Current Projects

Promote the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of the páramo biome in Ecuador and its water resources, biological diversity, and ecosystem services, with strategies and actions that improve the quality of life of the communities and people that depend on páramo.

The biodiversity of Kidepo transboundary landscape conserved and sustainably managed for enhanced contribution to socio-economic development

To restore the ecosystem functions of three South African peatland systems and their catchments for the provision of benefits to communities while contributing to global environmental goals

To improve financial sustainability of protected areas and landscapes in the Philippines by mainstreaming the values of biodiversity and natural capital in government planning, especially for ecotourism development

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.

The coordinated and adequately funded implementation of cost-effective approaches to landscape-scale ecosystem restoration in Madagascar leads to an improvement in ecosystem health, the delivery of environmental benefits, and the enhancement of rural livelihoods.

To assist GEF-Eligible Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing to prepare and submit their First National Reports on measures that each Party has taken to implement the Nagoya Protocol.

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.

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

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.

To strengthen Costa Rican institutions to accelerate nature-positive, net-zero pathways.

To strengthen biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, through the application of economic instruments for carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection services to support sustainable forest and land management and improved livelihoods of indigenous peoples and local communities in targeted forest landscapes in Equatorial Guinea

Support countries to accelerate efforts to achieve net-zero nature-positive economies through the catalyzing of finance and partnerships, the triggering of investment, the promotion of policy and governance coherence, and the curation, diffusion and transferring of experiences, good practices and lessons learned.

To accelerate implementation of nature positive, net-zero pathways at the national level and through investments in nature positive and low-emission solutions in the manufacturing sector

To remove technical, financial and policy bottlenecks to nature-positive development in Saint Lucia’s tourism and agri-food sectors.

To strengthen the capacity of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPs and LCs) in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes to produce and manage sociobiodiversity data and information as a strategy to effectively protect their territories, safeguard traditional knowledge and promote integrated biodiversity management.

To enable large scale restoration of ecosystems of importance in Haiti by addressing policy deficiencies, promoting a PES mechanism tailored to the local context, and piloting community-driven restoration models through an integrated management approach in three priority landscapes

Strengthen Chilean institutions to accelerate nature positive, net-zero development pathways

This project aims to strengthen governance and ecosystem connectivity for biodiversity conservation while improving livelihoods in the Dja landscape

To contribute to landscape restoration by harnessing indigenous fruit and nut tree biodiversity to improve environment and ecosystem services, support food security and safety, and enhance livelihoods in Armenia

To protect biodiversity and reduce land degradation in Wallacea hotspot through landscape-based conservation action, sustainable land management, and livelihood benefits linked to conservation outcomes.

To catalyze, through regional and global level action, the improvement of conservation and effective governance of critical landscapes in the Congo Basin Forest Biome

The project aims to improve biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of ecosystems and restoration of degraded drylands in Dedoplistskaro Biosphere Reserve (BR), located in the south-eastern part of Georgia, in Kakheti Region.

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.

Natural capital values and protection of coastal and marine ecosystems integrated in development planning and improved landscape management as part of the national blue economic growth policy in Viet Nam