GEF and Civil Society Organizations

GEF and Civil Society Organizations

Civil Society comprises non-state actors, including not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), farmers, women, the scientific and technological community, youth, and children, indigenous peoples and their communities, business and industry, workers and trade unions. Effective engagement of civil society at all levels of endeavor – from local to national and to global – is key in achieving the GEF’s mission of safeguarding the global environment.