Welcome to The GEF Small Grants Programme

LOCAL TO GLOBAL COALITIONS ON CHEMICALS, WASTE AND MERCURY MANAGEMENT

During the first Conference of Parties of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the GEF Small Grants Programme launched a “Local to Global Coalitions on Chemicals, Waste and Mercury Management.”

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Community Approaches to Sustainable Land Management and Agroecology Practices

At the UNCDD COP13 SGP launched the publication “Community Approaches to Sustainable Land Management and Agroecology Practices”...

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Six SGP grantees receive the Equator Prize 2017

Six community and indigenous people organizations supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme were honored yesterday at the Equator Prize award winning ceremony

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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.