When high school principal Mervyn Tennant retired and moved to the fishing village of Oracabessa Bay on Jamaica’s north coast, he had to witness a regular and heartbreaking sight—poachers killing the critically endangered Hawksbill sea turtles and stealing their eggs. “Poachers would wait ...read more

Australian High Commissioner Ross Tysoe, who was in Jamaica during the Diplomatic week in Kingston last week, took the opportunity to visit one of the Small Grants Programme's (SGP) community-based adaptation (CBA) projects in Pleasant Valley, - an area which had long struggeled with sustainable ...read more

The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by UNDP announced today that it is implementing a portfolio of Community-Based Adaptation projects with over US$16 million of funding leveraged from different partners and donors. The announcement was made on the first day of a five-day training ...read more

The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) implemented by UNDP, and the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ), have provided funding to the Jamaica Maritime Institute Trust Fund (JMITF) to implement the project titled "Establishing the Caribbean Maritime Institute as a Learning Centre for Renewable ...read more

The SGP was officially launched in Jamaica in June 2005. To observe the 3rd Anniversary of this momentous event we hosted a forum that brought together GEF Implementing agencies, Government Representatives, past and current grantees, donor agencies, NSC members, academia and the media, among other ...read more