Operational Strategy of the Global Environment Facility

The Operational Strategy from 1995 lays the foundation for GEF's efforts in 6 focal areas. The strategy incorporates guidance from conventions for which GEF serves as financial mechanism: the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.It also establishes operational guidance for international waters and ozone activities, the latter consistent with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and its amendments.

In 2007, the original 15 Operational Programs under the GEF Operational Strategy was replaced with a set of revised Focal Area Strategies presenting long-term Strategic Objectives as well as medium-term Strategic Programs, that would be revised at each replenishment cycle. Click here to read the revised Focal Area Strategies for GEF-4.

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