Responding to climate change, generating community benefits
| By | Global Environment Facility (GEF), Small Grants Programme |
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| Description | This is a review of community initiatives supported by the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme 1992 to 2003. The publication was launched during the UNFCCC COP-9, on 4 December 2003. The publication sets out the lessons and experiences that have emerged from SGP's portfolio of community-based climate change projects. It is based on the results of a decade of monitoring and evaluation work undertaken by SGP country programmes and projects at the community level and a recent review of SGP's climate change portfolio. These activities have enabled a clear understanding of the overall contribution of SGP to global climate change abatement while enhancing environmental and local benefits. Climate change is one of five GEF focal areas implemented by SGP at the community level. Activities to date have influenced the lives of thousands of people. SGP focuses its support for community-led climate change projects on four areas:
Based on an analysis of practice in SGP participating countries, each chapter offers a rich range of ideas and experiences to inform other community-level climate change projects. Chapter One introduces the GEF and SGP, placing climate change challenges in the context of internationally agreed environment goals and targets. Chapter Two examines the findings of the SGP climate change portfolio review, including project typologies and emerging trends, types of energy services provided by SGP projects and their impacts on different livelihood sectors, and barriers to climate change mitigation. Chapter Three explores the world of SGP in action, revealing the approaches, experiences and lessons of past and on-going projects. Chapter Four summarizes a set of lessons learned and Chapter Five concludes the publication with a look at the future of SGP and UNFCCC. Select projects are presented as case studies throughout the publication. Full ReferenceGEF Small Grants Programme, Responding to Climate Change, Generating Community Benefits: A Review of Community Initiatives supported by the Global Environment Facility's Small Grants Programme 1992-2003, November 2003 |
| File size | 1510 kB |
| Date | 22-12-2003 at 20h38 |