Legal and regulatory structures will be required in order to implement the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. This project aims to assist all GEF eligible countries to prepare for the entry into force of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in accordance with the Initial Biosafety Strategy as endorsed by the 16th GEF council meeting held in Washington, DC on 1-3 November 2000, taking into account other bilateral and multilateral initiatives.

See description of Tranch 1 (PMIS 1224).

This is the second phase of the Desert Margins Programme (DMP) project. The overall objective of the DMP is to arrest land degradation in Africa’s desert margins through demonstration and capacity building activities developed through unraveling the complex causative factors of desertification, both climatic (internal) and human-induced (external), and the formulation and piloting of appropriate holistic solutions. The wider objective (Goal) of the DMP GEF project is to conserve and restore biodiversity in the desert margins through sustainable utilization.

This project is designed to overcome the most significant obstacles to long-term conservation in five globally significant, threatened areas in the Philippines by establishing a model in which private companies go beyond simple environmental mitigation to directly support biodiversity conservation.

The proposed NAPA for Cape Verde project is aimed at addressing the need to develop a realistically achievable country-driven program of action for adaptation to climate change in key sectors such as agriculture, forestry, water resources, coastal zone and human health. It will specifically develop a program of priority activities addressing the urgent and immediate needs and concerns of Cape Verde, relating to the adverse effects of climate change. Cape Verde shares with other LDCs a low adaptive capacity to respond to climate change impacts, arising from their weak socio-economic conditions.

The project objective is to develop environmental and economic services through more sustainable use, increased productivity and enhanced conservation of forest and associated rangeland resources, with a focus on in the northeastern pine forest and southern saxaul woodlands.

The principle objective of the proposed project is to promote sustainable use of natural resources for higher productivity and incomes for the rural farmers of Kenya. The project’s key development goal is to contribute to the modernization of Kenya’s agricultural sector and improvement of the lives and livelihoods of its rural communities through the development , acquisition and application of improved and profitable agricultural technologies and production practices.

The national objective of this project is to foster development of adequate tools, mechanisms and methodologies for each region in the State, aiming to facilitate and encourage future large scale restoration of riparian forests, in order to: (a) provide support for biodiversity conservation in São Paulo biomes (Atlantic Forest and Cerrado) through implementation of riparian forest corridors as a means to address the threat to biodiversity posed by forest fragmentation; (b) decrease, through restoration of degraded lands, sedimentation processes in reservoirs, rivers, water springs, headwat