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GEF SGP 7th Operational Phase - Strategic Implementation using STAR Resources mainly in LDCs and SIDs (Part 3)

During the project period, the SGP will deliver the following important socio-economic results: · SGP interventions will directly impact 120,000 beneficiaries/community partners, of which 50% are female through enhanced capacities and improved livelihoods and lives; · SGP will support CSO-Government-Private Sector dialogues in at least 10 countries to have scaled up policy impact · Under social inclusion, the SGP will ensure that 30% of its projects are led by women and that at least 50% of all SGP beneficiaries are women; · At least 20% of relevant SGP country programs integrate appropriate models to engage youth and 15% of countries have targeted support for indigenous peoples; · At least 15 countries will undertake South-South exchanges such that cross-fertilization and learnings between communities, CSOs and other partners are promoted; The interventions from the SGP contribute to global environmental benefits at multiple levels, starting from the global level, prioritized at the national level through the CPS, and translated into small grant actions in the field. Firstly, SGP priorities will be fully aligned to that of the GEF-7 Programming Directions Paper and its outcomes to meet the GEF-7 targets. Secondly, greater attention will be focused on creating synergy among individual projects using landscape or seascape approaches, as well as taking all opportunities for complementation with larger projects of the GEF and other donor agencies. Thirdly, SGP local initiatives will link to global initiatives and platforms, as well as fostering joint efforts with global networks. Finally, the implementation of “Grantmaker+” has been designed to support scaling up, mainstreaming and replication that will provide higher level capacity development (i.e. IP Fellowships), networking and institutional support, knowledge sharing (e.g. through South-South exchanges), and advocacy mechanisms at national levels (i.e. CSO-Government-Private Sector Dialogue Platforms), and where relevant, all of these to extend to regional and global levels. Insofar as the SGP interventions promote local socio-economic benefits such as improvement of local livelihoods and strengthening capacities of local communities, these will take into consideration the underlying aim to reduce threats from the local level to globally important environmental assets, raising awareness and mobilizing civil society and the wider public towards supporting environmentally friendly practices and approaches. In this way, the delivery of the socio-economic and other local benefits contribute towards the delivery of global environmental benefits.