The Good Practice Briefs were produced by the GEF Secretariat in collaboration with relevant GEF Agencies.
Climate change
The GEF and Climate Change – Catalyzing Transformation
To help catalyze transformational change, the strategy for the GEF’s latest four-year investment cycle (known as GEF-7) is explicitly focused on our food, urban, and energy systems.
Climate change
UNFCCC Guidance from the COPs and Responses by the GEF: COP1 – COP24
The GEF continually incorporates guidance from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties into its programs and operations, as described annually in its report to the COP.
Education, knowledge and training
The Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT)
The Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) supports developing countries to build institutional and technical capacity, both pre- and post-2020, to meet enhanced transparency requirements as defined in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement.
Environment, hydrometeorology and ecosystems
Voices from the land: Restoring soil and enriching lives
As vital to our existence as air or water, land is one of our greatest shared assets – and degradation of that land one our most pressing common challenges.
Climate change
Central Asia is considered a global hotspot with respect to impacts of climate change on the mountain cryosphere and downstream societies, most notably.
Central Asia is considered a global hotspot with respect to impacts of climate change on the mountain cryosphere and downstream societies, most notably for water resource shortages and timing, and risks from natural hazards. The three components of the cryosphere – glaciers, snow and permafrost – are all affected by climate change. Glaciers of Central …
Environment, hydrometeorology and ecosystems
The Great Green Wall Initiative
Over a decade ago, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), in close partnership with the World Bank, invested in what has become a landmark project for Africa and the world—the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI) in the Sahel.
Environment, hydrometeorology and ecosystems
Land Degradation
Land degradation is one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems, happening at an alarming pace, and it will worsen without rapid remedial action. Globally, about 25 percent of the total land area has been degraded.
Sanitation, wastewater and waste, housing and communal services
Central Asia energy-water development program : annual report 2016
These priorities are framed by the “3-I”s – information, institutions, and investments. CAEWDP promotes an enabling environment for water and energy security through generation of knowledge, strengthening of capacity and dialogue processes, and identification of investments. From inception, the program broadened its engagement progressively from diagnostic analyses and information to increasingly strengthening institutions and to …
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Biodiversity
Exploratory assessment of factors that influence quality of local irrigation water governance in Uzbekistan
Agriculture in Uzbekistan is almost entirely dependent on irrigation. However, despite reforms to institutional arrangements, much of Uzbekistan’s irrigation is reportedly caught in a vicious cycle of inadequate operation and maintenance, low cost recovery, and agricultural productivity that is often moderate or low; in addition, many farmers earn low incomes (World Bank, 2013).