About GEF and UNDP Support
JOSE EREZO PADILLA
Regional Technical Advisor ­ Marine, Coastal
and Island Ecosystems
UNDP Asia Pacific Regional Center
Bangkok, Thailand
History
Established in 1991, Pilot Phase 1991-1994:
$1 billion
First replenishment 1995-1998: $2.2 billion
Second replenishment 1999-2001: $2.75 billion
Third replenishment 2002-2006: $2.95 billion
Fourth Replenishment 2006-2010: $3.13 billion
Fifth Replenishment 2010-2014: ????
Role of the GEF
GEF is The/A Financial Mechanism for the
Conventions
Links the local with global objectives
Complements existing aid programs
Leverages additional investments
GEF
GEF Focuses on Six
Focuses on Six
Global Environment Concerns
GEF's Focal Areas are:
Biodiversity loss
Climate change
International Waters pollution & degradation
Ozone Layer depletion
Land Degradation (October 2002)
Persistent Organic Pollutants - (October 2002)
GEF Structure
CBD
Participants Assembly
UNFCC
(universal membership)
· meets every 3-4 years
UNCCD

Stockholm
Council
STAP
Convention
· 32 Member Constituency
(POPs)
Body
· Meets every 6 months
EAs
Vienna
IAs
Convention/
ADB
Montreal Protocol
UNDP
AfDB
Secretariat
IBRD
EBRD
UNEP
Regional &
I/ADB
International
FAO
Waters
IFAD
Agreements
UNIDO
GEF Focal Points
Political Focal Points
· Interface with GEF Council on strategic issues
· Responsible for overall governance issues
Operational Focal Points
· Interface with IAs/ExAs
· Ensure consistency of GEF activities with national
policies and GEF Operational Guidelines
· Identify project ideas to meet country priorities
· In-country program coordination
GEF Funding Categories
Full-size projects ($1 million and up)
Medium-sized projects (up to $1 million)
Financing can be available for preparing
projects - Project Preparation Grants
Enabling activities
Small Grants Programme (up to $50,000)
Resource Allocation Framework
(System for the Transparent Allocation of
Resources -- STAR)
· Mechanism for allocating GEF resources across
countries based on
· potential to generate Global Environmental Benefits
· capacity to deliver
· Initially in Biodiversity and CC focal areas in GEF-
4 and including Land Degradation and POPs in
GEF-5
· IW will remain a global pot in GEF-5

International Waters Results Framework
GOAL:
Promotion of collective management of
transbandoundary water systems and implementation
of a full range of policy, legal, and institutional
reforms and investments contributing to sustainable
use and maintenance of ecosystem services
IMPACT
Multi-state cooperation catalyzed to address concerns of
transboundary water systems for most continent and
ocean with special impact on rebuilding marine fish
stocks and protecting "blue forests" coastal habitat
globally

International Waters Objectives and Outcomes
Objective 2
Catalyze multi-state cooperation to rebuild marine fisheries
and reduce pollution of coasts and LMEs while considering
climatic variability and change
Outcome 2.1
Implementation of agreed SAPs incorporates ecosystem-
based approaches to management of LMEs, ICM principles,
and policy/legal/institutional reforms into national/local
plans
Outcome 2.2
Institutions for joint ecosystem-based and adaptive
management for LMEs and local ICM frameworks
demonstrate sustainability

International Waters Objectives and Outcomes
Outcome 2.3
Innovative solutions for rebuilding or protecting fish stocks
with rights-based management, ICM, habitat (blue forest)
restoration/conservation
Outcome 2.4
Climatic variability and change at coasts and in LMEs
incorporated into updated SAPs to reflect adaptive
management and ICM principles (including protection of
blue forests)
GEF Project Cycle
· Preparation of the Project Identification Form (PIF)
by UNDP together with the countries (we are at this
stage now)
· Endorsement of PIF by the GEF Focal Points (usually
with Environment Ministries)
· Review of the PIF by the GEF Secretariat, GEF
Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP),
other GEF agencies and Convention Secretariats
· Clearance of PIF by GEF CEO for Council Approval
· Submission and Approval of Project Preparation
Grant (PPG) by GEF CEO (if PPG needed)
GEF Project Cycle
· Approval of PIF by the GEF Council (Nov 2010)
· Preparation of project design by GEF agency
and local executing agency
· Review of detailed project design by GEF
Secretariat
· Circulation to GEF Council (4 weeks)
· Endorsement of project document by the GEF
CEO (maximum of 22 months from Council approval)
UNDP Support
Asia-Pacific Regional Center ­
­ Bangkok
Global IW Team Leader ­
­ New York
Fiji Multi-Country Office ­
­ Suva
jose.padilla@undp.org
jose.padilla@undp.org
asenaca.ravuvu@undp.org
Thank you.

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