In 2012, more than 30 GEF SGP projects won local and international awards, demonstrating the capacity of SGP to produce innovative practices and concrete results that serve as examples to other communities and key stakeholders. A good example is the Coastal Award 2012 won by the Belitung ...read more

The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by UNDP, substantially promotes marine biodiversity conservation in the Caribbean. A successful example is the GEF SGP supported project 'Conserving Abaco's Lobster populations by training fishermen in sustainable fishing practices with a grant ...read more

The 'TRY Oyster Women's Association', a community-based organization (CBO) from the Gambia, was awarded the Equator Prize 2012 at the Equator Initiative's award ceremony held at the Rio+20 Summit. A grant recipient of the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by UNDP, the ...read more

During 19-22 May 2012, the Children's Ecological Camp "Green Wave" was held in Ostky village of Rivne region to celebrate the International Day of Biodiversity. This eco-camp was organized by the GEF SGP project "Biodiversity rehabilitation of the forest ecosystem in Polissya area" with the support ...read more

September 10, 2012, the new CEO of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Dr. Naoko Ishii, visited a GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) project site located in the Kikuyu Escarpment Forest in Kiambu County, Kenya. The GEF SGP country team and the project grantee organization, the Kijabe ...read more

Lake Sevan is the largest fresh water lake in the Southern Caucasus. The total surface area of its basin is about 5,000 km2, while the lake itself covers 1,250 km2. Since the 1930s, unsustainable utilization of lake water for irrigation and hydropower generation disrupted the ecological balance ...read more

The Mutulanganga Important Bird Areas Conservation and Community Eco-Tourism Initiatives project is one of the numerous success stories of biodiversity conservation in Zambia. Spearheaded by the Zambian Ornithological Society, a local Zambian NGO, and in collaboration with the Zambia ...read more

Biodiversity, agro-ecology, food sovereignty and strengthening of grassroots organizations are the driving forces behind the Small Grants Programme's (SGP) work in Uruguay. Mobilizing the community and promoting proactive participation in shaping the country's public policies, to account ...read more

Kars region of northeastern Turkey is a high plateau located between two important global biodiversity hotspots, the Caucasian and Iran-Anatolian. Kars region is also rich in wetlands, large meadows and pine forests. Besides the high diversity of birds and plants, Kars is rich in large ...read more

On the occasion of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17), the GEF Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP) implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a site visit to a community-based mitigation project in the ...read more