Welcome to The GEF Small Grants Programme

SGP launches Results Report 2020-2021

The Small Grants Programme (SGP), a corporate programme of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is launching its Results Report for the reporting year 2020-2021. This report provides an overview on the concrete results achieved on global environmental and socio-economic benefits between July 2020 and June 2021. It also provides brief information on the financial status at the global and country levels. A summary of the report is available here, while the full version can ...

Fighting hunger, protecting wildlife

The wildlife-based tourism sector has been devastated by the effects of COVID-19. As ...

From Cameroon to Kyrgyzstan: How smallholder farmers are transforming sustainable food systems

“In the past when there were collective farms, chemical fertilizers such as saltpetre led to soil disaster,” says Muhtarbek Eshaliev, a Kyrgyz organic farmer. “Our crops did not grow. That was t...

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.