There are 29,070 projects available.
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Thailand
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International Waters
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2003
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11,633.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: THA/03/04 |
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Target population earn their living through farming , especially rice , and for many, off-season migratory labour in cities. Within the last five years and under the promotion of sugar industries in the locality, many marginal areas of paddy field ( ... )
een turned into sugar cane fields. Sugarcane fields are expanding and encroaching paddy fields as well as community forest. In order to secure the yield of sugar cane, pre-selected chemical fertilizer and fungicide/pesticide have been used at a progressive
rate. Apart from these , wildfire is common in dry season. Consequently, the areas of two community forests in the community continuously
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Thailand
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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12,761.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: THA/02/18 |
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Covering the area of about 326 sq. km., intact and rich in natural resources, Tambol Thai Samakhi is the watershed for both Moon River, a major tributary of the Mekhong River and Bang Pakong River of the Gulf Of Thailand / South China Sea. In 1967, ( ... )
ai government built a highway cutting across the area linking the Northeastern Plateau to the South Eastern Coastal area , prompting flow of people migration in to the area , widespread cash crop plantation and imprudent modern agricultural practice. Machinery and chemical substance have been applied at a progressive rate.
Ten years later, forest concession was granted leading to heavy
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Kyrgyzstan
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2003
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11,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KYR/SGP/OP2/Y5/CORE/2003/36 |
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Conservation and rehabilitation of Semenov`s fir (Abies Semenovii B.Fedtch) ? endemic species of Kyrgyzstan flora are the main tasks of the project. Unfortunately, but Semenov`s fir is gradually disappearing because of absence the natural ( ... )
l, susceptibility to diseases, and poaching.
The basic components of the project are:
- Creation of Semenov`s fir nursery (1hectare), with the subsequent planting seedlings in the plantation (17,8 hectares).
- Creation of transitive branch of the plantation (1,2 hectares)
- Training local residents of Kara-Koyun settlement to look after saplings of Semenov`s firs and fruit trees and
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Sri lanka
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Land Degradation
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2003
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11,538.46
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Phase 2
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Project Number: SRL/03/36 |
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Awareness raising and establishment of community organization, developing of 25 home gardens, training in nature farming and designing/implemnting a viable marketing strategy to sell the produce, monitoring of activities. The target community is ( ... )
in a remote corner of the district and has not been exposed to any nature farming methods or other sustainable farming techniques. The NGO has worked in the area and could produce good results with the participation from the community.
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Mauritania
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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15,730.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: MAU/98/G52/02/11 |
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Loboudou Thiock est une sorte de presqu'île située sur le fleuve Sénégal à 40 km à l'Ouest de la ville de Boghé et entre les deux villages de Ando et Ngourdiane. Du fait de sa position géographique, Loboudou Thiock constitue un véritable ( ... )
voir en espèces végétales. Il constitue également un point de passage et de refuge de beaucoup d'oiseaux qui de jour en jour voient leur nombre baisser à cause de la pression que subit cet endroit. Cette pression est principalement anthropique. Afin de préserver le peu qui reste de cet endroit et redonner à Loboudou Thiock l'image qui est la sienne, l'ONG ARDE va, sur appui du SGP, mettre
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2003
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42,932.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/UNF-GEF/03/09 |
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Mt. Kilimanjaro has been a great attraction to tourist from all over the world. Communities living adjacent to mountain climbing routes increases their income through tourists' activities. The rehabilitation of the Machame climbing route will ( ... )
t the communities nearby through engagement in tourist related activities such as selling of souvenirs, cultural tourism and also work as potter or guides to the tourists using this route. This will enlarge chances to the communities to improve their income with less investment, as cultural tourism activities are the community daily activities.
The project aims at rehabilitating Mweka climbing
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Thailand
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Land Degradation
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2003
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13,056.60
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Phase 2
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Project Number: THA/03/12 |
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Residing ,for generations, in and around the Namnao National Conservation Forest, target population has earn their living through natural provision and agricultural practice thus been a part of the ecosystems. However, the consumption of natural ( ... )
ion has increased nearly at a irreversible rate while agricultural practices has totally shifted from traditional way to modernized mono-crops. At an estimate, 95 % of the population practice cultivating short-lived ,mono-crops such as wild paddy, corn, ginger, bean requiring a lot of tilling. Moreover, further encroaching into the forest area has worsened land erosion resulting in
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Albania
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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10,974.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: ALB/03/21 |
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With the aim of improving and rehabilitating forest and mountain ecosystems and increasing carbon sequestration, this project will increase the forest area through forestation of 12 hectares of land in the mountainous area of Shishtavec commune. The ( ... )
community participation is one of the main assets of the project, in partnership with CARE International Albania and the local NGO.
The project builds on the model of ?community forest? that has proven to be successful in the Albanian reality. The increase of forested area will contribute to the mitigation of negative impacts on the environment as well as contribute towards poverty reduction
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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17,013.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: ALB/03/06 |
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The project aims to restore the forest habitats in the Butrinti National Park recently listed in the list of wetlands of international importance under Ramsar Convention. The restoration efforts will cover the Ksamili Penninsula, Pavllo river ( ... )
ent and Bufi Lake surroundings. The newly created forest habitat is expected to provide in the near future critical nesting habitat for significant numbers of water birds that use nearby wetlands.
Seeds, saplings and other reproductive material will be collected from the remaining patches of native forest and used for establishing a tree nursery in nearby village of Shendelli. The project also
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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20,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-CWI-03-03 |
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The area around the Lusi Community suffers very severe droughts in the months of September, October and November. Due to limited capacity, the traditional ponds dry up in this period and people get water from Lake Victoria about 5 km away. When it ( ... )
lly rains the people draw stagnating pool water that is contaminated. As a result of contaminated water people suffer from numerous intestinal diseases, people?s individual livelihoods decline because their cows produce less milk, their livestock are exposed to infectious diseases as they travel through other villages in search of water and they are not able to maintain home gardens for their
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Jordan
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Biodiversity
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2003
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32,800.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: JOR/03/06 |
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The project aims at reviving the natural rangeland in Al Mujib reserve, in the Hammamt Quseib area, improving at the same time the livelihood of the local community. Hammamat Quseib area is located in Wadi Al Heedan which stretches west to meet the ( ... )
ea after meeting Wadi Al Mujib; the flowing waters gather to form a creek within Wadi Al Heedan passing through Al Mujib, before finally settling in the Dead Sea. The main water spring is fed by a group of springs close to Hammamat Quseib which includes a mountain cut forming a natural ?seek?, resembling the one in Petra. This one, however, is characterized by water springing out of its sides,
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Thailand
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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10,367.30
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Phase 2
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Project Number: THA/03/10 |
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Once rich in natural resources,watershed area of the Nan River at Ban (village) Kiu Muang has been,for generations, playing life-supporting role ,especially in term of self-sufficient agriculture. After five decades of modernization, the area has ( ... )
egraded through unavoidable deforestation chemical substance application and introduction of machinery. There seems to be no regulations to decelerate these land-degrading activities.
Together with community members, the Hug Muang Nan Foundation had developed a project to rehabilitate the degraded land by promoting sustainable land use reducing imminent threats upon the watershed and its
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Kyrgyzstan
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Biodiversity
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2003
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5,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KYR/SGP/OP2/Y5/CORE/2003/34 |
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The aim of the project is rehabilitation of the fragments of natural and man-made walnut forest belt in the vicinity of Kerben village
About 70 % of population in Kerben lives below the breadline. People have to exploit natural resources ( ... )
t rehabilitation and reproduction. As a result, former wood and bush landscapes were completely destroyed and have been disappeared. There is no enough irrigation land for increasing population. Rehabilitation of walnut forest belt will be realized through making productive ravines, stony slopes and other non-used lands. It is expected to plant saplings of walnut (4000 pieces), plums (8000
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Thailand
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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7,819.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: THA/03/07 |
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60 % of the lowland in Tambol Thung of Chaiya District is paddy field while the remaining 40 % is for residential area. Through both areas, four natural water courses run and converge into the Gulf of Thailand at Ao Ban Don.
Agricultural practice ( ... )
location depends ,to a great extent, upon chemical substances, especially, fertilizer, fungicide and pesticide. The excessive chemical run-off eventually seeps into the Gulf of Thailand. In processing paddy, fossil fuel or fire woods have been the sources of energy to reduce the moisture and electricity from grid to run the drying container.
In order to reduce the chemical run-off into the
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Kyrgyzstan
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2003
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10,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KYR/SGP/OP2/Y5/CORE/2003/39 |
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The true pistachio (Pistacia vera) is unique nut fruit species which successfully grows and fructifies in a belt of foothill deserts and dry steppes. There are 23,0 thousand hectares (19,5 thousand hectares are natural; 3,5 thousand hectares ( ... )
anted by man) pistachio in Kyrgyzstan.
The bukhara almond (Amugdalus bucharica) is a nut fruit culture which may grow on the dry (not irrigated) grounds where annual precipitation is less than 200 mm. The pistachio and almonds are the basic wood species of pistachio forests. The purpose of the project is rehabilitation of fragments of a pistachio forest belt in the vicinities of Suluctu town.
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Mongolia
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Biodiversity
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2003
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7,740.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: MON/03/05 |
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Although official statistics say that about 17 % of springs in Mongolia has been dried up over the last 15-20 years, in reality this number may exceed 30 %. This sutuation is most likely relates to climate change effects. Springs in dry Mongolia ( ... )
rgely drinking water sources for wild animals. They also support surrounding ecosystems, specially in steppe and desert areas. Many animals migrate from Gobi and desert region to steppe and mountain regions for water sources.
The objective of the grant is to improve pastureland use and management by rehabilitating a well and nearby spring by planting tree seedlings at its
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Tanzania
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Land Degradation
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2003
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24,045.83
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Phase 1
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/UNF-GEF/03/05 |
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The Nicodem traditional Irrigation furrow hs been used for irrigation for the last 200 years by the communities in Sango Village. This furrow is old and has no permanent intake. The canal is not lined and thus allows seepage of water and water ( ... )
before reaching farms is high. The canal has a nigth water reservoir which also looses a lot of water through percolation as it is an earth reservoir. The objective of this project is to undertake the lining of the canal and reservoir in order to increase water availability for irrigation and domestic
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Tanzania
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Land Degradation
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2003
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12,306.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/UNF-GEF/03/03 |
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This project intends to rehabilitate 1.5 Km of the Osanja irrigation canal in order to alleviate poverty among Makupa village which is located closer to Mt.Kilimanjaro forest. The project will make the agriculture througth irrigation a sustainable ( ... )
ic activity and thus reduce posibilities of people living through illegal logging of timberfrom the natural forest. The rehabilitation of this irrigation canal and its water reservoir will help 500 families to engage in agriculture. The rehabilitation of this canal will also support the communties to engage in production of other cash crops including
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Poland
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Biodiversity
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2003
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926.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: POL/03/01p |
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preparation of full project; visit to Przemkow Landscape Park where GEF/SGP sponsored use of biomas as energy resource (similar habitat,similar problems), also visits to Biebrza National Park, contact with Workshop for all Beings. |
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Poland
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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750.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: POL/03/05p |
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Technical expertise (energy audit) on the renevable energy use for heating purposes in a hostel for young people;preparation of full projectst submitted to the Ecofund and GEF/SGP and Voivodship Fund.;rejected by the Ecofund and Voivodship Fund,, no ( ... )
g funds were found ;finally GEF/SGP did not
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