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The GEF OFP Regional Training Workshop and Asia Pacific Constituency Meeting took place in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, on May 13-16, 2025. Both events brought together 14 countries from the Asia-Pacific Region, including: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Timor Leste, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Philippines, Indonesia.

It’s not every day you witness a shift, from passive listening to active design thinking, from questions to confidence. That’s exactly what happened during the GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop (ECW) for Central Africa, held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in April 2025. ECWs are regional platforms that bring together GEF focal points, civil society, agencies, and other partners to share experiences, build capacity, and strengthen country engagement with GEF policies and programming.

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and the Global Environment Facility have rolled out the first African regional training workshop to enhance the operational effectiveness of GEF operational focal points (OFPs) across 23 African countries.

The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and the Global Environment Facility have rolled out the first African regional training workshop to enhance the operational effectiveness of GEF operational focal points (OFPs) across 23 African countries.

The first GEF Knowledge Exchange for Policymakers was launched in Costa Rica this week. Ministers and representatives from Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Senegal, and Zimbabwe saw first-hand how Costa Rica has effectively leveraged GEF resources, partnerships, and policies to transform the country’s ecosystems while improving lives of local communities.

New partnerships with the African Wildlife Foundation and the Tropical Biology Association will generate new support to operational focal points to the Global Environment Facility across Africa, helping them learn from one another and work more effectively to monitor their portfolio of GEF-funded projects. 

As a global network of partners and stakeholders, the Global Environment Facility is uniquely positioned to serve as a knowledge and learning entity for the planet. This will enable the GEF to address environmental challenges effectively, as well as influence critical decision making regarding the global environment, culminating in sustainable and scalable solutions.

Over the course of 2023, one question formed in the minds of the leadership team at the Global Environment Facility: How could they help the incoming generation of environmental stakeholders develop the confidence and agility to make their voices heard at major events like COP28?