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Watershed Management for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park Buffer Zone Communities, JAMAICA (JAM/06/10)
Grant Amount: $ 24,865.00
Grantee: Jamaica Conservation & Development Trust
This project has been designed to address the problems of land degradation and habitat loss caused by deforestation related mainly to conversion of forest to agriculture, and inappropriate farming practices, in targeted buffer zone communities around ...
Dates: 4/2006 - 3/2007
Focal Area: Land Degradation
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Coastal, Aquatic and Fresh Water Capacity Building, JAMAICA (JAM/05/01)
Grant Amount: $ 1,500.00
Grantee: Mile Gully/Warwick Castle Development Benevolent Society
Capacity building for possible future Biodiversity Conservation project. Project seeks to identify capacity building interventions for the community and ensure that the community is empowered to develop strategies for the protection of rivers and springs, ...
Dates: 12/2005 - 2/2006
Focal Area: Biodiversity
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Rising in the East Partnership, JAMAICA (JAM/05/02)
Grant Amount: $ 1,500.00
Grantee: Cascade United Youth Association
Capacity building for possible future Land Degradation project. The planning grant will be used to hold two consultations with stakeholders and partners. The first consultation will be to conduct a repid assessment of the current needs and priorities ...
Dates: 12/2005 - 1/2006
Focal Area: Land Degradation
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Jack's Hill Reforestation, JAMAICA (JAM/05/03)
Grant Amount: $ 1,500.00
Grantee: Nature Preservation Foundation
Capacity building for possible future Land Degradation project. To develop a project proposal to seek funds for the implementation of an integrated land management plan for the slopes of Jack's Hill that forms part of the Hope Estates. To host a series ...
Dates: 1/2006 - 2/2006
Focal Area: Land Degradation
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Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation Programme, JAMAICA (JAM/06/01)
Grant Amount: $ 23,297.00
Grantee: International School of Jamaica
The project is a one year project which aims to work closely within a partnership of stakeholders. Critical areas identified by the project, will focus on habitat conservation and collaborative management for a number of endemic and protected species ...
Dates: 3/2006 - 2/2007
Focal Area: Biodiversity
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Cotterwood/Content Environment Protection (Prevention of Soil Erosion/Land Slippage), JAMAICA (JAM/06/02)
Grant Amount: $ 25,000.00
Grantee: Five Star Development Benevolent Society
The five districts of Content, Shrewsbury, Fyffe’s Pen, Sellington and especially Cotterwood in St. Elizabeth have been experiencing problems of acute soil erosion which is threatening the stability of land in the area and in effect is a great disaster ...
Dates: 1/2007 - 10/2008
Focal Area: Land Degradation
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High Tunnel Houses for Sustainable Land Management, JAMAICA (JAM/06/03)
Grant Amount: $ 25,000.00
Grantee: Santoy Farmers' Cooperative
Jamaican agriculture and the environment are inextricably linked; often one is addressed without addressing the other. Jamaican agriculture has been plagued by marketing problems, chemical based agricultural practices, poor extension services and low ...
Dates: 4/2006 - 3/2007
Focal Area: Land Degradation
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Climate Change Conference (C3) Participation, JAMAICA (JAM/06/04)
Grant Amount: $ 25,440.00
Grantee: Jamaica Solar Energy Association
The rising cost and consumption of oil in Jamaica is an expensive and an environmentally unhealthy practice. At the moment Jamaica spends nearly $US1 billion to procure oil from OPEC countries. While it is no secret that use of fossil fuels have been ...
Dates: 3/2006 - 6/2006
Focal Area: Climate Change
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Integrated Forestry Management and Reforestation of the Fish River Hills, Westmoreland, JAMAICA (JAM/06/05)
Grant Amount: $ 22,580.00
Grantee: Negril Area Environmental Protection Trust
The Negril Environmental Protection Area (EPA) located on the western tip of Jamaica, is uniquely comprised of five ecologically important regions:, the Great Negril Morass, the Negril Marine Park, the Long Bay to Bloody Bay Beach, the Fish River Hills ...
Dates: 3/2006 - 2/2007
Focal Area: Land Degradation
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Sustainable Land Management and Livelihoods in the Upper Rio Grande Valley, JAMAICA (JAM/06/06)
Grant Amount: $ 20,604.00
Grantee: Bowden Pen Farmers' Association
Dates: 4/2006 - 6/2007
Focal Area: Land Degradation
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