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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral environmental fund that provides grants and blended finance for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), mercury, sustainable forest management, food security, and sustainable cities in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
The ecosystem profile also identifies priority Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) and corridors, which become the specific places where CEPF awards grants. [3] CEPF awards two types of grants: small and large. The average size of small grants is about US$15,000. The average size of large grants is about US$150,000. [4]
The mission for the United Nations Special Fund is to assist low income, developing countries to recover their economic development. [1] The structure of the United Nations Special Fund secretariat was separated into three units: All the policy-making, proposal examines and supervising of the fund are controlled by the Managing Director.
The International Development Association (IDA) (French: Association internationale de développement) is a development finance institution which offers concessional loans and grants to the world's poorest developing countries. The IDA is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States.
Episcopal Relief and Development began a Hurricane Harvey Response Fund [5] [6] to provide support for communities affected by Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in Texas on August 26, 2017, where more than 185,000 homes were damaged and 9,000 destroyed. One of the immediate ways Episcopal Relief & Development and its partners help ...
Kiva is supported by grants, loans, and donations from its users, corporations, and national institutions. [9] Since 2005, Kiva has crowd-funded more than 1.6 million loans, totaling over $1.68 billion, [4] with a repayment rate of 96.3 percent. [4] Over 2 million lenders worldwide use the Kiva platform. [4]
SDG 10 (Reduce inequality within and among countries) also includes a target on ODA: "Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing ...
In some countries there is more development aid than government spending. (Image from World in Data) Development aid (or development cooperation) is a type of aid given by governments and other agencies to support the economic, environmental, social, and political development of developing countries. [1]