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Policies & Procedures

  • Co-financing

    GEF Co-financing comprises the total of cash and in-kind resources committed by governments, other multilateral or bilateral sources, the private sector, NGOs, the project beneficiaries and the concerned GEF agency, all of which are essential for meeting the GEF project...

  • Communication and Visibility Policy

    The GEF Communication and Visibility Policy, which is applied in conjunction with the 2009 corporate identity guidelines, provides clear guidance as to how or when the GEF’s contribution, including its logo, should be used in public documents and in outreach materials, including contractual...

  • Fiduciary Standards

    In June 2007, the GEF Council approved a set of minimum fiduciary standards recommended by the Trustee. The approved standards constitute the basis for the GEF’s Policy on Fiduciary Standards.

    In June...

  • GEF Policy on Gender Mainstreaming
  • Global Environmental Benefits

    GEF investments are predicated on the delivery of global environmental benefits in the focal areas of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, international waters, land degradation, ozone depletion, and persistent organic pollutants. These benefits are specific to each focal area, and defined...

  • Governance Documents

    The GEF Instrument is the foundational governing document of the Global Environment Facility, which sets out the GEF’s governing bodies – the GEF Assembly and the GEF Council – and establishes three of the core GEF entities – the GEF Secretariat, the GEF Trustee,...

  • Incremental Costs

    GEF funds the "incremental" or additional costs associated with transforming a project with national benefits into one with global environmental benefits; for example, choosing solar energy technology over coal or diesel fuel meets the same national development goal (power generation), but is...

  • Project Cycle

    The project cycle describes the various phases - and their sequencing - that a project must go through from beginning to end in order to realize its objectives. The precise formulation of the cycle varies from one agency to another, but the basic components are shown in Figure 1.

    It...

  • Public Involvement

    This page presents the GEF policy on public involvement in GEF-financed projects, as approved by the GEF Council in April 1996. The GEF Council approved the principles presented herein as a basis for public involvement in the design, implementation, and evaluation of GEF-financed projects...

  • Relations with NGOs

    From the GEF's inception, during its Pilot Phase, the NGOs have been active in shaping its policies and projects. Accordingly, the relationship between the GEF Council, the GEF Secretariat and grass roots civil society organizations (CSOs) has regularly been critically examined and...

  • Roles and Responsibilities of GEF Entities

    The roles and responsibilities of the GEF Agencies were clarified in 2010 through an annex to the Policy Recommendations for the Fifth Replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund, which was approved by the GEF Council on May 24, 2010 as part of the Summary of Negotiations of the Fifth Replenishment of...

  • Use of No-Grant Instruments

    Since the inception of the GEF in 1994, most of the resources of the GEF Trust Fund
    have been provided to recipient countries as grants through projects implemented by GEF Agencies. Given the broad GEF mandate, which allows it to provide “grants and concessional funding”, this...

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