GEF Biodiversity Portfolio

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• GEF Biodiversity Portfolio
• Strategic Priorities for GEF-3
• Kanta Kumari
• Biodiversity Program Manager
• Global Environment Facility

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GEF Biodiversity Programs

• GEF as the financial mechanism of CBD
• Biodiversity Operational Programs
• OP 1 Arid and semi arid ecosystems
• OP 2 Coastal Marine and Freshwater ecosystems
• OP 3 Forests
• OP 4 Mountains
• OP13 Agro-biodiversity

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Portfolio Summary(FY91-FY03)
Number of Projects 336 GEF Funding US1.54
Billion Co-funding US3.24 Billion Number of
Countries 140
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Lessons Learned(Independent OPS-2)

• STRENGTHS
• Excellent Ecosystem Representation
• Wide Coverage
• Innovative Financing (Trust Funds, PES, etc)
• Impact on Capacity Building
• Strong Stakeholder Participation
• Addresses Cross-Cutting Issues
• Includes Science and Technology Issues

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Lessons Learned(Independent OPS-2)

• WEAKNESSES
• Fails to Address Root Causes
• Weak Sectoral Linkages (mainstreaming)
• Weak Sustainability
• Weak Private Sector Participation
• Poor Capacity to Measure Results

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Change in Paradigms
From How to make project sustainable? To How
to sustain conservation? From Project
success To Changing societal behavior From Sh
ort-term projects To Long-term programs
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GEF-3 Strategic Priorities US3.1 Billion (ca.
US800 Million for BD)

• Catalyzing Sustainability of Protected Areas
  (US400M)
• Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production
  Landscapes and Sectors (US250M)
• Capacity Building for the Implementation of the
  Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (US80M)
• Generation and Dissemination of Best Practices
  for Addressing Current and Emerging Biodiversity
  Issues (US70M)

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Value-added of GEF-3 Strategic Priorities

• Do not replace existing Operational Strategy or
  Programs
• Not additional filter but sharpen focus
  catalytic role of GEF
• Strengthen ME and portfolio impact
• Better placing projects and programs within
  national context and framework
• Developed in the BD Task Force and approved by
  Council
• Enhance operational clarity
• Facilitate resources programming

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SP1 Catalyzing Sustainability of PAs
To conserve biodiversity through the expansion,
consolidation, and rationalization of national
Protected Area systems.

• Main activities
• seeks to ground support for individual PAs in
  countries long-term vision for PAs
• further development of innovative financial
  mechanisms
• intensified capacity building
• catalyzing community-indigenous partnerships
• remove barriers to facilitate public-private
  partnerships

• Examples
• Bhutan, Brazil,Vietnam,Tanzania, Chile

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SP2 Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production
Landscapes
To integrate biodiversity conservation in
agriculture, forestry, fisheries, tourism and
other production systems and sectors to secure
national and global environmental benefits.

• Main activities
• strengthening capacity of government and key
  stakeholders, remove critical barriers
  (policy, legal, institutional) reforms, nurture
  partnerships etc.
• develop market incentive measures for Sectors
• demonstration (High replication value)

• Examples
• Bulgaria, Madagascar, Costa Rica, Venezuela, El
  Salvador

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SP3 Capacity Building for the Implementation of
the CBD Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
To build capacity for the implementation of the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

• Main activity
• Developing systemic and institutional capacity
  building for biosafety

• Examples
• Pilot project for development of Biosafety
  frameworks
• Country-based demonstration projects to assist
  in capacity building to implement national
  biosafety frameworks

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SP4 Generation and dissemination of best
practices for addressing current and emerging
biodiversity issues

• Main activities
• Improve analysis, synthesis and dissemination of
  best practices
• Support for building scientific and technical
  co-operation
• Support demonstration projects that generate
  synergies between biodiversity, and other
  focal areas of the GEF.

• Examples (under development)
• Strengthening Capacity to Generate, Disseminate
  and Adopt Good Practices in Biodiversity
  Conservation
• Global Developing Generalizable Method for
  Adaptive Management and Protection from
  Climate Change in Mangrove and coral reef
  Ecosystems

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GEF-Small Grants Program Portfolio
Summary(FY91-FY03)
Number of Projects gt 4,200 GEF
Funding US112 million Co-funding US 80
million Number of Countries gt70 GEF 3
allocation 170 million