Country Support Program for GEF Focal Points

The primary purpose of the Country Support Program (CSP) for Focal Points is to respond to the requests and needs of GEF recipient countries for tools to assist them to respond to their obligations as GEF recipient countries as well as obligations contained within the global conventions (biodiversity, climate change and POPs) for which the GEF is the financial mechanism, as well as the convention on desertification for which the GEF is a financial mechanism. The project is an overall capacity building project which will focus on providing support to focal points for activities related to training, outreach and information sharing, and strengthening country-level coordination to promote genuine country ownership of GEF-financed activities and encouraging active involvement of recipient countries and interested government and civil society stakeholders.