Overview
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has supported sustainable forest management (SFM) for almost 30 years, from the GEF Pilot onwards. This is the first comprehensive evaluation of GEF support to SFM, which assesses the outcomes and performance of GEF's diverse portfolio of SFM activities and provides strategic insights and lessons for future forest-related interventions. It covers the entire span from GEF-Pilot to GEF-7 and offers useful pointers for GEF-8.
Over the years, the GEF has supported 640 SFM projects with a value of $3.654 billion. The portfolio covers a wide diversity of geographies, implementing agencies, focal areas, and financial values. 314 of these 640 projects have completed implementation (49 percent), 138 projects are under implementation (22 percent), and 188 projects are still in the pipeline (29 percent). The median grant size is $4.58 million, while the largest grant made is $60.33 million.
Findings
GEF support contributed to: