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June 2006

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Biodiversity

  Country IA Project Title
1. Global World Bank/IFC Biodiversity and Agricultural Commodities Program (BACP) (GEF Grant:$7.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
2. Global UNEP Building the Partnership to Track Progress at the Global Level in Achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Target (Phase I) (GEF Grant:$3.64m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
3. Global (China, Ecuador, Morocco, Uganda) UNEP Conservation and Use of Crop Genetic Diversity to Control Pests and Diseases in Support of Sustainable Agriculture (GEF Grant:$3.41m)
Executive Summary Project Document
4. Global World Bank Critical Ecosysytem Partnership Fund, Phase II
(GEF Grant:$20.00m)

Executive Summary

Phase 1 Evaluation

Project Document

 

5. Global UNDP Institutionalizing Payments for Ecosystem Services (GEF Grant:$5.69m)
Executive Summary Project Document
6. Global UNDP Supporting Country Early Action on Protected Areas (resubmission from Feb 2006 IWP)
(GEF Grant:$9.40m)
Executive Summary Project Document
7. Argentina World Bank Sustainable Forestry Development Project (GEF Grant:$7.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
8. Bosnia-Herzegovina World Bank Forest and Mountain Protected Areas Project (GEF Grant:$3.40m)
Executive Summary Project Document
9. Botswana World Bank Wildlife Conflict Management and Biodiversity Conservation for Improved Rural Livelihoods (GEF Grant:$5.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
10. China UNDP Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Wild Relatives of Crops (resubmission from Feb 2006 IWP) (GEF Grant:$7.85m)

Executive Summary

Project Document
Annex I Annex II
11. China World Bank Guangxi Integrated Forestry Development and Biodiversity Conservation (GEF Grant:$5.25m)
Executive Summary Project Document
12. Congo World Bank Agricultural Development and Rural Road Rehabilitation Project (GEF Grant:$3.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
13. Congo DR World Bank Support to ICCN's Program for the Rehabilitation of the National Parks Network (GEF Grant:$7.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
14. Ethiopia UNDP Sustainable Development of the Protected Area System (GEF Grant:$9.00m)

Executive Summary

Annexes

Project Document

Maps

15. India World Bank Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods Improvement (GEF Grant:$11.50)
Executive Summary Project Document
16. Indonesia World Bank Fisheries Revitalization Project (RFCDP) (GEF Grant:$8.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
17. Jordan World Bank Integrated Ecosystem and Natural Resource Management in the Jordan Rift Valley (GEF Grant:$6.15m)
Executive Summary Project Document
18. Kazakhstan UNDP Conservation and Sustainable use of Biodiversity in the Kazakhstani Sector of the Altai-Sayan Mountain Ecoregion (GEF Grant:$2.40m)
Executive Summary Project Document
19. Serbia and Montenegro World Bank Transitional Agriculture Reform (GEF Grant:$4.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
20. Seychelles UNDP Mainstreaming Biodiversity Management into Production Sector Activities (GEF Grant:$3.70m)

Executive Summary

Annex I

Project Document

Annex II

21. Sierra Leone World Bank Wildlife Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Project (GEF Grant:$5.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
22. Uruguay UNDP Catalyzing the Implementation of Uruguay's National Protected Area System (GEF Grant:$2.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annex 1 Annex 2
23. Venezuela World Bank Expanding Partnerships for the National Parks System (resubmission) (GEF Grant:$6.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document

Biodiversity (Biosafety)

  Country IA Project Title
24. Regional (Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil) World Bank Latin America: Multi-country Capacity-building in Biosafety (GEF Grant:$5.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
25. Regional (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Togo) World Bank West African Regional Biosafety Project (GEF Grant:$5.40m)
Executive Summary Project Document

Climate Change

  Country IA Project Title
26. Global (Bangladesh, Bolivia, Niger, Samoa, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Namibia, Vietnam) UNDP Community-based Adaptation (CBA) Programme
(GEF Grant:$4.53m)
Executive Summary Project Document
27. Global UNDP/UNEP Solar Water Heating Market Transformation and Strengthening Initiative (Phase 1)
(GEF Grant:$12.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
28. Regional (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Cape Verde) UNDP Adaptation to Climate Change - Responding to Coastline Change and its Human Dimensions in West Africa through Integrated Coastal Area Management
(GEF Grant:$3.30m)
Executive Summary Project Document-Part 1
  Project Document-Part 2
29. Regional (Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Tanzania, Uganda, Eritrea) UNEP/World Bank African Rift Geothermal Development Facility (ARGeo) (GEF Grant:$17.75m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
30. Regional (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan) UNEP Cogen for Africa (GEF Grant:$5.25m)
Executive Summary Project Document
31. Regional (Burundi, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia) UNEP Greening the Tea Industry in East Africa
(GEF Grant:$2.85m)
Executive Summary Project Document
32. Regional (Kenya, Ghana) World Bank/IFC Lighting the "Bottom of the Pyramid" (GEF Grant:$5.40m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annex I Annex II
33. Regional (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico) World Bank Regional Sustainable Transport Project (GEF Grant:$20.80m)

Executive Summary

Project Document

34. Regional (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Vanuatu) World Bank/IFC Sustainable Energy Financing
(GEF Grant:$9.48m)
Executive Summary Project Document
35. Argentina World Bank Energy Efficiency
(GEF Grant:$15.15m)
Executive Summary Project Document
36. Bangladesh UNDP Improving Kiln Efficiency for the Brick Industry
(GEF Grant:$3.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
37. Egypt UNDP Bioenergy for Sustainable Rural Development
(GEF Grant:$3.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
38. Egypt UNDP Sustainable Transport (GEF Grant:$6.90m)
Executive Summary Project Document
39. Ghana World Bank Development of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficieny (GEF Grant:$5.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
40. Ghana World Bank Ghana Urban Transport (resubmission from Feb 2006 IWP) (GEF Grant:$7.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
41. Guinea World Bank Electricity Sector Efficiency Improvement (GEF Grant: $4.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
42. India World Bank Coal Fired Generation Rehabilitation Project (GEF Grant:$45.40m)
Executive Summary Project Document
43. India UNDP Enabling activities for Preparing India's Second National Communication to UNFCCC  (GEF Grant: $3.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
44. India UNDP Market Transformation through Consumer Awareness Programs for Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling (GEF Grant:$5.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
45. Indonesia UNEP Bus Rapid Transit and Pedestrian Improvements in Jakarta (GEF Grant:$5.81m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
46. Jordan World Bank Promotion of a Wind Power Market
(GEF Grant:$6.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
47. Kenya UNDP Development and Implementation of a Standards and Labeling Programme in Kenya (GEF Grant:$2.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
48. Mongolia World Bank Heating Energy Efficiency (GEF Grant:$7.20m)
Executive Summary Project Document
49. Mongolia World Bank Renewable Energy and Rural Electricity Access
(GEF Grant:$3.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
50. Morocco UNDP Towards Energy Efficiency Codes in Residential, Commercial and Hospital Buildings in Morocco (GEF Grant:$3.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
51. Namibia UNDP Barrier Removal to Namibian Renewable Energy Programme (NAMREP), Phase II  
(GEF Grant:$2.60m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Evaluation  
52. Nicaragua UNDP Promotion of Environmentally Sustainable Transport in Metropolitan Managua (GEF Grant:$3.87m)
Executive Summary Project Document
53. Philippines World Bank/IFC Philippines Sustainable Energy Finance Program
(GEF Grant:$5.30m)

Executive Summary

Annexes

Project Document
54. Rwanda World Bank Sustainable Energy Development Project (SEDP)
(GEF Grant:$4.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
55. Sri Lanka World Bank/IFC Portfolio Approach to Distributed Generation Opportunity (PADGO) (Phase 1) (GEF Grant:$3.60m)
Executive Summary Project Document
56. Tanzania World Bank Energizing Rural Transformation Project 
(GEF Grant:$6.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
57. Vietnam World Bank Hanoi Urban Transport Development
(GEF Grant:$9.80m)
Executive Summary Project Document
58. Zambia World Bank Promotion of Renewable Energy to Increase Access to Electricity (GEF Grant:$4.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document

International Waters

  Country IA Project Title
59. Regional (Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Cameroon) UNEP Demonstrating and Capturing Best Practices and Technologies for the Reduction of Land-sourced Impacts Resulting from Coastal Tourism (GEF Grant:$5.39m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  

Land Degradation

  Country IA Project Title
60. Regional (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan) ADB Central Asian Countries Initiative for Land Management (CACILM) Multi-country Partnership Framework, Phase 1 (GEF Grant:$20.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
61. Regional (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan) UNEP Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains-& Integrated & Transboundary Initiative in Central Asia (Phase 1)
(GEF Grant:$3.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
62. Burkina Faso UNDP Partnership Programme for Sustainable Land Management (CPP), Phase 1 (GEF Grant:$9.65m)
Executive Summary Project Document
63. Pakistan UNDP Sustainable Land Management for Combating  Desertification, Phase I (resubmission from Feb 2006 IWP) (GEF Grant:$2.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
64. Senegal UNDP Groundnut Basin Soil Management and Regeneration (GEF Grant:$3.66m)
Executive Summary Project Document

Multi-focal Areas

  Country IA Project Title
65. Global UNDP Small Grants Programme, Third Operational Phase, Year 2, Tranche 3 (GEF Grant:$20.00m)
Executive Summary  
66. Regional (Costa Rica, Panama) IADB Sustainable Environmental Management for Sixaola River Basin (GEF Grant:$3.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
67. Regional (Albania, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Morocco, Serbia and Montenegro, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey) World Bank World Bank-GEF Investment Fund for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Partnership (Tranche I), (GEF Grant:$10.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
68. Antigua and Barbuda UNDP Demonstrating the Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Island Resource Management Mechanism in a Small Island Developing State (GEF Grant:$3.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes Maps
69. Brazil World Bank Caatinga Conservation and Sustainable Management Project - Mata Branca (GEF Grant:$10.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
70. Mozambique World Bank Zambezi Valley Market Led Smallholder Development (GEF Grant:$6.20m)
Executive Summary Project Document
71. Philippines World Bank National Program Support for Environment and Natural Resources Management Project (NPS-ENRMP) (GEF Grant:$7.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
72. Sri Lanka IFAD Participatory Coastal Zone Restoration and Sustainable Management in the Eastern Province of Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka   (GEF Grant:$6.92m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

  Country IA Project Title
73. Global (Argentina, India, Lebanon, Philippines, Senegal, Vietnam, Latvia, Tanzania) UNDP Demonstrating and Promoting Best Techniques and Practices for Reducing Health-care Waste to Avoid Environmental Releases of Dioxins and Mercury
(GEF Grant:$10.33m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
74. Regional (Nigeria, Ghana)
UNIDO Regional Project to Develop Appropriate Strategies for Identifying Sites Contaminated by Chemicals listed in Annexes A, B and/or C of the Stockholm Convention   (GEF Grant:$2.00m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
75. Brazil UNEP Development of a National Implementation Plan in Brazil as a First Step to Implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)  
(GEF Grant:$1.50m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes  
76. China UNDP Alternatives to DDT Usage in the Production of Anti-fouling Paint  (GEF Grant:$11.61m)
Executive Summary Project Document
Annexes