...Global Environment Facility (GEF) is an entity that provides grants and concessional funds to developing countries for projects and activities that aim to protect the global environment. The GEF Secretariat is functionally independent but administratively supported by the World Bank. It...

...Facility (GEF): GEF is a financial mechanism that provides grant and concessional funds to developing countries for projects and activities that aim to protect the global environment with respect to climate change, biological diversity, international waters and ozone layer depletion...

...Environment Facility (GEF) (see this section) is a financial mechanism that provides grant and concessional funds to recipient countries for projects and activities that aim to protect the global environment. The GEF is jointly managed by UNDP, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Bank. GEF resources...

...ENVIRONMENT FACILITY (GEF) The GEF, established in 1991, provides grant and concessional funds to developing countries for projects and activities that aim to protect the global environment. Responsibility for implementing GEF activities is shared by the United Nations Development Program,...

...established prior to the 1992 Earth Summit (see Box 5.2) to provide grant and concessional finance to recipient countries for projects and activities that aim to protect the global environment. Box 5.1 ECAs: THE TOOLS OF THEIR TRADE (SOURCE: MAURER AND BHANDARI, 2000) EGAs are bilateral organisations...

...biodiversity conservation, but since 2003, desertification projects are now directly eligible for funding. GEF is jointly implemented by UNDP, UNEP and the World Bank. In 1994, after a three-year pilot phase, the donor governments, mainly from the industrialized countries, initially...