| Overview : The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme, provides communities and civil society organizations in developing and transition countries with grants to enable them to implement projects in the focal areas of climate change, biodiversity, sustainable forest management, land degradation, international waters, and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)/chemicals. These community-based projects must meet environmental objectives while simultaneously supporting poverty reduction and local empowerment objectives. The GEF SGP works in 126 countries all over the world. The Programme is a GEF corporate programme, implemented by United Nations Development Programme and executed by United Nations Office for Project Services. The Knowledge Fair is an important modality which aims to meet the capacity building objective of the programme. It seeks to enhance and strengthen capacities of non-governmental organisations/community-based organisations (NGOs/CBOs) to engage in consultative processes, apply knowledge management to ensure information flows, implement convention guidelines, and monitor and evaluate environmental impacts and trends. The Knowledge Fair is an efficient mechanism to network and share experiences among the SGP grantees while consolidating their capacity in influencing the policy development processes through participation in events with key influential individuals or institutions. |
