Information provided by the Global Environment Facility on its activities relating to the preparation of national communications and biennial update reports. Note by the secretariat

1. The Conference of the Parties, at its twenty-second session, requested  the Global Environment Facility (GEF), as an operating entity of the Financial Mechanism of the Convention, to continue providing in its annual reports, inter alia, information on the establishment and operation of the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency, including its programming and implementation modalities, on the voluntary contributions pledged and provided, and on the implementation of decision 9/CP.18.

2. Annexes I and II contain information on the status of financial resources approved by the GEF for the preparation of national communications and biennial update reports by Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention. The information is reproduced as received from the GEF secretariat on 10 October 2019.