There are 27,190 projects available.
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Ukraine
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Chemicals
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2012
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49,998.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: UKR/SGP/OP5/CORE/CH/12/03 |
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The main objective of the project is to reduce the accumulated quantity of life-threatening substances in the human waste of towns in Khmelnytsk and Rivne regions by establishing a mechanism for the collection of used mercury-vapor lamps in communal ( ... )
tions and organizations.
Description of activities: - Establish a public enterprise on neutralization and recycling of mercury-vapor lamps; - Develop a system to monitor the use of energy-efficient lamps; - Construct special places for mercury-vapor lamps collection in institutions and organizations of the towns; - Conduct a seminar for the management staff of the institutions and organizations
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Ukraine
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2012
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49,915.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: UKR/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/CC/12/03 |
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The Project aims at introducing energy saving measures, popularization of energy saving among local people as well as raising awareness in Lugansk region on CC issues. It is planned to involve local people in EE actions aiming at reducing global ( ... )
g effect. The current old and out of date street lightening system in the Lenin district of Lugansk city is energy unefficient, resource consuming and expensive for local people. Energy saving measures and street lightening will have not only global environmental benefits. Replacement of old street lightening will help to reduce burden on the local budgets and use the savings for social and
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Yemen
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Land Degradation
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2012
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27,926.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: YEM/SGP/OP5/CORE/LD/Y2/12/04 |
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The Government of Yemen with the use of bilateral fund initiated wadi Siham spate irrigation system during the early 80s. Several conversion dams were built to ease flood water distribution along the Wadi flow. This achieved through several canals ( ... )
onvey flood water in upper stream as long as possible. The flow of flood water was controlled through the size of canals inlets. Along each conveying canals several gates (outlets) were built with the expectation that will deliver through the required quantities of water that will sufficiently irrigate all the agriculture land that has water right. Some land areas were never received any flood
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Cambodia
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Community Based Adaptation
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2012
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46,141.00
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OP5-Y3 (Jul 13 - Jun 14)
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Project Number: KHM/SGP/CCBAP-Sida/2012/25 |
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Based on VRA assessment was conducted by CRID on 04th-05th October 2012 at two villages (Cheaklang and Chke Kon villages), Cheaklang commune, Svay Antor district, Prey Veng province. There had 65 participants attended in VRA assessment, including 35 ( ... )
10 local authorities and 2 community people in order to design a project responding to needs and problems in the target rural area. Regarding to the result of VRA shown that most villagers in target area are facing to negative impacts of climate change. ?Water shortage? is the main problem which is leading to the food shortage, problem of family health, farm, crop, and animal raising in the
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Yemen
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Land Degradation
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: YEM/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/LD/12/02 |
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Dyr Al-Hared area is located at the end of Wadi Surdude only less than 10 Km away from the Red Sea at Ul-urj. Due to expanded irrigation projects in upper Wadi stream, built in the 80ies, flood water does not reach the area since then. Local ( ... )
s drilled their own tube well to enable them grow income and subsistent crops. There is two water tables? quality in the area influenced by the depth of the wells. Ground water table is found at 45 meter deep but with high salinity e.g. 6100 micromole but at depth of 80 meter and below is 1100 micromole. The altitude of the area is ca. 30 m above Sea level; hence the indicated depth is well below
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Malaysia
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Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: MAL/SGP/OP5/Y2/STAR/BD/12/15 |
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Executive Summary
Malaysia?s wetlands area continues to be lost and degraded partly as a result of human activities. Coastal communities in Penang, especially fisher families are also affronted by the loss of coastal wetlands and consequently the ( ... )
ial benefits provided by the wetlands are slowly eroding and subsequently the livelihood of fisher families is impaired.
The aim of this project is to improve the livelihood of fisher families through conservation and sustainable use of wetlands resources. The project will cover the state of Penang. The project?s activities include awareness raising regarding benefits of wetland resources;
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Yemen
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Land Degradation
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: YEM/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/LD/12/03 |
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Al-Maroofia area is located on the Hodiedah-Maidi main road ca. 10 km from Al-Dhai city. The region is located in the downstream of Wadi Surdude before reaching the Sea. The main economic and livelihoods activities for communities are agriculture ( ... )
storalism. Since the new irrigation projects in upper stream of the Wadi, it seldom that rain flood reach the area, Hence local communities are solely depend on tube well as a source of irrigation. Due to this water table is facing enormous pressure and declining as a result. The average water table depth is 120m. Crops grown in the region are Sesame, tobacco, cereals, vegetables legumes and
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Lesotho
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2012
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47,000.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: LSO/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/CC/2012/12 |
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According to recent studies in Lesotho:
?About 56% of households use firewood for cooking, 39% use LPGas/paraffin, 1.6% use electricity and 3.5% use other sources of energy.
?About 56% of households use Gas/oil for lighting, while about 38% use ( ... )
s, about 10% use electricity and less than 1% use other forms of energy.
?About 90% of households do not have access to grid electricity; more than 70%, particularly those who live in rural areas, rely heavily on biomass fuels for major domestic energy end-uses.
?About 67% of all households use biomass fuels as main sources of energy for space heating while approximately 27% use paraffin, 4%
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Cambodia
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Community Based Adaptation
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2012
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41,627.00
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OP5-Y3 (Jul 13 - Jun 14)
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Project Number: KHM/SGP/CCBAP-Sida/2012/24 |
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Improve livelihood of community in drought context through rehabilitating water infrastructure is a mechanism of water resource management to promote the livelihood of community and natural resource. Based on VRA report which was conducted in ( ... )
r 2012 for 4 target villages in SvayTayean commune, Kampong Ro district and 4 target villages in Kampong Chamlorng commune, Svay Chrum district, Svay Rieng province by broadly participating from community people and local authority, it shows that those villages have been really facing to climate change such as temperature increased, drought and flood which badly affected to the livelihood of
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Cambodia
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Land Degradation
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2012
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29,429.57
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: KHM/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/LD/2012/04 |
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Improvement livelihood of poor people through working together to protect and sustainable management of natural resources by local community in Stung Kach commune, Sala kroa district, Pailin province project. The project is aiming at supporting two ( ... )
ty Forestry to get official recognition from Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and to manage 630 ha of protected forest for improving community livelihood through better access to NTFPs. The project will also support CF committee members in preparing and to get official recognition the CF management plan. Moreover, project will build capacity of community forestry committee members on different
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Egypt
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International Waters
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2012
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44,597.70
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: EGY/SGP/OP5/STAR/IW/12/416 |
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Project aims to protect and preserve agricultural land from degradation, as well as to conserve irrigation water. It will also raise the awareness of farmers on improved irrigation methods |
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Belize
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Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: BZE/SGP/OP5/Y1/CORE/BD/12/04 |
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The goal of this project is to improve sustainability of the two protected areas of Caye Caulker through community-based actions. These actions are compatible with the GEF Strategic Document , under the Biodiversity Focal Area, Objective 1: Improve ( ... )
nability of protected areas and indigenous and community conservation areas through community-based actions.
I. Strengthening capacity to improve FAMRACC?s co-management ability;
Output 1: Construction and function of an Operational Centre in Caye Caulker Village associated with the CCMR-HCMR office.
Output 2: Retrofit boat for optimal functionality.
Output 3: Design of a roadmap including
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Cambodia
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Chemicals
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2012
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35,564.28
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: KHM/SGP/OP5/CORE/POPs/12/05 |
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This project is aiming at dissemination and increasing understanding the bad effect of using a lot of chemical pesticides and fertilizers in agricultural production by introducing natural pesticides and fertilizers techniques through training, study ( ... )
d demonstration farms. Moreover, project also promotion the use of renewable energy through building biogas for the selected families in the target areas.
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Egypt
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International Waters
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2012
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47,599.30
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: EGY/SGP/OP5/STAR/IW/12/417 |
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Project aims to protect and preserve agricultural land from degradation, as well as to conserve irrigation water. It will also raise the awareness of farmers on improved irrigation methods |
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Malaysia
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Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: MAL/SGP/OP5/STAR/BD/12/07 |
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This project is aimed at informing and educating stakeholders to allow them to develop an understanding of the negative ecological and economic impacts of fish bombing despite previous declarations aimed at stopping fish bombing activities. The ( ... )
t will also establish a community-based programme to demonstrate sustainable approaches to reducing fish bombing at the source and conserving coral reefs.
Human activities are destroying the coral reef ecosystems on our earth, where reefs are overfished, bombed and poisoned, smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by
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Malaysia
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Biodiversity
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2012
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49,930.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: MAL/SGP/OP5/Y2/STAR/BD/12/16 |
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Executive Summary
Many Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) populations are threatened by habitat loss, poaching and direct conflict with humans. The species is listed as Endangered in the 2008 IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) ( ... )
t of Threatened Species and is included in Appendix I of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Peninsular Malaysia still has extensive tracts of forest that are habitat for elephants and other endangered species including tigers. Yet, these habitats under pressure with increasing demands on forests and other State land to support economic
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Kenya
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Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: KEN/SGP/OP5/FSP/BD/12/022 |
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The indigenous communities within Lamu have contributed to the conservation and sustainable use of this biodiversity over time, given the traditionally symbiotic relationship with their natural resources. For instance, the Aweer and Sanye indigenous ( ... )
practice sustainable gathering of honey and wild fruits, and maintain sacred sites within forest boundaries. By maintaining traditional conservation practices, the Bajun have used shifting cultivation of farms to replenish vital nutrients in the soils. Bajun mangrove cutters have, for centuries, used the most sustainable methods of mangrove harvesting, which has preserved the vitality of the
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Zimbabwe
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Biodiversity
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2012
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9,220.85
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: ZIM/SGP/OP5/CORE/BD/12/04 |
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This project seeks to complete the final component of the GEFSGP funded Monavale Vlei Biodiversity Project principally addressing the problem of general lack of wetland awareness, particularly amongst policy makers, which has been an important ( ... )
in the widespread destruction of Greater Harare?s open green spaces and wetlands. These areas are critical in the provision of water to the city. Therefore the problem being addressed in this proposed project is wetland awareness. The techniques intended to address this include use of various media vehicles such as the publishing and distribution of a wetland brochure, liaising with print, radio
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Iran
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2012
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48,700.00
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OP5- Y1 (Jul 11 - Jun 12)
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Project Number: IRA/SGP/OP5/STAR/CC/12/07(146) |
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Considering critical condition of Sabz Kouh protected area environment due to overexploitation of plant coverage and cutting and burning trees to produce coal, project team aims to decrease the threats through:
-Awareness-Raising and ( ... )
ization of local community by holding participatory meetings and workshops
-Identifying local species and present situation of species in project territories
-Collecting seeds and saplings of local plants and replanting the area using collected seeds and saplings
-Encouraging women and youth to participate in conservation and rehabilitation activities
-Attracting local men, game guards and
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Rwanda
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Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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OP5 - Y2 (Jul 12 – Jun 13)
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Project Number: RWA/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/BD/12/01 |
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The project is implemented by the Nyungwe Beekeeper Union (Ubwiza bwa Nyungwe) and aims at strengthening the commitment of beekeepers and other community members for the conservation of Nyungwe National Park. The following activities are planned: ( ... )
ell honey and other bee products on behalf of its member co-operatives in order to increase sales (WCS has recently supported the construction of a honey processing and sales center for the union)
? Act as a link between the co-operatives and the wider world
? Provide training and equipment for beekeepers
? Assist in the development of additional co-operatives
The rationale for the Union
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