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UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme

UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme. Acting Locally, Conserving Globally Tom Twining-Ward, UNDP-Samoa (tom.twining-ward@undp.org). UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme. Established in 1992 Administered by the UNDP on behalf of the GEF. SGP is offered in 63 countries. SGP works with local communities.

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UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme

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  1. UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme Acting Locally, Conserving Globally Tom Twining-Ward, UNDP-Samoa (tom.twining-ward@undp.org)

  2. UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme • Established in 1992 • Administered by the UNDP on behalf of the GEF

  3. SGP is offered in 63 countries

  4. SGP works with local communities • Provides up to $50,000 grants to NGOs and CBOs • Has funded more than 4,000 community-based projects world-wide

  5. SGP Challenges: GEF and the community • The SGP’s greatest challenge is to reconcile GEF criteria and community needs and priorities.

  6. Capacity Building and Raising Awareness • SGP projects meet this challenge by building local capacities and raising public awareness about GEF’s main concerns -- biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and international waters protection.

  7. SGP Challenges:Global Criteria and National Priorities • The SGP must balance global criteria and goals with programme implementation that is appropriate to each country context.

  8. SGP Meets the Challenge by: • Operating in a decentralized and flexible manner • Responding to national and community priorities and needs by being demand-driven • Involving a wide variety of stakeholders at the local and national levels

  9. SGP’s Country-Driven Implementation • National Host Institution • National Coordinator • National Steering Committee • Country Programme Strategy

  10. SGP Emphasis on Participation • SGP project development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation is based on participation by community members and local stakeholders

  11. GEF SGP in the Pacific • First request at regional GEF Training and Scoping Workshop, held in Nadi in 1995 • Requests articulated at, inter alia, GEF CDW, COP6, regional and global WSSD PrepCom and from AOSIS, PIF Ambassadors, etc

  12. Global Meetings • Second GEF Assembly meeting held in Beijing in October 2002 called for early action on expansion of SGP to the Pacific region • WSSD Plan of Implementation called for action at all levels with specific reference to the need for community-based initiatives and for adequate financial resources….through GEF Focal Areas

  13. Mission Recommendation • The SGP should expand its activities to SIDS in the Pacific Island region that meet SGP criteria in a phased approach over the next four years, using a hybrid arrangement for a Pacific SGP which would combine national, sub-regional and regional mechanisms, as appropriate.

  14. Criteria • Ratification of Conventions • Government interest and agreement to the programme’s implementation modality  • Presence and adequate implementation capacity • Potential for an annual programme portfolio size which justifies the cost of management arrangements that meet SGP principles • Resources mobilization potential  • Existence of significant global biodiversity together with environmental threats and needs in GEF thematic areas.

  15. Hybrid Management Arrangements • Proposed hybrid management arrangements which include national and sub-regional mechanisms, while at the same time operating within an overall regional facilitation and experience-sharing Pacific SGP umbrella

  16. National Level • Fiji, Samoa and possibly Vanuatu meet the criteria for SGP operation using normal SGP mechanisms • Countries should submit official letters confirming interest to start process • Other countries may also apply for national participation if they believe they meet SGP criteria and can establish a portfolio which would justify the management costs involved

  17. Sub-regional Level • Countries which so desire and where this may be justified in terms of overall SGP criteria, can also apply to participate in SGP under a sub-regional arrangement • Such an arrangement might be appropriate for Micronesian countries under the auspices of the Micronesia Conservation Trust

  18. Regional Level • Countries that does not fit under national or sub-regional programmes, can be part of a regional mechanism • Regional Pacific GEF-SGP office established headed by regional facilitator • Responsible for consultation and development of umbrella reggional strategy and establish multistakeholder oversight and approval arrangements

  19. Visit the SGP website:www.undp.org/sgp

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