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 promote the use of National Capital Accounting (NCA) as a tool for Land Use Planning to achieve Protected Area (PA) management effectiveness, deployment of good Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices and operationalization of Ecovillages in Central Highlands of Madagascar

The efficient and effective management of high-risk invasive alien species (IAS) directly mitigates their negative impacts on South Africa’s biodiversity assets, and indirectly contributes to the improvement of rural food security and livelihoods

To transform the Thai rice value chain for environmental sustainability by upscaling the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard through an Integrated Landscape Management approach.

To build and strengthen Lesotho?s national capacities for planning, monitoring and evaluating its climate policies and actions as defined in the Nationally Determined Contribution in order to comply with the Paris Agreement Enhanced Transparency Framework

To develop the capacity for enhancing ecosystem services of peatlands (specifically reduction of GHG emissions from degraded peatlands) in Mongolia and the capacity of indigenous reindeer herders to reduce land degradation and improve the provision of ecosystem services and increase community resilience.

To strengthen the national transparency system in Ecuador to meet the requirements of the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

Measures to regulate SAICM Emerging Policy Issues (EPIs) accelerated and contribute to the attainment of the 2030 Agenda

To strengthen the management effectiveness and sustainability of the Albanian Alps protected areas system and increase resilience to climate change.

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.

Facilitate the implementation of the Stockholm Convention in India through the development, review and update of the NIPs and submission to the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention

To provide technical support to GEF-eligible Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in their work to review and align components of their NBSAPs with the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF): national targets, policy frameworks, monitoring frameworks, and biodiversity finance

To promote a model for integrated community-based conservation and protected area management applied to the peatland area and its forest ecosystem of the RoC Lac Télé Landscape

Facilitate the implementation of the Stockholm Convention in participating countries through the development, review and update of the NIPs and submission to the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention

To enhance climate-resilient food production across productive agricultural landscapes through sound Integrated Landscape Management and Land Degradation Neutrality approaches in The Bahamas.

To assist Pakistan in the development of its National Action Plan for the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector, raise national awareness on the Minamata Convention and build initial national capacity for the early implementation of the National Action Plan and the Minamata Convention

To prevent damage of human health and ecosystems’ pollution by reducing mercury use in the ASGM sector in the Republic of Congo.

To mainstream agro-biodiversity conservation into the agriculture sector of the Samtskhe-Javakheti Region of Georgia

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.

Thailand has the necessary capacities and institutional arrangements to comply with the requirements of the Enhanced Transparency Framework.

Facilitate the implementation of the Stockholm Convention in participating countries through the development, review and update of the NIPs and submission to the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention

To transition the Mt. Elgon region to a sustainable, biodiverse, climate-resilient, integrated landscape with efficient coffee and staple crops (maize, banana and Irish potato) value and supply chain

Facilitate the implementation of the Stockholm Convention in participating countries through the development, review and update of the NIPs and submission to the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention

Strengthen Burundi’s institutional and stakeholder capacity to comply with the requirements of Enhanced Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement on climate change

To enhance national-level institutional and technical capacities for the 2021-2022 UNCCD reporting process in the context of the UNCCD Strategic Framework 2018-2030 and SDG15.3