The Conference of the Parties, by its decision 2/CP.14, welcomed the Poznan strategic programme on technology transfer proposed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The COP, by the same decision, requested the GEF to report on the progress made in carrying out the activities identified under the Poznan strategic programme to the COP at its sixteenth session, with a view to assessing its progress and future direction in order to help inform Parties in their consideration of long-term needs for implementation of the strategic programme. In response, the GEF secretariat has submitted the report contained in this document (see annex) dated 1 October 2010; it is reproduced here as submitted, without formal editing, and with the original pagination