During 2013, SGP grantees received more than 50 awards, prizes or other forms of recognition for their outstanding efforts in conserving and rehabilitating the environment while improving the well-being of their communities. Below are a select number of award-winning projects – which have not yet ...read more

Last January 31 at 12 pm in the Auditorium Complex Javier Perez de Cuellar in Lima, Peru the GEF Small Grants Programme in Peru, implemented by UNDP, launched the publication "El Reino de los Ecologistas Eternos" or "The Kingdom of the Eternal Ecologists". The publication includes a catalog of ...read more

In Peru, the Association for the Protection of Dry Forests in The Choloque (Asociación de Protección de los Bosques Secos de El Choloque – ASPROBOS)- ASPROBOS, received an award from the Food and Agriculture Organization-FAO for good forest management practices and their contribution to the ...read more

From garbage to a beautiful garden: The "Asociación Ecológica Recuperar" (ECOREC), has transformed a dumpster to a beautiful garden and the project has created jobs and generated income. The article from UN Peru is copied in below. Transformando basura en flores: Programa de Pequeñas ...read more

The "Asociación de Artesanas de Arbolsol y Huaca de Barro del distrito de Mórrope" was one of the winners of the 2008 Ecuator Initiative Awards. The Asociación was founded by local women in 2003. The group of 60 women has worked to recover traditional methods of cotton production that are ...read more