| Overview : The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) provides non-governmental and community-based organizations (NGOs/CBOs) in developing countries with grants to enable them to tackle global environmental challenges while addressing local sustainable development needs. The GEF’s focal areas include: biodiversity, climate change, sustainable land management, international waters, and chemicals. SGP is a GEF corporate programme, implemented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and executed by United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). SGP Botswana started financing projects in 1993. Since then, it has succeeded in funding and providing technical support for more than 176 grant projects. In its 6th Operational Phase (OP6) which will be under implementation during 2015 to 2018, SGP has the following objective: “to support the creation of global environmental benefits and the safeguarding of the global environment through community and local solutions that complement and add value to national and global level action”. |
