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Global Environment Facility 4th Assembly Punta del Este, Uruguay, 25 May 2010 Statement by Constituency representing Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Turkey, delivered by Ms. Veronika Hunt Ĺ afránková, First Deputy Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic Ms. Chairperson, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honour to address the fourth Assembly of GEF on behalf of our constituency. Let me thank the CEO/Chairperson, Ms Monique Barbut, for her capable and determined leadership of GEF and wish her much success in the coming years. As in the past, my constituency offers its full support to GEF and is looking forward to continue working constructively on all GEF matters. The fifth replenishment of GEF was successfully completed earlier this month with the highest ever replenishment level achieved in the history of GEF. This signals a strong commitment and support by GEF members and presents a strong vote of confidence in GEF. My constituent countries 1 strongly supported the replenishment and several of them increased their contribution to GEF substantially. My constituency fully subscribes to the unique GEF concept. My constituency also fully supports the policy recommendations that were agreed in the context of the replenishment. GEF has achieved great merits in enabling developing countries to gain greater awareness and raise financial means to tackle a number of environmental problems. Recent examples from evaluations have demonstrated that the increased efforts to better integrate GEF activities into national strategies have indeed improved the scope and quality of GEF programs. Thus, we welcome the national dialogue initiative to further strengthen country level coordination and capacity as well as country ownership. In this context, let me also acknowledge the valuable contribution of GEF evaluation office to improve the quality of GEF portfolio. After the disappointing experience with the Resource Allocation Framework (RAF) during GEF 4 we have much hope that the new allocation system (STAR) will play a better role in allocating GEF resources in a more effective and equitable way among the countries and regions. We note with satisfaction that GEF has continued to leverage substantial amounts of co-financing and broadened the partnership with additional organizations. We encourage GEF to continue its work towards an enhanced engagement with the private sector and developing innovative financing models to mobilize more private sector resources for the benefit of global environment. 2 We place a particular importance to the well functioning of the GEF network that includes the development of an interactive system of knowledge and lesson sharing as well as information management. We encourage GEF to further explore on the role of Implementing and Executing Agencies based on their knowledge and experience. While we appreciate the progress that has been made to improve the relationship with the Conventions, we look forward to an enhanced collaboration with all the Conventions for which GEF is the financial mechanism. The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was an exceptional event. Climate Change and Climate Finance were discussed at the highest political level. The outcome is reflected in the Copenhagen Accord that contains important provisions on scaled-up finance, both in the short and in the long term. We are confident that, with the collective commitment by developed countries on scaled-up funding, GEF will play an increasingly important role in the coming years and look forward to a strengthened cooperation between GEF and UNFCCC. GEF plays an important function for the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. We wish to draw particular attention to the ninth session of the Parties of the CBD that submitted a four-year framework of programme priorities for the period 2010 - 2014 as input to the 5th replenishment of GEF. We regard this as a very useful exercise that is in 3 line with the GEF strategy and supports efforts for streamlining guidance to GEF. By this, we create a more active dialogue between the two fora that allow for maximum response to the needs of developing countries and avoid any potential duplication of efforts. Our constituency attaches a great importance to the negotiations of a regime on access and benefit-sharing that would be finalised by COP10 in Nagoya in October this year with further specification of GEF role. GEF should keep proactive approach when responding to the challenge of aligning national action plans of the UNCCD with the Ten-year UNCCD strategic plan implementation. GEF providing a focal area for persistent organic pollutants has significantly contributed to the implementation of the Stockholm Convention. We appreciate the constructive cooperation between GEF and the Convention, in particular an increasing recognition of chemicals in general that are receiving under GEF and its policy reforms. We consider this as a valuable support of the UN policy to enhance cooperation and coordination, and it also strengthens the role of GEF as recognised financial mechanism. Finally, I would like to thank the people and the government of Uruguay for their hospitality and the excellent organization of the meeting. My thanks also go to the GEF Secretariat for their hard work to make this meeting a success. 4