A case of benign neglect

in its search for activities providing technical support, the study focused on 107 projects with a “completed” or “approved” status. The total GEF grant allocated to the 107 projects was $406,885,166. On average, each of the identified projects received a grant of $3.77 million. The total amount of GEF grants for any project in the same period (from 2000 to 2018) was $17,122,496,329. In short, the GEF projects on pastoralism and rangelands are 1.22 per cent of its project portfolio and receive 2.38 per cent of the total GEF grants. Figure 10 shows the geographical distribution of GEF grants allocated to pastoralism and rangelands projects since 2000.

The 107 relevant GEF projects were categorized according to the type of technical support they provided. Most projects covered more than one of the topics within the scope of this study. More than half included capacity-building activities and more than 40 projects focused on biodiversity conservation (particularly emphasizing mitigation and adaptation to climate change) and institutional development. The latter category was often in combination with capacity-building and knowledge-sharing. Less than five projects focused on health, credit or loans, vocational education, supplemental feed and ICT (see Figure 11).

Kazakhstan

Mongolia

n

Kyrgyzstan

Democratic Republic of Korea

jikistan

Korea

China

anistan

Nepal

Bhutan

Lao

Table 2: Distribution of OECD-donor aid for MEA goals in 2015 (millions of USD)

Pakistan

Vietnam

Myanmar

Bangladesh

Thailand

Climate change adaptation

Climate change mitigation

Combat desertification and drought

Cambodia

Biological diversity

Environ- ment*

Philippines

Total

India

Sri Lanka

Malaysia

220

3,474

9,150

12,634

29,638

All aid (principle**)

4,160

Indonesia Papa New Guinea

1,918

11,635

10,461

17,558

46,197

All aid (significant**)

4,625

2,138

15,109

19,611

30,192

75,835

All aid total in 2015

8,785

Solomon Islands

Vanuatu

Aid for livestock (principle)

0.3

31.8

0.6

30.3

70

6.9

Fiji

Aid for livestock (significant)

54.1

38.8

13

30.8

163

26.2

Aid for veterinary services (principle)

0

0

0

0

0

0

Aid for veterinary services (significant)

0.02

4.8

0.6

18

24

0.8

r

All aid for veterinary services total in 2015

54.4

75.4

14.2

79.1

257

33.9

Figure 10: Geographical distribution of GEF projects Notes: The circles indicate the number and size of project per country. Red circles indicate the inclusion of traditional knowledge.

*“Environment” includes capacity-building, governance, national reporting, etc. ** “Principal” and “significant” refer to projects where the “principal” objective was livestock/veterinary, or where this was only a significant part of their objective. Source: OECD (2018).

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