1. GEF-6 Programming Directions: Focal Areas & Integrated Thinking
In previous presentations presented how GEF works, including budget for GEF-6.
In this presentation we want to clarify the topics or what we call “Focal Areas” around which funding is structured and also discuss our emphasis on Integrated Thinking across sectors, geographies and focal areas.
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2. Focal Areas International Waters Biodiversity Land Degradation
Sustainable Forest Management
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Adaptation
Chemicals & Waste
International Waters
The “Focal Areas” are the traditional focus of funding for the GEF and you are probably familiar with these. In the following slides we will highlight the objectives and programs within each FA. You can find the details of these programs in the GEF-6 Programming Directions document available the GEF website. And you will get more familiar with the specific programs during the upcoming case study exercise.

3. GEF-6: Programming & Funding Sources
Focal Area
GEF Trust Fund:
STAR Allocation
Biodiversity x
Land Degradation
Climate Change Mitigation
The first 3 focal areas all have their funding tied to the STAR Allocations by country. First is Biodiversity -

4. Biodiversity GEF-6 Strategy
Goal: To maintain globally significant
Biodiversity and the ecosystem goods and services that it provides the society
BD1:
Improve Sustainability of Protected Area Systems
BD 2:
Reduce Threats to Globally Significant Biodiversity
BD 3: Sustainably Use Biodiversity
BD4: Mainstream Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use into Production Landscapes/ Seascapes and Sectors
1. Improving financial sustainability and effective management of the national ecological infrastructure
3. Preventing the extinction of known threatened species
6. Ridge to Reef+: Maintaining integrity and function of globally significant coral reefs
9. Managing the human-biodiversity interface
4. Prevention, control, and management of invasive alien species.
7. Securing Agriculture’s Future: Sustainable use of plant and animal genetic resources.
Each FA has objectives and under these there are programs. So for example, you can see for Biodiversity the goal is consistent with the GEF-5 FA goal, with slightly changed objectives and then the 10 programs which collectively contribute to all of the 20 Aichi Targets of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity
Talking Points:
(click) The first objective focuses on the sustainability of protected area systems, which the GEF defines as one that a) effectively protects ecologically viable representative samples of the country’s ecosystems; b) has sufficient and predictable financing to support management costs, and c) retains adequate individual and institutional capacity to manage protected areas such that they achieve their conservation objectives. The two programs collectively contribute to all three elements of PA system sustainability.
(click) The second objective is framed around threat reduction, with a new program area (three) that is focused on preventing species extinction driven by the illegal wildlife trade with a specific focus on the crisis in Africa and Asia with elephants and rhinos. At the June Council in 2015, a programmatic approach was approved by to implement this program. Program four focuses on preventing, managing and controlling invasive alien species as the primary threat to biodiversity on islands and island ecosystems, and Program Five continues our support to the Cartagena Protocol and building capacity to implement biosafety management frameworks as part of the precautionary approach embedded in the Protocol.
(click) The third objective focuses on sustainable use of biodiversity, specifically globally significant coral reefs and reducing the direct pressures on them in Program 6, plant and animal genetic resources with a special focus on Vavilov Centers given their global importance in Program 7, and finally, GEF will continue to build country capacity to implement the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing through Program 8.
(click) The fourth objective continues the support that GEF has provided to mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use into production landscapes/seascapes and sectors through two programs. Program nine is a continuation of our work in creating the enabling conditions and incentives for biodiversity mainstreaming through improving public sector policy and regulatory frameworks in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, tourism, infrastructure and extractives and working with the private sector to improve production practices such that they no longer negatively impact biodiversity and meet third-party certification standards such as the FSC and the MSC. Program 10 is an entirely new area, that will support country level efforts to integrated the economic value of biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides into development and finance planning and decision making.
Finally all convention reporting obligations due during the GEF-6 funding cycle will be funded from the biodiversity focal area set aside.
2 . Nature’s Last Stand:
Expanding the reach of the global protected area estate.
10. Integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services into development and finance planning
5. Implementing the Cartagena Protocol of Biosafety
8. Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing.

5. Land Degradation GEF-6 Strategy
Goal: To arrest or reverse land degradation (desertification and deforestation)
LD 1: Agriculture and Rangeland Systems
LD 2:
Forest Landscapes
LD 3: Integrated Landscapes
LD 4:
Institutional and Policy Frameworks
1. Agro-ecological Intensification – efficient use of natural capital (land, soil, water, and vegetation) in crop and livestock production systems
3. Landscape Management and Restoration – community and livelihood-based options for increasing forest and tree cover
4. Scaling-up Sustainable Land Management (SLM) – moving appropriate interventions to scale for crop and rangeland productivity
5. Mainstreaming SLM in Development – influencing institutions, policies, and governance frameworks for SLM
LDFA works in production landscapes and thus LD projects always involve local communities and/or smallholders in SLM
Because of the focus on local communities and/or smallholders, LD funding can be used in integrated approaches that combine other focal area objectives in landscape approaches for multiple environmental benefits, e.g. Protected Areas (BD) – SLM in buffer zones (LD)
As noted, the emphasis is on:
(click) - agriculture and rangeland systems, particularly related to agro-ecological intensification and climate smart agriculture
(click) – forest landscapes through management and restoration
(click) – integrated landscapes by scaling up sustainable land management practices
(click) – mainstreaming sustainable land management into development
The agreed GEBs for the LDFA are:
Improved provision of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystem goods and services.
Reduced GHG emissions from agriculture, deforestation and forest degradation and increased carbon sequestration.
Reduced vulnerability of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystems to climate change and other human-induced impacts.
Expected national socio-economic benefits:
Sustained livelihoods for people dependent on the use and management of natural resources (land, water, and biodiversity).
Reduced vulnerability to impacts of climate change of people dependent on the use and management of natural resources in agricultural and forest ecosystems.
2. SLM in Climate-Smart Agriculture – innovative practices for increasing vegetative cover and soil organic carbon

6. Climate Change Mitigation GEF-6 Strategy
Goal: To support developing countries to make transformational shifts towards a low emission, resilient development path
Objective 1: Promote innovation & technology transfer
Objective 2: Demonstrate systemic impacts of mitigation options
Objective 3: Foster enabling conditions to mainstream mitigation concerns into SD strategies
1. Low carbon technologies and mitigation options
3. Integrated low-carbon, urban systems
5. Convention obligations for planning and mitigation contributions
The GEF supports both CC mitigation and adaption projects. Climate Change Mitigation is tied to STAR allocations by country. Adaptation is funded under the LDCF/SCCF trust funds and will be discussed later.
The GEF has a 20+ years of history of supporting mitigation projects on the ground.
The GEF-6 period is particularly special for the climate change arena. First and foremost, the anticipated 2015 agreement by the UNFCCC falls right in the middle of the GEF-6 period. Also the Green Climate Fund has been established.
The GEF as an institution is also evolving, responding to the guidance from the COP, learning from the lessons of our history, feedback from our partners (countries and GEF Agencies), and seeing the trends in how countries address the climate challenges with GEF financing.
Following the GEF2020 vision, our strategy comprises a multi-pronged approach to help countries address key drivers of global environmental degradation that stem from underlying global mega-trends, notably urbanization, population growth, and the rising middle class, while also seeking to enhance synergies across focal areas.
With this background, in GEF-6, our strategy explores complementarity to maximize synergies. There are three objectives:
(click) Facilitating innovation and technology transfer
GEF resources play a key role in piloting emerging innovative solutions including technologies, management practices, supportive policies and strategies, and financial tools
The emphasis in GEF-6 needs to be on transformative approaches – demos and pilots alone won’t be enough.
Private sector engagement, through enabling policies or financing mechanisms is strongly encouraged
(click) Catalyzing systemic impacts through synergistic initiatives
This objective focuses on the need for impacts at regional and global scales and to expedite the adoption of mitigation options.
The GEF intervention will focus on two emerging areas where potential systemic impacts of mitigation option are recognized.
Urban systems, where systems thinking can lead to sustainable and high-impact interventions
Forests, land-use and climate-smart agriculture, where untapped mitigation opportunities can also achieve multi-focal objectives
3. (click) Building on Convention obligations for reporting and assessments towards mainstreaming
The GEF is currently the only institution with the mandate to finance National Commitments and Biennial Update Reports (BURs), and supports Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), Technology Needs Assessments (TNAs), National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs), and other assessments. The GEF will also provide support to countries to initiate or intensify domestic preparations for their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for COP 21 in Paris.
4. Forests and other land use, and climate smart agriculture
2 . Innovative policy packages and market initiatives

7. GEF-6: Programming & Funding Sources
GEF Trust Fund:
STAR Allocation
Non STAR Allocation
Biodiversity x
Land Degradation
Climate Change Mitigation
International Waters (IW)
Chemicals & Waste (C&W)
The next 2 Focal Areas have funding that is not tied to STAR allocations. This means that there is a general set of funds for each of these two focal areas and distribution is based on meeting the priorities of the FA.

8. Objective 1: Catalyze Sustainable Management of Transboundary Waters
International Waters GEF- 6 Strategy
Goal: To promote collective management of transboundary water systems and
implementation of the full range of policy, legal and institutional reforms and investments contributing to sustainable use and maintenance of ecosystem services
Objective 1: Catalyze Sustainable Management of Transboundary Waters
Objective 2: Balance Competing Water-uses in the Management of Transboundary Surface and Groundwater
Objective 3: Rebuild Marine Fisheries, Restore and Protect Coastal Habitats, and Reduce Pollution of Coasts and LMEs
1. Foster Cooperation for Sustainable use of Transboundary Water Systems & Economic Growth
5. Reduce Ocean Hypoxia
3. Advance Conjunctive Management of Surface & Groundwater systems
One central aspect of IW is that this focal area supports transboundary – meaning multi-national – projects and programs.
IW interventions represent integrated, cross-sectoral programs – not stand alone issues, taking an ecosystems approach to cooperation in international waters and sharing the befits derived from them
(click) – The overall goal has remained unchanged since the IW 1995 strategy reflecting the importance to have a steady approach for processes that in itself are long-term. Key to IW support is to aid countries in balancing competing water needs across sectors and across borders and this remains at heart of the GEF strategy moving forward.
(click) – Objective 1 : to provide support to processes underlying cooperation, including common fact finding (which we call the “Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis”) underpinning the formulation and signature of an agreed Strategic Action Program (known as the “SAP”); together with support formulation and negotiation of legal & institutional frameworks for cooperation to support implementation of agreed priority actions.
(click) (click) - Objectives 2 and 3: to implement the SAP through regional and national legal, policy and institutional reforms AND investments
On freshwater side, GEF is emphasizing the need to
(i) enhance groundwater governance and the conjunctive management of surface and groundwater driven by the increased use (and overuse) and importance of groundwater resources for drinking water and food production, urban centers, industry. and as buffers in times of drought. (program 3)
(ii) take a comprehensive approach in addressing the nexus of water-food-energy- and ecosystems as a driver for cooperation and sustaining economic growth.
On marine side GEF remains committed to an integrated, LME based approach to address major threats to marine ecosystem and contribute to reducing hypoxic zones, prevent habitat loss and degradation, and foster sustainable fisheries.
The GEF 6 strategy further realizes the need for managing impacts across freshwater and oceans in an integrated, ecosystems approach and addressing issues from Source-to-Sea (across objectives 2 and 3),
Finally, IW provides funds specifically to address cooperation to increase resilience in basins fed by high altitude, melting glaciers threatened by increasing climate variability and change (as noted in Objective 1).
6. Prevent the Loss and Degradation of Coastal Habitats
2. Increase Resilience & Flow of Ecosystems Services in Context of Melting High Altitude Glaciers
4. Water/Food/
Energy/
Ecosystem Security Nexus
7. Foster Sustainable Fisheries

9. 3. Reduction and elimination of POPs
Chemicals & Waste GEF-6 Strategy
Goal: to prevent the exposure of humans and the environment to harmful C&W of global importance, including persistent organic pollutants (POPs), mercury and ozone-depleting substances (ODS), through a significant reduction in the production, use, consumption and emissions/releases of those chemicals and waste
Objective 1: Develop the enabling conditions, tools and environment for the sound management of harmful chemicals and wastes
Objective 2: Reduce the prevalence of harmful chemicals and waste and support the implementation of clean alternative technologies/substances
1. Develop and demonstrate new tools and economic approaches for managing harmful chemicals and waste in a sound manner
3. Reduction and elimination of POPs
4. Reduction or elimination of anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury to the environment
Similar to International Waters, Chemicals and Waste also has funding separate from the STAR allocation.
In the past decades, governments have established a global regime to address harmful chemicals and waste through the negotiation of a number of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and non-binding instruments.
The GEF-6 coincides with a period of a rapidly evolving global agenda and changing needs.
Accordingly, the strategy has evolved as well from a focus on persistent organic pollutants (or “POPs”) to “Chemicals and Waste”, which targets chemicals controlled under the Stockholm and Minamata Convention and under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM). Waste generated from the production and use of those chemicals is targeted, and become the name of the strategy.
The GEF-6 strategy’s long term goal, therefore, is to prevent the exposure of humans and the environment to harmful chemicals and waste of global importance, including POPs, mercury and ozone depleting substances, through a significant reduction in the production, use, consumption and emissions/releases of those chemicals and waste.
The GEF-6 strategy has TWO objectives;
Objective 1; Develop the enabling conditions, tools and environment for the sound management of harmful chemicals and wastes
Objective 2: - Reduce the prevalence of harmful chemicals and waste and support the implementation of clean alternative technologies/substances – focus on POPs, mercury, Ods in countries in economic transition, lesser developed countries and small island developing states.
Program 1 and 6 apply to all chemicals and waste, and Program 2 to 5 apply to POPs, Mercury, and ODS in CEITs.
Also the GEF supports important enabling activities including update of National Implementation Plans (NIPs), Minimata Initial Assessments (MIAs) and Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining National Action Plans (ASGM NAPs).
The GEF 6 strategy can be viewed as a transition from end of pipe solutions to upstream solutions. The innovative features of the strategy support more engagement with the private sector that manufactures and uses these chemicals, development of financial mechanisms and economic instruments to remove barriers to access to new technologies, alternatives and techniques.
5. Complete the phase out of ODS in Countries in Economic Transition and assist Article 5 countries under the Montreal Protocol to achieve climate mitigation benefits
2. Support enabling activities and promote their integration into national budgets and planning processes, national and sector policies and actions and global monitoring
6. Support regional approaches to eliminate and reduce harmful chemicals and waste in Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States

10. GEF-6: Programming & Funding Sources
Focal Area
GEF Trust Fund:
STAR Allocation
Non STAR Allocation
Biodiversity (BD) x
Land Degradation (LD)
Climate Change Mitigation (CCM)
International Waters (IW)
Chemicals & Waste (C&W)
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)
Sustainable Forest Management draws on both STAR Allocation Funds and Non-STAR funds. In order to access SFM funds, a project has to allocate at least $2M funding from STAR allocations.
The funds need to come from at least 2 FAs (i.e. BD, LD and/or CCM) and for every $2M of STAR funds, SFM provides $1. (click) So, for example, if a project has $2.5M from LD and $.5M from BD (so a total of $3M), then if relevant to SFM it can access an additional $1.5M from SFM for a total of $4.5M.
Example: $2.5 M LD + $.5M BD $1.5M SFM

11. 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.
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
Integrated land use planning
Supporting sustainable finance mechanisms for SFM
Identification and monitoring of high conservation value forest
Building of technical and institutional capacities to identify degraded forest landscapes and monitor forest restoration
Identifying and monitoring forest loss
Developing and implementing model projects on Payment for Ecosystem Services
Integrating plantation management in landscape restoration
Capacity development for SFM within local communities
Private sector engagement
Global technologies for national progress
SFM Focal Area is focused on achiving multible benefits. As you can see it does so through various programs ranging from integrated land use planning to sustainable finance mechanisms to global technologies. These programs support the four objectives, which are focused on the status of forests from in tact to degraded:
(click) – maintaining existing forests
(click) – improving forest management
(click) – restoring degraded forests
(click) – finally supporting regional and global cooperation

12. GEF-6: Programming & Funding Sources
Focal Area
GEF Trust Fund:
STAR Allocation
Non STAR Allocation
LDCF/SCCF
Biodiversity (BD) x
Land Degradation (LD)
Climate Change Mitigation (CCM)
International Waters (IW)
Chemicals & Waste (C&W)
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)
Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
Finally, the last FA is CCA. Unique to the other Fas, CCA is funded through a different trust fund – Least Developed Country Fund and Special Climate Change Fund. In this region the following countries are eligible for LDCF: ADD
LDCF
Least Developed Countries Fund
Eligible Countries: ADD from region
SCCF
Special Climate Change Fund
Eligible Countries: All

13. Objective 2: Strengthen institutional and technical capacities
Climate Change Adaptation GEF-6 Strategy
Goal: Increase resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change in vulnerable developing countries, through both near- and long-term adaptation measures in affected sectors, areas and communities.
Objective 1: Reduce vulnerability of people, livelihoods, physical assets and natural systems
Objective 2: Strengthen institutional and technical capacities
Objective 3: Integrate climate change adaptation into relevant policies, plans and associated processes
LDCF/SCCF are based on voluntary donor contributions and are not part of the main GEF Trust Fund replenishment. To date, LDCF has allocated more than $1 billion in grants and leveraged more than $4.5 billion in co-financing; SCCF has allocated $300 million and leveraged $2.6 billion in co-financing.
The GEF has the longest track record in financing adaptation and, to date, still the largest on-the-ground portfolio of adaptation projects.
As the pioneer in adaptation financing, GEF supported mainly innovative, on-the-ground adaptation solutions with potential for scale-up.
Goal:…
Objectives: 1, 2, 3
GEF Programming Strategy on Adaptation available on our website…
Adaptation Programming Strategy focuses on 10 priority areas. The first seven correspond to the core sectors.
Climate information services is a cross-cutting priority; and the remaining two are GEF-wide priorities.
Natural resources management
Infrastructure
Health
Disaster risk management
Agriculture and food security
Climate information services
Water resources management
Climate-resilient urban systems
Coastal zone management
Small Island Developing States

14. GEF-6: Programming & Funding Sources
GEF Trust Fund:
STAR Allocation
Non STAR Allocation
LDCF/SCCF
Biodiversity (BD) x
Land Degradation (LD)
Climate Change Mitigation (CCM)
International Waters (IW)
Chemicals & Waste (C&W)
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM)
Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
In summary there are 7 Fas.
Now having shared with you each FA, we want to stress a new emphasis in GEF-6, which is INTEGRATED THINKING by which we mean…

15. GEF-6 Integrated Thinking
Synergistic
Cross-sector
Multi-faceted
Complex
Focal Area
Holistic
This emphasizes…
Developing creative solutions
Being inclusive
Promoting cost-effectiveness
Developing more multi-focal area projects
Now that we have explained the Focal Areas, which are the core structure of the GEF, I want to highlight an important emphasis in GEF-6, which is Integrated Thinking.
One of the key features of the GEF since its inception has been addressing complex challenges facing the global environment. This requires connecting projects previously segregated under discrete silos into more integrated portfolios that can better address problems that are multi-faceted in nature.
Integrated Thinking, therefore, refers to working holistically which can mean across sectors, disciplines, geographies as well as focal areas. It means ensuring projects are comprehensive in thinking about the issues.
This requires being cross-cutting, synergistic and cost-effective and directed at some of the underlying drivers of environmental degradation. Foremost it requires thinking holistically and building on necessary linkages that help achieve sustainable development goals by building on existing linkages and connections reflecting the needs and growing demand from recipient countries.
Integrated thinking can occur for a single focal area project, but it also means there will be more multi-focal area projects. As an example…
Focal Area
Multi-Focal Area
Focal Area

16. Water, Food, Biodiversity
GEF-6 Integrated Thinking
EXAMPLE PROJECT:
LD Program 1: Agro-ecological Intensification
Address unsustainable agriculture (Land Degradation)
IW Program 3. Advance Conjunctive Management of Surface & Groundwater Systems
that is causing eutrophication of the river (International Waters)
[suggest pick either this or next example project]
As an example of what we actually mean by “integrated thinking” - imagine a project to address environmental issues in this watershed in a basin shared by two or more countries. If we were thinking around a specific focal area, the project might address one aspect, such as unsustainable agriculture, which would tie to Land Degradation. What we are encouraging is to think more holistically about related issues that can be more effectively addressed through an integrated approach across sectors (and sometimes across borders). In this ‘example project’ that may mean incorporating activities to address agricultural run-off in conjunction with resulting downstream eutrophication of the river, delta or coastal zones (eligible for IW funds in transboundary basins). Additional aspects may also include biodiversity and deforestation. Again these are opportunities to bring in other focal areas. Drawing across FAs ensures more holistic projects with higher impacts and leveraging different sources of GEF funds.
BD Program 9. Managing the human-biodiversity interface
And encroaching on the neighboring protected area
(Biodiversity)
CCM Program 4: Forests and Other Land Use and Climate Smart Agriculture
through deforestation (Climate Change Mitigation)

17. Chemicals, Water, Biodiversity, Climate
GEF-6 Integrated Thinking
EXAMPLE PROJECT:
CW Program 4: reduction and elimination of mercury from anthropogenic sources
Address mercury use in artisinal and small scale mining (Chemicals and Waste)
CCM Program 4: Forests and Other Land Use and Climate Smart Agriculture
which is causing deforestation (Climate Change Mitigation),
As another example of what we actually mean by “integrated thinking” - imagine a project to address environmental issues in a watershed where there is gold mining across three shared borders, which is a real project in the Suriname, Guyana and Brazil. If we were thinking around a specific focal area, the project might address one aspect, such as mercury so would be relates to Chemicals and Waste (click) (as it has in the past). However, if we think across sectors we realize that the mining methods remove rainforest cover, which incorporates climate change mitigation issues (click). And since the gold extraction is done using mercury which is washed into the river, polluting the river course and the fish and the indigenous people living downstream who eat the fish. The river also takes the mercury to sea turtle nesting sites, which incorporate BD and IW (click click).
encroaching on the neighboring protected area, impacting indigenous populations (Biodiversity)
BD Program 9. Managing the human-biodiversity interface
IW Program 3. Advance Conjunctive Management of Surface & Groundwater Systems
and polluting the river basin(International Waters).

18. Focal Areas International Waters Biodiversity Land Degradation
Sustainable Forest Management
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Adaptation
Chemicals & Waste
International Waters
Food
Security
Sustainable
Cities
I have now presented the main focal areas and how we are promoting a more integrated approach. This integrated thinking is exemplified by the IAPs, which SEEKING FROM MOHAMMED

19. Focal Areas International Waters Biodiversity Land Degradation
Sustainable Forest Management
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Adaptation
Chemicals & Waste
International Waters
Coastal
Fisheries
Initiative
International
Wildlife
Trade
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20. Corporate Results Framework
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23. GEF-6 Integrated Thinking
Focal Area
Multi-Focal Area
Using integrated thinking, propose creative and inclusive solutions
Solutions should deliver results that align with GEF-6 focal area objectives
Multi-focal area projects on the rise, but…
Single focal area projects are necessary and can be integrated
Now that we have explained the Focal Areas, which are the core structure of the GEF, I want to highlight an important emphasis in GEF-6, which is Integrated Thinking.
One of the key features of the GEF since its inception has been addressing complex challenges facing the global environment. This requires connecting projects previously segregated under discrete silos into more integrated portfolios that can better address problems that are multi-faceted in nature.
Integrated Thinking, therefore, refers to working holistically which can mean across sectors, disciplines, geographies as well as focal areas. It means ensuring projects are comprehensive in thinking about the issues.
This requires being cross-cutting, synergistic and cost-effective and directed at some of the underlying drivers of environmental degradation. Foremost it requires thinking holistically and building on necessary linkages that help achieve sustainable development goals by building on existing linkages and connections reflecting the needs and growing demand from recipient countries.
Integrated thinking can occur for a single focal area project, but it also means there will be more multi-focal area projects. As an example…

24. GEF’s Unique Value for Climate Financing
1. Facilitating innovation & technology transfer
2. Catalyzing systemic impacts through synergistic multi-focal initiatives
3. Building on Convention obligations for reporting & assessments towards mainstreaming
Assisting developing countries in defining and implementing mitigation measures towards 2015 agreement
The goal of the GEF-6 Climate Change Mitigation Program is to support developing countries and economies in transition to make transformational shifts towards a low emission development path. The GEF support also aims to enable recipient countries to prepare for the new instrument under the UNFCCC applicable to all Parties.
We have three objectives that support this goal:
Promote innovation, technology transfer, and supportive policies and strategies
Demonstrate mitigation options with systemic impacts
Foster enabling conditions to mainstream mitigation concerns into sustainable development strategies
There are five key programs that derive from these objectives. They represent a suite of measures to assess and address risks and barriers that remain in the transformation toward low-carbon development.
These programs aim to achieve three main outcomes: 1) accelerated adoption of innovative technologies and management practices, 2) established policy, planning and regulatory frameworks , and 3) demonstrated and operationalized financial mechanisms to support GHG reduction.

25. Adaptation Programming Strategy
Goal
Increase resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change in vulnerable developing countries, through both near- and long-term adaptation measures in affected sectors, areas and communities. 1
Reduce vulnerability of people, livelihoods, physical assets and natural systems 2
Strengthen institutional and technical capacities
LDCF/SCCF are based on voluntary donor contributions and are not part of the main GEF Trust Fund replenishment. To date, LDCF has allocated more than $1 billion in grants and leveraged more than $4.5 billion in co-financing; SCCF has allocated $300 million and leveraged $2.6 billion in co-financing.
The GEF has the longest track record in financing adaptation and, to date, still the largest on-the-ground portfolio of adaptation projects.
As the pioneer in adaptation financing, GEF supported mainly innovative, on-the-ground adaptation solutions with potential for scale-up.
Goal:…
Objectives: 1, 2, 3
GEF Programming Strategy on Adaptation available on our website…
Integrate climate change adaptation into relevant policies, plans and associated processes 3

26. GEF IW Multiple Scales and Modalities

27. Support to integrated approaches
Chemical and Waste components relevant integrated approaches to address key issues, including:
For Cities
Promote comprehensive waste management systems in municipalities through promotion of the 3R, and eradication of open burning of municipal, medical and electronic waste which contain hazardous chemicals- POPs and mercury
Phase out PCBs in electrical equipment and the electrical grid
Phase out the use of mercury in products, lighting, etc…
Promote BAT/BEP to reduce UPOPs emission from industrial processes
For Food security
Promote Sound management of pesticides used in urban agriculture
Assessment and clean up of agricultural lands contaminated with hazardous POPs and/or other hazardous chemicals