF AGENCIES: UNDP, UNEP, WB, AfDB
GEF FOCAL AREA (S): Climate change
Priority Focus areas: Promoting renewable energy for
enhancing energy access and supporting productive capacities,
Promoting sustainable energy production from biomass, Promoting
energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings, and the
industrial sectors, and Promoting sustainable innovative systems
for urban transport
• $45 million
• Number of projects: 27 ( 12 approved, 4 pending, and need to
speed up the process in the following countries: Guinea, GuineaBissau, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and
Senegal)
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Strategic Program for Sustainable Forest
Management in the Congo Basin
• COUNTRIES: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of
Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
• GEF Coordinating AGENCY: World Bank
• OTHER GEF AGENCIES: UNDP, UNEP, FAO, AFDB
• $49,750 million from Biodiversity and Climate Change (for REDD),
cofinancing: 1:3
• OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM: (1) the conservation of key
biodiversity areas by strengthening the regional network of protected
areas, (2) the sustainable management and use of natural resources
in the production landscape; and (3) strengthening of the institutional
and sustainable financing framework for ecosystem management.
• EXPECTED NUMBER OF PROJECTS : 13
(11 PIF/PPGs approved in 6 months; waiting for the mangrove project
in Congo with FAO and the BD project in Cameroon with the WB)
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For further information
[email protected]
[email protected] (Biodiversity in
West Africa, Congo Basin)
[email protected] (Energy)
[email protected] (SIP/Terrafrica)
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