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04 December 2021
Tajikistan: Supporting rural mountain communities to recover from COVID-19 economic impacts
In Tajikistan, mountains cover approximately 93 percent of the country’s land, with more than 60 percent of the population living in mountainous
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03 December 2021
Guatemala: Transforming young unemployed women into tourist guides
In 2020, the SGP commenced an ICCA-GSI ecotourism project to train youth from indigenous and local communities living along the Sipacate-Naranjo
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03 December 2021
Madagascar: Reinforcing indigenous conservation systems in government-managed Tapia forests
In central Madagascar, the Amoron’i Mania region is home to the largest area of Tapia forests. These endemic species are the last surviving primary
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03 December 2021
Iran: Using Indigenous culture-based solutions to conserve the country’s important wetlands (ab-bandaans)
Iran’s ab-bandaans or wetlands are one of the most important ecosystems in the country in terms of biodiversity, indigenous culture, and various
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03 December 2021
Democratic Republic of Congo: local NGO Mbou-Mon-Tour wins Ashden Award 2021 at COP 26 for fostering community-led conservation and income-generating nature-based solutions
The NGO Mbou-Mon-Tour has won the Ashden Award 2021, held on the sidelines of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in
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03 December 2021
Creating and strengthening national indigenous networks to cope with COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges
Indigenous Peoples and local communities are environmental stewards of the richest places of biodiversity and culture in the world.  Studies
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23 November 2021
SGP launches Results Report 2020-2021
The Small Grants Programme (SGP), a corporate programme of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that is implemented by the United Nations
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09 November 2021
In Turrubares, the air is clearner with the aroma of coffee with milk
It's 6 am and the sun peeks out from behind the curtain of white haze. The steep green hills shimmer with their varied hues: a tender green here, an
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15 October 2021
A breath from the stove
In the Huetar Indigenous Territory of Zapatón in Puriscal, Costa Rica, 15 women have reduced their consumption of firewood used for cooking by 64
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13 October 2021
Fighting hunger, protecting wildlife
The wildlife-based tourism sector has been devastated by the effects of COVID-19. As tourism collapsed, related jobs and income were lost,
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13 October 2021
From Cameroon to Kyrgyzstan: How smallholder farmers are transforming sustainable food systems
“In the past when there were collective farms, chemical fertilizers such as saltpetre led to soil disaster,” says Muhtarbek Eshaliev, a Kyrgyz
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01 October 2021
GLISPA partners with the GEF Small Grants Programme to launch global Island ‘Bright Spots’ Programme
New York, 30 September 2021 - The Global Island Partnership (GLISPA) and the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme at UNDP (GEF SGP),
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