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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The financial mechanism is operated by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and functions under the authority and guidance of, and is accountable to, the COP.
		GEF activities are implemented by the United Nations Development Programme, UNEP and the World Bank.
		The Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured GEF
	www.biodiv.org /programmes/cross-cutting/taxonomy/gef-gti.asp (69 words)

	Global Envirnonment Fund
		GEF’s investment objective is to provide superior returns by harnessing the power of technological innovation to promote energy sources and means of production that are cleaner, cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable.
		GEF manages a group of private equity Investment Funds, including: two funds dedicated to basic environmental infrastructure in emerging markets, a fund investing in companies that promote improved healthcare delivery in Latin America, and a U.S. fund focusing on technologies that promote improved efficiency in industrial processes, energy generation and telecommunications fields.
		GEF’s Team is an energetic group of internationally experienced investment professionals with complementary backgrounds and specialized skills in private equity, project finance, legal structuring, corporate governance and business enterprise development.
	www.globalenvironmentfund.com (479 words)

	GEF. Executing Agencies. UNDP-GEF Dnipro Basin Environment Prоgram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The main idea of conception of the GEF establishment is that all countries have equal responsibility for conservation and non-destructive use of natural recourses, on which life existence on the Earth depends.
		GEF finances activity in developing countries and countries with transitional economy, which do not have enough own funds to take environmental protection actions to conserve the components of the environment of global importance: combating global pollution of atmosphere, oceans and seas, lakes and rivers, conservation of biological diversity of living bodies.
		GEF will be flexible enough to react to changing situations, including guidelines of the Conference of Parties and experience, gained due to monitoring and assessment of the projects implemented.
	www.dnipro-gef.net /agencies/gef.php (1464 words)

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		The GEF does not currently support broad-based strengthening of the enabling environment as described here, although elements of the enabling environment are addressed to varying degrees within the scope of individual projects. Support to the enabling environment should not be confused with support currently being provided for Enabling Activities.
		GEF interventions at the programmatic level are in the early stages, but there is a growing recognition of its importance.
		A critical part of the GEF’s role as a financier is to leverage co-financing from a multiplicity of donors, including the private sector; and to assist in establishing nationally driven donor co-ordination with in-country efforts towards integration of global objectives into the larger sustainable development agenda of the country.
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /hpg/cesmg/downloads/GEF_Strategy.doc (5670 words)

	gef: Features of GEF v0.6
		GEF dynamically adjusts is redraw policy and frame-rate to match the capability of a given java VM and the complexity of a given diagram.
		GEF can be used to build a new application starting from scratch, or it can be used to add a graphical interface to an existing application.
		Using GEF is easiest if you add attributes to subclasses of GEF classes, but if you already have classes in your own class hierarchy, they you must use delegation instead of subclassing.
	gef.tigris.org /v0.6/docs/features.html (2956 words)

	Obiwan's UFO-Free Paranormal Page > Hauntings > Talking Mongoose Poltergeist (Isle of Man)
		It said its name was Gef, and that it was "a little clever, extraclever mongoose." Gef remained hidden within the walls of the house, or within the grasses and weeds around the house, anywhere it could speak and still remain hidden.
		Gef disrupted their lives there a great deal, causeing things to break and be thrown around the house.
		Gef would whine at this point, "Would you go away and leave me?" (Gef was apparently a lonely mongoose.) He would quiet down for a time after that.
	www.ghosts.org /mongoose.html (952 words)

	ICS 125 Projects: GEF Smart-shapes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		GEF is an open source Graph Editing Framework that was initially created by me (Jason Robbins) while I was a grad student here at UCI.
		GEF is a framework: a set of interfaces, and abstract and concrete classes that can be subclassed or reused to build an actual application.
		GEF has the capability to be used in a powerful diagram editing tool (something like Visio) but it has not been done yet.
	www.isr.uci.edu /~jrobbins/ics125f03/projects/smartshapes.html (785 words)

	GRAIN \| Seedling \| 1996 \| GEF - An Unsuitable Vehicle fo
		The genesis of the GEF sparked the first concerns, since it was an initiative driven by the Bank’s financial department, rather than its environmental unit, the latter having little input to its formulation.
		It states that the GEF "still lacks a convincing strategic framework to guide its investments in biodiversity" and that "the investments made to date have tended to be haphazard, and many may make only marginal contributions to conserving biodiversity on a global scale".
		The GEF comprises an Assembly, consisting of representatives of all participating countries; a Council, consisting of 18 members of recipient countries and 14 from non-recipient countries (the main donors); and a Secretariat.
	www.grain.org /seedling?id=36 (3767 words)

	Global Environment Facility
		Land degradation is the theme of several new publications issued by the GEF ahead of a session on the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
		The announcement was made by Len Good, GEF CEO and Chairman, at the opening of the 8th World Wilderness Congress, on September 30, in Anchorage, Alaska.
		The GEF Council has adopted a major reform program that will change the way GEF provides grants to developing countries.
	www.gefweb.org (290 words)

	EHP 108-7, 2000: Spheres of Influence: Trusting in a Better FutureThe Global Environment Facility
		The GEF is based in Washington, DC, next door to the headquarters of the World Bank, which is one of the three organizations that oversee implementation of GEF projects (the other two are the United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] and the United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP]).
		GEF projects cover a wide range, including preserving genetic material in the seeds of Ethiopian farmers, solar energy projects in India, reducing land degradation in Senegal, and phasing out ozone-depleting substances in Azerbaijan.
		This initial GEF organization was responsible for supporting programs and activities that would benefit the world at large, while the country undertaking the measures would bear the cost of other development assistance--that is, the cost of what they would normally have to fund to sustain their own development.
	ehp.niehs.nih.gov /docs/2000/108-7/spheres.html (2150 words)

	The GEF: Five Years After Rio
		In March 1994, the GEF was restructured from a pilot effort begun in 1991 to become a permanent Facility.
		Because many GEF projects are without precedent and most require the participation of many public and private actors in their design and execution, the actual disbursement of funds has often gone slowly.
		In 1996, the GEF and the implementing agencies sought to incorporate the speed and flexibility of the SGP into a streamlined set of procedures for handling medium-sized projects in which GEF financing will be $1 million or less.
	www.ourplanet.com /txtversn/91/gef.html (1660 words)

	About GEF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established to forge international cooperation and finance actions to address four critical threats to the global environment: biodiversity loss, climate change, degradation of international waters, and ozone depletion, which in GEF terminology are known as focal areas.
		Launched in 1991 as an experimental facility, GEF was restructured after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to serve the environmental interests of people in all parts of the world.
		GEF brings together 166 member governments, leading development institutions, the scientific community, and a wide spectrum of private sector and non-governmental organizations on behalf of a common global environmental agenda.
	gef.un.minsk.by /about.html (221 words)

	International Finance Corporation - GEF Thematic Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		GEF promotes the use of energy efficient and renewable energy technologies by helping to remove barriers to their use and reducing their long-term cost.
		GEF seeks to prevent or ameliorate environmental damages of water bodies which cross international boundaries.
		The GEF is also financing activities including combating desertification and land degradation as well as the phaseout of certain agreed persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as pesticides.
	www.ifc.org /ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/GEFThematicAreas (657 words)

	GEF Trust Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The GEF is one of the main funding channel for climate change projects in developing countries.
		It also urged the Council of the GEF to ensure that adequate funding is available to enable developing countries to meet their commitments under the Convention, taking into account the provision of financial resources relating to the implementation of the Convention by developing country Parties through bilateral, regional and other multilateral channels.
		On GEF processes and procedures, the GEF was invited to further simplify its processes and procedures, to ensure prompt access by developing countries to GEF resources, and to include information on progress made in its report to COP 11 (November 2005).
	unfccc.int /cooperation_and_support/funding/financial_mechanism/items/1061txt.php (1153 words)

	What is the GEF
		GEF is an independent financial organization that provides grants to developing countries for projects that benefit the global environment and promote sustainable livelihoods in local communities.
		Since 1991, the GEF has provided $4.5 billion in grants and generated $14.5 billion in co-financing from other partners for projects in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
		All GEF full-size projects must be approved by the GEF Council.
	www.gefweb.org /What_is_the_GEF/what_is_the_gef.html (309 words)

	UNIDO - FEATURE: GEF - UNIDO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The GEF Council, composed of 32 representatives from member states (16 from developing countries, 14 from developed countries and 2 from economies in transition) meets twice a year for three days to review each GEF project.
		The latter is one of three International Waters programmes UNIDO currently has on-going with GEF, the other two being the Dneiper River Basin; and globally for the Abatement Of Mercury Pollution Arising From Artisanal Gold Mining.
		Now that UNIDO has the status of EAEOs and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is formally part of GEFÂ’s responsibility, UNIDO is in a position to make a greater contribution to the protection of the global environment and mirror with GEF the well respected image it has with the Montreal Protocol.
	www.unido.org /doc/4731 (1284 words)

	World Bank Group \| World Bank - Global Environment Facility
		(GEF), the World Bank assists its member countries conserve and sustainably use their biological diversity, reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, manage shared water bodies and reduce their emissions of ozone-depleting substances by accessing GEF resources to cover the incremental costs of additional actions on these global issues.
		The GEF is a mechanism for providing new and additional grant and concessional funding to meet the agreed incremental costs of measures to achieve agreed global environmental benefits in the four focal areas - Climate change; Biological diversity; International waters; and Ozone layer depletion.
		The GEF consists of an Assembly of all participating countries, and Council, Secretariat, a Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, and three Implementing Agencies – UNDP, UNEP and the World Bank.
	www.worldbank.org /gef (270 words)

	GEF FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		GEF has been used to build a variety of applications, including state diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams, GUI builders for AWT, Swing and SWT, and process flow editors.
		GEF is written in pure Java and should run on all operating systems officially supported by the Eclipse platform.
		GEF adds important functionality for editing -- commands for changing your model, a palette and tools for selecting and manipulating the edit parts that represent your model, direct edit, accessibility support such as keyboard navigation, native drag and drop, and much more that I've probably missed.
	www.eclipse.org /gef/developer/faq.html (1343 words)

	GEF STAP
		STAP was established as an advisory body of GEF to provide objective, strategic, scientific and technical advice on GEF policies, operational strategies and programmes, to conduct selective reviews of projects in certain circumstances and at specific points in the project cycle and to maintain a roster of experts.
		For focal areas in which the GEF is not operating as a convention's financial mechanism, STAP advises on the development of scientific and technical criteria and provides scientific and technical advice on priorities for GEF funding.
		For example, although GEF is not a financial mechanism for the CCD, a workshop was held by STAP on land degradation interlinkages in Bologna, Italy, from 14-16 June 1999.
	www.un.org /earthwatch/about/docs/scpGEF.htm (1984 words)

	Study of GEF's overall preformance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The GEF has scored some accomplishments in raising awareness of global environment and influencing policies and priorities in recipient countries, despite the fact that there is little knowledge or understanding of the GEF itself in those countries.
		The GEF has been less successful in the mainstreaming of the global environment in the Implementing Agencies, although the potential for improvement is great, as it is for the institutionalization of the GEF Focal Point System in recipient countries.
		The study does not evaluate the performance of the GEF in terms of the impact of GEF projects on the global environment, because those projects are generally still early in their implementation.
	www.eldis.org /static/DOC5270.htm (206 words)

	IISD Reporting Services at GEF Assembly, 16-18 October 2002, Beijing, China
		Participants of the second GEF Assembly heard reports on the third replenishment, membership, credentials and proposed amendments to the instrument.
		Representatives of 54 GEF Member States addressed the Assembly, while Panels on: GEF and Environmental Protection in China; Science and the Global Environment; and of Eminent Persons on the Global Environment and Sustainable Development were convened.
		GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP): The Power of Partnerships workshop discussed how the SGP capitalize the synergies from collaboration and partnerships and turn them into projects that protect the global environment while generating sustainable livelihoods.
	www.iisd.ca /gef/assembly2/17october.html (461 words)

	UI Announces $2 Million In GEF Budget Reductions for FY06; Cuts Linked To Regents Partnership For Transformation And ...
		The reductions in GEF support to various UI units are based on recommendations from a May 17, 2004 report of the General Education Fund Task Force, an ad hoc committee of faculty, staff and students appointed by Skorton.
		The GEF Task Force was originally asked to identify $12 million in GEF budget reductions to be implemented over a three-year period.
		The Task Force recommended an overall GEF support reduction of $200,000, but the $20,000 reduction proposed for FY06 is the only cut that the UI Press will be required to make as part of this process.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2005/january/012605budget_cuts.html (1125 words)

	WWF Applauds Bush Administration on GEF Funding Decision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		World Wildlife Fund had argued strongly for the increase, noting that other donor countries have already agreed on the need to strengthen the GEF but have been held back, under the terms of a complex burden-sharing arrangement, from raising their contributions unless the US also agreed to increase its share.
		Administered jointly by the World Bank and the UN agencies, the GEF was created 12 years ago to help developing countries conserve their biological diversity and combat environmental threats.
		Because the GEF has been assigned the additional responsibilities of dealing with land degradation and phasing out toxic chemicals, this year most donor states wanted to increase funding for the next four-year cycle to at least $2.7 billion.
	www.panda.org.za /print.php?id=117 (412 words)

	GEF TO double Funding for addressing
		The increase in GEF funding comes at a time when water and related land degradation are increasingly recognized as major barriers to global sustainable development.
		With its focus on forging partnerships that simultaneously provide national, regional, and global benefits, the GEF is positioned to play a key role in addressing four central, inter-linked aspects of the water crisis: Scarcity, Integrated Land and Water Resource Management, Conflict Prevention, and Land-based Sources of Pollution.
		In addition to more than 100 water-related projects in 131 nations, the GEF is also a major contributor to efforts which address the threat of biodiversity loss, climate change, ozone depletion, and land degradation.
	www.waternunc.com /gb/GEF01.htm (336 words)

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