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.

Assist Lebanon in the preparation of its First Biennial Update Report (BUR) for the fullfilment of the obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

This project will establish an economy-wide approach to climate change adaptation in Samoa, aimed for efficient integration and management of adaptation and DRR/DRM into national development planning and programming, and enhancing the resilience of communities’ physical assets and livelihoods across Samoa, to CC and natural disasters.

To integrate Mauritius obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD into its national development and sectoral planning frameworks through a renewed and participative biodiversity planning’ and strategizing process in a manner that is in line with the global guidance contained in the CBD s Strategic Plan for 2011 2020.

Sub-national administration systems affecting investments in rural livelihoods are improved through climate sensitive planning, budgeting and execution

To implement the Nagoya Protocol on ABS through the development of nature-based crop-protection products and the strengthening of the capacity of the national authority.

To promote investments in biogas based rural electricity enterprises (REE) for increasing rural electrification

To improve accessibility of best practices and monitoring information within the Sahel and West Africa Program portfolio on sustainable land use and management

To trigger public and private investment in small and micro hydropower-based mini-grids for rural electrification in Congo-Brazzaville

To Facilitate access to GEF Funding by Cape Verde for Enabling Activities to Meet their Obligations under the UNCCD : a) Development and Alignment of NAP with 10 – Year Strategy and b) Reporting and Review process.