The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the UNDP, will be holding a 6 day regional workshop for National Coordinators (N) of country programs tolaunch implementation of its Fifth Operational Phase in the Asian Region and provide training and guidance on the vision and strategy of ...read more

It is with tremendous sadness that SGP acknowledges the untimely passing of Ms. Marie Aminata Khan, former staff member, friend and mentor of the SGP staff. Marie started as a Programme Assistant in the Central Programme Management Team and then was selected to take the professional post ...read more

The 6th Annual International Climate Initiative (IKI) Colombia Interface Workshop was held on 3 June 2025 in Bogotá, Colombia, at the Universidad de los Andes, Centro del Japón. It took place as part of the First Week of the Climate and Just Energy ...read more

  The 24th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) was held from 21 April to 2 May 2025at the UN Secretariat in New York. The theme of this year was "Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within United ...read more

During the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a workshop was organized on 30 November- 1 December 2024 regarding Phase 2 of the ICCA GSI, which is delivered as co-financing ...read more

ICCA-GSI global partners launched the Recognising territories and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and localcommunities (ICCAs) overlapped by protected areas at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Conference of Parties (COP) in Cali, Colombia on October 2024. This new volume in ...read more

  The UN Water Conference was held on 22-24 March 2023 in New York, and brought together governments, civil society and all stakeholders towards achieving SDG 6 and other water-related goals and targets, compiled in the Water Action Agenda.  Multi-stakeholder participants ...read more

On the occasion of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD COP15), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection ...read more

Senegal is one of the 45 participating countries in the Phase 2 of the Global Support Initiative to territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCA-GSI) – a rapid response initiative to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the eight ICCA-GSI Phase 2 projects in ...read more

Since 2010, more than 41,800 people belonging to ethnic minorities and living in China’s Community Conserved Areas have been supported by the Global Environment Facility’s Small Grant Programme, implemented by UNDP. These efforts include the Global Support Initiative to territories and ...read more