There are 27,190 projects available.
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Barbados
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Multifocal Area
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2009
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10,200.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BAR/SGP/OP4/YEAR2/CORE/09/07 |
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This project is the first in a series of capacity development projects which will help build the capacity of BECON to manage projects under the framework policy of each one help another. The project objectives are to:
(i) build the capacity ( ... )
s and CBOs in managing their organisations for maximum impact;
(ii) establish a forum for the sharing of ideas and lessons learned; and
(iii) inform and educate the various publics about environmental issues through the framework of the
GEF Focal Areas.
The proejct has four activities as follows: Internal and external presentations and discussions; learning tours; training in
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2009
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15,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP4/Y2/Core/2009/006 |
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The objective of this project is to provide skills and techniques to rural women to identify alternative sources of living and avoid relying heavily on the forest for livelihood, thereby saving the forest from losing its biodiversity and fresh ( ... )
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As a result of this project, women in Rivercess are expected to
? Have knowledge on alternative livelihood activities that can generate income
? Identify alternative livelihood activities for implementation (individually or collectively)
? Network and share experience for improvement in their activities.
Liberia lies within the Upper Guinea forest belt of West Africa which is
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Fiji
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Biodiversity
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2009
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29,831.40
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: FJI/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/08/01 |
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An initiative that aims to maintain and restore terrestrial biodiversity through the indigenous plant restoration and protection whilst improving household livelihoods through proper village agriculture programs. |
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Bulgaria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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41,170.30
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: BUL/SGP/OP4/Y3/RAF/09/27 |
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Climate change is low on the agenda of the Bulgarian government and low on the agenda of the general public in the region. The press and broadcast media could potentially have a major positive impact in pushing the climate change agenda. In ( ... )
ia, climate change tends to be reported largely in terms of administrative responses to EU or UN mitigation policies, it is rather seen as a subject for technocrats and engineers and has so far failed to get the necessary attention both from the media and the general public. A further difficulty is posed by the fact that with relatively small, fragmented markets, there are not the resources
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Bulgaria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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20,755.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BUL/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/09/14 |
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Undoubtedly, the rich cultural and historical heritage of places such as the town of Tryavna, the village of Bozhentsi, Etara Ethnographic Open-Air Museum, Sokolski Monastery, the genuine wildlife and biodiversity on the territory of Bulgarka Nature ( ... )
s well as the opportunities to preserve and develop agricultural practice and craft industry are a significant basis to offer an integrated ecotourist product.
Despite the rich cultural and historical heritage, the genuine wildlife and the presence of a protected area, which are favourable for the development of ecotourist business, the supply of ecotourist services in the region is inadequate
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Bulgaria
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2009
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28,143.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: BUL/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/09/13 |
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Undoubtedly, the rich cultural and historical heritage of places such as the town of Tryavna, the village of Bozhentsi, Etara Ethnographic Open-Air Museum, Sokolski Monastery, the genuine wildlife and biodiversity on the territory of Bulgarka Nature ( ... )
s well as the opportunities to preserve and develop agricultural practice and craft industry are a significant basis to offer an integrated ecotourist product.
Despite the rich cultural and historical heritage, the genuine wildlife and the presence of a protected area, which are favourable for the development of ecotourist business, the supply of ecotourist services in the region is inadequate
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Mexico
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Biodiversity
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2009
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27,028.16
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: MEX/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/2009/17 |
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Mejoramiento de las condiciones físicas y productivas de 68 hectáreas cultivadas con café orgánico certificado mdiante la conservación de suelos, la aplicación de abonos orgánicos y la diversificación de la sombra como parte de la cubierta ( ... )
l, con plantas frutales y forestales, a fin de mejorar la biodiversidad, y la calidad y rendimiento de los sistemas cafetaleros de doce comunidades del Municipio de Motozintla.
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South africa
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Biodiversity
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2009
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: SAF/SGP/OP4/Y3/RAF/2009/06 |
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We have initiated a commercially viable fish production venture though the establishment of aquaculture (fish farming) ?clusters?, each consisting of a central management farm and a network of satellite farming systems, which will benefit from ( ... )
ies of scale through their collaboration.
The fish produced will be canned in order to increase shelf life and sold at an affordable price in order to fill the enormous gap caused by the reduction in the annual pilchard quota.
The net result will be poverty alleviation, through the creation of sustainable self-employment for rural women and pro-poor economic growth, whilst simultaneously
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Bolivia
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Chemicals
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2009
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23,266.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: BOL/SGP/OP4/3/RAF/09/14 |
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El objetivo es contribuir a la disminución de la contaminación ambiental por COPs (basura tóxica) en la agricultura mediante el desarrollo de un sistema de gestión municipal comunitaria de envases vacíos de plaguicidas.
La agricultura en esta ( ... )
intensiva, donde se cultiva diversidad de hortalizas, citricos y coca en pequeñas y medianas extensiones, gran parte de ellas en la modalidad de "monocultivo", lo cual esta generando un desequilibrio del ecosistema y desde el punto de vista ambiental y de salud ocupacional esta contribuyendo a la contaminación de los componentes del medio ambiente de esta región, contaminando alimentos y
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Sri lanka
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Biodiversity
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2009
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42,520.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: SRL/SGP/OP4/Y3/RAF/2009/02 |
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According to the NCR, the largest percentage of forests belongs to Ratnapura district. This project proposes to minimize the adverse effects caused by surrounding communities with sustainable utilization of nature products. This focuses on ( ... )
ping alternate income generation for the community thus driving them on community based conservation initiatives, being the activities, integrating 25 organizations towards a marketing mechanism, establishing consumer societies, establishing a sales center in Colombo and developing the capacities of organizations on organic products
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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29,010.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF/2009/003 |
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The project seeks to build the capacity of the Grassroot Consultative Committee for natural resource management particularly to protect and rehabilitate the highly degraded forest resources in Urhonigbe Forest Reserve Forest Reserve, Edo State ( ... )
a. The project is designed to enhance sound natural resources management and exemplify positive response of local communities to climate
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Malawi
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Chemicals
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2009
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30,000.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: MLW/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/02 |
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Over the past forty years, many African countries, including Malawi, have accumulated large quantities of pesticides. The chemicals contain chemical toxins and need to be carefully stored and handled. The unwanted buildup of such products has ( ... )
ed due to inadequate stock management, non-distribution to farmers, bans on several pesticides, lack of coordination or inappropriate supply from donor agencies, unsuitable packaging and supplier incentive programs. These stocks will continue to present a threat to the environment until there is an increase in community awareness and involvement in eliminating and reducing the impact of
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Cameroon
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2009
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24,480.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: CMR/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/09/06 |
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This project seeks to strengthen the indigenous community of Njila and Wowo Villages by providing the requisite skills to enhance biodiversity conservation via improved fire sides, beekeeping and domestication of indigenous /economic trees both on ( ... )
nd in the degraded sites of the unique forest. This will go a long way to conserve the unique indigenous forest found in this area.
The Women and the youths who are the main users of this forest will be trained on these alternative livelihood practices like the beekeeping (mostly for youth and old or retired men) and women on the improved firesides as well as domestication of
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Armenia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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30,970.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: ARM/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/04 |
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The project goal is to enhance capacities of local communities and management bodies of multi-apartment buildings of the Shirak region through demonstration of energy efficiency improvement and introducing renewable energy use practices in a pilot ( ... )
apartment residential building as well training of modern and affordable energy efficiency technologies of buildings, software provision.
The project plans to implement construction, renovation and insulation works, particularly installation of doors and windows of building entrances and stairwells, lighting system for the stairwells and also installation of solar hot water panels for heating
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Pakistan
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Multifocal Area
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2009
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50,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: PAK/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/23 |
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The project ?Capacity Building of GEF SGP Partner NGOs? will be implemented across Pakistan with participating organizations; whereas special focus will be Indus delta region. The activities generally will include 1) Build capacities of 150 ( ... )
sionals and members from 20 CBOs and NGOs already working or aspire to work with GEF SGP. The trainings to these organizations would specifically transfer skills in ?social organization?, ?accounting and bookkeeping?, ?skills for effective project management?, ?resource mobilization and project proposal writing?, ?effective communication and report writing? and ?environmental sustainability?; and
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Pakistan
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Multifocal Area
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2009
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29,500.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: PAK/SGP/OP4/CORE/09/26 |
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Project operation area is District Umerkot, lower Sindh, which is situated partially in desert of old District Tharparkar while the one third areas are adjacent with between desert and barrage area. Umerkot is economically poor & marginalized ( ... )
ct of Sindh.The district is scattered in 5608 square kilometers has a population of 6.615 million according census of 1998. According to average annual growth rate 3.28% of population, the estimated population in 2007 is 8.37 million. District Umerkot is mostly rural with 90% of population living in rural areas.The socio-economic conditions of the areas are very poor due to acute shortage of
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Jamaica
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CapDev
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2009
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15,100.00
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OP4 - Y3 (Jul 09 - Jun 10)
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Project Number: JAM/OP4/3/CORE/09/05 |
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Inadequate planning is one of the main reasons why projects fail. Recognizing this fact, ADA will be offering a course in capacity building in project management, namely, ?Basic Proposal writing,? a short course (16 hours). The course is based on ( ... )
rkbook: Capacity Building for Project Cycle Management I ? Basic Proposal Writing.
The course will offer an approach and tools to help plan and design quality projects and prepare "sound" project requests for submission to funding agencies. The short course will focus on project planning and design within the larger context of the full project cycle, namely planning, implementation and
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Cuba
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Biodiversity
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2009
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27,832.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: CUB/SGP/OP4/Y2/RAF /2009/04 |
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El presente proyecto se desarrollará en la CCS F ?Arnaldo Arteaga?, enclavada en el asentamiento rural de la Sabana, municipio Camajuaní y tiene como objetivo estimular la producción de la palma real en dicha zona para la reforestación, así ( ... )
ara el apoyo a la vida silvestre y a la economía local.
El alto índice de deforestación, las prácticas de manejo inadecuadas, la deficiente planificación de los viales unido a efectos de eventos climáticos, han propiciado un incremento en el proceso erosivo, pérdida de la fertilidad del suelo, disminución de la diversidad biológica, aparición de plagas, etc, aumentado la fragilidad
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Iran
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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25,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: IRA/SGP/OP4/RAF/Y2/09/04A (113A) |
Project Location: Safaroud, Ramsar(Lat:36.907883;Long:50.679932)
Project Background
The so-called Caspian broadleaf deciduous forests consist of a narrow green belt with an area of approximately 1.9 million hectares. It is estimated that it ( ... )
4 million hectares 45 years ago. While imposing bans on lumbering and grazing by the locals foresters, age-long lifestyles and living patterns were disrupted, and a number of forest villages were deserted. The remaining families continue to face severe economic hardship. In contrast land conversions, massive industrial Logging Plans and illegal logging have been going unnoticed. The yield of
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Iran
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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25,000.00
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OP4 - Y2 (Jul 08 - Jun 09)
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Project Number: IRA/SGP/OP4/RAF/Y2/09/04B (113B) |
Project location:Safaroud-Ramsar(Lat:36.907883;Long:50.679932)
Project Background:
The so-called Caspian broadleaf deciduous forests consist of a narrow green belt with an area of approximately 1.9 million hectares. It is estimated that it was ( ... )
lion hectares 45 years ago. While imposing bans on lumbering and grazing by the locals foresters, age-long lifestyles and living patterns were disrupted, and a number of forest villages were deserted. The remaining families continue to face severe economic hardship. In contrast land conversions, massive industrial Logging Plans and illegal logging have been going unnoticed. The yield of these
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