Accessing GEF Funding

Training Programme to Support

Renewable Energy Deployment
through Developing Project
Proposals to Access Climate Finance

David E. Rodgers
 History of the GEF
1991 1992 1994 2013

$1 billion At the Rio Instrument for GEF serves as financial World’s

pilot Earth Summit, the mechanism for: largest public
program in negotiations Establishment CBD
funder of
the WB started to of the UNFCCC
restructure Stockholm Conv. on POPs
projects and
Restructured
the GEF out UNCCD programs to
GEF
of the WB Mercury (NEW) benefit the
global
Initial Also, although not linked environment
partners: formally to the Montreal
WB, UNDP, Protocol, the GEF supports
UNEP its implementation in
transition economies.
 GEF Trust Fund
Institutional Framework
Guidance Operations Action

GEF
STAP
GEF Assembly Trustee
Projects
Countries:
GEF Council GEF • GEF OFPs / PFPs
GEF Agencies
Countries: Council Members • Convention FPs
Secretariat • UNDP
/ Constituencies • Other Gov’t Agencies
• UNEP
• WB • NGOs / CSOs
Conventions • Private Sector
• CBD • ADB
• UNFCCC Evaluation Office • AfDB
• Stockholm (POPs) • EBRD
• UNCCD • FAO
• Montreal Protocol • IaDB
• Mercury • IFAD
• UNIDO
 Focal Areas
Biodiversity

International Land
Waters Degradation

Sustainable
Chemicals &
Forest
Waste
Management

Climate Climate
Change Change
Adaptation Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
GEF-7 Proposed Objectives

I. Promote innovation, technology

transfer, and supportive policies and
strategies

II. Demonstrate mitigation options with

systemic impacts

III. Foster enabling conditions for

mainstreaming mitigation concerns into
sustainable development strategies

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 Sustainable Energy Opportunities

• De-centralized power with energy

storage
• Electric drive technologies and
electric mobility
• Accelerating energy efficiency
adoption
• Cleantech Innovation

New GEF-7 Cycle starts July 1, 2018

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 Funding of GEF Projects is Guided by
Operations Policies
• Operations policies provide effective and
consistent day to day operational foundation
to the GEFSEC and GEF Agencies on project
and program cycle management

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 GEF Serves Many Countries

143
Countries

Projects
18 GEF
Agencies

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 Country Driven Approach
• Each GEF country member has designated an officer known as GEF
Operational Focal Point (OFP) who acts as the principal contact
point for GEF activities in the country.

• The OFP decides which GEF Agency would be the best to develop
and implement the project idea

• The GEF Agency prepares the project at the request of and in

consultation with relevant country institutions, and other
relevant partners. The GEF OFP must endorse all projects

• Find OFPs at the following link: http://www.thegef.org/country

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 Project Design

• Identify a problem / situation whose solution / intervention

generates global environmental benefits.

• The project has to be consistent with the country’s national priorities

and programs.`

• The project has to address one or more of the GEF focal area
strategies (BD, CB, CC, LD, IW, Chemicals and Waste), or integrated
programs

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 Project Types (modalities)
GEF Project: set of activities that promote the achievement of the
purposes of the GEF.

– Full-sized Projects (FSP): more than two million US dollars.

– Medium-sized Projects (MSP): up to two million US dollars.

– Enabling Activities (EA): preparation of a plan, strategy or report to fulfill

commitments under a Convention

– Programs: longer-term and strategic arrangement of individual yet

interlinked projects that aim at achieving large-scale impacts on the global
environment.

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 Responsibility of GEF Agencies (1 of 2)

Implementing Agency – Project Oversight

Ensure quality of preparation
Disburse funds to Executing Agency
Supervise implementation
Be accountable to GEF Council
Keep GEF OFP informed
Help secure committed co-financing

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 Responsibility of GEF Agencies (2 of 2)
Executing Agency – Project Management
Deliver project outcomes
Day-to-day management of funds
Report on results and use of funds

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 Additional Information
• Project Financing: resources provided to countries through a GEF Agency to
implement the project’s activities.

• Project Preparation Grant (PPG): resources provided to countries through a GEF

Agency to support the preparation of a Full-sized Project (FSP) or Medium-sized
Project (MSP).
• Agency Fee: resources provided to the GEF Agencies to compensate them for
the preparation and implementation of a GEF project.

• Total GEF Resources: total amount of funding provided to countries and

Agencies to support the preparation and implementation of a GEF Project or
Program. This amount includes the Project Financing, the PPG and associated
Agency Fees.

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 GEF STAR Allocation
• Each country receives an allocation of resources at the
beginning of the GEF cycle, determined by formula for
each focal area
• Countries have some flexibility to use resources across
the focal areas. SIDS and LDCs have the most flexibility
• A new STAR formula allocation will be prepared in April
2018 at the conclusion of the replenishment
negotiations and published June 2018
• GEF-6 allocations for reference are at:
https://www.thegef.org/council-meeting-documents/gef-6-indicative-
star-allocations

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 Conclusion

• GEF is ready to serve SIDS, LDCs, and all other countries

• We will strive for innovative projects that meet country needs
• We will support countries efforts to meet their NDCs under the
Paris Agreement
• The GEF-7 Replenishment negotiations will determine GEF’s
future funding and focal area objectives
• We invite you to learn more about the GEF and the
replenishment at the following link:

http://www.thegef.org/events/gef-7-replenishment

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