There are 441 projects that match your search.
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2004
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44,597.29
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/04/01 |
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Amani Nature Reserve forms the Southern and largest mountain block of the East Usambara Mountains, which are part of the Eastern Arc Mountain chain. The East Usambara Mountains are famous for their exceptional diversity of its plant and animal ( ... )
ities. Records show that East Usambara Mountains is home to about 350 species of birds, 200 species of butterfly, more than 50 species of amphibians, 80 species of reptiles, 3,400 species of plants including 650 species of trees. The purpose of this project therefore is to facilitate involvement of the surrounding communities in the management of Amani Nature Reserve under the premise that
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Tanzania
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International Waters
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2004
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5,354.26
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/CWI/04/04 |
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Ziwani ward is located in Pemba, Zanzibar. With technical support from the Government, a water supply project that would cover the whole ward was designed. Implementation of the project was phased. Todate, 95% of the project is completed and all ( ... )
people are supplied with piped water. Completion of the project was accelerated through community's our contribution and financial contribution from UNDP and the Government of Japan. The project aims at assisting communities at Ziwani Ward, Pemba to complete construction of their 250,000 litre capacity in order to regularize flow of water to 17,000
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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28,692.13
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/05 |
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The East Usambara Mountains are part of the Eastern Arc Mountains, which are recognized worldwide as a global biodiversity hotspot and an endemic bird area. However, of late the East Usambara have been subjected to unsustainable pressure by ( ... )
nt communities. The underlying cause of this unsustainable pressure is that communities around these biodiversity rich forests are growing and are mainly dependent on a land based-economy. The proposed Amani Butterfly project will provide a direct economic incentive for communities to preserve local buffer forests and to resist illegal resource extraction from forest reserves. Since land
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Tanzania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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6,514.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/03 |
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Public institutions specifically schools, prisons and army camps are blamed as greatest sources of deforestation in the country. This is due to their large levels of fuelwood consumption. Environment activists believe that deforestation that is ( ... )
uted to fuelwood use will be reduced if public institutions switched to fuelwood saving technologies such as biogas, solar and fuelwood efficient cookstoves. The project's main objective is to consolidation of College fuelwood efficient
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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19,610.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/UNF-GEF/03/06 |
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Ebony tree( African Black wood) has been growing in the lower land of Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of the natural species of the area. The increased need for this wood for marking carvings has resulted to its reduction in number of this specie all over ( ... )
nty and to the extent of closer to disappearing in Kilimanjaro region. This tree species takes long to grow to maturity while the rate of harvesting without replanting is increasing. For many people it was believed that this tree species cannot be replanted as it has to grow natural.
This project has been proposed by a group of people who are involved in making carvings from ebony tree. This
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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37,867.24
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/04 |
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Project aims at reducing rate of poaching and frequency of forest fires in Katavi National Park through promotion of beekeeping activities in the fringes of the National Park. The project will also provide alternative income generating ( ... )
unities for communities living adjacent to Katavi National Park by promoting production of high priced organic honey with a view to addressing income
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Tanzania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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5,674.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/07 |
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The project aims at consolidating a school biogas system by installing a biogas balancing tank in order to regulate flow of gas and minimize wastage. Lessons learnt from this institution as a result of the first grant has been passed on to the ( ... )
ing stakeholders: teachers, students, regional and district actors, Ministry of Education officials and communities around this institution. Some of the results are: reduction of fuelwood consumption, cost saving and cooking
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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45,601.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/UNF-GEF/03/01 |
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WCST in collaboration with COMPACT Project has been promoting environment conservation education to communities around Mt. Kilimanjaro in order to increase their participation in the conservation of Mt. Kilimanjaro resources.
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een successfully carried out include
(1) Facilitate in conducting an aerial survey of the forest of the Mount Kilimanjaro in order to determine major threats to forests.
(2) Production and distribution of materials on environmental conservation education. These materials include T-Shirts, Caps, School Bags, Brochure and posters on modern bee keeping technology, sustainable agriculture and
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Tanzania
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Land Degradation
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2003
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29,433.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/UNF-GEF/03/10 |
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This project on consolidation of Irrigation activities in Umbwe Onana irrigation canal aim at expanding area under irrigation by extending water distribution canals to new farms.
Expanded irrigation facilities will increase the number of farmers in ( ... )
ion and reduce the number of people depending on agriculture for their livelihood as well as reduce number of un-employed people in Umbwe
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Tanzania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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19,210.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/02 |
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Continuous use of fuelwood for cooking and expansion of agricultural activities are principle factors that have rendered the Same District especially its Western areas bare. Scarcity of firewoods in this areas now comples women to walk up to 10km ( ... )
er to get firewood, This project aims at promoting wide adoption of fuel efficient cook stoves in semi arid areas of North Tanzania by establishing a workshop that will facilitate mass production of quality stoves and train local artisans for local expanded production and
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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1,007.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/CO/03/09 |
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The project to develop COMPACT website will help to increase COMPACT project visibility national and international. This website is also expected to be used as a site of disseminating lessons learned during implementation of the COMPACT project. ( ... )
bsite will also contain information on conservation need around Mt. Kilimanjaro as well as environmental and ecological status of Mt. Kilimanjaro ecosystem. The website will also include results of the research and studies which are relevant to the conservation to Mt. Kilimanjaro ecosystem.
The viewers of this website are targeted to be NGOs, CBOs and institutions in the field of environment
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Tanzania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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32,093.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/UNF-GEF/03/07 |
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The project aims at reducing the consumption of fuel wood by the communities living adjacent to the Mt. Kilimanjaro forests reserve through the use of stone made fuel efficient stove. The use of fuel-efficient stoves will reduce the consumption of ( ... )
ood by 75% per household. The use of this stone made cooking stoves will contribute in conserving the Mt. Kilimanjaro forests as 60% of the fuel woods used in Moshi town are believed to come from the forests around Mt. Kilimanjaro .This project will promote wide use of low cost fuel wood efficient stone made stoves through capacity building to locals on how to construct these stoves. This
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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28,697.88
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/09 |
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The Maasai Steppe in Northern Tanzania is one of the World's richest remaining refuge for wildlife and an area of global biodiversity value. Maintaining a corridor between Manyara and Tarangire National Parks is crucial to ensure the future ( ... )
ical and economic health of this ecosystem. The project aims at making a contribution to the conservation of a key wildlife migration corridor in an area of global biodiversity value, which is linking two National Parks; Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Park. In addition, the project intends to build the capacity of pastoral communities to participate in innovative conservation and
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Tanzania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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25,866.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/06 |
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At the GEF, non-motorized transport is a key component under climate change focal area. It is facilitated through Operational Programme No. 11, Promoting Environmetally Sustainable Development. GEF observes that transport sector is significant in ( ... )
of production of greenhouse gases (GHS). GHS emissions from the transport sector are expected to grow inthe coming few years from 5% to 30%. This Workshop was organized for Members of Parliament and policy makers with a view to sensitizing them about the importance of non-motorized transport in improving rural mobility and reducing pollution
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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37,515.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/COMPACT/CO/03/08 |
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The preparation of General Management Plan for Kilimanjaro National Park sets forth the management objectives and actions that would ensure the long-term viability of the mountain ecosystem. This exercise will involve different stakeholders of Mt. ( ... )
njaro and also the communities in planning for the future of the mountain, its natural resources and ways in which the communities will benefit from the mountain resources.
The Project intends to help management authority of Mt. Kilimanjaro National Park develop a General Management Plan that takes into consideration strategies that would contribute in mitigating human impact on the park, ensure
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Tanzania
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Land Degradation
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2003
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14,765.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/10 |
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The Objective of this project is to promote practical environmental conservation education among students in Primary and secondary schools around Marangu Teachers Training College. This project will popularize environmental conservation best ( ... )
ces through students who are expected to influence their community to adopt the conservation practices.
About 60 Teachers from Marangu Teachers Training College have been participating in environmental conservation education project which was conducted by Tanzania Wildlife Conservation Society (WCST) with support from COMPACT on the conservation best practices. The objective was to train the
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
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2003
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39,053.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: TAN/03/08 |
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The project aims at replacing diesel powered generators with solar power as the main source of energy for water pumping and lighting in the village. Solar energy technology is adopted in order to check biodiversity loss in an adjacent forest as for ( ... )
time now, villagers cut down trees in the forest in order to get money for buying fuel to run diesel powered
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Tanzania
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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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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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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