Title: The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility
1The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of
the Global Environment Facility STAP/GEF
Guadalupe Durón STAP Secretariat
2What is STAP?
- Established in the pilot phase of the GEF
(1991-1994) - Mandate
- Develop criteria for selecting GEF projects
- Review project proposals
- Create a roster of experts
3What is STAP?
In 1994, the GEF Instrument sets up STAP
UNEP shall establish, in consultation with
UNDP and the World Bank and on the basis of
guidelines and criteria established by the
Council, the Scientific and Technical Advisory
Panel (STAP) as an advisory body to the Facility.
UNEP shall provide the STAPs Secretariat and
shall operate as the liaison between the Facility
and the STAP. (Instrument for the Establishment
of the Restructured Global Environment Facility,
1994 and 2008)
4What is STAP?
5What is STAP?
- The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel
(STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
provides strategic and independent advice on
projects, programs, and policies. - STAP is administered by the United Nations
Environment Program (UNEP), and it is supported
by a Secretariat based in Washington, D.C.
6Who is STAP?
Present composition July 2010 to June 2011
Meryl J. Williams Co-Chair , IW
N.H. Ravindranath Climate Change
Thomas E. Lovejoy, Chair
Sandra Diaz Biodiversity
Henk Bouwman Chemicals POPs
Nteranya Sanginga Land Degradation
Michael Stocking Special Advisor to the Chair
http//www.unep.org/stap/
7IAs / EAs
UNDP
Donor Replenishment Group
GEFEO
UNEP
STAP
CBD
W.B.
UNFCC
ADB
ASSEMBLY
NGOS
POPS
Af DB
COUNCIL
CCD
CEO / CHAIRMAN
EBRD
GEF SECRETARIAT
Multilateral Fund of Montreal Protocol
FAO
IDB
IFAD
International Waters
UNIDO
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8Project and program advice
- Ensure the scientific and technical quality of
GEF projects and programmatic approaches - Responsible for targeted research (project
reviews and policy Principles for GEF financing
of Targeted Research, 1997) - Advise on cross-cutting thematic areas, such as
adaptation to climate change, sustainable forest
management, and chemicals management
9Strategic advice
- How to develop/implement projects, or programs,
in a specific topic supported by the GEF
strategies (Example Payments for Environmental
Services and the Global Environment Facility) - Develop methodologies for the GEF (Example
Manual for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Benefits
for GEF Transport Projects) - Scan emerging global environmental issues
(Example Enhancing resilience to reduce climate
change risks)
10Policy advice
- Results based management on going
- Knowledge management on going
- Targeted research on going
- Criteria for focal area set asides 2009/2010
- GEF-5 focal area strategies 2009
- STAR (choice of indicators) 2009
11Recent Advisory Products
http//www.unep.org/stap/
12Collaborating with Conventions
- Externally, STAP interacts in a complementary
manner with the scientific and technical bodies
of -
- the Convention on Biological Diversity,
- the Framework Convention on Climate Change,
- the Convention to Combat Desertification,
- the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants, and - the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete
the Ozone Layer
13UNCCD, GEF, STAP
- Improving the effectiveness of UNCCDs impact
indicators -
- Technical review
- LD strategy RBM
14STAP work program
15Questions to consider
- Who are the scientific regional centers, and what
are their expertise? - What are the countries needs for STAP advice?
(project, programmatic approaches, and/or
national portfolio formulation exercises) - How can STAP communicate better its advice to
countries?
16- Thank you!
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