Notification 2011-216

Dear Madam/Sir, The forty-first meeting of the Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was held from 8-9 November 2011 in Washington, D.C., United States of America. The GEF Council approved the work program comprising 40 project concepts and nine programmatic approaches, with total resources amounting to US$516.40 million, including two global enabling projects for assisting the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States in the revision of their national biodiversity strategies and action plans and development of fifth national report to the Convention. In its decision on relations with conventions, the GEF Council requested the GEF Secretariat to organize a meeting of Biodiversity related conventions with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to facilitate the coordination of their priorities for inclusion in the GEF- 6 programming strategy. I have the honor to transmit, for your information, the Joint Summary of the Chairs of this meeting. Please accept, Sir/Madam, the assurances of my highest consideration.

Executive Secretary

To: All Focal Points under the Convention