The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), at its forty-first 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 (non-Annex I Parties), 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 at SBI 43.1 SBI 42 invited the GEF to continue to provide information on its activities relating to the preparation of biennial update reports by non-Annex I Parties, including information on the dates of requests for funding, approval of funding and disbursement of funds, for consideration at SBI 43. The information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above has been reproduced in annexes I and II, respectively, as received from the GEF and without formal editing.