There are 29,070 projects available.
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Philippines
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Biodiversity
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2006
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45,692.73
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Phase 3
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Project Number: PHI/124/06 |
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The project intends to encourage Ifugao farmers to continue maintaining their rice terraces, now considered a World Heritage Site, instead of abandoning them for other occupations by improving and sustaining their income from rice farming. |
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Palestine, State of
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Multifocal Area
Biodiversity
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2006
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39,800.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: PAL/06/86 |
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Utilizing Palm waste in producing handicrafts and livestock fodder in Deir Al-Balah Community. The project contributes to promoting sustainable agricultural practices through improvement of palm waste management and use. It also contribute to ( ... )
sing the awareness of local communities, NGOs/CBOs, especially women community on utilization of Palm waste in local industries. The project provides training for about 40 women from the local community on how to make handcrafts from Palm waste. It contribute to enhancement of local families income level. Throughout the project two training workshops will be provided and one guiding brochure is
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Palestine, State of
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: PAL/06/87 |
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a project on utilizing solar energy for lighting Gaza fishery port entrance. The project will contribute to promoting utilization of alternative energy resources through enhancing the use of solar energy in lighting the fishery port entrance in ( ... )
The Fishery Port in Gaza is considered by local community as one of the vital places in Gaza. The project will also provide a collaborative framework between the NGO and related governmental bodies such as Energy and Renewable Resources Authority, Port Authority, and Environmental Quality Authority. To assure the project sustainability memorandum of understanding between project partners from the
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Palestine, State of
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Biodiversity
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2006
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41,910.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: PAL/05/78 |
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Utilizing solarization to restore agricultural soil fertility in 300 greenhouses in Mawassi Rafah and Khan Younis in the South of Gaza. The project will contribute to overcoming the remarkable degradation of the agricultural soil fertility due to ( ... )
cessive use of chemical pesticides. It will also enhance farmers? capacities to apply biodiversity safe techniques such as soil solarization through organizing training for 300 female and male farmers who own greenhouses in both Mawassi Rafah and Khan-Younis in the South of Gaza. In collaboration with the local community committees, 300 nylon rolls for solarization will be distributed to 300
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Mauritania
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2006
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20,968.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: MAU/SGP/OP3/06/06 |
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Ce projet a pour objectif de restaurer et de valoriser deux espèces fourragères en voie de disparition en Mauritanie depuis le début des années 1970. Il s'agit des espèces de panicum turgidum et de l'aristida pungens. En plus de fonction ( ... )
gère, ces espèces étaient très utilisées en milieu rural pour la confection des nattes et la construction de cases, notamment pour les nomades. Les activités du projet s'articuleront autour de la mise en places de deux pépinières permanentes et leur transfert dans des sites de 15 ha chacun ; ce transfert permettra aussi de restaurer des sols victimes de la dégradation consécutive à la
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Mongolia
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Multifocal Area
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2006
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10,985.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: MON/05/33 |
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This project intends to provide to SGP projects some additional support for successful implementation and review their acvitivities. |
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Uruguay
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Biodiversity
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2006
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18,606.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: URY/06/05 |
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Consiste en la construcción de un vivero de dicha especie para la reposición en los palmares, acompañado de un trabajo de difusión y capacitación para la valorización del ecosistema Palmar y de sus productos asociados.
El palmar de Butia ( ... )
ta es una asociación vegetal de 70.000 hectáreas de superficie, de enorme valor ambiental, cultural y económico para la región. De manera similar a un monte natural, proporciona abrigo, condiciones de temperatura, humedad y sombra para el pastoreo. La producción asociada de distintos derivados juega un rol importante en las familias de pequeños productores y artesanos locales.
El
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Mexico
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Biodiversity
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2006
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22,971.43
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Phase 3
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Project Number: MEX/OP3/05/41 |
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Creación de un vivero para la reforestación, conservación, y producción en gran escala de diferentes palmas de huano en la región, muchas de las especies se han perdido por el paso de los huracanes. Capacitación y asistencia técnica para un ( ... )
aprovechamiento de la tierra y los fertilizantes orgánicos con sistemas de riego, para su promoción y
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Bulgaria
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Biodiversity
Climate Change Mitigation
International Waters
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2006
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48,680.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BUL/OP3/1/06/05 |
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By Cooperation for Voluntary Service (CVS) ? Bulgaria in partnership with:
Pirin NP Directorate, Kresna Municipality, Bulgarian Biodiversity Preservation Society ? Semperviva, Pirin Tourism Forum, Central Laboratory for Solar Energy and New Energy ( ... )
s at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Hydroecology at the Biological Faculty of the Sofia University.
Project Goal
The overall goal of the proposed project is to support the development of the ecotourism in the region of South West Bulgaria, through establishment of functioning environmental-demonstration center (Eco-center) in the village of Vlahi, municipality of Kresna.
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Jordan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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3,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: JOR/OP3/Y2/06/06 |
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Over the past decade, GEF Small Grants Programme GEF SGP has been very successful at implementing more than 130 local initiatives in Jordan, in an effort to consolidate the needs of local communities with nature conservation and environmental ( ... )
tion. GEF/SGP is currently expanding its presence and support in the Wadi Rum region, as it is highly relevant to the GEF strategic focal areas and operational programmes.
The project will conduct a stakeholder workshop in the Wadi Rum in an effort to:
Further expand GEF/SGP presence in the region.
Enhance the process of creating a cluster of small projects around
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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29,527.91
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/30 |
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The region in question is a transition between Cerrado and Amazon biomes which is under heavy threats from widespread cattle raising and soy and rice monocultures. Food production in the area does not meet the demand, creating the need to bring in ( ... )
ts form other regions of the country. There are no paved roads and most electric power comes from diesel oil generators.
Recovery of creole seeds is sought by this project, as well as implementation of Agroforestry and Agrosilvopastoral systems, environmental education for peasant and indigenous families in the Krenak/Maxacali
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2006
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15,664.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: POL/06/OP3/09 |
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The aim of the project is protection of nesting places of lesser spotted eagle by establishment of conservation zones, preservation of feeding ground and taking preventive and educational actions (also promotion of European agro-environmental ( ... )
mme). Project activities are planned to be taken in 11 rural communities in Warmia. The major beneficiaries of the project is local community: farmers, foresters, teachers, office workers, children and
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Mauritius
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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49,620.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: MAR/SGP/OP3/09 |
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The project?s overall aim is to promote long-term waste recycling attitudes in the community of Roche Bois by targeting first a pollution problem that occurs daily in the neighbourhood and which is very visible: the littering of used plastic ( ... )
ts everywhere.
This is common knowledge nationwide: the region of Roche Bois has one of the worst, if not actually the worst, reputation across the whole island as being a deprived zone, stigmatised due to poverty, ethnicity, low level of education, vulnerable to social problems, high level of unemployment. Non-Roche Bois residents nearly unanimously consider the place as being highly dangerous
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Botswana
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International Waters
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2006
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40,546.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BOT/05/18 |
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The project aims to reduce the threat of pollution to the Otse aquifer posed by waste water disposal at Camphill through waste water treatment by a constructed wetland. The treated effluent will be used for irrigation. The project will have the ( ... )
onal benefit of reducing the stress placed on the aquifer and hence prolonging its lifetime as water abstractions will go down due to waste water recycling.
The project will introduce an affordable and environmentally sound technology to limit contamination of a water body. Inadequate waste water management and handling currently places the Otse aquifer under serious pollution threat that
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Brazil
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Biodiversity
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2006
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5,808.36
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BRA/06/11 |
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Four small dams will be built by this project for containment of rainwater runoff. Dams will be built in the Macuco, Mata Dois and Bandeira Grande communities, all located in the municipality of Minas Novas, Minas Gerais. This municipality is ( ... )
d in the Jequitinhonha Valley, one of the most vulnerable and environmentally degraded in the country, with widespread poverty. Fourteen families will benefit directly and 150 families indirectly, all residing in the aforementioned communities. Containment of water, a scarce and valuable resource in the region, should enable development of family farming for fruit crops and promotion of a more
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2006
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11,750.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: kaz/05/25 |
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The most part of the water basins in Kazakhstan are transboundary ones, and there are great problems with their pollution, including by the boardering states. Now all the issues are considered at the governmental level, however now in Kazakhstan ( ... )
is a tendency to hand over many questions connected with water resources management to the local level, to the water basin councils, in particular.
Establishment of the water basin councils is considered as one of the key directions for realization of modern integrated approach to water resources management. Owing to the UNDP IWRM Project Balkhash-Alakol water basin council has been set up, and
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Yemen
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Biodiversity
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2006
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38,092.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: YEM/GEF/SGP/OP3/CORE/Y2/06/04 |
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The three villages (Qashaihen, Kadha and Adoona) are located on Deneghen wadi run off system at the suberb of Hadibu city the capital of Socotra. Water is avialble in Wadi Deneghen year round in suffecient quantity. There live 274, 370 and 130 ( ... )
respectively. Women are sloely responsible for the gardens which are mainly of date palm trees and tomatoes. Lack of water limit vegetable growing for domestic use and for sale in nearby market on one hand and know how of different types of vegetable and their method of cultivation on other hand.
The project aiimed at the following:
- Provision of clean water sources for household use and
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Jamaica
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2006
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24,865.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: JAM/06/10 |
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This project has been designed to address the problems of land degradation and habitat loss caused by deforestation related mainly to conversion of forest to agriculture, and inappropriate farming practices, in targeted buffer zone communities ( ... )
the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (BJCMNP).
The BJCMNP Management Plan (2005 ? 2010) in its analysis of these problems, highlights several root causes including:-
? insufficient environmental education,
? lack of environmentally sustainable income generating activities,
? inadequate enforcement, and
? inadequate conservation activities
Park management programmes have
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Kenya
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International Waters
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2006
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25,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: KEN/NTEAP/06/013 |
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Papua new guinea
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Biodiversity
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2006
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1,986.01
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Phase 3
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Project Number: PNG/05/12 |
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The NGO will assist 7 of its CBOs to design and develop their projects. The NGO will provide the management support and assist in technical advice to the CBOs. The seven proposals are anticipated to be incorporated into just one project with ( ... )
ent activities and implemented by different CBOs with management and administration support from the NGO.
The project involves the integrated approach to conservation and development of natural resources in selected project sites.The planning grant is anticipated to assist design and develop these proposals incollaboration with the
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