The Role of Local Benefits in Global Environmental Programs

This study analyzes the
interrelationship between local benefits and global
environment benefits in the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) strategies and projects in order to: Enhance GEF
policies, strategies, and project design and implementation
so these can effectively promote the potential for local
gains in those global environmental programs where actors
need to be mobilized for long-term support of sound
environmental management, costs incurred by local
communities for supplying global environmental goods need to
be reduced, and possible negative impacts need to be
ameliorated. Strengthen GEF monitoring and evaluation
policies and processes to develop indicators for, and
enhance the tracking of, local benefits and negative
impacts. Expand the body of existing operational knowledge
of good practices and experiences germane to pursuing global
environmental issues and of constraints or fallacies to be
avoided in operations. Disseminate widely the most valuable
lessons of existing experience and show how these lessons
can be implemented in future GEF operations.