GEF - Small Grants Programme

GEF- Small Grants Programme Location: 1818 H Street NW, Mail Stop P4-400 Washington, DC 20433 USA Contact: GEF Secretariat Phone: +1 202 473 0508 Fax: +1 202 522 3240/3245 Email: [email protected] Financed by: World Bank Website: link and their Community Action Global Impact site: link

Finance Finance mechanism: Grants (100%) Budget: More than $1 million per project Funding range: Minimum: Maximum: $US 50,000 per project Minimum return on investment: Period / deadlines: All year round

Aim — Launched in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit, the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) is a corporate program, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and executed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). GEF SGP has worked with communities and civil society around the world to grapple with critical global environmental problems.

More information — With a presence in 126 developing countries and having provided more than 14,500 grants worldwide by 2012, GEF SGP’s cumulative experience and results have demonstrated that supporting communities in their efforts to achieve more sustainable livelihoods is not only possible, but necessary for achieving global environmental benefits.

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Specific type of projects — GEF SGP primarily works in five GEF focal areas: conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, protection of international waters, reduction of chemicals such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and prevention of land degradation, including sustainable forest management. Adaptation to climate change activities are funded by the GEF Strategic Priority for Adaptation and other donors. The overall GEF SGP project portfolio comprises 60 percent biodiversity, 20 percent climate change, 6 percent international waters, and 14 percent multifocal issues.

The principle objectives of the GEF Small Grants Programme are to:

• Develop community-level strategies and implement technologies that could reduce threats to the global environment if they are replicated over time.
• Gather lessons from community-level experience and initiate the sharing of successful community-level strategies and innovations among CBOs and NGOs, host governments, development aid agencies, GEF and others working on a regional or global scale.
• Build partnerships and networks of stakeholders to support and strengthen community, NGO and national capacities to address global environmental problems and promote sustainable development.
• Ensure that conservation and sustainable development strategies and projects that protect the global environment are understood and practised by communities and other key stakeholders.

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