The project will demonstrate a model of protected area management promoting conservation and sustainable use of globally significant biodiversity.

The primary objective of GEF support is to bring about the long-term sustainable implementation and financing of forest biodiversity conservation and community-based conservation and sustainable development activities in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountain forests. GEF support responds to the increasing threats to the forests at a time when both local communities and more distant populations are increasingly dependent on them for their livelihoods as well as their water and energy potential.

The Pre-Investment project's broad objective was to develop a project, which included the preparation of conservation Forest Action Plans for 14 forest areas in Thailand.

The project will assist the government of Tunisia in improving the conservation of biodiversity within the protected areas through implementation of management plans at three national parks together with local communities and capacity building at the regional levels to assure sustainable ecosystem management and monitoring.

This project will develop sustainable use and management plans for the Gulf of Gabes marine and coastal regions in Tunisia. The project would seek to: (a) develop mechanisms for the integrated biodiversity management of the Gulf of Gabes at six pilot sites and implement three of them; and (b) identify the long-term institutional and technical resources required to reverse the current trend of biodiversity degradation through involvement of the communities concerned within a framework of promoting sustainable participatory development.

The project will develop a strategy program of action which will directly reduce deforestation of critical un-gazetted forest patches, strengthens implementation of the national Forest Conservation Master Plan in the Albertine Rift, and link to other donor funded forest conservation activities in the national parks.

This proposed project will develop tools and generate knowledge needed to ensure that production systems, in this case, forestry production systems, are planned and managed in a manner which will contribute to biodiversity conservation or the sustainable use of its components against the baseline scenarios. This project fits under the GEF Strategic Priority #4 on the Generation and Dissemination of Best Practices for Addressing Current and Emerging Biodiversity Issues.

The key objective of this project is to conserve the globally significant biodiversity of the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion through the expansion, consolidation, and operationalization of an effective PA system in the Russian portion of the ASE in close coordination with similar efforts in other countries of the ASE. The project will contribute to the conservation of globally significant biodiversity through the addition of 900,000 hectares of protected areas (national and regional P.A.s).

The global environment objectives of the program SILEM, based on the promotion of a landscape and lowland ecosystem approach, would be to generate multiple and interconnected global environmental benefits such as : (a) to build capacity for sound and sustainable integrated ecosystem management planning and implementation at local, regional and national level; (b) to reduce, stop and reverse land degradation and desertification with adequate soil and water management technologies and infrastructures in lowland and surrounding uplands of micro-basins as a means for improving the productivity and

The project will contribute to implement a National Energy Efficiency Program (NEEP) and a Competitive Electricity Supply Program (CESP). The NEEP is aimed at building additional capacity in the agencies of the Government of Uruguay (GOU) in charge of EE policy-making and regulations and in other key stakeholders in the EE market. The CESP is designed to test market-based, cost-effective Demand Side Management (DSM) measures and delivery mechanisms aimed at improving the efficiency of the power supply system, reducing fuel consumption and GHG emissions.