Current Projects

In the context of the Cartagena Convention and its LBS Protocol2, to pilot revolving financing mechanisms and their related wastewater management reforms that can be subsequently established as feasible instruments to provide sustainable financing for the implementation of environmentally sound and cost-effective wastewater management measures.

To formulate a comprehensive, binational, ecosystem-based action programme(SAP) based on the principles of integrated water resources management, for the sustainable management and use of the Rio Bravo throughout its basin, and to create the necessary enabling social-economic and policy mechanisms for implementing the agreed action programme and engendering the neccesary reforms.

To enable the countries of the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem to address priority transboundary concerns on declining fisheries, associated biodiversity and water quality through governance reforms, investments and management programs. The long-term environmental goal of the CCLME program is to reverse the degradation of the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem caused by over-fishing, habitat modification and changes in water quality by adoption of an ecosystem-based management approach.

The development objective is to contribute to the effective protection and sustainable use of the water and land resources of the Amazon Basin, based upon the principles of integrated water resources management (IWRM), and manage the effects of climate change (CC) within Amazonian communities in a coordinated and coherent way. This will be accomplished by the eight signatory countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty, within the framework of the ACTO, through a program of strategic interventions. Project’s specific objective is to elaborate a Strategic Action Program (SAP) for the Amazon Basin and create the necessary enabling social-economic environment for the future implementation of the SAP, inclusive of strategic measures relating to adaptation by the countries to the effects of global climate change on the Basin.

The Project Development objective is to protect transboundary waters in the Niger and Senegal River Basins through elimination of POPs pesticide-use and substantial reduction and elimination of other toxic pesticides used in agriculture; while augmenting agricultural productivity and net economic benefits to farmers. The Project Purpose is to demonstrate best practices for contaminant prevention and increased agricultural productivity through participatory farmer-education approaches. Key project objectives are: 1) awareness raising and establishing community baselines, 2) assessments of freshwater contaminants, 3) developing Best Practices, and 4) developing IPPM community and trainer networks.

To foster international cooperation towards the swift entry into force of the BBNJ Agreement and to promote implementation readiness at the global and the regional level.

The objective of the Enabling Activity (EA) grant is to support countries in: (a) 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; (b) carrying out preparatory work in the context of their ratification, approval, acceptance or accession process towards becoming parties to the BBNJ Agreement; and (c) supporting their readiness to implement the BBNJ Agreement.

Operationalizing and implementing circular economy solutions to minimize plastic waste and reduce plastic pollution from Food & Beverage packaging

Reducing Single Use Plastic pollution in the food and beverage sector (SUPiFB) through a circular economy approach in Centre, Centre-Ouest and Hauts basin regions

To strengthen the capacity to preserve and safeguard the health of ocean ecosystems in Pacific Island countries by catalysing the development and growth of sustainable blue economies (SBE).

Reduce N, P and other nutrient pollution in the Maldives marine environment through the adoption of sustainable nitrogen management practices

The project aims to reduce pollution from land-based sources, particularly the Beetham Wastewater Stabilisation Ponds, improve ecosystem health, contribute to biodiversity conservation in the Caroni Basin, and reduce marine hypoxia in surrounding coastal ecosystems and the Gulf of Paria, through the implementation of nature-based solutions.

The project is aimed to strengthen (i) pollution monitoring and biodiversity planning in targeted sites within the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, and (ii) coordinated action on pollution control, biodiversity conservation, and climate adaptation in the Caspian Sea region.

Building on national and GEF previous work, the objective of the proposed MSP is to promote an integrated approach to the planning and management of the São Francisco River, its coastal zone, and its river basin, as well as to implement strategic remedial actions to protect the marine environment from land-based sources of pollution, and integrating ecological management and economic development activities, based upon the comprehensive coastal studies to be undertaken in the context of this proposed MSP.