NGO Contacts
ANNEX III: NGO CONTACTS
The 1997 GEF-NGO Network:
The GEF-NGO Network is an experimental network of regional NGO focal points and central contact points interested in the GEF. It coordinates NGO self-selection of delegates to biannual GEF NGO
Consultations; coordinates policy- and project-specific inputs to the GEF Council; and facilitates information dissemination and dialogue about the GEF with NGOs in five regions, covering the world.
Central Contact Point
Mersie Ejigu or Rohit Burman
IUCN The World Conservation Union
1400 16th Street NW, Suite 502
Washington DC, 20036 USA.
Tel: +1-202-797.5454 Fax: +1-202-797.5461
E-mail: asteiner@iucnus.org
E-mail: brohit@iucnus.org
AFRICA
East and Southern Africa
Grace Akumu
Climate Network Africa CNA
P.O. Box 76406, Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254-2-545.241 Fax: +254-2-559.122
E-mail: cna@elci.gn.apc.org
West and Central Africa
William Appiah,
Third World Network
TWN Africa Secretariat
P.O. Box 8604, Accra-North, Ghana
Tel: +233-21-201.064 or 231.688
Fax: +233-21-231.687 or 773.857
E-mail: isodec@mantse.ncs.com.gh
North Africa/Middle East
Dr. Magdi Allam (Egypt) or Gidon Bromberg
(Israel)
EcoPeace
2 El-Akhtal St., East Jerusalem, 97400
P.O.Box 55302, Israel
Tel: +972-2-626.0841/3 Fax: +972-2-626.0840
E-mail: ecopeace@netvision.net.il
ASIA
South Asia
Neena Singh
Centre for Science and the Environment
41 Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi 110 062, India
Tel: +91-11-698.1110/3394 Fax: +91-11-698.5879
E-mail: neena%cse@sdalt.ernet.in
Southeast Asia
Manuel Satorre
Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists
Holy Family Village II
Banilad, Cebu City 6000, Philippines
Tel: +63-32-346.2786 Fax: +63-32-253.7101
E-mail: satorre@durian.usc.edu.ph or
peji@nexus.com.ph
LATIN AMERICA
Latin America
Liliana Hisas
Fundacion Ecologica Universal
Sarmiento 1334, Buenos Aires (1041), Argentina.
Tel/Fax: +541-542.8396
E-mail: feuarg@pinos.com
CARIBBEAN
Atherton Martin
The Dominican Conservation Foundation
P.O. Box 109, Roseau, Dominica
Tel: +809-448.4334 Fax: +809-448.3855
EUROPE
Western Europe
Rob Lake
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The Lodge, Sandy, Beds.
SG19 2DL, United Kingdom
Tel: +441-767-683355 × 2254 Fax: +441-767-691178
E-mail: Rob.Lake@rspb.org.uk
Eastern Europe
Alexei Gregoriev
SocioEcological Union
Tolbukhina, 4-2-21, Moscow 121596, Russia
Tel/Fax: +7-095-298.3087
E-mail: grig@glas.apc.org
Ivan Gyulai
CEE Working Group for Enhancement of Biodiversity
3525 Miskole, Kossuth, 13, Hungary
Tel: +36-46-349.806 Fax: +36-46-352.010
E-mail: biodivhu@mail.matav.hu
Tomacz Terlecki
Polish Ecological Club
ul. Slawkowska 26A, 31-014 Krakow Poland
Tel: +48-12.23.08.38 Fax: +48-12.23.20.98
E-mail: biuro@zgpke.krakow.pl
Secretariat:
Toni Vidan
Green Action, Zagreb
PO Box 952, 10001 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel/Fax: +385-1-611.0951
E-mail: toni.vidan@zg.tel.hr
NORTH AMERICA
Sheldon Cohen
Biodiversity Action Network (BIONET)
1400 16th Street, NW Suite 502
Washington, DC 20036 USA
Tel: +1-202-547.8902 Fax: +1-202-265.0222
E-mail: bionet@igc.apc.org
OTHER NGO CONTACTS WITH GEF EXPERIENCE
The Bank Information Center
2025 I Street, NW, Suite 522.
Washington, DC 20006 USA
Tel: +1-202-466.8191 Fax: +1.202-466.8189
E-mail: bicusa@igc.apc.org
Climate Action Network-Latin America (Eduardo Sanhueza)
Casilla 16749 — Correo 9, Santiago, Chile
Tel: +56-2-277.4389 Fax: +56-2-222.5496
E-mail: relac@huelen.reuna.cl
Climate Action Network - US (Jennifer Morgan)
c/o NRDC, 1200 New York Ave. NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005 USA
Tel: +1-202-289.6868 Fax: +1-202-289.1060
E-mail: jlmorgan@nrdc.org
Climate Network Europe
44 Rue Taciturne, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32-2-231.0180 Fax: +32-2-230.5713
E-mail: canron@gn.apc.org
Conservation International (Ian Bowles) Legislative Programs
1015 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 USA
Tel: +1-202-973.2251 Fax: +1-202-887.0192
E-mail: ibowles@conservation.org
Environmental Defense Fund (Korinna Horta)
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1016
Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel: +1-202-387.3500 Fax: +1-202-234.6049
E-mail: korinna@edf.org
FIELD—Foundation for International
Environmental Law & Development (Jake Werksman)
46–47 Russell Square, London
WCIB 4JP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44-171-637.7950 Fax: +44-171-637.7951
E-mail: field@gn.apc.org
Ghana Wildlife Society (Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu)
PO Box 13252, Accra, Ghana
Tel: +233-21-777098
Fax: +233-21-500880
Interpress Service (Prathap Chatterjee)
1293 National Press Building,
Washington DC, 20045 USA
Tel: +1-202-662.7177 Fax: +1-202-662.7164
E-mail: pchatterjee@igc.org
IUCN The World Conservation Union (Jeff McNeely)
Rue Mauverney 26, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
Tel: +41-22-999.0001 Fax: +41-22-999.0002
E-mail: jam@hq.iucn.org
KENGO Kenya Energy & Environment Organisation
(Ojijo Odihambo)
Mwanzi Road, Westlands, PO Box 48197,
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254-2-749.747 Fax: +254-2-749.382
E-mail: ojijo.odihambo@elci.sasa.unep.org.
The Nature Conservancy (Randy Curtis)
1815 N. Lynn Street, Arlington, VA 22209 USA
Tel: +1-703-841.5300 Fax: +1-703-841.4880
E-mail: rcurtis@tnc.org
Sierra Club-Canada (Robin Round)
1 Nicholas Street, Suite 412
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7B7 Canada
Tel: +1-613-241.4611 Fax: +1-613-241.2922
E-mail: rjr@web.net
WWF International Policy Office (Alex Wood)
1250 24th Street NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA
Tel: +1-202-778.9569 Fax: +1-202-293.9211
E-mail: alexander.wood@wwfus.org
ZERO Zimbabwe Regional Environmental Organisation (Bheki Maboyi)
PO Box 5337, 44 Edmonds Ave, Belverde
Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel: +263-4-791.333 Fax: +263-4-732.858
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY
1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433 USA
Telephone: +1-202-473.0508
Fax: +1-202-522.3240
NGO ACCREDITATION FORM
1. NGOs desiring to be accredited to the GEF for purposes of receiving documentation, participating in NGO consultations and attending Council meetings, may apply to the GEF Secretariat for this purpose.
2. All applications must be signed by the chief executive officer or an authorised senior official of the NGO and must be accompanied by information on the organisation's competence and relevance to the work of the GEF.
3. On the basis of the information provided in this form, the CEO of the GEF will accredit any NGO that has fulfilled the above requirements.
• Name of organisation .
• Date of establishment
• Address of principal office
• Telephone/fax/email ....
• Purpose of organisation
• Country or countries in which organisation is active ....................................................................................
• Particular areas of the GEF to which organisation's competence and relevance pertains
• Information on programmes and activities of organisation in areas that are relevant to the GEF and country/ies in which they are carried out
• Members of governing body of organisation and their country of nationality In respect to membership organisations:
• Description of membership, indicating total numbers and their geographical distribution
Please attach copies of:
• Annual reports
• Financial statements
Name and signature of CEO/senior official of NGO (please print and sign) Please attach additional sheets if required.