From Soil to Strength: How Climate-Smart Agriculture is Empowering Persons with Disabilities
Gaynel Agustus likes to be on the ground, feeling the soil under her feet: “I love to get my hands dirty, and I love plants. Because I can’t see, I use my hands, nose and feet to ‘see’ what the soil needs, or if it is just right.” Born in Antigua and Barbuda, Gaynel grew up with five brothers. She used to work at a local radio station, but after completely losing her vision due to health-related complications, she had to stay home. From that point forward, she started focusing on working on her little backyard garden with h...
 
SGP launches Annual Monitoring Report 2023-2024
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by th...
 
Guardians of the Páramos: Rural Women Lead the Fight to Save the Andes’ Water Temples in Colombia
On the cold, wet and foggy slopes of the Andes mountains in South America, a unique but fragile ecosystem illustrates the interconnection between the three most urgent global environmental crises we f...
Established in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit, the GEF Small Grants Programme embodies the very essence of sustainable development by "thinking globally acting locally". By providing financial and technical support to projects that conserve and restore the environment while enhancing people's well-being and livelihoods, SGP demonstrates that community action can maintain the fine balance between human needs and environmental imperatives.

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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
2011-2020 has been declared by the UN General Assembly as the 'International Decade for Biodiversity'. Biodiversity provides ...
Climate Change
Climate Change
The effects of climate change undermine development efforts and most severely impact the poor, who are relying on natural r ...
Land Degradation
Land Degradation
Land degradation focal area of the GEF SGP is informed by the previous activities of the millennium ecosystems assessments an ...
Sustainable Forest Management
Sustainable Forest Management
The focal area will endeavor to pursue SFM in the context of increasing forest and non timber forest resources, climate chang ...
International Waters
International Waters
The GEF International Waters (IW) focal area addresses sustainable development challenges faced by countries sharing transbou ...
Chemicals
Chemicals
The GEF-5 strategy for chemicals sets to consolidate the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and ozone layer depletion focal ...

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The power of local action: SGP highlights communit...
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From Soil to Strength: How Climate-Smart Agricultu...
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SGP launches Annual Monitoring Report 2023-2024...
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Guardians of the Páramos: Rural Women Lead the Fi...