Current Projects

To catalyse circular economy approaches to reduce single use plastics (SUPs) production, consumption, and disposal in the Food and Beverage and Tourism sectors through strengthened regulatory, financial, and operational frameworks.

Address marine hypoxic zones by curbing coastal nutrient pollution from tourism, agriculture, and fishing ports and seafood processing in Thailand.

To advance plastic circularity in the Food and Beverage sector working with the HORECA sector (hospitality, restaurant and catering) creating a conducive policy and regulatory environment piloted in coastal cities in Brazil.

Improve the coordinated management of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden’s marine and coastal areas in support of a Sustainable Blue Economy in the region.

To safeguard globally significant biodiversity of high value ecosystems, from unsustainable resource use, as a result of effective government enabling capacity, community participation and resilient green livelihoods.

To get a common understanding of the Amazon Aquifer Systems (AAS) (TDA), the invisible giant, to strengthen existing regional governance, and to develop and endorse an integrated groundwater management approach (SAP) for its protection and sustainable use, thereby enhancing water security and ecosystem resilience in the Amazon region.

Enhance sustainable sourcing from raw materials promoting net zero, nature positive, and pollution-free approaches to scale up fashion and construction sector transformation

The reduction of single-use plastic water sachets in Nigeria, while ensuring accessible and safe drinking water

To reduce plastic pollution in Peru by accelerating the transition towards a circular economy in the food and beverage industry

To reduce the amount of plastics entering the Cook Islands via the F&B and tourism sectors and to support enabling environments for circular solutions, with the intention of reducing the burden on the Cook Islands waste management system, as well as reducing pollution and harmful impacts of plastic.

Influence a shift in the Carnival Fashion Design Sector to promote the use of locally sourced, sustainable materials and pollution-free approaches

The objective of the Enabling Activity (EA) grant is to support countries in 1. Assessing the extent to which their current legal, policy and institutional framework allows for promptly becoming parties to the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement) and enables their implementation of the Agreement. 2. Carrying out preparatory work in the context of their ratification, approval, acceptance or accession process towards becoming parties to the BBNJ Agreement. 3. Supporting their readiness to implement the BBNJ Agreement.

The Global Project will optimize the delivery of a cohesive program across 15 countries and address global barriers to reduce plastic pollution in the food and beverage sector.

To enhance transboundary cooperation and SAP implementation through sustainable fisheries co-management, biodiversity conservation and restoration of degraded landscapes in selected key biodiversity of Lake Tanganyika.

To accelerate multi-stakeholder engagement in eliminating hazardous chemicals from fashion and construction value chains and to replicate the successes of in-country child projects regionally and globally

Foster multi-country cooperation and to enhance institutional capacity for the protection and sustainable management of the transboundary Senegalo-Mauritanian aquifer system and its dependent ecosystems in order to improve water and food security, and resilience to climate change.

To create and strengthen nature-based Blue Economy opportunities and approaches in the Caribbean through innovative financing mechanisms.

To support lake ecosystems recovery through phosphorus emissions reductions from land to water to improve the protection and restoration of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, bringing together the global lake management and sustainable phosphorus management communities including developing and testing a sustainable phosphorus management framework in Chile to inform international application.

To promote water security through strengthening transboundary water governance, sustainable development, balancing multiple-use and promoting integrated management of the Pantanal-Upper Paraguay River Basin for the social and economic well-being of the population and for the conservation of the freshwater ecosystem, its services, its biodiversity and connectivity.

To enhance awareness of ABNJ governance to support sustainable resource use and biodiversity conservation in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction through strengthened cross-sectoral capacity building.

To reverse the over-exploitation of select commercial living marine resources by enhancing the capacity of Mediterranean countries to manage fisheries, including through the application of ecosystem-based management tools, in their blue economy development

Reducing regional marine plastics and plastic pollution by facilitating governments and businesses at the city-level, to accelerate the transition to a circular economy thereby responding to national, regional and global marine litter and plastics-related action plans, resolutions and commitments.

Reverse ecosystem and water degradation and support integrated ecosystem-based development in the Volta River Basin through strengthened transboundary governance and restoration and conservation of ecosystems for sustainable livelihoods.

Reducing stress on the transboundary water resources in the Trifinio region by developing a Strategic Action Plan for its trinational Lempa River Basin and enabling the joint management of the shared water resources, while building community-based ecosyste

Towards a more impactful GEF portfolio: facilitating replication of good practice across GEF International Waters projects, including projects across all focal areas in Small Island Developing States, working in collaboration with development partners, supporting the delivery of training information management, providing programmatic guidance and facilitating partnership building.