What we doMost Recent Publications and Resources
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- The report assesses the performance of over 300 projects implemented by UNDP with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as well as the results achieved by over 60 projects that completed terminal evaluations.
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- Gender in Action: 2010-2011 Gender Report of UNDP Supported GEF Financed Projects
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- Transforming On-grid Renewable Energy Production
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- International Waters: Delivering Results
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Gender equality is an important factor in implementing environment and sustainable development projects. This publication highlights the gender equality work of 323 projects implemented by UNDP with funding from the GEF that reported results in 2010-2011.This report provides an overview of UNDP-GEF’s extensive work supporting the development of national renewable energy regimes based around feed-in tariffs. In these activities UNDP-GEF assists developing countries to assess key barriers and risks to technology diffusion, and then to identify a mix of derisking instruments and incentives to remove these barriers and to drive investment.
The report examines the impacts of agricultural supply chain activities on biodiversity and ecosystems and provides recommendations for the conservation policies that are needed to preserve this vital resource.Since 1991, UNDP-GEF’s International Waters Programme has been supporting over one hundred countries that share some of the world’s largest and most important aquatic ecosystems to work cooperatively in addressing the agreed priority environmental and water resource concerns facing such waterbodies. This publication highlights UNDP-GEF International Waters portfolio results achieved across four ‘signature’ programmes and includes an overview of cumulative results delivery across the entire UNDP-GEF International Waters portfolio since 1991. - Gender in Action: 2010-2011 Gender Report of UNDP Supported GEF Financed Projects
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- 2011 UNDP-GEF Global Annual Portfolio Review: Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
The report assesses the performance from July 2010 to June 2011 of the global portfolio of UNDP-supported, GEF-funded projects, which fall in the GEF Focal Areas of Biodiversity, Land Degradation, and Integrated Ecosystem Management.
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2011 UNDP-GEF Global Annual Portfolio Review: Climate Change Mitigation
The report assesses the performance from July 2010 to June 2011 of the global portfolio of UNDP-supported, GEF-funded projects, which fall in the GEF Focal Area of Climate Change Mitigation.
- The report showcases the UNDP-GEF adaptation portfolio, focusing on both the principles underlying the UNDP-GEF approach to adaptation programming and the key processes involved in removing barriers to successful adaptation measures. The report highlights emerging achievements of UNDP-GEF initiatives around the world and explores the future of low-emission climate-resilient development.
- The report looks at how changing 21st Century expectations about the roles and functions of protected areas are beginning to shape protected area management around the world and identifies emerging best practices under a new paradigm that views protected areas as part of a planetary life support system. The report is based on case studies drawn largely from the portfolio of UNDP-GEF projects.
Promotion of Wind Energy: Lessons Learned from UNDP-GEF Projects
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The report provides a review of the active UNDP-GEF wind energy portfolio. It looks at the design, costs and efficiency of existing projects, drawing on the experience of 14 wind energy projects that have been financed through UNDP to help national governments implement wind energy public policies.
UNDP at a Glance
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Since 1966, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been partnering with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of live for everyone. UNDP works in four main areas: poverty reduction and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); democratic governance; crisis prevention and recovery; environment and sustainable development.
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more>Oceans at Rio+20: How Well Are We Doing in Meeting the Commitments from the 1992 Earth Summit and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development? Summary for Decision Makers
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This publication was prepared by the civil society organization the Global Ocean Forum (www.globaloceans.org ) with financing and technical support from UNDP-GEF. It measures the progress made toward the broad goals, targets, and timetables established by the international community. The analysis can only be qualitative, but it tells us that the issue of sustainability is complex, the challenges great, and the progress mixed. Nonetheless, the information that has been included is critical for global policymakers to absorb. We have to do better in moving from words to action, by joining forces in partnership, and in measuring the results.