There are 225 projects that match your search.
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Bhutan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2018
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44,900.00
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OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y4/STAR/CC/2018/21 |
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The Constitution of Kingdom of Bhutan bestows the sacred responsibility of protecting and conserving natural environment and preventing all forms of ecological degradation through adoption and support of environment friendly practices and policies ( ... )
citizens (Article 5(1)). Gedu College of Business Studies advocates perusal of this sacred responsibility amongst the members of its fraternity through its GNH initiatives such as responsible waste management, responsible and sustainable consumption patterns, initiatives to go paperless in office, and responsible use of ecosystem products/services. Green Kitchen Initiative has been proposed by
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Bhutan
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Community Based Adaptation
Community Based Adaptation
Community Based Adaptation
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2018
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7,500.00
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OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/MF/2018/17 |
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The community forestry program in Bhutan started sometimes in 1995 with the objective to empower rural communities (to) manage forests sustainably for socio-economic benefits, poverty reduction and to contribute to overall sustainable forest ( ... )
ment at national level (Phuntsho et. al, 2011). However, the momentum of implementing the community forestry development has gained since 2007 after the decentralization of forestry activities to the Dzongkhag in 2000. Today, there are 746 community forestry groups across the country (Perscom. with SFED). While most of the CFs is catering the forest resources demand of community themselves, one
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
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2018
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33,100.00
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OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/LM/2017/13 |
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The project covers two Community Forest Management group of Samtse District namely Tamangdara Community Forest and Lhakhangpong Community forest. Tamangdara CF suffers massive landslide annualy. The landside area located at 26°53?37 E and ( ... )
?31?? is about less than half an hour drive from Samtse town. This site is the major project site for carrying out sustainable land management activities. The total area covered by the landslide area is approximately ten acres (Google pro, 2016). There are many major landslides under Samtse Dzongkhag but the landslide at Tamangdara is closely bordered with the Tamang village and the new
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Bhutan
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2018
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32,155.00
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OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/SFM/2017/14 |
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Shemjong Block (Gewog) under Tsirang Dzongkhag comprises of 5 sub blocks (Chiwogs) namely Zomling, Dekiling, Tashiling Toed, Tashiling Maed and Dangraygang. Among the resources optimally used for income generation from forest are Timber and Non Wood ( ... )
Products (NWFPs). NWFPs play an important role in the daily lives and overall wellbeing of people in this Block. Scientific management and cultivation of broom grass under Tsirang Dzongkhag has high potential: to be cultivated on a commercial scale and achieve self sufficiency. It is, however, managed on a small scale by most households at the edge of hhe fields and by farm road sides.
Boom
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2018
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48,000.00
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OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/BD/2017/10 |
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The project is being implemented in one of the remote chiwog under Bardo Gewog in Zhemgang Dzongkhag. It falls under GEF-UNDP SGP?s landscape: Lower Manas Basin landscape area for Operational Phase 6 (OP6) strategic plan. Digala village (400-800 ( ... )
er Bardo gewog has about 35 household 300 individuals. It is 2 hours walk from nearest road point Ringdibi which is connected form Lower Kheng (Zhemgang) The Sub-block has a forest cover of about 90% with rich biodiversity.. The Block center is located in Khomsar which is 8 hours walk form Digala. Communities mostly depend on subsistence farming, rearing livestock and depend heavily on Non-Wood
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
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2018
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34,500.00
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OP6 -Y4 (Jul 18 - Jun 19)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y4/STAR/LM/2018/24 |
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Project Summary
69% of the Bhutanese populations totally rely on land for farming. In contrast, the policies and financial support to combat land degradation are at minimum due to limited resources and diverse priorities. Due to land degradation, ( ... )
ling communities from severely degraded or from marginal land, which are prone/susceptible to land degradation, to a new place was the major focus program entailing huge government funds. There has been conflicts over drying water sources between communities and sometimes violent incidents leading communities to court for. There has been over-emphasis on promoting and introducing new hybrid seeds
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
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2018
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36,800.00
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OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/LM/2017/12 |
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Merak (3500 m) is one of the remotest Gewogs under Merak-Sakteng Sub-District under Trashigang District. Unlike other villages of Bhutan, the high altitude village of Merak, inhabited by Brokpa- a semi-nomadic yak herding community with unique ( ... )
s and traditions, is made of a cluster of approximately 210 households. The close proximity of rural households to one another poses both environmental and developmental problems and challenges. Lack of proper management of solid wastes, communal tap water /rural household waste water is causing severe land degradation problems. For instance, there are several gullies formed due to freely flowing
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2018
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46,600.00
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OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/BD/2017/09 |
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Project Summary
Bhutan is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. With 56.2% of the total population dependent on agriculture farming within cultivated agriculture land of 2.93% of the total geographical areas the poor farmers are ( ... )
st affected sections in the society. The vulnerabilities are mainly due to reduction in crop yield in absence of water availability, gradual shift of insect prevalence, shift in vegetation and phenology, and an increase in temperature. The disease outbreak to agriculture crops has been very common in Bhutan.
Phangkhar geog is one of the eight geogs in Zhemgang Dzongkhag that falls within the
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2018
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47,500.00
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OP5 (Extended Period)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP5/CORE/BD/2017/11 - recoded |
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The Dzedokha village, located in the south-west of Bhutan is a small village under Lokchina Gewog, Chhukha with 2,672 residents. Lokchina Gewog is one of the remotest gewog and consists of 5 Chiwogs. It is located between Phuentsholing Gewog in the ( ... )
east and Dungna Gewog in the north. It has an area of 70.4 sq.km/3917.77 acres and situated within the altitude ranging from 600-1200 meters above sea level. This mountainous village like thousands of other communities in this largely rural kingdom is off the beaten track; it is only accessible via a single farm road, mostly impassable during the monsoon season. As one of the remotest and poorest
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
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2018
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32,900.00
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OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/LM/2017/07 |
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Langdurbi Sub-Block (200-2100 m) under Bardo Block in Zhemgang District is a part of the wildlife corridor connecting Royal Manas National Park and Phrumsengla National Park constituting Zhemgang forest Division covering entire Block area. The ( ... )
ity of Langdurbi Chiwog consists of 70 households with the population of 500 including male and female.
The Block remains one of the most inaccessible and remote regions under Zhemgang District. It has one of the highest levels of poverty incidence in the country and remains among the most vulnerable districts in terms of food security due to geophysical constraints, poor physical
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2018
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9,500.00
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OP6 - Y3 (Jul17 - Jun 18)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y3/CORE/MF/2018/16 |
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Bardo village In Bardo gewog In Zhemgang District has 73 households with a population of 438 people. As per the record maintained by Gewog Administration, more than 100 acres of dry land are left fallow due to human wildlife conflict. Therefore, ( ... )
t has demarcated 15 acres to use for medium scale cardamom plantation at the initial stage. cooperative identified many fallow lands in the in Bardo Gewog. There is a serious need of intervention to maximize the utilization of fallow land by cultivating adverse weather resistant crop such as cardamom plantation which has high income for the rural people. The cooperative shared and discussed with
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2016
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40,800.00
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OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/BD/2016/04 |
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Zhemgang Dzongkhag is often considered as least developed Dzongkhag nationally owing to topographical location which is conventional by absence of development infrastructure such as road and electricity which has not penetrated the most of the ( ... )
es until today. The Dzongkhag still tops the rank on least developed district and poverty prevalent region among others in the country. On the other hand region is blessed with incredibly rich biodiversity. Its lush forests are home to 22 endangered animal species including the Golden Langur which is endemic to central region of our country. Though much of the district has warm and humid climatic
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2016
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44,800.00
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OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/BD/2016/06 |
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One of the largest challenges concerning both Bhutan?s youth and natural environment today is the rapid rate of rural-urban migration, which is the highest in South Asia, nearly double the rate of internal migration in neighboring India. Rural-urban ( ... )
on is resulting in alarming environmental effects and threats, such as waste management challenges, air and water pollution, increasing loss of biological diversity, reduction of forest area, and degradation of ecosystem services. Given that over 50% of the total population is under the age of 25 years, youth rural-urban migration will continue to pose a serious threat to the long-term
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Bhutan
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Chemicals
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2016
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38,100.00
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OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/CW/2016/01 |
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Waste affects every one of us in Bhutan. Everyday whether be it at home or at work, we dispose off so much wastes. Waste disposal is an emerging problem in almost all the urban towns in Bhutan. The increase in waste generation can be primarily ( ... )
uted to factors such as rapid rates of urbanization, rural urban migration, changing consumption pattern and high population growth rate. While the magnitude of the problem is relatively small and manageable in rural areas, it appears to be growing significantly in urban areas in recent times (SACEP 2010).
Trashiyangtse Dzongkhag is located in extreme east of Bhutan. Trashiyangtse town has been
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
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2016
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39,500.00
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OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/CF/2016/02 |
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The project ?Protection of Bjagay Menchu (medicinal water) and sustainable management of the Community Forests? was implemented by grantee Bjagay Menchu Community Forest (BMCF) group in Lungnyi Block, Paro District.
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canopy at Bjagay menchiu site is dominated by blue pine trees followed by its associate oak. The Nine tree species were recorded at Menchu area are Pinuswallichaina, Quercussemecarpifolia, malusbacata, Lingustrum sp., Euonymus tingin, Rhuschinenses, Rhododendron arboretum, Salix alba and Punicasp which are classified into seven different families as per nomenclature, Pinaceae, Fagaceae,
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Bhutan
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2016
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40,500.00
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OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/LD/2016/03 |
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Khengrig Namsum Cooperative (KNC) was established as supply chain cooperative on September 9, 2014 with an objective to contribute in improving the livelihood of people living in Zhemang Dzongkhag (District). Zhemgang Dzongkhag (District) is one of ( ... )
hest poverty prevalence Dzongkhags in the country. The cooperative has dedicatedly worked to deliver farm inputs services, encouraging commercial vegetable production through contractual farming and value adding through processing.
Working in Zhemgang and with farmers for two years, the cooperative observed there were many fallow land in all gewogs (sub-districts) of the Dzongkhag. One of the
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Bhutan
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Biodiversity
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2016
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46,300.00
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OP6 - Y2 (Jul 16-Jun 17)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y2/CORE/BD/2016/05 |
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Food security is a cornerstone of any country?s wellbeing, political and otherwise. Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative believes that food is a cornerstone of GNH, Bhutan?s developmental goal; it manifests the interplay of socio-cultural, economical, ( ... )
ical and governance aspects of development. Hence, agriculture which continues to be a staple source of nutrition and livelihood for over 69 percent of Bhutan?s population has a significant bearing on a nation?s, a society?s wellbeing. Therefore, agro-biodiversity comes to the fore as it is the backbone for sustainable agricultural development, food and nutrition security, more resilient
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Bhutan
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Community Based Adaptation
Community Based Adaptation
Community Based Adaptation
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2015
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24,995.00
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OP6 - Y1 (Jul 15 - Jun 16)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP6/Y1/CORE/CPS/2015/01 |
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Clean Bhutan, a CSO in Bhutan is awarded the project for development of OP6 CPS for Bhutan as decided during NSC meeting on 12th October, 2015. |
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Bhutan
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CapDev
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2015
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25,000.00
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OP6 - Y1 (Jul 15 - Jun 16)
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Project Number: BHU/COMDEKS/2015/01 |
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The main objective of the project/assignment is measure and illustrate the results and impacts brought to people and environment in Gamri watershed by SGP/COMDEKS project Restoring and Managing Landscape in Gamri Watershed, Trashigang?. PLEASE see ( ... )
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Bhutan
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Community Based Adaptation
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2014
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38,850.00
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OP5 – Y4 (Jul 14 – Jun 15)
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Project Number: BHU/SGP/OP5/Y4/CORE/CC/2014/02 |
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Perched high above the Chhume valley, at an elevation of 3600m, Tharpaling monastery has long relied on consuming high levels of fuel wood in order to generate heat ? for warming dwellings, cooking, and bathing. Yet burning firewood in rudimentary ( ... )
has poor combustion efficiency and produces high levels of indoor air pollution (e.g. chemicals such as particulates, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide), which can also negatively impact on health. At the same time, local sources of clean water are diminishing in quality and quantity, due to lack of maintenance, deforestation (and the consequent loss of water
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