The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is launching its Results Report for the reporting year 2024-2025. This report provides an overview on the concrete results achieved on global environmental and socio-economic benefits between the 1st July 2024 and 30th June 2025, including results under the GEF focal areas of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, sustainable land and forest management, international waters, chemicals and waste, and capacity development.
During the reporting period, a total of 402 new projects were approved for grant funding within the GEF portfolio, while 783 projects were completed. SGP’s combined portfolio, with funding from the GEF and other partners, supported 1,859 active projects in 127 countries across the world, including 39 Least Developed Countries and 37 Small Island Developing States. The total grant project funding of the active portfolio amounted to US$78.7 million, with a total co-financing amount of US$68.6 million.
Launched in 1992, SGP has over three decades of experience in providing financial and technical support to civil society and community-based organizations at the local level to drive initiatives that address global environmental issues while improving livelihoods, with a special focus on women, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and persons with disabilities. Since its establishment, SGP has delivered nearly $860 million in project funding to over 30,000 community-based projects in 136 countries around the globe.
In 2025, SGP also launched Operational Phase 8 (OP8) with a renewed commitment to empowering local civil society and community-based organizations (CBOs) to implement integrated landscape and seascape approaches for environment and sustainable development worldwide. This phase focuses on expanding access to knowledge, strengthening capacity, and delivering decentralized technical and grant support. OP8 also aims to enhance human well-being, generate global environmental benefits, and unlock large-scale financing for landscape and seascape initiatives.