During negotiations for the Fifth Replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund (GEF-5), Participants requested that the GEF Council review a work-plan, prepared by the GEF Secretariat in consultation with the GEF Evaluation Office (GEF EO), the GEF Agencies, and Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), to: (i) implement the GEF Results-Based Management (RBM) framework; and (ii) to establish a GEF-wide Knowledge Management Initiative (KMI). The work-plan for implementing the RBM was reviewed and approved by the Council at its November 2010 meeting.

In December 2010, the Secretariat launched the KMI with the goal of ensuring that GEF knowledge, information and data are identified, captured, and shared in their entirety and developed as a strategic asset in a coherent and comprehensive manner.

A KM strategy, presented as Information Document (GEF/C.40/Inf.03) at the 40th Council Meeting, has been developed by the GEF KM task force that includes GEF Secretariat, Evaluation Office, STAP and GEF Agencies representatives.

The work-plan included in the strategy is now under implementation.

For more information please contact Patrizia Cocca, Web and KM task Force Coordinator, pcocca@thegef.org.