And deputy global manager programme specialists

and Deputy Global Manager; Programme Specialists responsible for matrixed country support and focal area guidance,
knowledge management, and monitoring and evaluation; Programme Associates; as well as external consultants, as
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As per policy approved by the GEF Council Meeting (November 10-12, 2009, Washington DC) based on GEF/C.36/4 Small Grants
Programme: Execution Arrangements and Upgrading Policy for GEF-5 (see para 19 and paras 52 - 53). This has been reaffirmed
through the approval of the GEF Council Paper GEF/C.46/13 of April 30, 2014 “GEF Small Grants Programme: Implementation
Arrangements for GEF-6.
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For more information about global programming, please see the UNDP Programming Manual, especially Section 8.3. The
Programming Manual is available in UNDP Country Offices and at the following website:
35 For the purpose of the SGP and its grant making, CSOs refer to national and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with
priority on community-based organizations (CBOs), indigenous peoples, farmers, scientific community, women’s groups, and youth
and children organizations.

needed. The SGP Upgrading Country Programmes (UCPs), given their financing modality as GEF Full-Size Projects, are
managed by a UNDP-GEF UCP Global Coordinator, who provides technical assistance, strategic advice, and resource
mobilization support and promotes substantive and strategic alignment and coordination of the UCPs with the Global
SGP Programme.
7. The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) provides programme execution services including
administrative, financial, legal, operational, procurement and project management for the SGP as described in detail in
the UNOPS SGP Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). 36 The UNOPS SGP Cluster Coordinator and his/her team work
closely with the SGP Deputy Global Manager and CPMT staff, as well as with the SGP UCP Global Coordinator.
8. The SGP Global Manager and his/her alternate, the SGP Deputy Global Manager, are ultimately responsible for
the overall management, strategic direction, policy development and resource mobilization efforts of the SGP Global
Programme. The Programme Specialists are primarily responsible for guidance on GEF focal areas and thematic
directions, Country Programme support, regional coordination responsibilities, knowledge sharing, partnership
development and networking. As necessary, the Global Manager and Deputy Global Manager may delegate certain
functions to the Programme Specialists.
9. SGP regional teams, composed of at least one staff member from CPMT and from UNOPS, as well as the
regional senior SGP National Coordinator as needed, may provide a range of technical advice, operational,
management and administrative support to country programmes in each of the six SGP world regions,
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divided as
follows:
o Africa
o Arab States
o Asia
o Europe and CIS
o Pacific
o Latin America and the Caribbean
10. While for the Global Programme, the CPMT regional focal point focuses primarily on GEF technical and