The Food Securities Fund will improve rural livelihoods and achieve positive environmental outcomes by supporting sustainable agriculture production systems in emerging and developing markets with a complementary source of credit, provided in partnership with companies committed to sustainable development in their sourcing areas.

The Circular Economy Regional Initiative project will address specific barriers to transitioning to circular economy in the Western Balkans and Turkey by catalysing the scale up of circular economy technologies and processes, as well as adoption of circular strategies and business practices.

To increase black rhino populations in target protected areas in South Africa.

Support the consolidation and scaling up of innovative Agtech early-stage companies (SMEs) that will develop technologies to offer productivity, market, and environmental solutions for the agricultural sector in Latin America especially to the Small and Medium Sized Farmers to generate environmental benefits related to climate change, land degradation, and chemicals and waste.

Overall Goal: To strengthen South Africa’s capacity to combat illegal wildlife trade and improve protected area landscape management for increased community benefits.

This project encompasses two pillars. UNEP is the implementing partner for Pillar 1 and the World Bank (WB) is the implementing partner for Pillar 2. The two pillars are defined through the following respective objectives:

To strengthen the transparency systems of Paraguayan institutions to meet the requirements of the transparency framework under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

To ensure strengthened capacities for protection of the internationally recognized biodiversity hot-spots of Montenegro and mainstream biodiversity conservation and sustainable use objectives into the land use planning framework and sectoral practices around the KBAs.

To achieve practical PA management improvement and better biodiversity status through strengthened resilience of key biodiversity values to climate change impact and increased revenues from sustainable recreation

To promote integrated landscape management and restoration in project areas.

To improve governance and strengthen capacity in the forest and mining sectors in the CAR.

Overall Goal of the GEF AF is to improve integrated natural resources management and sustainable rural livelihoods in the Ngotto Forest landscape and Mbaéré-Bodingué National Park.