To enable the country to conduct a broad consultation process, including government ministries involved in national GEF policy and programming, to set priorities for GEF resource programming covering the 5th replenishment period.

To enable the country to conduct a broad consultation process, including government ministries involved in national GEF policy and programming, to set priorities for GEF resource programming covering the 5th replenishment period.

1. Increase the resilience of communities to climate change induced hazards through integration of climate smart policies and actions into rural development planning and budgeting.

Strengthen the hydrological buffering and regulation capacity of the upper watershed of Chingaza-Sumapaz-Guerrero that supplies drinking water to the Bogota metropolitan area and the adjoining rural municipalities

The proposed Africa Regional Healthcare Waste Project seeks to:
1. Implement best environmental practices and non-incineration and mercury-free technologies to help African
countries meet their Stockholm Convention obligations and to reduce mercury use in healthcare;
2. Ensure the availability and affordability of non-incineration waste treatment technologies in the region,
building on the outcomes of the GEF supported UNDP/WHO/HCWH Global Medical Waste project.

To introduce bio- and botanical pesticides and other locally appropriate cost-effective and sustainable alternatives to DDT as first step for reduction and eventual elimination of dependency on DDT, ensuring food safety, enhancing livelihood and protecting human health and the environment.

The project development objective is to reduce environmental degradation and potential risks for human health through the improved management of health care waste in Vietnam’s hospitals. This will be achieved through improved systems for health care waste management in Vietnam’s hospitals, and a strengthened Government stewardship role in regulating, providing implementation support, monitoring and enforcing effective health care waste management practices.

o mainstream climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction into the Fragile Micro-Watersheds Management Plans, and to reduce land degradation and unsuitable land/water use, through the integrated management of natural resources (INRM) and the participation of small-scale rural producers - linked to the Family Agriculture Plan (FAP)-, in targeted micro-watersheds of the sub-basins: i) Atescatempa, Cusmapa, Guajoyo and Pampe (Municipality of Candelaria de la Frontera); and ii) Barranca Honda, El Palmo, Ipayo and San Jacinto (Municipality of Texistepeque).

To build capacity and demonstrate best available techniques and best environmental practices in MSW incineration in accordance with the Stockholm Convention.

To strengthen the sub-system of wetland protected areas to respond to existing and emerging threats to their globally significant biodiversity.