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 Fortieth Meeting of the Global Environment Facility Council
24-26 May 2011 | Washington, DC, United States of America |
Highlights for Wednesday, 25 May 2011
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 During the second day of the 40th meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council, Council Members concluded their deliberations on: the Evaluation Office and Corporate FY12 budgets; the work programme; and enhancing the visibility of the GEF. The work programme comprises project concepts and one programmatic approach – regarding support for the Great Green Wall initiative – subject to comments made during the Council meeting and additional comments that may be submitted to the GEF Secretariat by 9 June 2011.
Following a discussion of the strategy to engage with the private sector, the Council agreed to call for comments and to ask the Secretariat to resubmit the strategy to the November 2011 Council meeting.
The Council discussed the proposal for broadening the GEF Partnership under Paragraph 28 of the GEF Instrument, which seeks to set the criteria and accreditation procedures for allowing new entities into the Partnership during a pilot phase, recommending that five of ten new agency spots be reserved for national institutions and not approving applications for other types of entities (regional, NGO) until those five slots are filled. Members disagreed on whether bilateral agencies should be included during the pilot phase, and will continue their discussion Thursday morning. Related to this agenda item, they also discussed a revised proposal for GEF policies on environmental and social safeguards and gender mainstreaming, and agreed to refer to the policies on environmental and social safeguards as “provisional,” with a view to revisiting them at the November 2011 Council meeting.
A new draft of the document on “Outstanding Issues Related to the Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund” was circulated on Wednesday afternoon. Following an initial discussion, Council Members decided to continue their deliberations on Thursday. |
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Daily highlights (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
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Daily highlights (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
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GEF resources
 Fortieth GEF Council Working documents
Fortieth GEF Council provisional agenda
GEF website
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Fourth GEF Assembly, 24-28 May 2010, Punta del Este, Uruguay
IISD RS coverage of the Third GEF Assembly, 29-30 August 2006, Cape Town, South Africa
IISD RS coverage of the Second GEF Assembly, 16-18 October 2002, Beijing, China
IISD RS coverage of the First GEF Assembly, 1-3 April 1998, New Delhi, India
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