Grant
Integrated Programs | GEF
Finances systemic initiatives tackling biodiversity loss, climate change, and land degradation through integrated landscapes.
💰 Funding
Indicative grants USD $10 million–$60 million
📅 Deadline
Sep 12, 2025
📍 Location
Global
🏛️ Source
Global Environment Facility
Quick Facts
- Benefit type: Large multi-country grants for integrated environmental programs.
- Funding range: Indicative USD $10 million to $60 million.
- Deadline: 2025-09-12.
- Who can apply: GEF-eligible countries working with accredited agencies.
- Core focus: Integrated approaches spanning biodiversity, climate, and land.
Program Overview
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Integrated Programs are designed to deliver systems change across major environmental challenges. Under the eighth replenishment, the 11 programs target drivers of environmental degradation and aim to deliver measurable global benefits while aligning with national priorities.
Priority Program Areas
- Amazon, Congo, and Critical Forest Biomes: Conservation and governance of forest biomes with global biodiversity and climate value.
- Blue and Green Islands: Nature-based solutions that support Small Island Developing States.
- Clean and Healthy Ocean: Reducing coastal pollution from agricultural, industrial, and municipal sources.
- Ecosystem Restoration: Integrated restoration for healthy ecosystems and green recovery.
- Eliminating Hazardous Chemicals from Supply Chains: Reduce chemical pollution and emissions in priority sectors.
- Food Systems: Transform food production and demand toward resilient, low-impact systems.
- Greening Transportation Infrastructure Development: Embed sustainability in transportation portfolios.
- Net-Zero Nature-Positive Accelerator: Invest in nature and new technologies to close the climate ambition gap.
- Plastic Reboot: Circular economy approaches that cut plastic production and waste.
- Sustainable Cities: Net-zero, nature-positive, inclusive, and climate-resilient urban systems.
- Wildlife Conservation for Development: Protect wildlife by transforming drivers of species loss.
Eligibility and Fit
Projects should:
- Be led by or involve a GEF-eligible country.
- Work through an accredited GEF agency.
- Combine policy reform, investment, and knowledge components.
- Demonstrate a robust theory of change with measurable global environmental benefits.
How to Apply
- Identify the right Integrated Program: Match your concept to one of the 11 program areas.
- Engage an accredited GEF agency: Agencies guide eligibility, design, and submission.
- Build a systems-level proposal: Show how policy, finance, and knowledge components work together.
- Follow the published call timeline: Submit according to the GEF schedule for the current cycle.