Strategic Outlook for OP6 and
Alignment with GEF and UNDP Strategies
GEF Vision 20/20
• Humans are now the overwhelming force
• This is a make-or-break period.
• The GEF’s core mission is to help ensure the
sustainable use of ecosystems and resources
• We continue to have impact, but it is clear that we
can further improve on our delivery
• Achieving our mission requires us to leverage our
central role as a partner of choice
for environmental leadership.
GEF Vision 20/20
To be a champion … creating partnerships and strategically
investing in solutions that:
(1) Address the underlying drivers of global environmental degradation
(resulting from population growth, rising middle class, urbanization –
demand for food, buildings, energy, transport. Need to analyze
causal chains for balancing driver and pressure actions).
(2) Innovate and achieve global environmental benefits at scale.
Support projects that are scalable across multiple countries and
regions, rather than a one-off project in a country. These projects
should also aim to stimulate policy, market or behavioural
transformations.
(3) Deliver the highest impact, cost-effectively.
Vision 2020: GEF Influencing models
Transforming policy and regulatory frameworks
Demonstrating innovative approaches (testing and scale up, creating
iconic models for replication)
Strengthening institutional capacity and decision-making processes
(strengthening data and information to promote transparent,
inclusive, and accountable decision-making)
Convening multi-stakeholder alliances, by forming alliances of business,
governments, and/or civil society for the purpose of advancing
environmental goals.
De-risking and incrementally financing investment
“critical to ensure that our interventions are scalable …designed to have an impact through
broader adoption and replication by other governments, private sector actors,
intermediaries, and through “ripple effects” that run beyond our project
interventions themselves”.
Strategy for Biodiversity
Will tackle the three principal causes of biodiversity loss and
ecosystem degradation––habitat loss, overexploitation, and
invasive alien species; using threat reduction, such as promoting
the sustainable use of ecosystems within and outside protected
areas
• Program 6: Ridge to Reef+: “reduce direct local pressures on
coral reefs”
• Program 7: Securing Agriculture’s Future: “conserve and
sustainably use the genetic diversity of cultivated plants,
domesticated animals and their wild relatives”
• Program 9: Managing the Human-Biodiversity Interface
Strategy for Climate Change
Will address the key drivers of climate change through the
reduction of the main sources of GHG emissions, including a
focus on land use change; emphasis on synergistic initiatives that
cut across GEF focal areas, i.e. sustainable cities and food
security/climate smart agriculture to address unsustainable
consumption in an integrated manner
• GEF-6 Climate Mitigation Strategy: support for energy access at
the local level, including demonstrations and piloting of renewable
options
Strategy for Land Degradation
Will deal with unsustainable land use practices (especially by
poor farmers and herders lacking alternative livelihoods), and
inadequate or ineffective land use policies are the major drivers
of land degradation; approach focuses on land management
practices through advancing policies as a means of arresting or
reversing land degradation;
• Enhance resilience in agro-ecosystems
• Harness and maintain ecosystem services for agro-ecological
intensification
• Promote integrated management of production landscapes
• Mainstream SLM in SD
Strategy for International Waters
Will strengthen delivery of environmental and socio-economic
benefits by targeting drivers of increasing water demand and the
degradation of water quality and ecosystems; convening of multistakeholder alliances to foster multi-state cooperation on
transboundary water resources; enhancing institutional capacity
and decision making at regional and national levels and supporting
strategic investments for integrated transboundary water
resources management approaches.
• Targeted interventions -- promoting conjunctive management of
surface and groundwater, addressing land-based drivers of coastal
and marine ecosystem degradation, scaling-up of sustainable fisheries
management practices, and restoring degraded ecosystems, where it
is cost effective
Strategy for Chemicals
Will include a mix of pressure-focused and driver-focused
approaches; focusing on the direct drivers by reducing the
use of POPs and mercury in production and supply chains
• i.e. the deployment of alternatives to harmful chemicals;
given continuous increase in the global demand for new
chemicals, strategy proposes to work more upstream in the
causal chain by focusing on research and development of
chemicals and manufacturing of chemicals and products.
Strategy for SFM
Drivers -- institutional and market problems that cannot be solved
by taking a purely a forest perspective; expansion of agriculture is
the main driver of forest loss worldwide; actors involved range
from small scale farmers to large companies
Approach:
(i) Maintaining forest resources by addressing the drivers of deforestation to
reduce the pressures on high conservation value forests
(ii) Enhancing forest management to maintain flows of forest ecosystem
services and improve resilience to climate change through sustainable forest
management;
(iii) Reversing the loss of ecosystem services within degraded forest landscapes;
(iv) Increasing regional and global cooperation to maintain forest resources,
enhance forest management and restore forest ecosystems through the
transfer of international experience and know-how.
Integrated Approaches
Sustainable Cities: The integrated program on Sustainable Cities is a $100
million program pilot that will provide policy and governance support to facilitate
integrated urban design, planning, and management; for sustainable, resilient development
and sound ecosystem management.
Taking Deforestation out of Commodity Supply
Chains: Taking Deforestation out of Commodity Supply Chains is an integrated
program dedicating US$45 million to address one of the key global drivers of
deforestation by harnessing the growing public and private sector interest in expanding
the supply of sustainably managed commodities, in particular palm oil, soy and beef.
Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa:
The Fostering Sustainability
and Resilience for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa integrated program is a $110
million program that aims to promote the sustainable management and resilience of
ecosystems and their different services (land, water, biodiversity, forests) as a means to
address food insecurity.
On Civil Society
We will work with CSOs in recipient countries and
internationally to develop knowledge that will have impact on
key drivers and jointly create a platform for actions. In order to
enhance our ability to make science-based solutions, we must
partner with research institutions and other academic thought
leaders. We will strive to incorporate scientific findings into
project design, ensuring that we have the highest impact
possible.
Note: GEF-6 also to strengthen work with Private Sector
Strengthening results management and
enhancing the GEF knowledge system
• Measure what matters
• Close the feedback loop.
• Demonstrate our impact on the global environment. (i.e. ex-post
analyses)
• Take results management system to the next level. (i.e. driverfocused indicators)
• Develop working knowledge networks (i.e. IW:Learn)
• Leverage portfolio-level learning. (i.e. for most scalable and
transformational)
• Explore new frontiers for global environmental action
UNDP Strategic Plan 2014 - 2017
World is changing
• Inflection point – urbanization, new tech/communications
• Incredible potential and great dangers (profound and subtle)
Forward looking plan:
1. Transform economies to be sustainable
2. Enable democracy to deliver development dividends
3. Manage risks to become resilient
Vision and directions
Vision
To help countries achieve the simultaneous eradication of poverty and
significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion
Inclusive growth + Democratic Governance – not just about elections
but also sharing of resources
New Directions
• Sustainable human development is central
• Clear focus on inequality, poor and excluded
• Emphasis on climate change and resilience
• More urban outlook
• South-South cooperation at the core
Strategic Plan Approach
• Break free of Silos – as development issues are complex and
multidimensional
• Three interlocking parts:
- Development work
- South-South and triangular cooperation,
coordination and partnerships
- Institutional transformation
• Need to choose – do less but more effectively
• Clear results and performance indicators
Merging SD and HD
Sustainable Human Development=
the process of enlarging people’s choices by expanding
their capabilities and opportunities in ways that are
sustainable from the economic, social and environmental
standpoints, benefiting the present without
compromising the future.
UNDP Proposed Outcomes
 Inclusive, sustainable growth and development
 Stronger systems of democratic governance
 Strengthened institutions delivering universal access to
basic services;
 Faster progress through reduced gender inequality and
women’s empowerment
Common Themes: GEF & UNDP
• Make or break period/World changing
• Env/Resilience + Alt Livelihoods/Poverty eradication +
Institutional transformation/Influencing policy/Democratic
governance + Inclusive Growth = SD
• Addition of Urban Focus
• Partnerships/South-South/Triangular cooperation
• Scaling up
• Integrated approach/No silos
• Focus on drivers/Do less but more effectively
• Clear results and performance indicators
• Partner of choice/Effective communications and KM
SGP OP6 Goal
“Effectively support the creation of
global environmental benefits and the
safeguarding of the global environment
through community and local solutions
that complement and add value to
national and global level action.”
OP6 Approaches
SGP will employ three key approaches for OP6
 Focus on globally recognized and critical eco-systems
 Set up institutional and financial support mechanism
to increase impact on the national and global level
 Develop capacity of local and national civil society
stakeholders
SGP as Grantmaker+
Context - decreased funding and reduced no. of
projects
Fully capture SGP’s services and impact
Key elements:
 Value-added activities that build and sustain capacity of
communities and CSOs
 Foster dialogue between Government and CSOs
 Promote social inclusion (gender, youth, indigenous peoples)
 SGP as a knowledge broker to facilitate dissemination and
uptake of new technologies & approaches
OP6 Strategic Initiatives
In OP6, SGP will have the following strategic
initiatives:
 Landscape/Seascape Approaches
 Climate-Smart Agro-Ecology Practices
 Low Carbon Energy Access Co-Benefits
 Local to Global Chemical Mgt Coalitions
 CSO-Govt Policy & Planning Dialogues
 Promoting Social Inclusion
 Global Knowledge Platforms
GEBs
Grantmaker+
SGP’s Relevance and Value
GEF
 Piloting, testing and demonstrating new approaches or technologies that
produce global environmental benefits
 Knowledge of local, grassroots conditions, needs and contributions
 Experience building local capacities and building rapport w/ communities
 Local staff and networks on the ground
 SGP as efficient grantmaker
UNDP
 Experience w/ integrated approach that recognizes interlinkages within SD –
poverty, environment, governance
 Sustainable livelihoods approach supports micro/small enterprise development
 Focus on community empowerment and capacity building as a means to
address SD challenges, build a vibrant civil society
 Focus on marginalized groups to reduce inequality and poverty
 Ability to demonstrate co-benefits at local level