"Catalyzing hope" in Burkina Faso

The Sahel Integrated Lowland Ecosystem Management Program (SILEM)

The five-year pilot program addressed the issue of natural resource degradation through an integrated ecosystem management approach. Implemented in the context of a nation-wide rural development program,  SILEM mainstreamed environmental concerns into the poverty agenda and provided funding for demand-driven community managed projects that address sustainable land management priorities....

The sun sets on one GEF’s flagship Global Project

The Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA) project was designed with  to develop and implement strategies, methods and tools to assess, quantify and analyze the nature, extent, severity and impacts of land degradation...

GEF Report to the UNCCD COP10

As one of the UNCCD financing mechanism, the GEF Secretariat submitted its first Report to the tenth session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD/COP-10)...

Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management in India

GEF's Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management (SLEM) programmatic approach in India is strengthening institutional and community capabilities on SLEM practices combining indigenous and scientific knowledge...