Operational Program 5:� Removing Barriers to Energy Conservation and Energy Efficiency

Potential eligible activities:

• participatory, community-based assessments of local energy use, resources, and alternatives
• energy audits of homes, buildings, hotels, and factories linked to advocacy and training about energy efficient responses
• capacity-building and awareness-raising activities about climate change and its repercussions at the local level, incorporating local knowledge about climatic history and patterns
• capacity-building and awareness-raising activities about energy efficiency
• advocacy to remove subsidies to inefficient and polluting sources of energy

Operational Program 6:� Promoting the Adoption of Renewable Energy by Removing Barriers and Reducing Implementation Costs

Potential eligible activities:

• demonstration projects involving the introduction of appropriate, renewable solar technologies at the community level:� solar pumps for water purification and irrigation, as well as solar energy for cooking, heating, and electricity
• demonstration projects involving wind-generated energy for community and municipal needs
• biogas demonstration projects in appropriate contexts where there are incentives for sustainability
• collaborative community/academic research and development in order to produce low-cost, sustainable energy options
• introduction of locally-manufactured, improved cookstoves that reduce charcoal/fuel consumption

Operation Programme 11: Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Transport

• Reduces the use of motorized transport with net effect of cutting down on emissions from motor engines
• Reduces the number of vehicles being used for a single purpose and thus reduces the carbon dioxide emissions
• More mileage covered thus less pollution per kilometer covered (less pollution gases per kilometer)
• Reduces emission of GHC gases

Operation Programme 12: Integrated Ecosystem Management

The operational programme aimed at catalyzing widespread adoption of comprehensive ecosystem management interventions that integrate ecological, economic and social goals to achieve multiple and cross-cutting local, national and global benefits.

The expected outcomes of a GEF-SGP supported intervention would include;

• Creation of an enabling environment: appropriate policies, regulations, incentives structures are developed to support integrated ecosystem management;
• Institutional strengthening: the capacity of institutions to implement integrated ecosystem management approaches is strengthened through training and logistical support; and
• Investments made, base on integrated ecosystem approaches and stakeholder partnerships to simultaneously address local/national and global environmental issues within the context of sustainable development.

These benefits may include two or more of the following:

• Conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, as well as equitable sharing of benefits arising from biodiversity use;
• Reduction of net emissions and increased storage of greenhouse gases in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem;
• Conservation and sustainable use of water bodies, including watersheds, river basins and coastal zones; and
• Prevention of the pollution of globally important terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems