There are 142 projects that match your search.
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2023
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35,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/2023/64 |
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The overall essence of this project is to ensure Biodiversity is protected and maintained within the Nimba Natural Reserve (ENNR), through the building of capacity and creating awareness in six (6) rural communities with farming groups where the ( ... )
nment is seriously been threatened. This intervention seeks to engage farming groups with a membership of at least 25 persons per group within each project community.
The communities to benefit under this project are:
A. Sanniquellie Mah District
Boapea, Gehweee, and Sheyikimpa
B. Gbehlay-Geh District
Zorgowee, Kialay, and Goagortuo,
The program will
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Liberia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2023
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25,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/2023/60 |
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The project seeks to enhance community knowledge on climate change, impact, effect, mitigation and adoption approaches to mitigate and sustain a safe environment for all. The various targeted communities in Montserrado County namely: Mount Barclay ( ... )
ub communities (Cureysburg, Philip Farm, ) and Congo town includes four sub-communities namely; Oldroad, Gaye town, Chugbor, RC Lawson and Swankamore Communities. Many locals in these communities have little or no basic facilities to respond to their human resources capacity to mitigate climate change; limited latrine, unsafe drinking water, and limited empowerment opportunity for better
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Liberia
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Land Degradation
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2023
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50,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/SLM/2023/56 |
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Degradation caused by illegal and Quasi-Legal Logging and artisanal mining posed serious threat to Liberia ?s forests future. The Government of Liberia ?s (GOL) domestic timber supply policy appears to be a contributor to forest degradation though ( ... )
regulated chain sawing practices (known locally as pit-sawing) via a permit system which leads to over cutting, lost revenues and potential corruption, including the illegal export of planks.The report also explained that GOL expected industrial and artisanal mining activities to grow rapidly during the Poverty Reduction Strategy period, from near zero production in 2005/06 to 12 percent of GDP
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2023
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30,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/2023/59 |
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Grand Cape Mount County has strengthened its environmental governance structure aiming to protect national resources and biodiversity of global importance. The county is recognized for promoting the importance of biodiversity in its culture and ( ... )
ions and is committed to advancing towards the conservation of biodiversity Pro-Poor agenda and maintaining a leading role in contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Biodiversity Targets.
Main sectorial challenges are reflected in a series of mutually supportive public policy instruments. In particular, actions are directed to enforce existing laws on environmental
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2023
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35,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/Promoting Social /Inclusion |
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a project being;
Empowering Disadvantaged Youth (10? 24years) through Climate Smart Climate
Smart Approaches for Reintegration and Social Inclusion.Liberia is youthful with 63% of the youth under 25 years and 79% under 36 years. This youthful ( ... )
ructure is marked by very high poverty leading to a high youth dependency ratio estimated at 77.6. This population cohort is continuously suffering beyond the bottom of the poverty line due to long term socio-economic and development neglect and deprivation. The disadvantaged youth in the context of this project include youth and young people that are drugs and substance abusers who have mental
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2023
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25,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/2023/51 |
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Lake Piso is a saltwater lake located in Grand Cape Mount County that has an open connection to the Atlantic Ocean, thus making it an oblong tidal lagoon. It is an open coastal lagoon near Robertsport to the west of Monrovia, the largest such inlet ( ... )
Liberian coast, surrounded by forested hillsides (including one of the rarest tropical rainforests in the region) and is fed by several creeks and rivers.
Despite knowing and understanding the importance of biodiversity, residents around Lake Piso are currently destroying the ecosystems that depend on the lake, something which is leading to unprecedented loss of biodiversity in the
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Liberia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2023
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30,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/2023/53 |
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The project being Enhancing local Communities' Capacities and Resilience to Smart Innovative Agro-Reforestation and Agroecology that mitigate deforestation of ecosystem around the East Nimba Nature Reserved (ENNR). Climate change is expected to ( ... )
adverse effects on agriculture around the globe, with many countries showing increasing concerns about its possible devastating repercussions. Earth temperatures are expected to increase by approximately 2 ?C in the next 100 years, which will result in dramatic changes in rainfall patterns in many parts of the world Liberia is no exception and particularly in dry areas. Temperature and water
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Liberia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2023
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25,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/2023/58 |
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project being; Enhancing the knowledge of residents of the Settlement of Arlington, Rural Montserrado County, on climate change as means of mitigating the Effects. The project proposal responds to the survey of the project carried out by SDRCL in ( ... )
ttlement of Arthington during which time the SDRCL discovered illegal activities, especially felling, and burning of farms, are still being carried out by residents of the communities. Almost all of the farmers have noticed a decline in high forest in and around the Settlement; they attribute this to intensive farming (shifting cultivation), an increase in coal making, and bushfires, increasing
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Liberia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2023
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25,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/2023/50 |
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Hand of Dewein operations to enhance women and Indigenous farmers in Dewein, Bomi County.The project communities are faced with the problem of rapid environmental degradation due to the unsustainable methods of traditional slash-and-burn farming, ( ... )
ependency on the already exhausted uplands especially in the area identified for crop farming, logging, charcoal burning, are causing induced large scale deforestation, reduced soil fertility, and environmental degradation such that the populations face a steady decline in agricultural productivity causing poverty, hunger and malnutrition. The project is intended to address some of these global
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2023
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50,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/2023/61 |
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WHEREAS GEF SGP has established and provided funding for a project being; Promoting Forest-Landscape Restoration in Lake Piso Multiple Use Reserve through Agro-ecological Farming System. An analysis of Liberia?s forest conducted in 2013 (FAO, 2014) ( ... )
that forest covered two-thirds of Liberia's land surface, of which less than half (44 percent) was considered degraded; followed by agriculture (13 percent of the land surface); and savanna (11 percent)
The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA) is committed to ensuring that Liberia achieving the United Nations
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Liberia
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Land Degradation
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2023
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40,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/SLM/2023/52 |
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The project thrust is to contribute to GEF/SGP Country Program Strategy especially land degradation and capacity building of local dwellers.
The project also seeks to work in Kokoyah, Bong County. The current wave of artisanal mining continues ( ... )
troy forest land and biodiversity. The lack of knowledge of laws and regulations on conservation and land degradation is a major threat to forest land, land use planning and protection of biodiversity. There are seven towns and villages with an estimated population of 2,000 people mixed with 10% immigrating population. In 2021, about three illegal miners died after a major landslide leaving
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Liberia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2023
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17,600.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/2023/62 |
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Scaling up sustainable Land Management (SLM) to Strengthen Resilience of Local Communities to adapt to Climate Change effects. Liberia?s communities and livelihoods rely nearly completely on climate change-sensitive agriculture and natural resources ( ... )
tenance and income. Increasingly erratic rainfall and floods are causing widespread losses and diseases in crops and livestock and loss of rural infrastructure. Even irrigated areas, in these regions, depending on snow melt which is affected by temperature spikes.
Desperate communities have turned to available forests and rangelands for fuel, timber, and nuts causing large-scale deforestation
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2023
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25,104.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/2023/55 |
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being; Supporting agrobiodiversity (ABD) conservation to promote food and nutritional resilience. Liberia with its complex topography and various associated micro-climates is a key component of diversity for many crop species. The evolution of ( ... )
ble crops has taken place continuously through a process of domestication and diversification mediated by farmers using traditional production practices still today maintained throughout the country. The threat to agrobiodiversity in Liberia may be more precisely characterized as threat to the endogenous diversity of crop landraces found in the country. In terms of loss of indigenous crop
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2023
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50,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/2023/57 |
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project being; Sustainable Community-Based Management and conservation of Mangrove Ecosystem. In Liberia, it is estimated that the rate of mangrove deforestation could be as high as 65% since 1980 (FAO 2007). The greatest threat to mangroves in ( ... )
a is land degradation due to urbanization, transportation infrastructure development, and mining and oil exploitation. A secondary cause related to habitat loss is the overuse and overexploitation of natural resources, specifically around urban areas, through the practices of hunting, firewood collection, charcoal production, human settlements and timber extraction. Finally, pollution of the
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Liberia
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Land Degradation
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2023
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27,696.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/SLM/2023/54 |
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project being Sustainable Land Conservation. David Town, Kokoyah, Bong County is an area that has been affected by mining activities, leading to a decline in traditional livelihoods and an increase in poverty levels. The project aims to address ( ... )
issues by providing an alternative livelihood opportunity through sustainable agriculture. The project's primary objective is to empower individuals from the community by providing them with the necessary training and resources to establish and maintain sustainable agricultural practices on a minimum of five acres of land.
WHEREAS the National Steering Committee (the ?National Steering
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Liberia
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Chemicals
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2023
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25,500.00
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OP6 - Y6 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP6/CORE/Waste/Y2/2016/062 |
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Solid waste has turned into a serious concern in Communities in Sanniquellie City, Nimba County. Loads of garbage are regularly discovered near houses, communities, market areas and many open spaces in Sanniquellie. This is producing considerable ( ... )
nmental concerns and health hazards.. The population of Sanniquellie is growing exponentially, and urbanization is accelerating. Government in the majority of emerging or transitional cities major challenge is solid waste management, due to the effect of unorganized solid waste disposal. This has had an adverse effect on environmental health, particularly in Liberia. Rapid urbanization, economic
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Liberia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2021
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20,000.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CC/2020/31 |
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for a project, being Capacity development.The overall essence of this project is to build the capacity of members of the project communities, especially women, to respond to climate change. The organization will roll-out an Eight Months project ( ... )
creating awareness on Climate change impact and effects, building capacity of women to overcome challenges of Climate change and providing improved agricultural training in rice planting. Additionally, it seeks to draw the attention of women on the application of useful mechanism and approaches in dealing with the effect of climate change on agriculture activities.The project is designed to
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Liberia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2021
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20,000.00
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OP6 ?Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/CC/2021/41 |
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SGP has established and provided funding for a project, being Buchanan Coastline Landscaping Project. The remaining space of land on the reclaimed and landscaped coastline of Buchanan is been encroached upon by individuals for the construction of ( ... )
ift structures which is changing the beauty and purpose of the facility. Nearby community dwellers poses a very serious threat to the sanitation of the remaining reclaimed land space. There has been evidence of the community using the area for open for defecation and dumping of garbage especially at night. Efforts are being made by the government and its development partners to reduce the impacts
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Liberia
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2021
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50,000.00
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OP6 ?Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/CC/2021/43 |
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Building the Capacity of the Disabled Community in Addressing Climate Change. Since the foundation of the disabled center in Jacob town, there has been no sufficient funds to carry out immediate and adequate of recruiting, and training disabled in ( ... )
a to empower them. There has been limited access to formal education, skills training, careering development, employment opportunities amongst many other. Currently there are no working staff all due to lack of funds. The government does not have less funding mechanism in place to build the capacities of the disabled and other less fortunate youths. The issue of electricity has also been a
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Liberia
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Biodiversity
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2021
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50,000.00
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OP6 ?Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: LBR/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/2021/44 |
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Capacity Building support for less privilege people (women, youth, and disable), through skill training and education for Economic empowerment. A failure in leadership, governance and management over the past decades, especially during the civil war ( ... )
gross poverty and unemployment among women, youths and disable both in urban and rural communities. There has been little consideration of women, youth and people with disabilities in addressing economic growth and poverty reduction. They are seen engaged mainly in subsistence Farming that is yet to change their lives following years of involvement. Part of the reasons assessed was limited
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