Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility

Advice provided to the GEF on RAF and STAR

This page lists the advice that STAP has provided to the GEF since the production by the Evaluation Office of the Mid-Term Review of the RAF, 2008

General advice

• December 2008 - STAP response to the Mid Term Review of the Resource Allocation Framework

• February 28, 2009 -Science Panel comments on the GEF Secretariat paper Revised scenarios and options for a “System for Transparent Allocation of Resources” in GEF-5

• May 25, 2009 Panel Response to Options for a GEF-wide Resource Allocation Framework

 Global and Regional Set-aside (GRS)

•  September 2, 2009  - Generic criteria for use of GRS
• August 26, 2009 - Preliminary analysis of GEF-4 use of GRE

GBI For Biodiversity

• July 20,2009 - Science Panel review of the GEF Benefits Index (GBI) for biodiversity   and  Option to improve the GEF-4 RAF GBI for Biodiversity
• August 10, 2009 - Option to improve the GEF-4 RAF GBI for Biodiversity Rev.1
• July 9, 2009  - Assessing Global Climate Benefits for Allocation of GEF Resources: An Evaluation of the Current Global Benefits Index in Climate Change (GBI CC) used in the Resource Allocation Framework (RAF) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• September 4, 2009 - STAP Advice on introducing LULUCF indicator in the STAR formula for Global Benefits Index for Climate Change (GBIcc)

GBI For Land Degradation

• July 21, 2009 - STAP’s input on the land degradation GBI
• August 6, 2009 - Further advice on the LD GBI indicator with a proposal for a simplified GBI

Sustainable Forest Management and the STAR

• July 30, 2009 - STAP Secretariat Note on Considering Forests in or out of the STAR

GBI for International Waters (no longer being pursued)

• December 3-4, 2008 - International Waters Indicator Review Workshop (papers and report)