GEF Familiarization Seminar

April 28-30, 2009
Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York Ave, NW
Washington DC

The three-day intensive seminar will familiarize the participants with GEF strategies, programs, policies and procedures. Our newly designed seminar is intended to be interactive and informative and will be enhanced by the diversity of perspectives brought to it by its participants.

Presentations

FIRST DAY - April 28

• - Institutional Structure of the GEF
• -- The GEF Trustee
• -- The GEF's Scientific & Technical Advisory Panel (STAP)
• -- The GEF Evaluation Office
  
• - GEF Resource Programming: An Update
  
• - Results-Based Management Framework
  
• - How to access GEF Funding
• -- The GEF Trust Fund (Zhihong
• -- The Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)
  
• - Mobilizing Resources through Programmatic Approach
• -- TerraAfrica
• -- The West Africa Program
• -- The Pacific Alliance for Sustainability
  

        SECOND DAY - April 29

• - GEF Strategies, Activities, and Accomplishments
• -- Biodiversity
• -- Land Degradation
• -- International Waters
• -- Chemicals 
• -- Climate Change Mitigation
• -- Adaptation to Climate Change
  
• - The Adaptation Fund: An Update 
  
• - Conflict Resolution 
  
• - GEF Informational Resources
• -- Country Profiles
• -- New GEF PMIS
• -- GEF Communication Activities
• -- The GEF website
  

         THIRD DAY - April 30

• - GEF Capacity Building Activities
• -- Country Support Program & National Dialogue Initiative
• -- Capacity Building
• -- Technical National Assessment
• -- National Communications (UNDP - UNEP)
  
• - Meet the GEF Agencies
  (UNDP, UNEP, World Bank (WB GEF Program / WB GEF Program in LAC), AfDB, AsDB, EBRD, FAO, IDB, IFAD, UNIDO) 
  
• - Directions for the Future
• -- GEF-5 Replenishment
• -- GEF Resources Programming
  
• - The GEF Earth Fund