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Institutional Structure of the GEF

This presentation provides an overview of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and its institutional structure, including its history, mission, focal areas, role, and organizational framework. It highlights the GEF's role as a mechanism for international cooperation in funding measures for global environmental benefits. The presentation also discusses the GEF's links to global environmental conventions and its role in leveraging additional investment.

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Institutional Structure of the GEF

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  1. Institutional Structure of the GEF GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop 15 to 17 February 2012 Dead Sea, Jordan

  2. Presentation Outline • History • Mission • GEF Focal Areas • Role of the GEF • Organizational Structure • Institutional Framework • Country Ownership

  3. History • Established in 1991 • United Nations Conference on Environment and Development- Earth Summit, 1992 • Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured GEF- March 1994 • Replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund: • GEF-1 (1994) $2 billion • GEF-2 (1998) $2.75 billion • GEF-3 (2002) $3 billion • GEF-4 (2006) $3.13 billion • GEF-5 (2010) $4.34 billion • World Bank is the Trustee of the GEF Trust Fund

  4. Mission The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a mechanism for international cooperation for the purpose of providing new, and additional, grant and concessional funding to meet the agreed incremental costs of measures to achieve agreed global environmental benefits

  5. GEF Focal Areas and Cross-cutting Issues Focal Areas • Biodiversity • Land Degradation • International Waters • Persistent Organic Pollutants • Ozone Depletion (only countries in transition) • Climate Change Cross-Cutting Issues • Sustainable Forest Management • Sound Chemicals Management and Mercury Reduction • Capacity Development

  6. GEF links to the Global Environmental Conventions • GEF is the designated “financial mechanism” for the • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) • Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) • Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) • The GEF is a designated mechanism for the • Convention on Combating Desertification (UNCCD) • The GEF collaborates closely with other treaties and agreements to reach common goals (International Waters, Montreal Protocol)

  7. GEF Replenishments

  8. Total Funding Percentage by Focal Area

  9. Role of the GEF LINKS LOCAL WITH GLOBAL • GEF advances sustainable development in individual nations while improving the global environment for all COMPLEMENTS EXISTING AID PROGRAMS • GEF is not a substitute for regular development finance LEVERAGES ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT • GEF seeks co-finance, replication, and follow-up investment: the trust fund cannot solve all global environmental problems

  10. GEF Organizational Structure • GEF Member Governments: • 182 • GEF Council: • 32 Members. Main governing body of GEF • GEF Assembly: • All members represented. Meets every 4 years. Reviews and evaluates policies and operations. Amends Instrument (on Council recommendation) • GEF Secretariat: • Headed by CEO. Administrates the Fund. Evaluates and recommends projects for CEO and/or Council approval

  11. GEF Organizational Structure • GEF Agencies: • Operational work. Accountable to Council for their project activities. • Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP): • Reviews projects and provides advice • Evaluation Office: • Reports directly to the Council; Reviews GEF work and evaluates its effectiveness; establishes evaluation standards; provides quality control for M&E of Agencies • CSOs: • Participate at policy and project level

  12. GEF Institutional Framework

  13. GEF Agencies • UNDP • UNEP • World Bank broad primary roles identified in the GEF Instrument • FAO • UNIDO • IFAD • ADB • AFDB • EBRD • IDB granted access to GEF resources and assigned more definite roles based on specific business needs of the GEF

  14. Country Ownership GEF PROJECTS MUST BE COUNTRY DRIVEN: • Based on national priorities • Designed to support sustainable development How is this achieved? • Political and Operational Focal Points • Country Support Programme • GEF Newsletter • Participation of CSOs and Local Communities

  15. LDCF and SCCF- Climate Change Adaptation • Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) -> established in 2001 under UNFCCC COP • First multilateral funds to implement concrete adaptation actions on developing countries • LDCF and SCCF provided vulnerable countries and communities, as well as the GEF Implementing Agencies, initial resources to finance a pioneering adaptation portfolio. • Managed and administered independently of from the GEF Trust Fund

  16. Donor Funding of LDCF/SCCF LDCF --$533M pledged from 25 donors SCCF -- $240M pledged from 15 donors • Total > $773 M Allocated, Committed or Disbursed: • 94 projects approved in more than 90 developing countries through: • LDCF for $215million • SCCF for $ 150 million • 47 National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs) completed, 48 financed (LDCs) $12 M 16

  17. Thank you for your attention

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