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Glossary of Terms and Short Descriptions
Agenda 21 (GEF)
The Assembly (GEF)
Block A Grant (GEF)
Block B Grant (GEF)
Block C Grant (GEF)
Conference of the Parties (CoP)
Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD)
The Council (GEF)
Focal Area (GEF)
Focal Point, Operational (GEF)
Focal point, National (GEF)
Framework Convention on Climate Change(FCCC)
GEF (GEF)
GEFDOC(GEF Document) (GEF)
GEFOP -- GEF Operations Committee
Geographic Information System(GIS)
Integrated Pest Management(IPM)
International financial institutions
International waters (GEF)
Instrument of the Restructured GEF
Land degradation (GEF)
Logical Framework Approach (Log Frame)
Medium-Size Grants (MSG) (GEF)
Mitigation measures (short- and long-term)
Monitoring and Evaluation(M&E)
Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
Operational Strategy (OS) (GEF)
Operational Programs(OP) (GEF)
Ozone(O3)
PDF Grants (GEF)
Portfolio(The)
Project Development and Preparation Facility(PDF) (GEF)
Project Implementation Review(PIR) (GEF)
Public involvement (GEF)
The Secretariat (GEF)
Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP)
The Trustee
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
User Pays Principle (UPP)
External Links
From Wikipedia:
Online Glossary of Terms
EPAEDIA (by the European Environment Agency)
Joint Monitoring Programme: Definitions for access to water and sanitation
FAO’s Online Land and Water Glossary of Terms
The European Union’s Water Framework Directive Glossary of Terms
IWMI (International Water Management Institute): glossary of terms
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- Workspace/E-Moderator-Course/On-line Learning Games
- PhD Project Filip Aggestam - Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA) / Stakeholder Analysis and Engagement
- Workspace - UNDP Partnership with Coca-Cola
- Women and Water - Gender Dimension in Water Governance
- Wetlands
- Watertable control
- Watershed
- Waterlogging
- Water management introductory kit for UNDP newcomers
- Water for Life
- Water as economic good
- Water Footprint
- Water-Energy Nexus
- WSS
- Virtual water
- User Pays Principle
- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
- Ultraviolet Rays
- Trustee
- Trust Fund
- Toxic Substance
- Technology transfer
- Technical assistance projects
- Tariffs
- Targeted research
- Sustainable use
- Sustainable development
- Sustainability
- Stratosphere
- Strategic Considerations
- Stormwater
- Standards
- Stakeholder
- Soil salinity
- Short-term response measures
- Secretariat
- Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel
- Salinization
- Salinity control
- Salinity
- Saline soil
- Runoff
- Root Causes
- River basin councils
- Resource Allocation Framework
- Renewable energy
- Regional project
- Ramsar sites
- RAMSAR Convention
- Public involvement
- Protocol
- Protected area
- Project outcomes
- Project funding
- Project Implementation Review(PIR)
- Project Document
- Project Development and Preparation Facility(PDF)
- Project Cycle
- Project Brief
- Precipitation
- Precautionary principle
- Potable
- Portfolio
- Pollution
- Polluter Pays Principle(PPP)
- Pilot Phase
- PhD Project Filip Aggestam - Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA)
- Petersberg Process
- Persistent Pesticides
- Persistent Organic Pollutants
- Participants
- PDF Grants
- PCB
- Ozone depletion
- Ozone Layer
- Ozone
- Operational Strategy (OS)
- Operational Programs(OP)
- Operational Principles
- Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
- Non-Point Source
- National Appropriation
- Multilateral
- Montreal Protocol
- Monitoring and Evaluation(M&E)
- Monitoring
- Mitigation measures (short- and long-term)
- Migratory birds
- Medium-Size Grants (MSG)
- Mainstreaming
- MSGP
- MDGs
- Logical Framework Approach (Log Frame)
- List of Abbreviations
- Leveraging
- Land rehabilitation
- Land reclamation
- Land drainage
- Land degradation
- Kyoto Protocol
- Joint implementation(JI)
- Investment projects
- International waters
- International financial institutions
- International Waters
- Integrated Pest Management(IPM)
- Instrument of the Restructured GEF
- Institutional building
- Indicators
- Incremental cost
- Implementing Agencies
- Implementation Plan
- IBAs
- Hazardous Waste
- Hazardous Substance
- Habitat
- Group of Eight (G-8)
- Group of 77
- Groundwater table
- Groundwater
- Greenhouse gases
- Greenhouse effect
- Global warming
- Global environmental benefits
- Global Environment
- Global Commons
- Global Benefits
- Genetic engineering
- GEFOP -- GEF Operations Committee
- GEFDOC(GEF Document)
- GEF-Secretariat
- GEF-SGP
- GEF-Council
- GEF-Assembly
- Full Project Grants
- Free-standing project
- Framework Convention on Climate Change(FCCC)
- Framework Convention
- Fossil fuels
- Focal point, National
- Focal Point, Operational
- Focal Area
- Fens
- Executive Coordinator
- Executing Agency
- Eutrophication
- Environment for Europe
- Environment
- Endangered species
- Enabling activities
- Eligibility Country
- Ecosystem approach
- Ecosystem
- Economic instruments
- Ecological Impact
- Earth Summit
- ENVSEC
- Dry Sanitation Technology
- Drainage research
- Drainage model
- Domestic benefits
- Dinaric Arc
- Deforestation
- DABLAS Initiative
- Country Driven
- Council
- Cost Sharing
- Cost Recovery
- Cost-Effective
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Convention
- Conference of the Parties (CoP)
- Concept Paper
- Complementary Activities
- Complementarity
- Co-Funding or Co-Financing
- Civil Society
- Chief Executive Officer(CEO)
- Catchment
- Catalyzing
- Carrying Capacity
- Carpathian Convention
- Carbon dioxide
- Capacity Building
- CSO
- Bretton Woods Institutions
- Bogs
- Block C Grant
- Block B Grant
- Block A Grant
- Biotechnology
- Biodiversity
- Biodegradable
- Bioaccumulate
- Baseline
- Bankability
- Athens Declaration
- Associated project
- Assembly
- Armenia - Reforms in Water Sector
- Armenia - New Water Code
- Aridification
- Aquifer types
- Aquifer
- Agenda 21
- Adaptation activities
- Acidification
- Acid Rain
