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The LDCF project “Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change by Establishing Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness Systems and Support for Integrated Watershed Management in flood prone areas” is helping 10 districts in Rwanda address their diverse adaptation needs, in partnership with UNEP, UNDP, RAB (Rwanda Agriculture Board), and AAP (African Adaptation Program).

GEF Agency: FAO
Executing Agency: Ministry of Agriculture (Département de Développement Agricole)
LDCF Grant: $2,000,000
Co-financing: $5,000,000

GEF Agency: UNEP
Executing Agency: Government of Djibouti – Ministry of Urbanism, Habitat, Environment, and Land Use Planning (MUHEAT)
LDCF Grant: $2,070,000
Co-financing: $2,405,000

GEF Agency: UNDP
Executing Agency: Federal Environment Protection Agency, Addis Ababa Environment Protection Agency
LDCF Grant: $5,307,885
Co-financing: $22,650,000

GEF Agency: UNDP
Executing Agency: Ministry of Land, Mines, and Energy
LDCF Grant: $2,900,000
Co-financing: $4,653,420

GEF Agency: UNDP
Executing Agency: Ministry of Agriculture
LDCF Grant: $2,381,500
Co-financing: $6,080,000

Bairds, Barbados - June 7, 2010

The seminar hosted by Sr Environmental Specialists Mohamed Imam Bakarr and Ulrich Apel in honor of this internationally recognized day introduced a revised results-based management framework for the GEF land degradation focal area strategy.

Today, Friday June 11 , marks the kick off for the soccer World Cup 2010. The GEF has contributed to the greening of the World Cup by providing energy efficient lighting of the stadiums and solar street lighting, as part of a GEF/UNEP project to mitigate climate change effects in that particular region, and invested in sustainable transport with UNDP.

However the GEF will also be present throughout the games - on most of the large screens in the stadiums with another key environmental message: "Biodiversity is Life - Biodiversity is Our Life".