SGP at the Country Level

At the national and local levels, SGP operates in a decentralized and country-driven manner through country programme teams composed of a National Coordinator (NC), often a Programme Assistant (PA), and a National Steering Committee (NSC) in each participating country. SGP country programmes are hosted primarily by UNDP Country Offices, but also by national host institutions (NHI).

National Country Teams

Each country programme has a locally recruited National Coordinator (NC), and a Programme Assistant (PA) who are responsible for managing country programme implementation and for ensuring that grants and projects meet GEF and SGP criteria. The NC also serves as secretary to the NSC and acts as liaison with the local government, UNDP and all other key stakeholders at the local level.

NC's major functions inter alia include:

• assissting CSOs in the formulation of project proposals,
• serving as the ex officio secretart for the NSC,
• ensuring sound programme monitoring and evaluation, including periodic project site visits,
• resource mobilization,
• communication and dissemination of SGP information, and
• global reporting to CPMT, UNOPS, responding to audits, etc.