Evolving GEF4 and Preliminary Way Forward

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Evolving GEF4 and Preliminary Way Forward

• Final Steering Committee Meeting
• CLME Project
• Cartagena, 6-8 June 2007

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June Council 2007 Important Agenda Items

• First work Program in GEF4 for 561.73m, first WP
  under RAF
• Four Year Work Plan
• Comparative Advantage of the GEF Agencies
• Proposed Policy on Fiduciary Standards and
  Financial Accountability- for strengthened
  accountability for GEF IAs and EAs

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June Council 2007 Important Agenda Items

• Revised Project Cycle - options for a new project
  cycle, with the objective of processing a
  proposal from identification to start of
  implementation in less than 22 months without
  compromising project quality or undermining
  financial accountability
• Focal Area Strategies and Strategic Programming
• Operational Guidelines for the Application of the
  Incremental Cost Principle

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New Project Cycle

• The Secretariat will have ten business days to
  review a draft final project proposal submitted
  for endorsement. The Secretariat will thereafter
  circulate among Council Members for review,
  during a four-week period, any project proposal
  that the GEF CEO determines complies with the
  conditions for endorsement. The GEF CEO will
  endorse the project proposal for final approval
  by the agency concerned, taking into account any
  comments received from Council Members. However,
  if a Council Member requests that a project
  proposal be reviewed at a Council meeting because
  in the Council Members view the project is not
  consistent with the Instrument or GEF policies
  and procedures, the CEO will submit the project
  proposal to the next Council meeting, and will
  only endorse the project proposal for final
  approval by the Implementing (or Executing)
  Agency if the Council finds that the project
  proposal is consistent with the Instrument and
  GEF policies and procedures.

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Requirements for CLME

• Concise Project Strategy
• GEF Increment Justified and Explained
• Defined Baseline
• Identified Co-financing
• Co-financing letters
• Pilots each with mini ProDoc
• Demonstrative
• Deliver on-the-ground or tangible impact
• Do not only provide input to SAP process

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Preliminary Way Forward

• PROJECT DOCUMENT
• 6-8 June Steering Committee
• 11-18 June Complilation of SC Report
• 18/06 11/07 2nd draft of ProDoc
• 16 -27 July Country/partner review
• 3 August Revisions to finalize ProDoc

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Preliminary Way Forward

• PILOT PROJECTS
• 6-8 June Steering Committee
• 11-18 June Review of PP by WG/Lead
• 18-29 June 1st full draft of PP Docs
• 2-6 July Country/partner review
• 9-20 July 2nd draft of PP Docs
• 23-27 2nd Review
• 3 August Revisions to finalize PP ProDocs