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Letter from the CEO

 

GEF Partnerships and Initiatives

  1. Launch of International Tiger Conservation Initiative
  2. GEF Earth Fund: a Public Private Partnership
  3. GEF Grants US$1 Million to China for Rapid Assessment of Chemical Contamination after the Earthquake

Stories from the Agencies

  1. GEF Strategic Partnership on the Black Sea and Danube Basin
  2. Groundwater: The Case for Africa
  3. Development Marketplace 2008: announced the finalists

GEF Evaluation Office

  1. Preparations for the Fourth Overall Performance Study
  2. Outcomes from the International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development
  3. Inputs on the RAF midterm review

Country Support Program News

  1. National and Sub-regional Workshops in Africa

Focal Points and Council Members

  1. New appointments

GEF Secretariat: New Staff and other announcements

  1. Patrizia Cocca - Communications Officer
  2. Danielus Pivoriunas - Senior Operations Officer
  3. New Green Space for STAP Secretariat and UNEP/GEF Liaison Office
  4. GEF website survey

Events

  1. Upcoming Events

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New staff at GEF Secretariat

 

 

Danielius Pivoriunas joined the GEF's external relations team on June 16th 2008 as the Senior Operations Officer for Capacity Building.

He was born and raised in Lithuania, graduated from the Lithuanian University of Agriculture with MSc and received PhD from the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. He was also a recipient of several international scholarships including Fulbright.

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Before joining the GEF, Danielius was working for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkmenistan. Serving as an Advisor and Program Manager, he had extensively advised on capacity building and environmental development cooperation at national and regional levels of Eurasia.

Prior to joining the OSCE, he served as a Senior Manager in the Lithuanian Ministry of Environment where he managed the development of policies, programs and environmental legislation at national level and served as an expert for numerous international projects and programs.

Danielius Pivoriunas brings wealth of experience and academic knowledge of capacity building, environmental policies and legislation development regionally, nationally and locally to the GEF.

He likes philosophy, theater, music, and art. In his free time, Danielius is interested in learning the history of different cultures and traditions.

 

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