There are 29 projects that match your search.
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2022
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24,000.00
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OP6 –Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA /SGP/OP6/Y7/CORE/PLA/2022/08 |
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Brief Description of the Problem
Most interventions in the plastic waste management have been the collection of plastic waste and dumping them at designated sites. The waste dumping sites in Osu, Circle, Ridge, and Asylum Down are overwhelmed by ( ... )
lume of plastics. This has further created more pollution problems than was envisaged, thereby degrading the ecosystem further. The plastics that are scattered and exposed to sunlight, breaking down into small pieces, which are toxic chemicals. The plastic debris infiltrated into the soil and water sources without being able to be seen with the naked eye which may cause harm to the
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2022
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30,000.00
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OP6 –Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA /SGP/OP6/Y7/CORE/PLA/2022/02 |
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The overall goal of the project is to drive behavioural change, advocacy, and education to promote integrated zero plastic waste management among urban communities in Ghana. The specific project objectives are:
- To create environmental ( ... )
ess and education to generate public participation (using religious leaders) in integrated zero plastic waste management.
- To establish a cost-effective zero plastic waste management system in Korle-Klottey, and La-Dade-Kotopon municipalities in the Greater Accra region in the collection, separation, and disposal of plastic waste.
-To support the municipal assemblies in policy formulation to
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2022
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36,000.00
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OP6 –Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA /SGP/OP6/Y7/CORE/PLA/2022/01 |
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Within the Greater Accra Region, especially in the Krowor and La-Dade-Kotopon Municipality the single-use plastics, and poor disposal of plastic waste have created serious environmental problems. After use, the plastics are thrown away ( ... )
riminately into garbage, recycling bin, open drains and in the wetlands. The storm drains and gutters within the municipalities are littered with plastic waste especially within the wetlands.
From our baseline study, it was observed that most common of the plastic wastes are ‘single-use plastic’ like poly bags, grocery bags, plastic forks and knives, water sachet, plastic bottles, take
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP6 –Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA /SGP/OP6/Y7/CORE/PLA/2022/08 |
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This project seeks to apply an integrated approach to plastic waste management in Ghana. Adopting an integrated approach for policy development and implementation will ensure the integration of environmental and social considerations in sectoral and ( ... )
onomic policies. There is a need to depart from dealing with environmental and social considerations in isolation from mainstream economic policies. Financial and short-term economic gains should not be the primary driving force in designing sectoral and macroeconomic policies as, for instance, policies on import exemptions have been shown to have contributed to plastic pollution in Ghana. The
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2022
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30,000.00
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OP6 –Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA /SGP/OP6/Y7/CORE/PLA/2022/04 |
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Ledzokuku Municipality with a population of 217,304, produces about 170.5 metric tonnes per day, out of which 15% is plastic waste, hence the daily generation of plastic waste is approximately 25 metric tonnes. As of now, there is no clear-cut ( ... )
regarding segregation of solid waste before collection and disposal, thus, plastic waste forms part of the solid waste collected and disposed of daily. Undoubtedly, population dynamics and economic activities have had significant impacts on the volume of solid waste generated in the Municipality. Currently, most of the public drains are silted with plastics. The beach fronts also have their
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2022
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30,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP6/Y7/CORE/PLA/2022/05 |
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The project intends to utilize private-public partnership to recover plastic waste within the selected areas (La-Dade-Kotopon Municipal (Capital: La) and Ledzokuku Municipal (Capital: Teshie-Nungua) with the assistance of integrated informal waste ( ... )
s and establish sustainable enterprise-driven solutions to engage community individuals in green product developments. Following an efficient sensitization plan, the proposal is intended to create awareness within the public on proper waste management and segregation techniques to foster sustainability and community ownership.
2. Project Justification and Baseline
The project would tackle the
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Ghana
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CapDev
Chemicals
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2022
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30,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/UNDP/CAP-CRC-2021-GHA-RBA |
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Through the financial and technical support of the UNDP GEF Small Grants Program, Ripples Ghana obtained Fair Trade/Organic Certification, which gives the women further access to international markets thereby increasing their market and customer ( ... )
The Fairtrade Certification has allowed the women to increase production and the prices of their products to the Fairtrade minimum price. According to the last assessment report, the shea butter sold by Ripples Ghana on the international market through the Fairtrade Certification has doubled the women’s earnings. Indeed, they have the opportunities to increase their profit margins by 200%.
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2022
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30,000.00
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OP6 –Y7 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA /SGP/OP6/Y7/CORE/PLA/2022/06 |
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Coastal Watch is a marine plastic pollution education program to establish ocean clubs in basic schools along the coastal zones of Ghana to educate and inspire students between the ages of 8 to 14 to care for the ocean. Through holding weekly ( ... )
ops in schools and a Bootcamp for all schools using Education for sustainable development and transformative learning and our educational toolkit. The project will involve community awareness campaigns, beach clean ups and the introduction of an incentive plastic swap shop in these communities.
Rationale and Context
Children and youth clubs are powerful, yet often underutilized ways to reach
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2021
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30,000.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/2021/13 |
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The project building the capacities of Traditional Health Practitioners in Makala traditional area seeks to promote the conservation and sustainable utilization biodiversity products, for food security, and commodity value chain for livelihood ( ... )
rise development. It seeks to build and sustain capacities of traditional health practitioners in Banda traditional area to undertake best practices in the production and packaging of herbal medicine, improve the quality and availability of herbal medicine through natural regeneration, sustainable agroforestry practices, alley cropping and woodlot establishment and growing of trees on farms and
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
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2021
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22,400.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CC/2021/09 |
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This project seeks to empower Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) with the Banda District through sustainable agriculture. With the advent of climate change, loss of soil fertility and bad farming practices agricultural yields have dwindled over the ( ... )
ears resulting in food insecurity. Poverty and hunger among vulnerable groups in society particularly PWDs are phenomenal. The focus of the project is to undertake build the capacities of the PWDs in the cultivation of organic vegetables like green pepper, red pepper, cabbage, cucumber, carrots, onions, under simple irrigation. The PWD would be introduced to livestock rearing as inputs for the
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2021
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21,300.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/LD/2021/06 |
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This proposed project seeks to empower women in the Banda District by addressing poverty, and promoting livelihoods and food security through a market-led climate smart vegetable gardening, mix cropping, bee keeping, honey production, livestock ( ... )
tion and agro-ecology activities. Through climate smart agricultural techniques, the project will address the risks associated with climate change variability, and food insecurity within the Black Volta river basin in the Banda Areas. This project aims to contribute towards improving local food security schemes, scale-up nutritional levels, end hunger, malnutrition and poverty through promotion
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2021
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33,400.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2021/01 |
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2.1 SITUATION ANALYSIS
Biodiversity conservation is relevant to Ghana as a result of its diverse benefits; it provides people with opportunities for water, food, clean air, livelihoods, cultural values and tourism opportunities. The Bui National ( ... )
nd its association socio-ecological production landscape provide avenues for biodiversity conservation in Ghana. The landscape is a unique area with amazing tourist attractions like hippopotamus viewing, rising and setting of the sun, lake surfing and traditional festivals of the Nafaana people.
The construction of the dam across the Black Volta River has created a reservoir at Bui which
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2021
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30,000.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/2021/05 |
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The primary objective of this project is to improve to promote biodiversity conservation and utilization to contribute to the traditional health care services facilities and establishment of herbal gardens in Upper West Region.
1.4.2 Specific ( ... )
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• To promote the conservation of extinct medicinal herbs and plants through education, maintenance of indigenous community conserved areas and establishment of a medicinal gardens in homes and compounds.
• To build the capacities and certify Traditional Health Practitioners (THP), Traditional Healers and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) on herbal medicine best practices and herbal
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2021
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30,000.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/LD/2021/12 |
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The project seeks to develop agroecology business supply chain among smallholder farmers in the
Upper Black Volta Basin. This project seeks to promote green the agricultural supply chains through an
incentive-based agroecology model that ( ... )
ts the small holder farmers. It seeks to build the
capacities of smallholder farmers in agroecology technology including climate smart agriculture
and organic farming, support the small holder farmers to diversity crop production and adopt
integrated farming system, and to create a green market system by aggregating and marketing
green
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2021
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26,000.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/LD/2021/16 |
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The primary objective of this project is to disseminate tested farmer-led innovations, develop and scale up successful community driven unique agro-ecology, and organic farming initiatives(innovations) to improve food, nutrition and income security ( ... )
ll holder farmer households
Specific objectives of the proposed project
• To identify and develop local farmer led innovations relating to climate-smart agriculture, and agroecological Farming among small holder farmers
• To upscale the fully developed local farmers innovations, and disseminate for broader adoption amongst small holder farmers through Farmer led trainings and support
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Ghana
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CapDev
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2021
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32,400.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CD/2021/02 |
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Goal
To promote institutional and financial sustainability of civil society organization through innovative, inclusive and scalable initiatives for sound biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, governance and ( ... )
nable livelihoods in the local communities.
This project will build synergies and co-benefits between biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation relevant to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including and through the newly-formed Platform on Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples (LCIPs) approved by the COP24 in Katowice, Poland, in December
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2021
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20,000.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/LD/2021/19 |
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The project enhancing the skills and participation of women to effectively conserve, restore and utilize the natural resources Bulenga Traditional area in Wa East District seeks to provide women farmers with basic skills to enhance climate smart ( ... )
lture within the traditional area. Climate smart agriculture is not being viewed in isolation but part of the equation; an integral part of a systemic and inclusive agenda to transform farming in rural communities. It will not be limited to food security alone, but also direct measures are taken to counter detrimental climate effects. Climate smart agriculture agricultural practice that reduces
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2021
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30,000.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/2021/15 |
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The project improving community landscape management of sacred groves/sites for biodiversity conservation and livelihood development in Jentilpe and Kiape seeks to contribute to enhancing sustainable community landscape management with a focus on ( ... )
groves/sites for biodiversity conservation and alternative livelihoods in Kiape and Jentilpe communities. It aims at increasing awareness of environmental management and conservation of sacred landscapes through active radio communication, restoration, improvement, and conservation of biodiversity in two (2) sacred landscapes and sustainable management of 70 hectares of biodiversity of natural
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2021
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32,000.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/CC/2021/10 |
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The project Innovating Bamboo Greenhouse Technology for Sustainable Farming and Climate Adaptation and livelihood development in the Banda District. This project seeks to develop the capacities of targeted farming groups, women, and youth to adapt ( ... )
vest in bamboo-based commercial greenhouse crop farming for all year farming and improvement in food security, and enhanced livelihood. It will build low-cost bamboo greenhouses for sustainable all year-round farming, support groups of farmers to adopt and invest in greenhouse crop farming and create market access to commercial off-takers of produced commodities at competitive
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2021
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33,000.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CH/2021/04 |
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The main challenges facing plastic waste management in the Tano South Municipality are;
vii. Low community awareness, knowledge, and technical capacity with chemicals, heavy metals, and wastes. The impacts of chemicals and heavy metals on humans ( ... )
osystems are not always obvious to local communities, with low recognition until scientific or medical tests are done, which poor and vulnerable communities lack.
viii. Inadequate infrastructure and waste collection services. Less than 40% of urban residents are served with waste collection services.
ix. Collection system is broken down. According to the current management system in Tano South
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