Overall Objective of the Programmatic Approach

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Overall Objective of the Programmatic Approach

• To secure larger-scale and sustained impact on
  the global environment through integrating global
  environmental objectives into national or
  regional strategies and plans using partnerships.

See the GEF/C.33/6 Document From Projects to
Programs Clarifying the Programmatic Approach in
the GEF Portfolio, March 21, 2008
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Added value of the programmatic approach

• Countries
• A more strategic interaction with the GEF -
  especially under the RAF
• Opportunities to pool resources from various GEF
  focal areas
• Opportunities to secure financing and mobilize
  co-financing
• Country driven process ownership
• Agencies
• Better predictability communication, less
  transaction costs
• More strategic with countries based on their
  comparative advantage
• GEFSEC
• Maximize Global Benefits by more synergies a
  cost efficient process
• Enhance GEF catalytic role to leverage additional
  financing
• Easier to monitor and evaluate

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Principles

• A programmatic approach needs to be consistent
  with the GEF focal area strategies to maximize
  and scale up global environment benefits
• Enhanced opportunities to generate synergies
  across GEF focal areas and with partners
• A GEF programmatic approach will be undertaken in
  partnership with all partners
• An enhanced scope for catalyzing actions,
  replication, and innovation

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Principles
bis

• Be country-owned and build on national priorities
  
• Emphasize GEFs catalytic role and leverage of
  additional financing from other sources
• Be based on an open and transparent process of
  multi-stakeholder representation - from dialogue
  to implementation
• Be cost-effective

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TERRAFRICA Strategic Investment Program for
Sustainable Land Management (SIP)

• An inter-agency program co-financed by GEF for
  SLM up-scaling in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Priority support in Land Degradation to SSA
  countries for GEF4
• 150m in grants for strategic portfolio of
  operations, with a 14 co-financing ratio
• A Platform developed under UNCCD and NEPAD and
  involving countries, financial and technical
  institutions
• Enabling environments and investments Actions

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The SIP in brief

• 40 projects involving 25 countries, including
• Country-specific projects
• Regional Multi-country
• Regional Transboundary focusing on specific
  ecosystems
• gt800 in co-financing involving a wide-range of
  donors
• Type of Investments Policy and investment
  frameworks for SLM, Knowledge management and
  decision-support systems for SLM, Direct
  investment in SLM interventions, Strengthening
  the role of Civil Society Organizations in SLM

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Strategic Program for West AfricaSub-component
on Biodiversity

• Coordinating GEF Agency World Bank
• GEF Implementing Agencies WB, UNDP, FAO, UNEP
• 39 million from Biodiversity and Climate
  change
• Priority Focus Areas 1) development of
  protected areas networks, 2) sustainable use of
  natural resources, and 3) poverty reduction among
  communities living in the surroundings of
  protected areas.
• NUMBER OF PROJECTS 21 (11 PIFs approved or
  pending need to speed up PIF processing in
  Mauritania, Chad, Nigeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso,
  Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin (Trust Fund) regional
  projects on capacity building and knowledge
  management with the WB)

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Strategic Program for West AfricaSub-component
on Energy

• Coordinating AGENCY UNIDO
• OTHER GEF AGENCIES UNDP, UNEP, WB, AfDB
• GEF FOCAL AREA (S) Climate change
• Priority Focus areas Promoting renewable energy
  for enhancing energy access and supporting
  productive capacities, Promoting sustainable
  energy production from biomass, Promoting energy
  efficiency in residential and commercial
  buildings, and the industrial sectors, and
  Promoting sustainable innovative systems for
  urban transport
• 45 million
• Number of projects 27 ( 12 approved, 4 pending,
  and need to speed up the process in the following
  countries  Guinea,  Guinea- Bissau, Burkina
  Faso, Burundi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,  and
  Senegal)

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Strategic Program for Sustainable Forest
Management in the Congo Basin

• COUNTRIES Cameroon, Central African Republic,
  Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo,
  Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
• GEF Coordinating AGENCY World Bank
• OTHER GEF AGENCIES UNDP, UNEP, FAO, AFDB
• 49,750 million from Biodiversity and Climate
  Change (for REDD), cofinancing 13
• OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM (1) the conservation
  of key biodiversity areas by strengthening the
  regional network of protected areas, (2) the
  sustainable management and use of natural
  resources in the production landscape and (3)
  strengthening of the institutional and
  sustainable financing framework for ecosystem
  management.
• EXPECTED NUMBER OF PROJECTS 13
• (11 PIF/PPGs approved in 6 months waiting for
  the mangrove project in Congo with FAO and the BD
  project in Cameroon with the WB)

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For further information

• wehlers_at_thegef.org
• jsinnassamy_at_thegef.org (Biodiversity in West
  Africa, Congo Basin)
• zzhihong_at_thegef.org (Energy)
• Mbakarr_at_thegef.org (SIP/Terrafrica)