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19 September 2019
Loss of Traditional Knowledge is Due to Lack of Documentation
Barsha Lekhi (Tharu), Nepal, Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme’s National FellowModernization is a big challenge. There is a
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19 September 2019
Facing the impacts of Climate Change
Ben Ruli (Gimi), Indigenous Peoples Fellow from Papua New Guinea, UNDP Implemented Global Environmental Facility Small Grants
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18 September 2019
SGP events during the UN Climate Summit 2019
  These are the  SGP events that wil take place during the UN Climate Summit and UN General Assembly:    SATURDAY, 21
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09 September 2019
SGP at the at UNCCD COP14
The 14th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will be held in New Delhi, India
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08 August 2019
What’s in a name? Indigenous languages and cultural diversity in the digital age
Meaning and sounds are often derived from the inseparable relationship between people and places, writes Terence
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28 July 2019
Enhanced partnership - COMDEKS Programme at the 2019 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
On 15 July 2019, the Small Grants Programme(SGP) together with the Japan Biodiversity Fund (JBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity,
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20 June 2019
Women, Culture, and Territory: Safeguarding biodiversity by protecting ancestral culture in Colombia
LISTEN TO YOUR GRANDMOTHER The Bajo Guapi and Río Guají Afro-Colombian communities live in the Chocó
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20 June 2019
BREATHE COLOMBO BREATHE: Conserving the wetlands which breathes life into the city of Colombo
LAST REMAINING HAVENS 70-year-old Indrapala Gamarachchi looks out over one of the last remaining patches of wilderness in his
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20 June 2019
Ancestral Ingenuity: Harnessing traditional knowledge and innovation in Morocco, conservation & livelihoods flourish
In Morocco, conserving unique biodiversity relies on the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities who
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10 June 2019
Innovation helps rebuild Belize’s coral reef
The hurricane heavily damaged the Belize Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Times were hard for the Placencia community who had lost
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30 May 2019
Methodology on site-level Protected Area Governance based on Principles of Equity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Aichi Target 11 calls for “effectively and equitably managed … protected areas”, and goals 2.1 and
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30 May 2019
Tafo Mihaavo: a national social movement to support the customary governance of natural resources in Madagascar
Up until the advent of the colonial era, the traditional social structure in Malagasy society that bound diverse communities together for generations
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