There are 29,070 projects available.
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Zimbabwe
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Land Degradation
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2007
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: ZIM/SGP/OP3/Y2/CORE/2007/05 |
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BACKGROUND
the Matobo Hills World Heritage Sites is a landscape that offers a unique combination of natural and cultural capital of exceptional aesthetic, scientific, and educational significance. its natural landscape comprises of scenic ( ... )
ical formations that create micro environments and habitats that are home to a wide range of important flora and fauna. numerous rock paintings, rock shelters, historical buildings, burial sites, religious sites and various artificats depict the time depth and cultural diversity that are worthy of mention and preservation. this natural property covers a total area of 3100km2. 2050km2 of the area
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Botswana
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Multifocal Area
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2007
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2,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BOT/OP3/2/06/23 |
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Samochima Interim Conservation Trust aims at building consensus on strategies for development of fish industry and ecotourism related enterprises. The project will solve the upsurge in commercial fishing in the Okavango Panhandle and decline of such ( ... )
es is not desirable as it is the livelihood of the people in the Okavango area, especially women. The envisaged legal entity will empower and accord the community (especially women) a chance to fully realise their potential allowing them to fully address issues related to HIV/AIDS, gender, poverty and sustainable use of fishery
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Botswana
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Multifocal Area
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2007
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2,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BOT/OP3/2/06/28 |
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The project will aloow the Ngamiland CBNRM Forum to meet and fully explore avenues and ways of trnsforming itself into a legally registered entity with a fulltime secretariat. This will allow the forum to access requisite funding that it is unable ( ... )
. The funds will be used for a workshop to build consensus, share ideas and come up with strategies of transforming the forum into a legally registered entity. The project will enable the Ngamiland CBNRM forum to meet and come up with prioritized concrete proposals and initiatives that will need to be undertaken to ensure the CBNRM forum is transformed. The workshop will also enable the CBOs to
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Viet nam
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Multifocal Area
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2007
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: VN/06/003 |
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Hoi An ancient town was listed as a World Cultural Heritage site by UNESCO in 1999. Hoi An is a remarkable physical symbol combining different cultures over chronological periods in an international trading port. It is also a typical example of a ( ... )
tly conserved traditional Asian trade town.
However, during recent years, Hoi An has been facing huge challenges in environmental management due to rapid economic development, especially of the tourism industry. Though the local authority and residents have been aware of the importance of environmental protection in the sustainable development of this world heritage, Hoi An is in a
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India
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Land Degradation
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2007
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2,469.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: SGP/GEF/IND/OP3/03/07/MP 08 |
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The project promulgates a model of land reclamation using endemic species that may yield better results. The goal of the project is strengthening community action for ex-situ conservation of Guggal species for ravine reclamation in Ater block of ( ... )
The area is highly prone to land degradation and rapid spread of ravenous growth. The organization will use guggal as a flagship species in reclamation of the land in the area. Inventorization of guggal trees available in the area will be done with community participation and land treatment plans will be developed. Through participatory exercises a detailed biodiversity management plan for 110
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2007
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13,780.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BHU/OP3/Y2/06/07 |
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The goal of the project is to institutionalize and decentralize forest fire management at village level to ensure that forest resources are managed by community's own principles and values. This would ultimately enhance the group to maintain social ( ... )
within the communities. The outcomes from the project will also be used as a basis for development of community-based forest fire management and prevention, identified as one of the priority projects on climate change under the Bhutan National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA).
The objective of the project are as follows:
1. To reduce threat to human life and community property from
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Botswana
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Multifocal Area
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2007
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: BOT/OP3/2/07/01 |
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The project aims at rehabilitating and sustainably utilizing Tsaro lodge as a vehicle for community involvement in eco-tourism. Tsaro lodge is an ideal asset that offers the community a chance to further consolidate its involvement in photographic ( ... )
m activities. The tourism venture will provide an opportunity for hands-on, acquisition of the much needed prerequisite skills in the tourism industry, income and benefiting from the spin-off activities.
The Khwai Development Trust (KDT) of Khwai is amongst the first CBOs to embrace nad adopt the community based natural resources management (CBNRM) programme. The Khwai settlement has a small
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India
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Biodiversity
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2007
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17,728.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: SGP/GEF/IND/OP3/03/07/MP 11 |
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The goal of the project is to strengthen livelihoods of tribal communities through conservation of biodiversity in 5 GPs of Uchera block of Satna District in Madhya Pradesh. The project will facilitate the establishing of a model of institutional ( ... )
age for strengthening wild biodiversity based livelihood in 3 GPs (Gudah, Devguna, Bichawa). In-situ conservation initiative of 35 local rice varieties will be up scaled to 5 Gram Panchayats in the area.
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Viet nam
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Biodiversity
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2007
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: VN/06/013 |
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Marketing chances are created all over the world when the trend of economic liberalization and government decentralizing process are creating new markets and strengthening the locals? decision-making powers in managing biodiversity resources. ( ... )
he local communities have more and more opportunities of having benefits from those resources. However, the increasing demand of the biodiversity resources? products may lead to over-exploitation. As a result, there comes the decline of resources and the continuous poverty of the exploiters. Consequently, the biodiversity resources? products need to be traded stably.
GEF SGP Vietnam,
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Kyrgyzstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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50,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: KYR/SGP/OP3/Y2/CORE/2006/65 |
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The project purpose is decreased the rates of land degradation in South regions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan by introduction and adaptation of PV-methodology as tool of GEF/SGP project management and also stimulation of local innovation processes, ( ... )
olve community and decision-makers, public awareness and exchange of experience between NGOs.
Land degradation is a serious economic, social problem related to environment, which faces Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. It directly affected the livelihood of the rural population by reducing the productivity of land resources and adversely affecting the stability, functioning and the resources quality
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Cameroon
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Biodiversity
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2007
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27,858.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: CMR/OP3/Y2/CORE/07/03 |
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The project on strengthening wetland management through community organisation and prioritised sustainable livelihood options in the Lake Ossa Complex seeks to address threats on Freshwater ecosystems linked to community organisation and ( ... )
ipation, unsustainable exploitation of wildlife and fisheries resources.
Wetland resources users including women some of whom have already received training from previous projects will be involved in alternative livelihood activities like, cane rat domestication, aquaculture, fish preservation, eco-tourism and counter season farming with the aim of increasing the availability of proteins and
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Palestine, State of
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Biodiversity
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2007
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43,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: PAL/06/94 |
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Project on supporting schools? students? role in conserving biodiversity in Jenin governorate. The project will contribute to advocate environmental awareness at the schools? students. The projects will also contribute to building capacity of ( ... )
s teachers as well as students to identify environmental problems in their local communities and to learn how to interfere positively in order to enhance their local environment. The project comprises implementation of 40 pilot projects at 40 selected schools in Jenin Governorates. Projects design and preparation of work-plan is expected to be produced by students? projects groups. Furthermore
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Cambodia
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Community Based Adaptation
Biodiversity
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2007
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22,001.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: KHM/UNDP/07/35 |
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This project was fully funded by UNDP TRAC fund thruogh SGP team. |
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Mongolia
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2007
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9,200.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: MON/06/42 |
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Intends to assist local communities alone with the Buffer Zone Council of Eej Khairkhan protected area in promoting tourism activities around protected area to support local administration conservation efforts and livelihoods of the local community ( ... )
ping them establish a community camp.
June 29, 2007
One more community-based tourist camp was opened at the foot of the Eej Khairkhan mountain, a place of outstanding natural beauty and a local sacred spot in Gobi Altai province. In Mongolia, tourism is becoming a valuable new income-generating alternative for herders highly dependent on their livestock, the main source of livelihood.
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Mongolia
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Multifocal Area
Biodiversity
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2007
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13,047.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: MON/06/41 |
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Intends to facilitate communities in identifying good grant ideas and proposals as well as in developing project proposals and to assist the SGP office in organizing two exchange visits among local grantees and in facilitating the formation of GEF ( ... )
mmunity tourism network.
This grant conducted a number of training sessions in several soums of Selenge, Hentii, Arkhangai provinces and assisted the SGP Mongolia office in creating two networks namely, Tree planting and Fruit Cultivation Network and Bee Keepers' Network.
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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14,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/02 |
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Frequently places that are rich in biodiversity are located in remote areas and host human communities that have very low incomes and are marginalized from the opportunities offered to other communities living in less remote areas. Poor communities ( ... )
eavily on ecosystem services and as the demand for these services increases due to changes in the lifestyles induced by expansion of tourism so does the risk of damage to the biodiversity. In this situation it is necessary to intervene quickly at the onset of tourism so that the right patterns are presented and installed into the hosting community. It is essential that the promotion of these
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Cambodia
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Community Based Adaptation
Biodiversity
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2007
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21,993.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: KHM/UNDP/07/34 |
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This project was fully funded by UNDP TRAC fund. |
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Kenya
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Biodiversity
Climate Change Mitigation
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2007
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48,646.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: KEN-GEF-07-001 |
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WWF will carry out activities to support communities to implement a project on sustainable Jatropha curcas farming for improved livelihoods and conservation of natural resources and the environment. |
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2007
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27,497.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: KEN/SGP/OP4/CORE/07/01 |
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The NGO will hold four two day workshops in regions where SGP has clusters of projects such as Coast, Wester, Baringo, Koibatek and Laikipia. These are aimed at supporting communities to participate in the formulation of Kenya's Environment Policy. |
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Turkiye
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Biodiversity
International Waters
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2007
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34,000.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: TUR/OP3/2/07/08 |
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The overfishing has not only depleted the fish population in the Mediterranean Sea but also caused malnutrition of the monk seals, which in turn affected their reproductive success. Trawls were the first to go and then followed by the larger purse ( ... )
fishing boats. As a reaction to the depletion of fish stocks and monk seal disappearance from the Mediterranean, The Levant Nature Conservation Society started a project by taking initial support from UNDP/BTC Small Investments Fund, aiming to demonstrate a model of living in which the monk seals and fishermen can co-exist. The main idea of the project is to ensure the continuity of the artisanal
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