Adding Value and Promoting Higher Impact Through the GEF’s Programmatic Approach

This technical document aims to describe the GEF programmatic approach, a long-term and strategic arrangement of individual yet interlinked projects that aim at achieving large-scale impacts on the global environment. This approach enables countries to achieve such impacts through (a) strengthening country ownership; (b) promoting horizontal and vertical integration of global environmental concerns into decision making; and (c) increasing opportunities for cofinancing from a variety of other sources. Furthermore, the document aims to enhance understanding among GEF’s wide range of stakeholders on the comparative advantages of the GEF programmatic approach.