GEF-6 Programming Directions in Natural Resources Management

1. GEF-6 Programming Directions in Natural Resources Management BiodiversityInternational Waters Land Degradation Sustainable Forest Management

2. GEF-6 Refreshed Strategies to Address the Dimensions of Sustainability and Effective Delivery FoodSecurity SD Themes SustainableCities Forests Fisheries SignaturePrograms • Amazon • Commodities • Partnershipfor Africa • 50 in 10 • Cities Climate Change International Waters SustainableForest Management Biodiversity Land Degradation Chemicals FocalAreaStrategyDelivery

3. Biodiversity Focal Area GEF-6 Strategy • Goal: To maintain globally significant biodiversity and the ecosystem goods and services that it provides to society. • Objectives: • To improve sustainability of protected area systems. • To reduce threats to biodiversity. • To sustainably use biodiversity. • To mainstream conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity into production landscapes/seascapes and sectors.

5. Addressing Major Drivers of Biodiversity Loss

6. International Waters Focal Area GEF-6 Strategy • Goal: to promote collective management for transboundary water systems and foster policy, legal, and institutional reforms and investments towards sustainable use and maintenance of ecosystem services

7. International Waters: Objectives and Programs Objective 3: To rebuildmarine fisheries, restore and protect coastal habitats, and reduce pollution of coasts and LMEs Objective 1: To catalyze sustainablemanagement of Transboundary Waters Objective 2: To balance competing water-uses in the management of transboundary surface and groundwater. 1.1: Foster cooperation for sustainable use of transboundary water systems and economic growth 2.1 Advance conjunctive management of surface and groundwater Systems 3.1 Prevent the Loss and Degradation of Coastal Habitats 3.2 Reduce Ocean Hypoxia 1.2 Increase the Resilience and Flow of Ecosystems Services in the Context of Melting High Altitude Glaciers 2.2 Increase Water/Food/Energy/ Ecosystems security and reduce conflict potential 3.3 Rebuild Global Fisheries

8. Effective Management of surface and groundwater and of fisheries

9. Land Degradation Focal Area GEF-6 Strategy • Goal: To contribute to arresting and reversing current global trends in land degradation, specifically desertification and deforestation

10. Land DegradationStrategy: Objectives and Programs

11. GEF Investments into Sustainable Land Management Agroforestry Grazing Management Contour Terraces Pastoral and Rangeland Management IEM approaches Forest Landscape Restoration Living sand barrier

12. Sustainable Forest Management GEF-6 Strategy • Goal: To achieve multiple environmental, social and economic benefits from improved management of all types of forests and trees outside of forests.

13. GEF-6 SFM Strategy: Objectives and Programs • SFM-1: To maintain forest resources • SFM-2: To enhance forest management • SFM-3: To restore forest ecosystems • SFM-4: To increase regional and global cooperation

14. Managing Forests for Multiple Benefits

15. Developing a PIF: The Basics of a Winning Proposal • Country ownership and alignment with national plans, convention implementation, and NPFEs • Agency’s comparative advantage • Project design and consistency with FA strategies • Incremental reasoning- Problem description- Baseline project(s)- Incremental activities • Global Environmental Benefits • Innovativeness, Sustainability, and Potential for Scaling up • Participation, Socio-Economic Benefits, Gender

16. Project Review Process

17. Practical recommendations • Upstream consultation for Programmatic approaches and complex proposals (e.g. MFAs, multi-trustfund) • Short, Concise PIFs and CEO endorsement documents • Stick to the required templates and table formats • Stick to a 1-step review • Maintain all records in the review sheet • Provide comments matrix • Get the figures right • Submit PIFs well ahead of WPs