1. Institutional Structure of the GEF
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
Institutional Structure of the GEF
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
15 to 17 February 2012
Dead Sea, Jordan

2. Presentation Outline History Mission GEF Focal Areas Role of the GEF
Organizational Structure
Institutional Framework
Country Ownership

3. History Established in 1991
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development- Earth Summit, 1992
Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured GEF- March 1994
Replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund:
GEF-1 (1994) $2 billion
GEF-2 (1998) $2.75 billion
GEF-3 (2002) $3 billion
GEF-4 (2006) $3.13 billion
GEF-5 (2010) $4.34 billion
World Bank is the Trustee of the GEF Trust Fund

4. Mission
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a mechanism for international cooperation for the purpose of providing new, and additional, grant and concessional funding to meet the agreed incremental costs of measures to achieve agreed global environmental benefits

5. GEF Focal Areas and Cross-cutting Issues
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GEF Focal Areas and Cross-cutting Issues
Focal Areas
Biodiversity
Land Degradation
International Waters
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Ozone Depletion (only countries in transition)
Climate Change
Cross-Cutting Issues
Sustainable Forest Management
Sound Chemicals Management and Mercury Reduction
Capacity Development
The Global Environmental Focal Areas
The environment has innumerable dimensions, but to address problems plaguing the environment, scientists and policymakers divide them into aspects that are primarily local, national, regional, and global in nature. Although these aspects are all interrelated, the GEF focuses on challenges that are global in scope:
Biodiversity (loss of Biological Diversity)
Climate Change
International Waters (degradation of the Oceans and large bodies of fresh water shared by more than one country)
Ozone Depletion
Land Degradation
Earth’s atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere are shared by all. They are the common heritage of humankind. The GEF represents people coming together from the entire spectrum of the developing and developed world to work together to protect the global environment upon which we all depend. Let’s take each focal area and look at the trends, the human impacts, and the links to basic human welfare.

6. GEF links to the Global Environmental Conventions
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GEF links to the Global Environmental Conventions
GEF is the designated “financial mechanism” for the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
The GEF is a designated mechanism for the
Convention on Combating Desertification (UNCCD)
The GEF collaborates closely with other treaties and agreements to reach common goals (International Waters, Montreal Protocol)

7. GEF Replenishments

8. Total Funding Percentage by Focal Area

9. Role of the GEF LINKS LOCAL WITH GLOBAL
GEF advances sustainable development in individual nations while improving the global environment for all
COMPLEMENTS EXISTING AID PROGRAMS
GEF is not a substitute for regular development finance
LEVERAGES ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT
GEF seeks co-finance, replication, and follow-up investment: the trust fund cannot solve all global environmental problems

10. GEF Organizational Structure
GEF Member Governments:
182
GEF Council:
32 Members. Main governing body of GEF
GEF Assembly:
All members represented. Meets every 4 years. Reviews and evaluates policies and operations. Amends Instrument (on Council recommendation)
GEF Secretariat:
Headed by CEO. Administrates the Fund. Evaluates and recommends projects for CEO and/or Council approval

11. GEF Organizational Structure
GEF Agencies:
Operational work. Accountable to Council for their project activities.
Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP):
Reviews projects and provides advice
Evaluation Office:
Reports directly to the Council; Reviews GEF work and evaluates its effectiveness; establishes evaluation standards; provides quality control for M&E of Agencies
CSOs:
Participate at policy and project level

12. GEF Institutional Framework

13. GEF Agencies FAO UNIDO IFAD ADB AFDB EBRD IDB UNDP UNEP World Bank
broad primary roles identified in the GEF Instrument
FAO
UNIDO
IFAD
ADB
AFDB
EBRD
IDB
granted access to GEF resources and assigned more definite roles based on specific business needs of the GEF

14. Country Ownership GEF PROJECTS MUST BE COUNTRY DRIVEN:
Based on national priorities
Designed to support sustainable development
How is this achieved?
Political and Operational Focal Points
Country Support Programme
GEF Newsletter
Participation of CSOs and Local Communities

15. LDCF and SCCF- Climate Change Adaptation
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LDCF and SCCF- Climate Change Adaptation
Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) -> established in 2001 under UNFCCC COP
First multilateral funds to implement concrete adaptation actions on developing countries
LDCF and SCCF provided vulnerable countries and communities, as well as the GEF Implementing Agencies, initial resources to finance a pioneering adaptation portfolio.
Managed and administered independently of from the GEF Trust Fund

16. Donor Funding of LDCF/SCCF
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Donor Funding of LDCF/SCCF
LDCF --$533M pledged from 25 donors
SCCF -- $240M pledged from 15 donors
Total > $773 M
Allocated, Committed or Disbursed:
94 projects approved in more than 90 developing countries through:
LDCF for $215 million
SCCF for $ 150 million
47 National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs) completed, 48 financed (LDCs) $12 M 16 16

17. GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
Thank you for your attention
This Briefing was just a first step in what is hoped will be a long and fruitful partnership together to face the challenge of building models that show the way toward prosperity and preservation of the global environment in the new millenium.