The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility

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The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of
the Global Environment Facility STAP/GEF
Guadalupe Durón STAP Secretariat
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What 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

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What 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)
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What is STAP?
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What 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.

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Who 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/
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IAs / 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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Project 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

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Strategic 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)

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Policy 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

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Recent Advisory Products
http//www.unep.org/stap/
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Collaborating 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

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UNCCD, GEF, STAP

• Improving the effectiveness of UNCCDs impact
  indicators
• Technical review
• LD strategy RBM

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STAP work program
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Questions 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?

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• Thank you!
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