Case study about the project entitled "Combating Climate Change through the Promotion of Alternative Cooking Fuel such as Solar Cookers and Rice Straw Briquettes", implemented to address the growing demand for firewood and charcoal as the dominant sources of household energy in Sierra Leone.

Case study about “Transforming Plastic Waste into Useful Materials”, a forward-thinking project aimed at addressing the growing challenge of plastic pollution in Sierra Leone.

Plastic pollution is an urgent and far-reaching crisis that threatens natural systems, wildlife, and human health in every country. In response, nations around the world are currently negotiating a high-level treaty to coordinate plastic-reduction efforts on a global scale. Nevertheless, even if an agreement is reached, no single solution can resolve the crisis alone: addressing plastic pollution will require changes at every stage of production and use, from governments enacting new regulations and businesses transitioning to biodegradable materials, to individual consumers choosing reusable ...

Launched in 1992, the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on behalf of the GEF Partnership, is a GEF Corporate Programme that finances community-led initiatives to address global environmental and sustainable development issues. SGP was specifically designed to generate innovative and impactful local actions by empowering civil society organizations and community-based organizations with a strong focus on social inclusion, including Indigenous Peoples, youth, women and girls, and persons with disabilities. The Operational Guidelines ...

SGP Nigeria Brochure

A catalogue of solutions to facilitate community ownership of development initiatives in Nigeria

Dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la septième phase opérationnelle (OP7) du GEF SGP Cameroon, AJEOV Technologies a reçu un microfinancement de 18 mois allant de 30/05/2023 et 30/10/2024 et intitulée « Régénération et valorisation de l’Irvingia gabonensis et Cola pour renforcer les moyens de subsistance des jeunes chasseurs de chimpanzés et des vendeuses de viande de brousse dans les villages Nkoelon et Nazareth situés autour du Parc National de Campo Ma’an ». En effet, L’UTO Campo-Ma’an, d’une superficie de près de 800.000 ha (population d’environ 30.000 âmes prati...

The GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) provides financial and technical support to civil society and community-based organizations on innovative community-driven initiatives that address global environmental issues – such as biodiversity loss, climate change mitigation and adaptation, land degradation, international waters, and chemicals and waste management – while improving livelihoods. This report presents SGP’s results for the period 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, based on the information from 115 SGP Country Programmes.

Indigenous Peoples, comprising only 5% of the global population, account for one-third of the 900 million extremely impoverished individuals in rural areas. Ensuring access to energy for indigenous communities is crucial for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), which aims to provide universal energy access. Unfortunately, Indigenous Peoples often remain overlooked in energy access discussions, leading to insufficient data and inadequate attention in major SDG 7 reports. Furthermore, renewable energy projects in Indigenous territories frequently disregard Indigenous rights, resulti...

The harmful effects of climate change, land grabbing by agro-industries and the rise of mining in the Cameroon estuary area are encouraging the local population to converge on low-altitude lands to cut down the forest and set up agricultural operations with poor cultivation practices that degrade the soil. Land degradation is an increasing worldwide problem with negative consequences on agricultural production, environment and food security. The long period of land exploitation with poor cultivation practices, such as extensive slash-and-burn agriculture, monoculture, poor crop rotations, etc....