By 2009, GEF-funded UNIDO projects amounted to $257 million. Typical projects include policy support (providing fiscal incentives for industrial energy efficiency, setting up benchmarking and best-practice dissemination programmes, ensuring energy management standards), building capacity (energy management systems training, training industry managers and engineers), implementing pilot industrial energy-efficiency projects, and financing (supporting schemes with relevant financing institutions). The Three-Country Energy Efficiency Project introduced new approaches to domestic and international energy-efficiency financing in these countries, including loan financing schemes, energy service company or third-party financing and demand-side management programmes (World Bank 2008).