This report summarizes advice on future policy directions for the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) from the GEF’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), in advance of the Fifth GEF Assembly at the end of May 2014.
Over more than two decades, the Global Environmental Facility has helped to deliver multiple global environmental benefits. However, threats to the global commons continue to grow, driven by human activities and lifestyle choices. Meeting the challenges of managing and governing the world’s common-pool resources into the future requires a significant overhaul in the GEF’s business model, approaches and ambitions.
The report has three key messages for negotiators at the Fifth Assembly, who will be defining GEF policies for the next four years (the sixth “replenishment period”; GEF-6):
The authors suggest two new areas for integrated approaches by the GEF: climate resilience and environmental security. They also comment on existing plans to integrate work around sustainable cities, food security, and commodity supply chains and environmental degradation.
While many of the changes called for are already visible in the new GEF Strategy for the coming four-year period (GEF-6), the report argues that they will require significant scientific and technical support, and a clear commitment by both the GEF and its partner agencies. Internal systems for results-based management, monitoring and evaluation, and information and knowledge management will all need to be strengthened.
Learn more and download the report (external link to GEF-STAP)
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