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Program Framework

Why a program approach?

A program approach recognizes the linkages and dynamic inter-relationships between land degradation and associated global environmental concerns such as biodiversity conservation, climate change, and desertification.

It builds on the long-term nature of the Western Development Strategy and national action plans, such as the biodiversity conservation and desertification action plans, as well as the Government's Tenth Five Year Plan and sectoral five year plans developed by individual ministries.

A program approach will provide sustained support for the implementation of a prioritized medium to long term program in a more streamlined and effective fashion than is possible through a traditional project by project approach. It will also enhance opportunities for leveraging investment and mobilizing co-financing from different sources, including the private sector. For GEF, it will facilitate support that is more strategic, catalytic, and integrated.

What does a program approach entail?

GEF has outlined several elements of a program approach. These include

• the translation of strategies into concrete actions
• a strengthened enabling environment, including policy and institutional arrangements and enhanced capacity
• agreed goals, objectives, outcomes and indicators
• a learning and adaptive management system, including monitoring and evaluation
• a financing plan for the program, including sequenced disbursements from GEF, and contributions from other partners

The program will be phased according to defined priorities, each phase being dependent on the achievement of the agreed objectives and outcomes.

The program will be developed through the formulation of a Country Programming Framework (CPF), which will represent the agreement between the Government of PRC and GEF to commit resources towards these sequenced priorities over an agreed time frame.

In the case of PRC, a program approach is viewed by GEF as not just an opportunity, but also a necessity, as the GEF porfolio is already significant. It is thus prudent for both PRC and GEF to develop a coordinating framework to ensure GEF support to PRC is strategic, catalytic and integrated, and addresses those concerns that are of the highest priority while leveraging cofinancing from the government and other interested donors.

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