GEF
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
June 2006: Caribbean environment and sustainable development officials have gathered in Antigua during the first week of June to discuss the implementation of an “Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management” (IWCAM) project for 13 Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The IWCAM project seeks to enhance the participating countries’ capacity to plan and manage their aquatic resources and ecosystems sustainably. Funding for the US$23 million project has been provided by the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
2008: In accordance with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Strategic Priority on Adaptation, which aims to build up the resilience of small communities vis-à-vis climate change impacts, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has begun implementing the GEF-funded Community-Based Adaptation Project.
The programme will focus on 10 countries – Bangladesh, Bolivia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Samoa, Vietnam – under the Small Grants Programme, and is expected to...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 March 2009: The Caribbean Workshop on the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) and related chemicals and hazardous waste management instruments convened in Bridgetown, Barbados, from 10-13 March 2009. The workshop concluded, inter alia: that the Second International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM-2) should formally recognize and support the regional coordination committees established by several regions; that Global Environment Facility (GEF) national...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
26 June 2009: The Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), which met from 22-24 June 2009, in Washington DC, US, evaluated a reform to the GEF’s Resource Allocation Framework (RAF) to enhance transparency and outcome-oriented lending.
A new System for Transparent Allocation of Resources (STAR) is being developed, which will cover the biodiversity and climate change focal areas with improved and simplified indices. Based on Document GEF/C.35/4.Rev.1., the GEF Council has requested the...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
The 5th Regional Steering Committee of the Oceanic Fisheries Management Project of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency convened on 7 November 2009. This meeting was the final steering committee meeting for the project which concludes its first phase in December 2010. Discussions on a potential second phase of the Oceanic Fisheries Management Project agreed, inter alia: that the contribution of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...
