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By Layal Neaimeh NCSA Project Assistant

Sub-Regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points North Africa, Middle East, South & West Asia Bali, Indonesia ( 2-3 December 2007) Lebanon’s GEF Portfolio. By Layal Neaimeh NCSA Project Assistant. Outline. Background Key Players Results & Achievements Constraints & Challenges Recommendations.

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By Layal Neaimeh NCSA Project Assistant

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  1. Sub-Regional Workshop for GEF Focal PointsNorth Africa, Middle East, South & West Asia Bali, Indonesia (2-3 December 2007)Lebanon’s GEF Portfolio By Layal Neaimeh NCSA Project Assistant

  2. Outline • Background • Key Players • Results & Achievements • Constraints & Challenges • Recommendations

  3. Biodiversity: 10 Multifocal: 3 Climate Change: 6 POPs: 1 Background Lebanon has implemented around 20 GEF funded projects so far (1996 – 2007)

  4. Background • Total co-financing: US$ 3 million approximately • No projects implemented in the focal areas of: International Waters & Land Degradation • GEF total contribution: US$ 11 million approximately

  5. Key Players • Implementing agencies: • UNDP (15 projects) • UNEP (4 projects) • World Bank (1 project) • Executing agencies: • Ministry of Environment (13 projects) • American University of Beirut (2 projects) • Ministry of Agriculture (1 project) • Council for Development & Reconstruction (1 project) • Ministry of Public Works & Transport (1 project) • Ministry of Energy & Water (1 project) • Society for Protection of Nature in Lebanon (NGO) (1 project)

  6. Results & Achievements GEF Projects have: • Contributed to sound ecological development • Produced job opportunities for professionals in the domain • Contributed to enhancement of the economy • Allowed Lebanon to flag its environmental leadership at a regional and international community

  7. More tangible achievements…

  8. GEF Reports and Publications’ Database(stock was taken, hard copies were compiled & delivered to MoE’s Public Library for Environmental Archives)

  9. GEF Funded Projects’ Database Data on all GEF funded projects in Lebanon was collected. Inventory of projects’ outputs was undertaken & these were made physically available @ NCSA unit when possible

  10. Execution of a GEF database exhibition

  11. Data on GEF allocation of Resources for Arab countries was processed Source: Operational Report on GEF Projects-June 2005 Prepared by: NCSA Project-July 2006

  12. All above mentioned can be accessed on the following web address… http://www.moe.gov.lb/Projects/Ongoing/NCSA.htm

  13. Constraints & Challenges • Operational GEF focal point overwhelmed • GEF portfolio is being handled by someone other than GEF operational focal point (usually a GEF funded project at MoE, i.e. NCSA) • Lack of sustainability • RAF procedures have made access to funds more complicated

  14. Recommendations • A GEF supported person/unit within the focal point agency (MoE) to insure sustainability • RAF procedures should make access to funds easier

  15. Good News!!! The Arab Environment Facility (AEF) • A regional initiative serving its beneficiaries with regional resources • A public-private environmental initiative hosted by the financial sector • It is supplementary to GEF interventions in the region • Tackles the specificity of environmental needs & priorities of the Arab region • Produces job opportunities

  16. Thank you!

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