Welcome to The GEF Small Grants Programme

A Giant Leap- jaguar conservation in Argentina

Though it is South America’s largest predator, with a name meaning ‘wild beast that overcomes its prey in a single bound’, the jaguar is nevertheless surprisingly vulnerable. Since 2019, with support from the GEF Small Gants Programme, implemented by UNDP, Proyecto Yaguerete has been working to strengthen community and inter-institutional work to ensure the coexistence of people and big cats in the Paranaense Forest and the Gran Chaco Argentino. This work seeks to conserve the jaguar in both regions, trying to promote productive mode...

Launch of COMDEKS Phase 4- Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative

At the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversi...

SGP's 30th Anniversary: Reflecting on three decades of local action for people and planet - and looking forward to more

This year SGP is celebrating its 30th anniversary, find out how this story began and where it is heading next in this new timeline. ...

Our Mission

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.