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Partnership with the Global Environment Facility
The Global Environment Facility (GEF), as one of the financing mechanisms for the UNCCD, is recognised as a major partner of the GM by, inter alia, the “Implementation Plan of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)” and by decisions of the Second GEF Assembly in Beijing, China.
Since the inception of the GEF Focal Area on Land Degradation (OP 15) in 2002, cooperation between the two mechanisms has become an effective operational partnership.
Since October 2006, the GM, the GEF Secretariat and its Implementing and Executing Agencies (IAs and EAs) have been working closely to develop a pipeline of 20 projects addressing land degradation in Africa, Asia and Latin America, for which the envisaged financing exceeds USD 3 billion over ten years.
The GM has supported these projects with a range of services, including:
The GM has supported these projects with a range of services, including:
- co-financing or contributing to programme/project design and development;
- integrating the GEF into GM-initiated country and sub-regional UNCCD implementation processes; and
- facilitating the mobilization of co-financing by including GEF initiatives in GM strategic partnerships.
The GM and the GEF Secretariat are also pooling their knowledge and expertise to inform a broad audience of the need to increase financing for SLM-related issues.
The first output of this advocacy initiative is an analysis which argues in favour of an increase in annual national and international investments of USD 6-8 billion, to remove barriers to SLM.
The first output of this advocacy initiative is an analysis which argues in favour of an increase in annual national and international investments of USD 6-8 billion, to remove barriers to SLM.
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