Welcome to the UNEP Division of Global Environment Facility Coordination (DGEF)
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UNEP in the Global Environment Facility
UNEP has a key role in the GEF, catalyzing the development of scientific and technical analysis and advancing environmental management in GEF-financed activities. UNEP provides guidance on relating the GEF-financed activities to global, regional and national environmental assessments, policy frameworks and plans, and to international environmental agreements.
Investing in Our Planet
In the fourth phase of the GEF (GEF-IV), UNEP's strategy will be to build on lessons learned and to use it's strengths to assist the GEF in being more effective by providing it with a range of relevant experiences, proof of concept, testing of ideas and access to the best available science and knowledge. For GEF-IV, which covers the period 2006 to 2010, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - one of the three implementing agencies of in the GEF - is focusing it's work on areas in which UNEP has clear comparative strengths . In particular UNEP's experience includes piloting and evaluating innovative approaches for addressing emerging environmental problems. |  |