December 19, 2007
South Africa: National Grasslands Biodiversity Program

Kenya: Agricultural Productivity and Sustainable Land Management

Regional (Ethiopia, Madagascar, Eritrea): Demonstrating Cost-effectiveness and Sustainability of Environmentally-sound and Locally Appopriate Alternatives to DDT for Malaria Control in Africa

Comments from Council Members:  Germany [01-07-2008]

December 13, 2007
Cuba: Mainstreaming and Sustaining Biodiversity Conservation in Three Productive Sectors of the Sabana Camaguey Ecosystem

December 11, 2007
Seychelles: Mainstreaming Prevention and Control Measures for Invasive Alien Species into Trade, Transport and Travel Across the Production Landscape

Regional (Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen): Mainstreaming Conservation of Migratory Soaring Birds into Key Productive Sectors along the Rift Valley/Red Sea Flyway (Tranches 1 and 2)

November 29, 2007
Sri Lanka: Participatory Coastal Zone Restoration and Sustainable Management in the Eastern Province of Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka

November 26, 2007
South Africa: Sustainable Public Transport and Sport: A 2010 Opportunity

November 21, 2007
Brazil: National Biodiversity Mainstreaming and Institutional Consolidation Project
 

November 15, 2007
Croatia: Agricultural Pollution Control Project - under the Strategic Partnership Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea

November 13, 2007
Tanzania: Energizing Rural Transformation Project

November 7, 2007
Regional (Cambodia, China, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Philippines, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam): Implementation of Sustainable Development Strategy for the Seas of East Asia (SDS-SEA) 

November 6, 2007
China: Strengthening Institutions, Regulations and Enforcement Capacities for Effective and Efficient Implementation of the National Implementation Plan (NIP) in China

Mexico: Integrated Energy Services for Small Localities of Rural Mexico

October 31, 2007
China: Environmentally Sustainable Management of Medical Waste in China

October 18, 2007
Seychelles: Mainstreaming Biodiversity Management into Production Sector Activities

October 12, 2007
Global: Institutionalizing Payments for Ecosystem Services

October 11, 2007
Egypt: Solar Thermal Hybrid Project

Regional (Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger): Enhancing the Effectiveness and Catalyzing the Sustainability of the W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP) Protected Area System

October 3, 2007
Brazil: Development of a National Implementation Plan in Brazil as a First Step to Implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

October 1, 2007
Regional (Nigeria, Ghana): Regional Project to Develop Appropriate Strategies for Identifying Sites Contaminated by Chemicals listed in Annexes A, B and/or C of the Stockholm Convention

September 25, 2007
Romania: Integrated Nutrient Pollution Control Project-under the WB-GEF Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea

September 17, 2007
Global: Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF), Phase 2

Global: Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF), Phase 2_Annex

Council Member Comments: Germany [09-27-2007] Germany-Response to WB [10-05-2007],  USA [10-15-2007]

GEF Agency Response to Council: WB Response to Germany [10-01-2007], WB Response to USA [10-17-2007]

Global (Argentina, India, Latvia, Lebanon, Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, Vietnam): Demonstrating and Promoting Best Techniques and Practices for Reducing Health-care Waste to Avoid Environmental Releases of Dioxins and Mercury

September 12, 2007
Philippines: Global Programme to Demonstrate the Viability and Removal of Barriers that Impede Adoption and Successful Implementation of Available, Non-Combustion Technologies for Destroying Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

September 6, 2007
India: Development of a National Implementation Plan in India as a First Step to Implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

August 31, 2007
Global (China, Brazil, India, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Iran, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Algeria, Egypt, Ukraine, Peru, Morocco, Libya, Croatia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Angola, Sudan, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Yemen, Jordan, Ghana): Building Partnerships to Assist Developing Countries to Reduce the Transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water (GloBallast Partnerships)

August 29, 2007
Global (Bangladesh, Bolivia, Niger, Samoa, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Namibia, Vietnam): Community-based Adaptation (CBA) Programme

Regional (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Cape Verde): Adaptation to Climate Change - Responding to Shoreline Change and its Human Dimensions in West Africa through Integrated Coastal Area Management

August 21, 2007
Senegal: Groundnut Basin Soil Management and Regeneration

August 20, 2007
Chile: Regional System of Protected Areas for Sustainable Conservation and Use of Valdivian Temperate Rainforest

Guyana: Conservancy Adaptation Project

August 9, 2007
Global: Small Grants Programme, 4th Operational Phase

August 8, 2007
Regional (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo): West African Regional Biosafety Project

Council Member Comments

Germany [08-27-2007]Germany-Response to WB [10-10-07]

Norway [09-05-2007]

United States [09-04-2007],  United States - Response to GEF Agency [09-04-2007]

GEF Agency Response to Council-WB-Response to USA [09-04-2007], WB-Response to Germany [08-30-07]

GEF CEO Response to Council - Email to Germany and Norway [09-10-2007]

August 7, 2007
Antigua and Barbuda: Demonstrating the Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Island Resource Management Mechanism in a Small Island Developing State

Regional (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan): Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains - and Integrated and Transboundary Initiative in Central Asia Phase I

August 6, 2007
Regional (Costa Rica, Panama): Sustainable Environmental Management for Sixaola River Basin

Regional (Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Cameroon, Gambia): Demonstrating and Capturing Best Practices and Technologies for the Reduction of Land-sourced Impacts Resulting from Coastal Tourism

July 31, 2007
Uruguay: Catalyzing the Implementation of Uruguay's National Protected Area System

July 30, 2007
Regional (Kenya, Ghana): Lighting the "Bottom of the Pyramid"

Mozambique: Zambezi Valley Market Led Smallholder Development

Vietnam: Hanoi Urban Transport Development

July 26, 2007
Pakistan: Sustainable Land Management for Combating Desertification (Phase I)

July 25, 2007
China: Alternatives to DDT Usage for the Production of Anti-fouling Paint

July 24, 2007
Namibia: Sustainable Land Management Support and Adaptive Management Project (NAM SLM SAM) under the Country Pilot Partnership (CPP) for Integrated Sustainable Land Management

Guatemala: Productive Uses of Renewable Energy in Guatemala

July 17, 2007
Tunisia: Private Sector Led Development of On-Grid Wind Power in Tunisia

June 19, 2007
Ghana: Energy Development and Access Project (formerly) Development of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Guinea: Electricity Sector Efficiency Improvement Project

Senegal: Integrated Ecosystem Management in Four Representative Landscapes of Senegal, Phase 2 under the Strategic Investment Program for Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SIP)

June 18, 2007
Regional (Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia): Greening the Tea Industry in East Africa

June 7, 2007
South Africa: Renewable Energy Market Transformation

Argentina: Biodiversity Conservation in Productive Forestry Landscapes

June 4, 2007
Global (China, Ecuador, Morocco, Uganda): Conservation and Use of Crop Genetic Diversity to Control Pests and Diseases in Support of Sustainable Agriculture (Phase 1)

May 31, 2007
Namibia: Barrier Removal to Namibian Renewable Energy Programme (NAMREP), Phase II

Serbia: Transitional Agriculture Reform

Uzbekistan: CACILM Partnership Framework- Land Improvement Project

May 21, 2007
Brazil: Caatinga Conservation and Sustainable Management Project

May 18, 2007
Regional (Fiji, Papua New Guinea,Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands and Vanuatu): Sustainable Energy Financing

May 17, 2007
Philippines: National Program Support for Environment and Natural Resources Management Projects (NPS-ENRMP)

Ghana: Urban Transport

Mexico: Consolidation of the Protected Area System (SINAP II)

May 15, 2007
Global: Building the Partnership to Track Progress at the Global Level in Achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Target (Phase I)

Regional: (Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Senegal): Sustainable Management of Globally Significant Endemic Ruminant Livestock of West Africa

May 2, 2007
Regional (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan): Cogen for Africa

May 1, 2007
China: Liaoning Medium Cities Infrastructure- under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia

April 30, 2007
Moldova: Environmental Infrastructure Project - under Strategic Partnership Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea

Regional (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama): Accelerating Renewable Energy Investments through CABEI in Central America

South Africa: South Africa Wind Energy Programme (SAWEP), Phase I

Global (Cameroon, Tanzania, Zambia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Ghana, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica): Renewable Energy Enterprise Development - Seed Capital Access Facility

April 24, 2007
Philippines: Manila Third Sewerage Project (MTSP)-under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia

April 20, 2007
Jordan: Integrated Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management in the Jordan Rift Valley

April 19, 2007
Regional (Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania): Western Indian Ocean Marine Highway Development and Coastal and Marine Contamination Prevention Project

April 13, 2007
Global (Indonesia, Malaysia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Brazil): Biodiversity and Agricultural Commodities Program (BACP)

April 9, 2007
(This project document has been removed from the website as GEF Secretariat is re-reviewing it.)
Global: Building the Partnership to Track Progress at the Global Level in Achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Target (Phase I)

April 5, 2007
India: Enabling Activities for Preparing India's Second National Communication to UNFCCC

Regional (Comoros, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania): Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP)

April 2, 2007
Argentina: Sustainable Management of Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems to Combat Desertification in Patagonia (resubmission)

March 7, 2007
Morocco: Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Project (formerly Solar Based Thermal Power Plant)

Council/CEO Comments

February 27, 2007
Ukraine: Methyl Bromide Phase-Out Project

December 22, 2006
China: Shandong Second Environment - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia

December 22, 2006
Global: Supporting Country Early Action on Protected Areas (resubmission from Feb 2006 IWP)

December 20, 2006
India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Ecologically-Sustainable Island Development

December 19, 2006
Uganda: Conservation of Biodiversity in the Albertine Rift Forest Areas of Uganda

Regional (Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania): Programme for the Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems: Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems Project (ASCLMEs)

December 12, 2006
China: Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Wild Relatives of Crops (resubmission from Feb 2006 IWP)

December 1, 2006
Philippines: Integrated Coastal Resources Management Project

November 29, 2006
Indonesia: Bus Rapid Transit and Pedestrian Improvements in Jakarta

November 22, 2006
Morocco: Solar Based Thermal Power Plant

Council/CEO Comments

October 31, 2006
China: Guangxi Integrated Forestry Development and Biodiversity Conservation

Mongolia: Community-based Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Mountain Landscapes of Mongolia's Altai Sayan Ecoregion

October 18, 2006
Regional (Armenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Turkey): Geothermal Energy Development Program, GeoFund, Tranche I - Subprojects IGA and HOGC

October 17, 2006
Regional (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan): Central Asia Countries Initiative for Land Management (CACILM) Multicountry Partnership Framework Support Project-under CACILM Partnership Framework, Phase 1

October 13, 2006
Regional (Ethiopia, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia): African Stockpiles Program, P1

September 25, 2006
Regional (Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine, Macedonia): Financing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Investments for Climate Change Mitigation

September 22,2006
Lesotho: Renewable Energy-based Rural Electrification

September 21, 2006
Kazakhstan: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in the Kazakhstani Sector of the Altai-Sayan Mountain Ecoregion

August 25, 2006
Venezuela: Biodiversity Conservation in the Productive Landscape of the Venezuelan Andes

August 24, 2006
Croatia: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in the Dalmatian Coast through Greening Coastal Development

August 7, 2006
Regional (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Togo): Addressing Transboundary Concerns in the Volta River Basin and its Downstream Coastal Area

August 3, 2006
Indonesia: Integrated Microhydro Development and Application Program (IMIDAP), Part I

Regional (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu): Pacific Islands Greenhouse Gas Abatement through Renewable Energy Project (PIGGAREP)

Mexico: Hybrid Solar Thermal Power Plant

July 27, 2006
Ukraine: Methyl Bromide Phase-Out Project

July 21, 2006
Rwanda: Conservation of the Montane Forest Protected Area System in Rwanda

July 20, 2006
Regional (Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines): Implementation of Pilot Adaptation Measures in coastal areas of Dominica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent & the Grenadines

July 13, 2006
Regional (Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru): Biodiversity Conservation in Coffee: Transforming Productive Practices in the Coffee Sector by Increasing Market Demand for Certified Sustainable Coffee

July 6, 2006
Kenya: Mount Kenya East Pilot Project for Natural Resource Management (MKEPP)

Regional (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras): Integrated Management of the Montecristo Trinational Protected Area

June 14, 2006
Niger: Sustainable Co-Management of the Natural Resources of the Air-Tenere Complex

June 9, 2006
Malaysia: Conservation of Biological Diversity through Improved Forest Planning Tools

June 6, 2006
China: Demonstration of Fuel Cell Bus Commercialization in China, Phase 2

June 2, 2006

Mexico: Large Scale Renewable Energy Development Project

Peru: Second National Communication of Peru to the UNFCCC

May 25, 2006

Mauritania: Community-based Watershed Management Project

Guinea: Community-based Land Management

May 23, 2006
Guinea: Coastal Marine and Biodiversity Management

May 18, 2006
Nepal: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands

May 17, 2006

Panama: Second Rural Poverty, Natural Resources Management and Consolidation of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor Project

Brazil: Integrated Management of Aquatic Resources in the Amazon (AquaBio)

May 12, 2006

China: Demonstration of Alternatives to Chlordane and Mirex in Termite Control

Malaysia: Capacity Building for Implementation of Malaysia's National Biosafety Framework

May 11, 2006

China: Ningbo Water and Environment Project - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the Large Marine Ecosystem of East Asia

May 8, 2006
Benin: Program for the Management of Forests and Adjacent Lands

May 5, 2006

Costa Rica: Mainstreaming Market-based Instruments for Environmental Management Project

Regional (Nicaragua, Honduras): Corazon Transboundary Biosphere Reserve

May 4, 2006

Global: GEF- Development Marketplace Partnership

May 3, 2006

Regional (Cameroon, Congo, Gabon): Conservation of Transboundary Biodiversity in the Minkebe-Odzala-Dja Interzone in Gabon, Congo, and Cameroon

May 1, 2006

Kiribati: Kiribati Adaptation Program - Pilot Implementation Phase (KAP-II)

April 27, 2006

Regional (Indonesia, Malaysia): Marine Electronic Highway Demonstration

April 26, 2006

Cameroon: Sustainable Agro-Pastoral and Land Management Promotion under the National Community Development Program Support Program (PNDP)

April 25, 2006

Malaysia: Conserving Marine Biodiversity through Enhanced Marine Park Management and Inclusive Sustainable Island Development

April 7, 2006

Turkmenistan: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Globally Significant Biological Diversity in Khazar Nature Reserve on the Caspian Sea Coast (Resubmission)

March 27, 2006

Belarus: Removing Barriers to Energy Efficiency Improvements in the State Sector in Belarus

March 20, 2006

Kazakhstan: Removing Barriers to Energy Efficiency in Municipal Heat and Hot Water Supply

Regional (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua): Central American Markets for Biodiversity (CAMBio): Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use within Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Development and Financing

March 10, 2006

China: China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency Finance Program (CHUEE)

Ukraine: Removing Barriers to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation through Energy Efficiency in the District Heating System, Phase 2

Hungary: Reduction of Nutrient Discharges - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea

March 9, 2006

Colombia: Integrated National Adaptation Plan: High Mountain Ecosystems, Colombia's Caribbean Insular Areas and Human Health (INAP)

March 8, 2006

Argentina: Decentralized GEF Medium-sized Grants Programme

March 7, 2006

Global: International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)

March 1, 2006

Colombia: Colombian National Protected Areas Conservation Trust Fund

Gabon: Strengthening Capacity for Managing National Parks and Biodiversity

February 27, 2006

Armenia: Renewable Energy Project

Mexico: Environmental Services Project

February 23, 2006

Global: Country Support Program for GEF Focal Points

February 22, 2006

Regional (China, Thailand, Vietnam): Livestock Waste Management in East Asia

February 17, 2006

Botswana: Building Local Capacity for Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in the Okavango Delta

February 1, 2006

Namibia: Strengthening the Protected Area Network (SPAN)

January 30, 2006

Regional (Albania, Macedonia): Integrated Ecosystem Management in the Prespa Lakes Basin of Albania, FYR-Macedonia and Greece

January 19, 2006

Global: Small Grants Programme (Third Operational Phase), Tranche 2
Peru: Rural Electrification

January 17, 2006

Ecuador: Renewable Energy for Electricity Generation—Renewable Electrification of the Galapagos Islands

January 13, 2006

Nigeria: National Fadama Development Program II: Critical Ecosystem Management

January 4, 2006

South Africa: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity on the South African Wild Coast

December 29, 2005

Global: Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA)

December 21, 2005

Regional: Programme on Electrical Energy Efficiency in Industrial and Commercial Service Sectors in Central America

December 14, 2005

Slovak Republic: Global Programme to Demonstrate the Viability and Removal of Barriers that Impede Adoption and Successful Implementation of Available, Non-Combustion Technologies for Destroying Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

December 14, 2005

Brazil: Sustainable Land Management in the Semi-Arid Sertao

December 14, 2005

Regional (Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Turkey): Enhancing Conservation of the Critical Network of Sites of Wetlands Required by Migratory Waterbirds on the African/Eurasian Flyways

December 8, 2005

Cameroon: Forest and Environment Development Policy Grant (FEDPG)

November 30, 2005

Bhutan: Sustainable Land Management

November 22, 2005

Regional (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru): Conservation of the Biodiversity of the Paramo in the Northern and Central Andes

Honduras: Rural Infrastructure (Electrification Sector)

November 21, 2005

Global (Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Uganda): Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below Ground Biodiversity, Tranche 2

November 16, 2005

Zambia: Renewable Energy-based Electricity Generation for Isolated Mini-grids

Moldova: POPs Management and Destruction Project

November 2, 2005

Nicaragua: Sustainable Land Management in Drought Prone Areas of Nicaragua

October 31, 2005

Belarus: Catalyzing Sustainability of the Wetland Protected Areas System in Belarusian Polesie through Increased Management Efficiency and Realigned Land Use Practices

October 28, 2005

Global (Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, South Africa): Fuel Cells Financing Initiative for Distributed Generation Applications

October 25, 2005

El Salvador: Protected Areas Consolidation and Administration

Kazakhstan: Forest Protection and Reforestation

October 19, 2005

Brazil: Second National Communication of Brazil to the UNFCCC

September 22, 2005

Mozambique: Transfrontier Conservation Areas and Sustainable Tourism Development

September 21, 2005

Dominician Republic: Land Degradation in Upper Sabana Yegua

September 12, 2005

Cambodia: Establishing Conservation Areas Landscape Management (CALM) in the Northern Plains

September 1, 2005

Regional (Ethiopia, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana): Removing Barriers to Invasive Plant Management in Africa

August 16, 2005

Regional (Niger, Nigeria): Integrated Ecosystem Management of Transboundary Areas between Niger and Nigeria Phase I: Strengthening of Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Collaboration and Pilot Demonstrations of IEM

Regional: (Botswana, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Ethiopia): African Stockpiles Program, P1

Letter to Council

World Bank project document

FAO project document

August 10, 2005

Lao PDR: Southern Provinces Rural Electrification II Program

August 3, 2005

Zambia: Effective Management of the National Protected Areas System

Namibia: Namib Coast Biodiversity Conservation and Management (NACOMA)

July 28, 2005

Global: Small Grants Programme: Third Operational Phase (Year 1: Feb 2005 - Jan 2006)

July 27, 2005

Botswana: Renewable Energy-Based Rural Electrification Programme

July 25, 2005

Russian Federation: Conservation of Wetland Biodiversity in the Lower Volga Region

June 30, 2005

China: Nature Conservation and Flood Control in the Yangtze River Basin

May 27, 2005

Philippines: Asian Conservation Company (Tranche 2)

Chad: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in the Moyen-Chari

Chad: Community-Based Ecosystem Management Project

May 24, 2005

Regional (Cook Islands, Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu): Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project

May 23, 2005

Croatia: Renewable Energy Resources Project

May 13, 2005

Azerbaijan: Rural Environment Project

May 11, 2005

Iran: Conservation of Biodiversity in the Central Zagros Landscape Conservation Zone

Tanzania: Marine and Coastal Environment Management Project (MACEMP)

Albania: Natural Resources Development Project

Uruguay: Integrated Natural Resources and Biodiversity Management

May 10, 2005

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea: Water Quality Protection Project

May 5, 2005

Guyana: Protected Areas System Phase 1

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Integrated Ecosystem Management in Production Landscapes of the North-Northwestern Fluminense

May 3, 2005

Brazil: Ecosystem Restoration of Riparian Forests in Sao Paulo

El Salvador: Environmental Services Project

April 29, 2005

Russian Federation: Demonstrating Sustainable Conservation of Biodiversity in Four Protected Areas in Russia's Kamchatka Oblast, Phase 2

April 28, 2005

China: PCB Management and Disposal Demonstration

April 27, 2005

Ethiopia: Renewable Energy Project

April 19, 2005

China: Renewable Energy Scale Up Program (CRESP), Phase 1

Serbia and Montenegro: Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea: Reduction of Enterprise Nutrient Discharges Project (RENDR)

April 14, 2005

Regional (Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique): Groundwater and Drought Management in SADC

March 30, 2005

Global: Development of National Biosafety Frameworks Project (10 additional countries) - Add On

Global: Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH) - (add-on to include 89 additional countries)

March 24, 2005

Regional (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras): Environmental Protection and Maritime Transport Pollution Control in the Gulf of Honduras

March 23, 2005

Cuba: Generation and Delivery of Renewable Energy Based Modern Energy Services in Cuba; the case of Isla de la Juventud

March 17, 2005

Russian Federation: Financing Energy Efficiency in the Russian Federation (FEER)

March 15, 2005

Rwanda: Integrated Management of Critical Ecosystems

March 7, 2005

China: Wetland Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use - AMENDMENTANNEX

March 2, 2005

Russian Federation: Biodiversity Conservation in the Russian Portion of the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion

February 28, 2005

Regional (Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua): Reducing Pesticide Run-off to the Caribbean Sea

February 23, 2005

Kazakhstan: In-Situ Conservation of Kazakhstan´s Mountain Agrobiodiversity

February 22, 2005

Global: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Fund (REEF) - Amendment

February 18, 2005

Regional (Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago): Integrating Watershed and Coastal Area Management (IWCAM) in the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean

February 16, 2005

Pakistan: Sustainable Development of Utility-Scale Wind Power Production (Phase 1)

February 14, 2005

Bulgaria: Energy Efficiency Project

China: Heat Reform and Building Energy Efficiency Project

Vietnam: Energy Efficiency Public Lighting (VEEPL) Project

February 9, 2005

Mali: Biodiversity Conservation and Participatory Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in the Inner Niger Delta and its Transition Areas, Mopti Region

February 8, 2005

Tunisia: Gulf of Gabes Marine and Coastal Resources Protection

Global: Support Programme for National Capacity Self-Assessments (NCSAs)

February 7, 2005

China: Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project

February 4, 2005

Regional (Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe): Desert Margins Programme (DMP) Tranche 2

Guinea: Conservation of the Biodiversity of the Nimba Mountains through Integrated and Participatory Management

February 2, 2005

Kenya: Western Kenya Integrated Ecosystem Management Project

February 1, 2005

Chile: Conserving Globally Significant Biodiversity along the Chilean Coast

January 13, 2005

Regional (Bulgaria, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Uzbekistan): Total Sector Methyl Bromide Phase Out in Countries with Economies in Transition

India: Removal of Barriers to Biomass Power Generation, Part I

December 29, 2004

Malaysia: Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Technology Application Project

December 21, 2004

China: Biodiversity Management in the Coastal Area of China´s South Sea

Pakistan: Protection and Management of Pakistan Wetlands

December 17, 2004

Hungary: Energy Efficiency Co-financing Program (HEECP) - Amendment

Regional: Commercializing Energy Efficiency Finance (CEEP) - Amendment

December 16, 2004

Iran: Conservation of Iranian Wetlands

November 22, 2004

IFC/GEF Energy Efficiency Lighting Initiative (ELI) - Amendment

November 12, 2004

Regional (Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama): Integrated Ecosystem Management in Indigenous Communities

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Map 3

November 11, 2004

Vietnam: Promoting Energy Conservation in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (PECSME)

November 8, 2004

Philippines: Efficient Lighting Market Transformation Project

October 26, 2004

China: End Use Energy Efficiency Project

Indonesia: Komodo National Park Collaborative Management Initiative

October 21, 2004

Vietnam: Rural Energy II

October 18, 2004

Armenia: Programme for Phasing Out Ozone Depleting Substances

October 15, 2004

Syria: Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management

October 6, 2004

Tunisia: Development of an Energy Efficiency Program for the Industrial Sector for Tunisia

October 5, 2004

Costa Rica: National Off-grid Electrification Programme Based on Renewable Energy Sources, Phase I

September 21, 2004

Poland: Krakow Energy Efficiency Project

September 13, 2004

Global: Strengthening Global Capacity to Sustain Transboundary Waters: The International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW:LEARN), Operational Phase

September 9, 2004

China: Building the Capacity of the People´s Republic of China to Implement the Stockholm Convention on POPs and Develop a National Implementation Plan

September 9, 2004

Senegal: Integrated Marine and Coastal Resource Management

August 27, 2004

Republic of Korea: Conservation of Globally Significant Wetlands

August 23, 2004

Global: LDC and SIDS Targeted Portfolio Approach For Capacity Development and Mainstreaming of Sustainable Land Management

August 20, 2004

Senegal: Electricity Services for Rural Areas Project

August 18, 2004

Regional (Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine): Control of Eutrophication, Hazardous Substances and Related Measures for Rehabilitating the Black Sea Ecosystem: Tranche 2

August 18, 2004

Regional (Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Congo DR, Cote d´Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Togo): Combating Living Resource Depletion and Coastal Area Degradation in the Guinea Current LME through Ecosystem-based Regional Actions

August 17, 2004

Global: Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building for Management

August 3, 2004

Regional: (Philippines, Indonesia) Marine Aquarium Market Transformation (MAMTI)

July 7, 2004

Burundi: Agricultural Rehabilitation and Sustainable Land Management Project

June 21, 2004

Zambia: Securing the Environment for Economic Development (SEED)

June 18, 2004

LATVIA: Biodiversity Protection in North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve

June 15, 2004

Mali: Gourma Biodiversity Conservation Project

June 10, 2004

Regional (Lao PDR, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand): Mekong River Basin Wetland Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Program

June 2, 2004

Regional (Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania): Addressing Land-based Activities in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO-LaB)

June 1, 2004

Eritrea: Wind Energy Applications

May 28, 2004

Slovak Republic: Global Programme to Demonstrate the Viability and Removal of Barriers that Impede Adoption and Successful Implementation of Available, Non-Combustion Technologies for Destroying Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

May 25, 2004

Burkina Faso: Sahel Integrated Lowland Ecosystem Management (SILEM), Phase I

May 25, 2004

China: PRC/GEF Partnership on Land Degradation in Dryland Ecosystems: Project I on Strengthening the Enabling Environment and Building Institutional Capacity

May 10, 2004

Regional (Latin America and Caribbean): Building the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)

China: Guangdong-Pearl River Delta Urban Environment

May 5, 2004

Vietnam: Forest Sector Development Project

May 4, 2004

Turkey: Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project

Regional (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d´Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal): Building Scientific and Technical Capacity for Effective Management and Sustainable Use of Dryland Biodiversity in West African Biosphere Reserves

May 3, 2004

Guinea-Bissau: Coastal and Biodiversity Management Project

Indonesia: Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project Phase II (COREMAP II)

April 30, 2004

South Africa: C.A.P.E. Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development Project

April 27, 2004

Russian Federation: An Integrated Ecosystem Management Approach to Conserve Biodiversity and Minimize Habitat Fragmentation in Three Selected Model Areas in the Russian Arctic

April 26, 2004

Regional (Benin, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d´Ivoire, Niger): Resersing Land and Water Degradation Trends in the Niger River Basin

April 22, 2004

Kazakhstan: Wind Power Market Development Initiative

April 19, 2004

Cambodia: Tonle Sap Conservation Project

Regional (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and Grenadines, St. Lucia): OECS Protected Areas and Associated Sustainable Livelihoods

Namibia: Integrated Ecosystem Management in Namibia through the National Conservancy Network

April 13, 2004

Global: National Communications Programme for Climate Change

April 12, 2004

Philippines: Electric Cooperative System Loss Reduction Project

April 8, 2004

Tajikistan: Community Agriculture and Watershed Management

April 6, 2004

Global: Small Grants Programme (Second Operational Phase - Year 6)

April 5, 2004

Armenia: Improving the Energy Efficiency of the Urban Heating and Hot Water Supply

April 1, 2004

Uruguay: Energy Efficient Project

March 24, 2004

Global: Environmental Business Finance Program (EBFP)

March 22, 2004

Regional (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine): Strengthening the Implementation Capacities for Nutrient Reduction and Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin (Tranche 2)

March 8, 2004

Nepal: Landscape Level Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal´s Western Terai Complex

March 2, 2004

Regional (Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan): In-situ Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives through Enhanced Information Management and Field Application

March 2, 2004

Madagascar: Third Environment Programme

February 26, 2004

Bulgaria: Conservation of Globally Significant Biodiversity in the Landscape of Bulgaria´s Rhodope Mountains

February 20, 2004

Lithuania: Conservation of Inland Wetland Biodiversity

February 20, 2004

Regional (Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos): Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme

February 13, 2004

Albania: Integrated Water and Ecosystem Management Project

February 13, 2004

Tanzania - Transformation of the Rural Photovoltaics (PV) Market

India - Removal of Barriers to Energy Efficiency Improvement in the Steel Rerolling Mill Sector

Georgia: Promoting the Use of Renewable Energy Resources for Local Energy Supply

February 12, 2004

Philippines: Asian Conservation Company (ACC)

February 10, 2004

Regional (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan): Towards a Convention and Action Programme for the Protection of the Caspian Sea Environment (Phase II)

Honduras: Promoting Integrated Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management

February 4, 2004

China: Hai River Basin Integrated Water Resources Management

February 2, 2004

Global: Building Capacity for Effective Participation in the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH) of the Cartagena Protocol

January 29, 2004

Moldova: Agricultural Pollution Control Project (under the Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River Basin and Black Sea)

January 28, 2004

South Africa: Greater Addo Elephant National Park Project

January 22, 2004

Global: Development of National Biosafety Frameworks Project (Add-on)

January 9, 2004

Brazil: Demonstration of Integrated Ecosystem and Watershed Management in the Caatinga, Phase I

November 25, 2003

Honduras: Consolidation of Ecosystem Management and Biodiversity Conservation of the Bay Islands

November 13, 2003

Maldives: Atoll Ecosystem-based Conservation of Globally Significant Biological Diversity in the Maldives´Baa Atoll

November 10, 2003

Peru: Lima Urban Transport

November 7, 2003

Cambodia: Rural Electrification and Transmission

November 5, 2003

Poland: Polish Energy Efficiency Motors Programme

October 29, 2003

Algeria: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Globally Significant Biodiversity in the Tassili and Ahaggar National Parks

October 14, 2003

Chile: Sustainable Transport and Air Quality for Santiago

October 8, 2003

Global: Technology Transfer Networks (TTN) Phase II: Prototype Verification and Expansion at the Country Level

September 26, 2003

Mali: Household Energy and Universal Rural Access Project

September 22, 2003

Philippines: Rural Power

August 25, 2003

Croatia: Energy Efficiency Project

August 20, 2003

Regional (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic): Energy Management and Peformance Related Energy Savings Scheme (EMPRESS)

August 13, 2003

Mexico: Action Plan for Removing Barriers to the Full-scale Implementation of Wind Power

August 11, 2003

Russian Federation: Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wild Salmonid Biological Diversity in Russia´s Kamchatka Peninsula, Phase I

July 31, 2003

Russian Federation: Support to the National Programme of Action for the Protection of Arctic Marine Environment, Phase 1

July 30, 2003

South Africa: Agulhas Biodiversity Initiative (ABI)

July 30, 2003

China: Gansu and Xinjiang Pastoral Development Project

July 25, 2003

Cape Verde: Integrated Participatory Ecosystem Management in and around Protected Areas, Phase I

July 24, 2003

Slovenia: EBRD/GEF Environmental Credit Facility (formerly National Pollution Reduction Project)

Letter toCouncilProject Proposal

July 1, 2003

Congo DR: Rehabilitation of Protected Areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

June 26, 2003

Belarus: Biomass Energy for Heating and Hot Water Supply

June 26, 2003

Regional (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania): Commercializing Energy Finance (CEEF) - Tranche II

Letter toCouncilCoverMemoProject Proposal

June 19, 2003

India: Capacity Building for Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol

June 17, 2003

Mozambique: Energy Reform and Access Project

May 29, 2003

Vietnam: Demand-Side Management and Energy Efficiency Program

May 29, 2003

Regional (West Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Cote d´Ivoire, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo): Capacity-building for Improving Greenhouse Gas Inventories (West and Francophone Central Africa)

May 12, 2003

Lithuania: Vilnius District Heating

May 8, 2003

Russian Federation: Removing Barriers to Coal Mine Methane Recovery and Utilization

May 2, 2003

Mexico: Consolidation of the Protected Area System (SINAP II) - Second Tranche

April 30, 2003

Guatemala: Western Altiplano Integrated Natural Resources Management

April 28, 2003

Kazakhstan: Drylands Management Project

April 17, 2003

Nicaragua: Off-grid Rural Electrification for Development (PERZA)

April 17, 2003

Tanzania: Conservation and Management of the Eastern Arc Mountain Forests

April 10, 2003

Regional (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama): Regional Program of Action and Demonstration of Sustainable Alternatives to DDT for Malaria Vector Control in Mexico and Central America

March 28, 2003

Regional: Capacity-building for Improving the Quality of Greenhouse Gas Inventories (Europe and CIS)

March 24, 2003

Regional (Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago): Caribbean: Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change

March 19, 2003

Jordan: Conservation of Medicinal and Herbal Plants

February 25, 2003

Regional (China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation): Development of a Wetland Site and Flyway Network for Conservation of the Siberian and Other Migratory Waterbirds inAsiaAnnexes

February 24, 2003

Niger: Community-based Integrated Ecosystem Management Program under the Community Action Program

February 10, 2003

Cuba: Strengthening the National System of Protected Areas

Response to Council

Annexes

February 6, 2003

Peru: Participatory Management of Protected Areas

January 30, 2003

Egypt: Second Matrouh Resource Management Project

January 22, 2003

Regional (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation): Baltic Sea Regional Project, Phase I

January 22, 2003

Regional (Burundi, Congo DR, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania): Nile Transboundary Environmental Action Project, Phase I

January 13, 2003

Argentina: Enabling Activities Leading to the Second National Communication of the Argentine Government to the Conference of the Parties to UNFCCC

January 13, 2003

Namibia: Barrier Removal to Namibian Renewable Energy Programme, Phase I

January 6, 2003

Colombia: Capacity Building for the Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol