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Section 9. Building partnerships in policy To accomplish its mission, the GEF pursues partnership-building. One of the most strategic alliancesthe GEF has achieved is with the non-governmental community.The NGO community has become an important partner of GEF activities, actively participating atthe international and national levels. The levels of NGO participation in GEF activities are: 1. By building partnerships in projects –at the regional, national and local levels; and2. By building partnerships in policy –at the international policy level. NGOs gained a recognized role in putting forward constructive proposals for policy and institutional reforms tostrengthen the effectiveness of the GEF, through our participation in the GEF Council meetingsand policy working groups. This section will explain in details the NGO partnership at the international policy level, as thepartnership in projects has been explained in previous sections.