Current Projects

To protect human health and the environment from the risks posed by the emissions and releases to the environment of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and processing in Guinea and Niger by developing NAPs in compliance with Annex C of the Minamata Convention.

To build national and sub-national capacity for medium- and long-term adaptation planning, accessing innovative financing mechanisms and implementing cost-effective adaptation interventions focused on ecosystems for communities and sectors vulnerable to climate change in Antigua and Barbuda.

To support the expansion of the Protected Areas (PA) system in Bosnia and &Herzegovina and build capacities for effective management of biodiversity (SEPAS/BCEMB Bosnia & Herzegovina)

To reduce vulnerability to climate change of national government and coastal communities along the coast of Angola.

To provide support to eligible parties for GEF funding in order to sustain and build capacity foreffective participation in the BCH in line with COP/MOP Decisions, specifically BS VI/5 para 2f.

To effectively and sustainably use biodiversity and maintain ecosystem goods and services in Palau by building institutional capacity to integrate the Palau Protected Area Network (PAN) with the Sustainable Land Management (SLM) initiative, and fostering a ridge-to-reef approach across and within these initiatives

To implement the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit sharing through a coordinated and coherent strategy that incorporates awareness raising and capacity development

To reduce environmental and human health risks from PCB releases through the demonstration of a regional approach to the introduction of cost-effective and socially acceptable environmentally sound management (ESM) of PCB oils, equipment and wastes held by electrical utilities and other PCB owners in participating countries.

To support ratification of the Nagoya Protocol and implementation of key measures to make the Protocol operational in Pacific Island countries.

Ratification and early implementation of the Minamata Convention is facilitated by the use of scientific and technical knowledge and tools by national stakeholders in South Africa

Development of National Action Plans to reduce the use of mercury and mercury compounds in, and the emissions and releases to the environment of mercury from, artisanal and small-scale gold mining and processing is facilitated by the use of scientific and technical knowledge and tools by national stakeholders in the United Republic of Tanzania.

To ensure biodiversity is taken into account in decision making across government sectors by improving end-users’ access to and use of biodiversity information and embedding biodiversity information within national development decision making processes.

To Reduce Impacts From Land-Based Sources and Activities and Sustainably Manage Critical Coastal-Riverine Ecosytems Through the Implementation of the WIO-SAP Priorities with the Support of Partnerships at National and Regional Levels

To enable countries to revise their NBSAPs and to develop their Fifth National Reports to the CBD

Greater implementation of policies for sustainable land management in the Sahel (Great Green Wall (GGW) countries) through enhanced investment, intersectoral coordination, and engagement of marginalised groups.

Early implementation of the Minamata Convention is facilitated by the use of scientific and technical knowledge and tools by national stakeholders in Djibouti

To support the expansion of national protected areas system and enabling capacity conditions for effective management and mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation into production landscape

Ratification and early implementation of the Minamata Convention is facilitated by the use of scientific and technical knowledge and tools by national stakeholders in participating countries

to contribute to the preservation of Caribbean ecosystems that are of global significance and the sustainability of livelihoods through the application of existing proven technologies and approaches that are appropriate for small island developing states through improved fresh and coastal water resources management, sustainable land management and sustainable forest management that also seek to enhance resilience of socio-ecological systems to the impacts of climate change.

To foster biodiversity conservation on livestock farms, through a return to human shepherding and the development of a wildlife-friendly produce branding scheme, leading to Payment for Ecosystem Services as a tool in conservation and local economic development.

To Consolidate Public Private Initiatives to Conserve Globally Significant Biodiversity and Multiple Ecosystem Services in the Mountain Areas of Chile’s Mediterranean Ecosystem in the Metropolitan and Valparaiso Regions

To enhance Cambodias PAS management effectiveness and secure forest carbon through improving inter-sectoral collaboration, landscape connectivity and sustainable forest management

To strengthen national capabilities for implementation and scaling up of evidence-based, innovative, diversified and environmentally sound disease vector control interventions (with special emphasis on malaria) with multi-stakeholder participation within context of IVM

Ratification and early implementation of the Minamata Convention is facilitated by the use of scientific and technical knowledge and tools by national stakeholders in participating countries

To commercialize and transfer the SolarChill vaccine refrigerator (SolarChill A) and to begin the process ofcommercializing and transferring the SolarChill household and light commercial refrigerator (SolarChill B).