GEF
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
8 April 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently approved a project to integrate climate change risks and resilience into forestry management in Samoa, thus contributing to food security, increased yields and crop variety, and health benefits.
The project will cover approximately 10,000 hectares of native forest areas, and at least 20,000 hectares of lowland agroforestry areas and will be funded by US$2.6 million from the Kyoto Protocol’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
March 2011: The Fifth Session of the South West Indian Fisheries Commission (SWIOF) was organized upon invitation of the Government of Maldives, from 13-16 March 2011, in Male, Maldives. The session included delegates from the region as well as observers from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the World Bank.
The Commission considered the report of the Scientific Committee, reflected on the status of fisheries resources and decided to draw attention to depleted stocks. It also discussed...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
7 April 2011: A workshop in Paramaribo, Suriname, trained officials from 17 Caribbean nations in the use of Integrated Environmental Assessments for mainstreaming Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). The workshop took place from 29 March-1 April 2011.
The workshop was organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) with support from the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) Integrating Watershed and Costal Areas Management in Small Island Caribbean Developing States (IWCAM) Project...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
26 April 2011: The Adaptation Fund Board (AFB) has posted 13 project proposals on its website for comment from civil society. The proposals come from Argentina, Djibouti, Fiji, Guatemala, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Tanzania and Turkmenistan.
Jamaica also submitted a proposal through the direct access mechanism, which allows developing countries to access funds from the fund directly without the intermediation of multilateral development institutions....
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
11 May 2011: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has published instructions for countries to access directly – without intermediary agencies – funding for desertification projects to align their National Action Programmes (NAPs) with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 10-Year Strategy, as well as to submit national reports to the UNCCD.All eligible parties will have access to up to US$150,000 to finance these two activities.
Focal points are advised to use the...
