Global Environment Facility
Dikshya Devkota is currently serving as an Analyst and Extended-Term Consultant in the CEO Office at the Global Environment Facility since May 2023. From November 2020 to May 2023, Dikshya worked as a Project Manager at the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, focusing on forest-related projects and representing the organization at international high-level meetings. Previous roles include a Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Consultant for The World Bank, a Teaching Assistant at the University of Maryland, and an Environmental Officer at Integrated Development Society Nepal. Dikshya holds a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia and a Master of Science in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Global Environment Facility
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the largest multilateral trust fund focused on enabling developing countries to invest in nature, and supports the implementation of major international environmental conventions including on biodiversity, climate change, chemicals, and desertification. The GEF was established on eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems. Since then, the GEF has provided over $114 billion in grants and mobilized in excess of $70 billion in additional financing for more than 4,000 projects. The GEF has become an international partnership of 184 countries, international institutions, civil society organizations, and private sector to address global environmental issues.