Current Projects

To fast-track readiness and early actions to implement the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework by providing financial and technical support to GEF-eligible Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in their work to review and align their national targets, NBSAPs, policy frameworks, monitoring frameworks and finance with the Global Biodiversity Framework

To achieve land degradation neutrality and improve ecosystem services in Nauru through integrated landscape management and conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity

To reduce land degradation and conserve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, by promoting sustainable agricultural production, supply chains and public- private finance

To alleviate threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services in critical production landscapes in Thailand by integrating values of forests and other Natural Capital (NC) into policies and operations of key economic sectors

Promote landscape integrity and sustainable beef and soy value chains in two key biomes in Paraguay.

Conservation of biodiversity in Madagascar through strengthened management of the New Protected Areas (Category V), with active engagement by communities, and enforcement to reduce the rate of IWT and poaching

To demonstrate low emissions, resilient, nature-based inclusive sustainable urban development in selected cities and support scale-up nationally.

Brazilian metropolitan regions reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve biodiversity and achieve economic, social and environmental co-benefits through an integrated urban planning approach.

Accelerate the sustainable development of Argentine cities to reduce greenhouse gases, conserve biodiversity and reduce land degradation.

To strengthen national capacities to support the accession to the Nagoya Protocol and to establish a functioning national legal and institutional framework to ensure fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources i

To strengthen South Africa’s capacity to combat illegal wildlife trade and improve protected area landscape management for increased community benefits.

To scale up and improve forest landscapes through community-based natural resources management in targeted trans-boundary landscapes.

To establish Madagascar’s ABS national framework and operational capacity to enable the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol.

To protect biodiversity and to increase carbon stocks across the RIMBA Corridor of Sumatra by enhancing forest ecosystem connectivity through green economic development.

To catalyze transformational change at a regional level by scaling up best practices and innovations originating from sustainable forest management in transboundary landscapes. This will be realized through the following project components.

To strengthen community-based sustainable management of forest landscapes, and provide improved livelihood opportunities for targeted forest-dependent rural communities in Zambia's North West Province

To create and apply the enabling conditions for the implementation of Nagoya Protocol on the Access and Benefit Sharing and Traditional Knowledge Regime in Niger.

To strengthen jaguar conservation capacity and connectivity between core protected areas in the Chagres National Park-Darien National Park complex

Expanding seascapes under protection and improving protected area management.

To strengthen institutional capacity for effective implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and to conduct an effective awareness campaign on Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in Uganda

To assist GEF-Eligible Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to prepare and submit their Fourth National Reports on measures that each Party has taken to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

To assist GEF-Eligible Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to prepare and submit their Fourth National Reports on measures that each Party has taken to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

To enhance reef ecosystem integrity and resilience through sustainable management, reducing development impacts and integrating natural capital accounting into development planning

Community-based management of forests and the promotion of sustainable development alternatives support and enhance biodiversity conservation, and strengthen livelihoods in the Monkoto Corridor and Salonga National Park

To combat illegal wildlife trade by strengthening PA legislative and management systems through institutional strengthening, improved information management and monitoring, and community empowerment through both national and site level actions.