UNEP GEF
Implementation Support
UNEP’s Role in GEF
• The only Implementing Agency of the GEF whose
core business is the environment;
• Supports strategic and policy direction of GEF, and
performs legal obligations;
• Enhances scientific rigor and relevance, including by
providing the secretariat of the STAP;
• Help to mainstream environment into other sectors
through partnerships (including One-UN, UN REDD,
etc.)
UNEP’s Comparative
Advantages in GEF
1. Scientific assessments, monitoring, early warning;
2. Linking science to policy (Capacity Building,
Enabling Activities) at national, regional and global
levels;
3. Innovation, technology transfer and lifting barriers;
4. National, multi country-regional, transboundary and
global cooperation;
5. Awareness raising, advocacy, and knowledge
management.
Partnerships
UN and Beyond
• Governments
• International organizations and NGOs (BGCI, CGIAR:
Bioversity International, ILRI,CIAT/TSBF, IUCN)
• UN organizations programmes: FAO,UNESCO, WTO,
WHO,UNEP WCMC, etc.
• Science community (Diversitas)
UNEP’s MTS 2010 -2013
and Alignment with GEF
Climate
Change
Ban the
Climate
Change M&A Bulb
Ecosystem Mgmt
Disasters &
Conflict
Environment
Governance
Harmful
Substance
Resource
Efficiency
LULUCF and
REDD
Migration
Enabling
Activities
HCFC
Energy use
efficiency
Biodiversity
Adaptation
Protected
Areas;
Mainsteraming
BD in
production
sectors
Post
conflict
restoration
Enabling
Activities
Pollinators
Sustain Use,
ABS
International
Waters
Adaptation
and
methane
Watershed and
coastal areas
Floods and
droughts
TDA, SAP
Contaminants
Water use
efficiency
Land
Degradation
Carbon
measuremt
Natural
Resource
Mgmt
Drought,
Migration
Capacity
Developmt
Pesticides
Sustainable
Land
Managmt
Chemicals,
POPs and
Malaria/DDT
HCFC
Dioxins
Agricultural
POPs
Enabling
Activities
POPs Phase
out
Contaminants
Key Elements for Success
● Work through National and International Executing
Agencies and partners and with networks at
national, regional and global levels;
● Cooperation and shared objectives within the region;
● Strong and sustainable partnerships at all levels;
● Strong local community engagement;
● Qualified and motivated project teams.
Biodiversity and Biosafety
•
Enhancing Conservation of the Critical Network of Sites required by Migratory
Waterbirds on the African/Eurasian Flyways (AEWA)" - Short title Wings Over
Wetlands (WOW). (Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Russian Federation;
Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan)
•
Development of a Wetland Site and Flyway Network for Conservation of the
Siberian Crane and Other Migratory Waterbirds in Asia (China, Iran, Kazakhstan,
Russian Federation)
•
•
Development of the Econet for Long-term Conservation of Biodiversity in the
Central Asia Ecoregions (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
In-situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives through Enhanced Information
Management and Field Application (Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka,
Uzbekistan)
•
In Situ/On Farm Conservation and Use of Agricultural Biodiversity
(Horticultural Crops and Wild Fruit Species) in Central Asia (Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
•
•
Support for Implementation of the National Biosafety Framework of Republic of
Tajikistan GEF 4 PIF
Capacity Building for the Development of the National Biosafety Framework of
Turkmenistan GEF 4 PIF
Land degradation
• Support to the Implementation of the Regional
Environment Action Plan in Central Asia (RAPCA)
(Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
• Sustainable Land Management in the BalkhashAlakol Basin (Kazakhstan)
• Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and
Pamir-Alai Mountains – an Integrated and
Transboundary Initiative in Central Asia (PALM)
(Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan)
Climate Change and
International Waters
• Expedited Financing Climate Change Enabling
Activity (Phase II) (Turkmenistan)
• Financing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Investments for Climate Change Mitigation (Belarus,
Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia,
Ukraine, Macedonia)
• Addressing Transboundary Environmental Issues
in the Caspian Environment Programme (Phase I)
(Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan)
• An Integrated Ecosystem Management Approach to
Conserve Biodiversity and Minimize Habitat
Fragmentation in Three Selected Model Areas in the
Russian Arctic (ECORA) Russian Federation
Ozone Depletion
• Promoting Compliance with the Trade and Licensing Provision
of the Montreal Protocol in Countries with Economies in
Transition (CEITs) (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
•
Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovak Republic, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russian Federation)
Programme for Phasing Out Ozone Depleting Substances (Azerbaijan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan)
• Total Sector Methyl Bromide Phase Out in Countries with
Economies in Transition (Bulgaria, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Uzbekistan)
• Preparing for HCFC phase out in CEITs: needs, benefits and
potential synergies with other MEAs (Georgia, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan)
• Continued Institutional Strengthening Support for CEITs to
meet the obligations of the Montreal Protocol (Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)
POPs
• Enabling Activities for the Stockholm
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
(POPs): National Implementation Plan for
Republic of Tajikistan
• Demonstrating and Scaling Up Sustainable
Alternatives to DDT for the control of vector
borne diseases in Southern Caucasus and
Central Asia (Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan)
Key Results To Date
• Methodologies and tools for
assessments and analysis;
• Information and knowledge
management tools;
• Conservation actions;
• Strengthened legislation;
• Capacity building,
training and public
awareness.
Prospects for GEF-5
• Conservation and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity to
improve regulating and supporting ecosystem services in
agricultural production systems. Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz
Republic?
• National Communications
• Russian Federation Partnership on Sustainable Environmental
Management in the Arctic under a Rapidly Changing Climate
(Arctic Agenda 2020)
• Enhancing human security through integrated ecosystem
management and community resilience to climate change
across mountain communities in the Pamir-Alai Mountains in
Central Asia Follow-up to PALM project
• Demonstrating and Scaling Up Sustainable Alternatives to DDT
for the control of vector borne diseases in Azerbaijan currently
under review by GEFSEC
• National Implementation Plan (NIP). Russian Federation,
Emerging Issues
• Nagoya 2010 Action Plan and Aichi
targets.
• Green economy
• Eco-agriculture
Thank You!
Marieta Sakalian
Senior Programme Management/Liaison Officer CGIAR/FAO), Biodiversity
Regional Programme Coordinator Europe/CIS
UNEP GEF Coordination