Paragraph 6 of the GEF Instrument provides that the GEF shall function under the guidance, and be accountable to, the Conferences of the Parties which shall decide on policies, program priorities and eligibility criteria for the purposes of the conventions. The GEF Office of Monitoring and Evaluation (M E Office) is an independent office that reports directly to the GEF Council.

For example, the Beijing office of China s State Environmental Protection Administration has less than 300 employees, whereas the United States Environmental Protection Administration has over 17,000.

The changing environment in which UNOPS and the United Nations system operate offers both challenges and opportunities.

The New York office also serves as the UNEP focal point with the Department of Public Information, works closely with the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary General and organizes environment related special events and exhibits at United Nations Headquarters and in New York.

In this context, and after consultations with the Office of the Secretary General, Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for 2004 and Deputy Minister of Environment of Kenya, and Cherif Rahmani, Minister of Environment of Algeria, have been named honorary spokespersons for the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.

Support for green development inside central government organizations like SEPA offers little assurance of an effective countervailing force.

We must sharpen our teeth, Pan Yue, SEPA s deputy director, said when the agency halted the dam projects.

The M E Office periodically oversees the preparation of in depth overall performance studies. These studies include evaluation of the GEF's relations with the conventions.

Additionally, the convention COPs conduct their own monitoring and evaluation of their financial mechanisms, taking into account the work of the GEF M E Office.

OIOS believes that there is a need for well planned incremental measures for technology insertion, aimed at optimum results in the multinational environment of peacekeeping.

It is also the UNEP focal point for its membership in the United Nations Development Group and coordination of programmatic activities related to country level capacity development and technical cooperation.

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14.12 The scope of the evaluation and oversight function of UNEP comprises the programmes and projects of the Environment Fund and related trust funds as well as projects of the Global Environmental Facility that are implemented by UNEP.

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Environment

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But China has seen a steady decentralization of power in recent years, making it harder for SEPA to affect policies at the regional and local levels.

Ministry for the Coordination of the Environment

Caribbean Environment Programme

Enabling environment

(vii) Sustainable Environment

The changing environment

DESERTIFICATION, PARTICULARLY IN AFRICA

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Global Environment Facility Global Environment Facility, Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility, 1994, as amended, http thegef.org GEF_Instrument3.pdf.

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This environment stirs with life.

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Conservation With a Human Face

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Environmental Protection and Preservation

Legal and regulatory environment3

The environment continues to be devastated.

Protect human life or health or animal life or health (sanitary regulation) Protect plant health (phytosanitary regulation) Protect the environment and wildlife Ensure human safety Ensure national security Prevent deceptive and unfair practices.

C. Environment and conflict prevention

Treaties relating to the protection of the environment

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Environmental protection and conservation organization

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