There are 379 projects that match your search.
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2007
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23,500.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: KAZ/SGP/OP4/Y1/RAF/07/02 |
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Now, on the territory of the Western Kazakhstan an active hydro-carbon raw materials prospecting and mining is observed. Local people feel the greenhouse effect impact in full measure. Due to strong concentration of greenhouse gases over the area, ( ... )
cord high temperature of + 45 ? is observed during summer time. The industrial production and motor transport over-functioning also aggravate the environmental situation in the region. Thus, replacement of traditional energy resources for alternative ones is becoming one of the important issues.
Project aim:
Demonstration of a complex use of solar energy for water heating and fruit &
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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8,129.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/32 |
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Karakol settlement is located in a dry-steppe zone of Kazakhstan. Population is 2685 people (which is 628 homesteads). The area of pastures round the village is 163300 hectares. The total number of the livestock is 12700 sheep, 4312 large horned ( ... )
ock, 1340 horses and 3420 goats.
Cattle-breading has become the main occupation of the local community of the Karakol village, and now growth of the livestock in each homestead can be observed. New reforms in the country, introduction of private property for land, loss of the earlier existed knowledge of pasture use and lack of financial resources to rehabilitate rational pasture use methods
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2007
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37,886.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: KAZ/SGP/OP4/RAF/07/03 |
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Korinsk Ravine is a unique natural place, being a very important centre where endemic and rare species of flora and fauna are concentrated. At present time a wild non-control tourism prevail on the territory, poaching takes place, and all these ( ... )
s lead to general extermination of flora and fauna, destruction of the topsoil, herbage degradation, felling, frequent fires, pollution of springs and rivers, litter of the territories. One of the reasons is a poor environmental education, lack of practical environmental knowledge. Besides, local communities are now well aware about the biodiversity of the region, ecotourism topics and rational
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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11,613.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/33 |
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Zhumay settlement is located in a dry-steppe zone of Kazakhstan. Population is 165 people. The area of pastures round the village is 736 hectares. The total number of the livestock is 450 sheep, 300 large horned livestock and 80 horses. Maintenance ( ... )
livestock in stall and all-the-year-round cattle grazing round the village, the public pastures are strongly degraded, their efficiency has decreased to a minimum.
The project is directed on restoration of the degraded pastures round the settlement, decrease loading on pastures, increase of productivity of natural haymakings and sowed pastures, raise efficiency of livestock through creation
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2007
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35,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: KAZ/SGP/OP4/Y1/RAF/07/01 |
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Climate change has become one of the critical problems of the XXI century, and it poses a threat for mankind development. In the course of time, it may become the main reason for poverty explosion in developing countries, and increase of the streams ( ... )
alled ?environmental? refugees. All this may occur due to the land and drinking water resources shortage, progressing desertification process, flood, sharp winds and environmental crisis, undermined human life.
Unfortunately, only limited groups of people in specialized state departments, experts, students of environmental faculties are somehow aware about the situation, and have access to
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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5,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: KAZ/SGP/OP4/CORE/07/01 |
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Shashubay settlement is located near to the Balkhash lake. Population is 2000 people, mainly dealing with fishery and stock farming. 10 years ago the green plantations round and on the settlement territory were about 5K square m. Now they are ( ... )
y reduced, mainly due to felling, water supply system destruction and cattle over-grazing. As a result, the degradation processes have seized on the territory over 3K square m. The free top-soil is widely spread out by the wind, soil erosion becomes more progressive. To prevent the land degradation processes the project has been developed.
Project aim:
To prevent the topsoil and to
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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9,303.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/34 |
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Korgalzhyn settlement is located in a meadow-steppe zone. Population is 4684 inhabitants.
The total number of the livestock is 2562 sheep, 4920 large horned livestock.
Local people have no opportunity for usage of the remote pastures. The ( ... )
are grazed around the settlement and this leads to strong pastures degradation. With the purpose of decreasing loading on actively used pastures it is offered to move a part of the cattle to the pastures located 20 km far from the settlement. The remote pastures are well supplied with water and have enough forage.
The purpose of the project is to create a demonstration scheme for cattle
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2007
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6,773.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/31 |
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Kyrash settlement is located in Kyzylorda area. It has favorable conditions for development of pasturable animal industries as a primary activity of local community. There are 127 homesteads in the settlement. The area of pastures round the village ( ... )
70 hectares. The total number of the livestock is 24000 sheep, 300 large horned livestock, 450 horses and 150 camels. The herd is tended around the settlement, which results with a strong pasture degradation. There are mountain pastures, however, they cannot be used by inhabitants, as the foothill valley is absolutely deprived with watering places.
The purpose of the project is to restore
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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2,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/03 |
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Archa (Savin) is juniper widespread in Central Asia. It grows in extreme conditions - on the dry stony slopes, opened to winds and sun in a climate with temperatures from rather cold up to hot. The average savin life expectancy is between 500 and ( ... )
ears. The savin woods play a very important role in strengthening slopes and preventing erosion, and regulation of water drains. Savin is also one of the medicinal plants in this region.
Destruction of the woods leads to shallowing of the mountain rivers, occurrence of mudflows. For the last years tiers of the savin woods has been destroyed, and the surviving ones have much suffered from
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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25,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/21 |
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The beekeeping provides additional opportunity for pollination, both wild-growing, including valuable medical species, and agricultural crops. Cost of additional crop received due to pollination 10-15 time exceeds the cost of production of apiaries, ( ... )
ivity various agricultural cultures at the normalized pollination by bees raises on 25-100%. Besides, beekeeping gives the most valuable products - honey, royal jelly, propolis, pollen, wax, beer poison which are the most valuable medical preparations. Bees promote cultivation of long-term forage crops that creates not only a good forage reserve for cattle breeding, but also improves the soil
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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5,474.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/13 |
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Akkol settlement is located in Talas area. Over 2500 people live there, 54 farming companies work there. The settlement is located in semi-desert zone. The main problem for inhabitants of the village is lack of water for irrigation. The sowing ( ... )
s round the village are degraded, the sown area doesn?t yield harvest because of its strong salinity.
The project is aimed at raising pastures productivity through water supply of these sites.
The project tasks are: (i) improvement of irrigational system to supply the pastures with water through mobilization of population on refinement of Zhanatogan canal, (ii) Carrying out of information
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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2,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/02 |
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Katon-Karagay area is a part globally-significant Altai-Sayan region, and it possesses unique forests. It imposes on inhabitants of the area responsibility on preservation of the natural resources. With the purpose of the ecosystem preservation ( ... )
Karagay National park was established in 2002. However, despite of the measures undertaken by the state nature protection bodies, deforestation took place for several decades of the twentieth century has caused reduction of the forest area. The rivers have considerably shoaled, many springs have disappeared, spacious meadows have been formed instead of instead of the wood hills.
Flood-plain
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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46,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/16 |
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Use of fallow land practice (when the ground cultivates 3-5 times during a season for weeds destruction and moisture accumulation) leads to excessive land loosening, full absence of plants rests on a surface and, as result, to high water and wind ( ... )
n. This problem is especially character for slope lands. Land degradation leads to harvest decrease and as a result decline in living standards of villages, particular in Northern Kazakhstan. Selection of the technology which will allow to stop land degradation and stabilize crop, keeping economic efficiency, is necessary. Application of such technologies should reduce field operations quantity
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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35,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/27 |
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Global climate change is the most serious ecological threat of XXI century. Today the issue of educational programs creation directed on public awareness of the problem becomes quite important.
The ecological situation In Atyrau and Mangystau ( ... )
of Kazakhstan is deteriorated in connection with growth of industry, petroleum and gas production, while the given region is not advanced in the field of education for sustainable development and even ecological education. The climate change information and educational resources in the majority are inaccessible to teachers and pupils of the region.
The project goal is to create educational
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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50,000.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: KAZ/05/26 |
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Kazakhstan is a country with historically developed traditions of pasture management. During the Soviet period collective and state farms received sufficient resources for organization of the cattle breeding on remote areas: for pastures water ( ... )
, repairing and maintenance of wells, transportation of cattle, welfare actions for families of shepherds. Distant pasture cattle breeding was carried out by professional shepherds who well knew pastures and technology of their use.
Now people are not able either financially, or physically independently organize the cattle breeding to the remote areas. Infringement of the pasture management
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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9,980.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/19 |
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The Kaskasu village location is perspective for tourism development. Village is situated high in the mountains, between Aksu-Zhabagyly State Natural Reserve and Sairm-Ugam National Park. But local population still has no enough knowledge and ( ... )
ence of participation in tourist business. In spite of that fact that the village has strategic significance in regional ecological tourism development, there are no well equipped guest house, etc.
The project goal is to promote development of ecological tourism in Kaskasu with active involvement of the local community into the process through equipment of guest houses, camping construction,
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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19,920.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/26 |
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Tourism popularity in our country grows every year. Steady increase of unorganized tourist?s stream leads to exigency of tourism ecologization. Excessive anthropogenous influence on separate territories of the buffer zone of Sairam-Ugams National ( ... )
as resulted in desertification of some region sites. Real threat has appeared to preservation of ecosystem integrity and biodiversity, because of the forest cutting for economic needs, cattle overgrasing, wild animals poaching, herbs preparation intensification, pollution of territories by household waste products.
Organization of ecological tourism in the buffer zone to the Sairam-Ugam
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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9,529.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/25 |
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Zhabagly village is located at the foothills of Talass Alatau ridge, near the Aksu-Jabagly state natural reserve borders. It is situated in Tjulkubass area of the South-Kazakhstan oblast, which is rich in natural, cultural and historical monuments, ( ... )
an involve tourists by ancient cities, settlements, watchtowers, fortresses, the mausoleums, mosques, petroglephs, sites of Great Silk Way roads.
Taking into all this into account, a number of projects on tourism infrastructure development have been realized in Zhabagly village. However, functioning of the 12 guest houses established so far is still not effective yet, in view of weak
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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2,400.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/29 |
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Today in Kazakhstan a number of attempts for development of ecological tourism around special protected areas (SPA) as a tool for sustainable use of ecosystem elements and biodiversity conservation are undertaken. Despite of that, ecological tourism ( ... )
khstan has no desirable dynamics. It is connected to a weak interdepartmental interaction, gaps in legislation, existing conflicts between ecological NGOs and SPA authority and absence of a complex state strategy on SPA ecological tourism development, as a new nature protection strategy.
The systematic and sustainable development of ecological tourism will become possible only after creation
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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31,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/23 |
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Evaluation is one of the most important components in any project realization. Project evaluation is held with the purpose to determine efficiency of the realized project activities, project results sustainability and lessons learned. Such approach ( ... )
dly used in the GEf SGP. In the prior period of its activity SGP has arranged evaluation researches, the results of which have been used as a basis for correction of programme approach and efficiency enhancement of SGP/GEF work in Kazakhstan.
The project goal is to carry out evaluation of the 15 SGP terminated projects in the area of biodiversity conservation to analyse the projects impact
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