Support for country capacity development is an integral part of the Global Environment Facility, with a focus on strengthening the capacities of countries to manage their priority environmental issues and contribute to global environmental benefits. Each of the GEF modes of delivery (Full and Medium-sized Projects; Small Grants; and Enabling Activities) aims to incorporate some form of capacity development. Since 2002, the direction of capacity development work has been set by the GEF Strategic Approach to Enhance Capacity Building, one of the outcomes of a major review carried out in 1999-2000, the Capacity Development Initiative. Under the GEF Strategic Approach, a first Pathway of support, the National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA), was provided to GEF programme countries to make a self-assessment of their capacity needs and prepare a national capacity action plan.