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GEF-PAS: A Possible Approach and Program. John E. Hay World Bank Consultant. Outline of Presentation. Key Challenges Guiding Principles Building Blocks Programmatic Approaches A Possible Approach for the Pacific A Possible Program for the Pacific Next Steps. Key Challenges. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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GEF-PAS:A Possible Approach
and Program
John E. Hay
World Bank Consultant
Outline of Presentation
• Key Challenges
• Guiding Principles
• Building Blocks
• Programmatic Approaches
• A Possible Approach for the Pacific
• A Possible Program for the Pacific
• Next Steps
Key Challenges• Balancing and optimizing amongst:
– community- and national-focused actions– country drivenness– regional coordination– delivery of national development and global environmental benefits
• Ensuring GEF modalities are more reflective of national and regional circumstances
• Pursuing an integrated, programmatic approach rather than a focal area and project-based approach
• Emphasizing on the ground implementation rather than planning and assessments
• Ensuring countries have the absorptive capacity required to undertake activities in an efficient and effective manner
• Overcoming the limited co-financing opportunities for environment-related projects in the Pacific
Guiding Principlesa. Fundamental
• Country driven - address national priorities for sustainable development
Commitment to consensus building through consultations
• Supportive of and consistent with regional strategies – e.g. Pacific Plan and Micronesia Challenge
• Deliver significant environmental benefits – global, national and regional
• Ensure equitable access to GEF assistance – amongst PICs, and relative to comparable regions
• Multiple players - Governments, private sector and civil society, development assistance partners..
Guiding Principlesb. Desirable but Debatable
• Nationally executed – with regional cooperation to maximize synergies and economies of scale
• Programmatic approach - both nationally and regionally
• Integrated across all GEF Focal Areas as well as other themes related to national and regional priorities
• Include cross-cutting initiatives such as capacity building, enabling activities and supporting civil society and the private sector to undertake relevant activities
• All partners commit to coordinate their activities and work cooperatively, collaboratively and constructively
• GEF Agencies will assist the countries in ways that reflect their comparative advantage
Building BlocksOutcomes
GlobalEnvironmental
Benefits
SustainableNational
DevelopmentEnablingActivities
RegionalActivities
Activities
NationalProjects
SMEProgram
CapacityBuilding
Small GrantsProgram
ProtectingInternational
Waters
PreventingLand
Degradation
Themes
ConservingBiodiversity
SlowingClimate Change
SoundManagementof Chemicals
Adapting toClimate Change
Regional
Execution
National
Community
Sub-regional
Benefits of a Programmatic Approach• Opportunity to include Pacific Territories in regional activities• Interaction with GEF is at a more strategic level;• Resource flow from GEF is stable, phased, and predictable;• Increased opportunity to mobilize co-financing, nationally and
from a multiplicity of sources (including the private sector);• Reduced in transaction costs - key GEF review criteria (e.g.
program and policy conformity, incremental cost and public involvement policy) would be addressed in a more streamlined way;
• Improved opportunities for strengthening the enabling environment and general cross-cutting support, including capacity building;
• Improved opportunities for horizontal and vertical integration of environmental concerns into decision making
• Improved scope for catalyzing action, replication and innovation; and
• Improved opportunity for donor co-ordination towards a more focused, priority set of interventions.
Programmatic Approach: Some Examples
• Strategic Investment Program for Sustainable Land Management in Africa $150 million GEF grant program, with over $1 billion committed co-financing.
• Black Sea Danube Partnership $95 million GEF funding
• Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Partnership $104 million GEF grant - total budget expected to exceed $250 million
• China Sustainable Land Management Partnership
A Possible Program
A Possible VisionGEF-Pacific Alliance for SustainabilityA comprehensive, regionally-coordinated and nationally-executed strategic investment program that:
Reflects country priorities for achieving national sustainable development goals;
Provides significant global environment benefits; Uses a program framework under a regional partnership
with strong and involved national level activities that are anchored in and led by the PICs;
Enables PIC institutions to catalyze and reinforce country level engagement and investments, generating greater impact on the ground across all the GEF Focal Areas;
Improved the potential for sustainability; Improves cost-effectiveness in a region where the average
costs for investments are perceived as being high.
A Possible Programmatic Approach
EnablingActivities
RegionalActivities
ProgramPartnership
Regional
OutcomesExecutionActivities
StrategicInvestment
ProgramGEF-PAS
GlobalEnvironmental
Benefits
NationalNationalProjects
SustainableNational
DevelopmentSMEProgram
CapacityBuilding
Small GrantsProgram
National
NationalRegional
National
Community
A Possible Programmatic Approach(cont.)
National/Regional Priorities
GEF Priorities and Programs
Focal AreaStrategies
Capacity Dev. Init.Country Support Prog.
Enabling Activities
Small GrantsProgram
SME. Program.Development MarketPlace
Chemicals ManagementLand ManagementAdaptation
Water & Waste MgmtRenewable EnergyEnergy Efficiency
Fisheries ManagementProtected AreasInvasive Species
Chemicals ManagementLand ManagementAdaptation
Water & Waste MgmtRenewable EnergyEnergy Efficiency
Fisheries ManagementProtected AreasInvasive SpeciesCivil Society
Engagement
Civil Society
Engagement
Environment
Friendly Businesses
Environment
Friendly BusinessesEnabling
Activities
Enabling
Activities
Capacity
Enhancement
Capacity
Enhancement
GEF- PASStrategic Investment Program
GEF Eligible National Activities
Regional Strategies and Initiatives
Coordination through……Consultation Regional MeetingNational, Regional
& InternationalRepresentatives
National Consultations
National ConsultantGEF OFP & PFP
Regional Consultant 1
Sub-region 1Consultations & Synthesis
Regional Consultant 1
RegionalConsultations & Synthesis
International Consultant
Sub-region 2Consultations & Synthesis
Regional Consultant 2
Sub-region 3Consultations & Synthesis
Regional Consultant 3
National Consultations
National ConsultantGEF OFP & PFP
Regional Consultant 2
National Consultations
National ConsultantGEF OFP & PFP
Regional Consultant 3
Coordination Through…CooperationGEF AssemblyGEF Council
STAP
GEF Secretariat
World Bank UNIDOFAO IFADADBUNEPUNDP
High LevelAdvisory Board
GEF PAS (PROGRAM)
Pacific Island Countries(Projects)
Regional Organizations
Pacific Islands ForumSecretariat
Bi- & Multi-Lateral Donors
Coordination Through…..Advice & AdvocacyGEF AssemblyGEF Council
STAP
GEF Secretariat
World Bank UNIDOFAO IFADADBUNEPUNDP
High LevelAdvisory Board
GEF PAS (PROGRAM)
Pacific Island Countries(Projects)
Regional Organizations
Pacific Islands ForumSecretariat
Bi- & Multi-Lateral Donors
A Possible Approach to Program PreparationProject Implementation Framework
andProject Preparation Grant
ENDORSEMENT BY GEF CEO
APROVAL BY GEF COUNCIL
Preparation of Individual Projects Overseen byGEF Agency with Comparative Advantage
UMBRELLA WORK PROGRAM DOCUMENT (with individual PIFs)
Individual Projects Approved (by GEF CEO)
PHASED IMPLEMENTATION
CONSULTATIONS
Key Steps• Agree on scope and structure of GEF-PAS
• Prepare roadmap (includes process, specific steps, activities and performance indicators)
• Agree on timelines and milestones
• Allocate roles and responsibilities, ensuring country drivenness
• Harmonize national/regional priorities into a program
• Follow up meeting in Bali
• Finalise and endorse GEF-PAS prog. document
• Finalise and sign off on PIFs
• Submission to GEFSec by end of February, 2008
Conclusions• Balance and optimize national, regional and
global needs and capabilities• Provide equitable, efficient and effective access
to GEF resources• Programmatic approach that integrates across
all GEF Focal Areas and with national/regional needs and priorities
• National execution with regional cooperation and coordination to maximize synergies
• Strengthen the enabling environment, including national capabilities in environmental management
SIP- Sustainable Land Management - Africa
• $150 million grant program, with 1-to-4 leveraging ratio - over US$1 billion committed co-financing.
• Two year consultation process led by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, bringing together six agencies under one umbrella
• Programs, not projects - allows individual countries to :– focus their strategies on a clear set of priority issues
for the global environment – but VERY top down– build and capture synergies– apply a common set of tracking tools to monitor
progress.
Black Sea Danube Partnership• A $95 million initiative funded by the GEF and
aimed at addressing the root causes of Black Sea/Danube environmental degradation.
• Partnership established with the cooperation of the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP and other multilateral and bilateral financiers and basin countries.
• Elements of the Partnership are two UNDP Regional Projects and the WB Investment Fund:– The Danube Regional Project (DRB): Strengthening the
Implementation Capacities for Nutrient Reduction and Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin
– The Black Sea Ecosystems Recovery Project (BSERP): Control of eutrophication, hazardous substances and related measures for rehabilitating the Black Sea ecosystem
– World Bank Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Black Sea/Danube Basin
Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Partnership
• $104 million GEF grant - total budget, including co-financing, expected to exceed $250 million
• Countries the need for a more coordinated and innovative approach to the implementation of two Strategic Action Plans (SAP-BIO and SAP-MED) that accelerates on-the-ground implementation of priority actions and removes the institutional, financial and technical barriers to investments
• The two components assist countries in a collaborative manner:– Regional Component: Implementation of agreed actions for
the protection of the environmental resources of the Mediterranean Sea and its coastal areas (US$ 19 million GEF grant, under preparation
– Investment Fund for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Partnership
China Sustainable Land Management Partnership
• Mainstream land management issues, including policy reforms, into sustainable development priorities
• Adopt integrated and sustainable land management practices as part of national development programs
• Promote synergies across the environment and other sectors of the economy
• Enhance predictability in financial resources, both from the GEF and co-financing sources
• Reduce transaction costs by streamlining and harmonizing project cycle procedures
• Strengthen the enabling environment for sustainable land management