GEF
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)...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
14 December 2009: On the sideline of the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, the Government of Indonesia, and the European Environment Agency organized a special day to stress the central role of oceans in the Earth’s life support system and to address threats faced by coastal communities, especially in developing nations and small island States.
Oceans Day was held on 14 December 2009, and highlighted the direct link between climate...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
12 March 2010: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have launched the first global project on public health adaptation to climate change. The project involves a series of pilot projects that will seek to increase the adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field practitioners, to respond to health risks associated with climate variability and change.
The projects will be executed by Ministries of Health and other relevant...
10 Dec 2011
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SIDS Policy and Practice
13 May 2010: The UN Development Programme (UNDP) is providing support through the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme Initiative to indigenous communities to record the impacts of climate change on their habitat. The videos produced will aim to support climate resilience and grassroots actions for policy change. A video produced by eight indigenous communities from Samoa was featured at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009 and will be screened at the...
