The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), at its thirty-seventh session, invited the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to continue to provide information on its activities relating to the preparation of national communications by Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention, including information on the dates of approval of funding and disbursement of funds, as well as the approximate date of submission of the national communications, for consideration by the SBI at its thirty-eighth session. The required information referred to in paragraph 1 above, provided by the GEF, is reproduced in the annex as received from the GEF and without formal editing