Study on Local Benefits

The Role of Local Benefits in Global Environmental Programs (2006) (17.8 MB). Lighter PDF option (2.7 MB) This study covers 132 GEF projects, including 18 field case studies. It was co-funded by Canada, Norway, and Sweden, and was accepted by the November 2005 GEF Council, prior to its publication in 2006. The study’s main conclusions are as follows:

• In many areas in which the GEF is active, local and global benefits are strongly interlinked.
• In some GEF projects, considerable achievements were made in developing local incentives to ensure environmental gains.
• In many projects where local-global linkages were intended to be addressed, they were not sufficiently taken into account, resulting in less local and global benefits than anticipated.
• Win-win situations for global and local benefits proved to be unattainable in many cases.