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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2008
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24,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE /2008/031 |
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Iture mangrove swamp on Kakum river estuary on latitude N50709 and longitude W0010 19.087 is estimated to have a mangrove cover area of 2km2. It is not used in a sustainable manner by local community on its fringes as some area have lost their ( ... )
ve cover as a result of unplanned and indiscriminate harvest of fuel wood from the mangrove swamp and other use such as sand winning and discharge of solid and liquid waste by the local community that borders the mangrove.
Survey conducted on Iture mangrove swamp indicates that over cutting and pollution scores have 35% and restoration scores 86%. The survey reveals that though the vegetation
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
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2008
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25,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE /2008/026 |
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Land degradation is prominent with high densely population areas. The potential of overgrazing (and more ‘naked’ land) is high. Villages through which major and feeder roads pass have the displeasure of uncompensated use of gravel ( ... )
uctions. The region is generally semi-savanna, light undergrowth with scattered shrubs, and at some areas sahel - type of vegetation can be seen. Land degradation through gravel and sand winning is a subtle way of desertification in the name of development.
Traditional economic trees are Dawadawa (Parkia filicoindia or clappertoniana) and sheanuts (Buterospermum Parkii). Land support for food
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
Chemicals
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2008
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25,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE /2008/029 |
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The Golinga (100 hectares) is one of the two major irrigation schemes in the Northern Region of Ghana, developed in the mid - 1980s to promote intensive cultivation (in the rainy and dry seasons) of rice, upland crops such as soya beans and ( ... )
bles by small scale farmers from the catchment areas of these schemes – Golinga
Socio-Economic Background of Golinga Community.
The Golinga community is located in the Tolon-Kumbungu District of Northern Region. The Golinga community in this proposal refers to Golinga,Galinkpegu and Gbelahagu villages- the these satellite settlements operating on the Golinga Irrigation Project (100
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Ghana
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International Waters
Land Degradation
Chemicals
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2008
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24,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/009 |
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BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT AREA
The project is to be implemented in Tsetsekpo and Sayikope in the North Tongu District in the Volta Region. These communities are located along the River Volta System in the Lower Volta Basin.
Evidence shows ( ... )
griculture is the leading sector in the economy in the project area. The sector is dominated by small scale unorganized farmers who depend mainly on simple labour intensive production techniques and are involved mainly in maize and vegetable production. It is characterized by low productivity resulting from the continuous usage of indigenous farm implements and adoption of indigenous farming
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Ghana
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International Waters
Land Degradation
Chemicals
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2008
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22,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/014 |
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BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT AREA
Communities along the lower Volta River basin where the natural flow of the River had been altered due the construction of the Akosombo and the Kpong dams have experienced a drastic change in socioeconomic and ( ... )
al conditions. Indeed communities such as Torgome, Klamadoboe, Alabonu and Kasa in the North Tongu District of the Volta region have had a negative change in life style ranging from socio cultural, economic to health and as a result both youths and the aged have either migrated or are contemplating of migrating to nearby Towns and Cities such as Akosombo, Kpong and Accra in search of non existing
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2008
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22,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE /2008/027 |
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The Tain District lies between latitudes 7 00N and 7 25N and between 1 45 W and 2 15 W. It is bounded on the North and East by the Wenchi and Berekum Districts of the Brong-Ahafo Region. On the Southern fringes, it is bounded by Sunyani Districts in ( ... )
ng-Ahafo and its West and South West by the Cote D’Ivoire respectively. The district has a land area of 1500 sq. km. It has about 116 settlements and a total population of 123,404 (61,556 males and 61,848 females) (2000 population and housing census). It has five paramouncies, Badu, Seikwa, Dibebi, Nsawkaw and Banda. Menji is one of the areas of the District in Ghana, which has a Crocodile
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
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2008
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22,700.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2008/022 |
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Wildfire is experienced in the 6 proposed project communities since time immemorial. All the communities expressed the urgent need to halt the high rate of bush fires and its attendant loss of soil fertility and environmental degradation to restore ( ... )
ersity and soil fertility. During a focus group discussion with the community members in July 2006, they indicated that the consequences of bush fires in their communities are enormous. According to the people, bushfires caused widespread distraction of forestry resources including economic trees such as sheanut and dawadawa. The people also indicated that the perennial bush fires have resulted
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2008
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24,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2008/023 |
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Nyagbo Sroe is one of the settlements of the Nyagbo Traditional area of the Hohoe District in the Volta Region. Oral history has it that the ancestors of Nyagbo originated from the Efutu land near Winneba in the Central Region. The people are thus ( ... )
Guan Extraction. The story is told that the people of Nyagbo Sroe have inhabited their present location on the Akwapim – Togo Ranges known in these areas as Eweto for well over 200 years after making several eventful migrations. Since their first migration from Efutu which took them to other places including Adzina(near Akosombo) then easterly to Agunyagbo in the Republic of Togo before they
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2008
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18,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/CORE/GM/08/018 |
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The land is degrading at a speedy rate due unsustainable land management practices, wildfires and uncontrolled harvesting of trees for firewood and charcoal production. Farming practice continues to rely because there is no viable alternative ( ... )
hood activity where people would engage themselves. Again, indiscriminate bush burning has become rampant in the traditional area where people burn the bushes with impunity and these actions affect the soil negatively and increase soil erosion which reduces our farm outputs. The animals also over grazed the lands because we do not have any other grazing fields. Overgrazing does not allow soils to
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
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2008
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22,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2008/024 |
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Kamega is a village 17 kilometers from Zebila district capital Bawku West of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The Traditional Area has 8 communities with a population of 4,400 with an estimated population growth rate of 3.0% which is higher than the ( ... )
al average population growth rate of about 2.0%.
The area is characterized by the savannah ochrosols soil type which is porous, well drained, loamy, and mildly acidic interspersed with patches of black or dark-grey clay soils. This soil type is suitable for cultivation and hence accounts for the arable land sites where wet season farming activities are concentrated. The soil is undulating
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2008
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22,500.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2008/025 |
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Abesim is one of the key urban areas of the Sunyani Municipality and is the major vegetable producing area supply raw vegetable to Sunyani Municipality. In the last few years the use of agro-chemicals, especially pesticides, has increased in the ( ... )
Pesticide use has assumed an increasingly significant role in the production of vegetables, and prevention of vector borne diseases in Municipality. The most challenging issue is that farmers do not know that some chemicals contain the POPs substance, and they use them anyhow to the extent of sometimes tasting the chemicals to test the potency of the mixtures.
The continuous application of
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2008
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22,400.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/015 |
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The project is sustainable land management project which part of the Chiana-Paga ecosystem, about 10,000 haof degraded lands where climate is variable and unpredictable. Some years the rains fail and crops perish, but other years too much rain falls ( ... )
wrong time and this also prevents good yields from being realized. While the environment can be described as risky, the people have effectively managed to develop a viable agricultural base which supports a high density of population often above 200 people per square kilometre. This is one of the highest rural population densities in Ghana. This has given rise to a system of intensive cultivation
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2008
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24,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/010 |
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BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT AREA
The two main activities of SUDYO include raising awareness about desertification causes and impacts, and the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources through woodlot establishment. The woodlots comprise ( ... )
of 13 acres and are aimed at providing women with alternative sustainable sources of firewood, alleviating poverty, reducing deforestation and land degradation, and creating awareness on combating desertification through tree planting. This part of the project also aims to provide practical demonstrations to local people that they can then replicate for sustainable fuelwood and a source of
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2008
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25,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/011 |
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BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT AREA
Zabzugu, Tatale and Gorkugani communities constitute part of the dryland areas and the most seriously affected desertification-prone areas of the Zabzugu-Tatale District of the Northern region. The communities fall ( ... )
he Guinea and Sudan Savannah agro-ecological zones with mono modal rainfall pattern. Rainfall amount varies from 645 mm to 1,250 mm per annum with a long dry period of more than 5 months follows with little agricultural activity and limited income during the period. The vegetation consists of a short drought and fire resistant deciduous trees interspersed with open savannah grassland. Grass
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2007
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25,500.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2007/002 |
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1. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND INTENDED RESULTS
1.1 Background to Project Area:
Gomoa Adam is a farming community in Gomoa District in the Central Region, about five (5) kilometers of Apam – Cape Coast road near Kyirem Junction. The population of ( ... )
mmunity is about 2,100 people. The major occupation of the people in and around of the community is farming; including maize, cassava, plantain vegetables, trading and gari production.
Historical account, according to the elders of the community, has it that the people of Gomoa Adam migrated from Tekyiman in Brong Ahafo Region and have lived this land for so many year. The people lived
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2007
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30,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2007/005 |
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Background
Bio-Diversity is essential for the existence and sustenance of life on the planet. The wide range of species, complex biological communities and genetic variations within species constitute bio-diversity. The Forestry Commission has ( ... )
pearheading the implementation of the United Nations Convention on Bio-Diversity in Ghana through the collaboration of relevant agencies and non-governmental organizations (CBOs) as well as the forest fringe communities.
Globally Significant Bio-diversity Areas (GSBAs) are areas with high genetic concentrations. These areas are protected to maintain the global interest in the conservation of
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
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2007
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24,500.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2007/003 |
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1. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND INTENDED RESULTS
1.1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT AREA
BROFOYEDUR, a Community in the Gomoa District of the Central Region is situated about 10 km West of Apam, the district capital. It is about 2 kilometers ( ... )
am, Mankessim road. The village was founded about 100 years ago on a hill. With a population of about 2,000 inhabitants, the residents are predominantly peasant formers. They cultivate mainly maize, cassava and vegetables. They use the traditional method slash and burn, sow and plant or broadcasting. They depend solely on rainfall.
Brofoyedur is a village that has electricity, 2 primary
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
International Waters
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2007
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27,200.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2007/001 |
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1.0 PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND INTENDED RESULTS
1:1 Project Background
The presence of at least eight pair of the globally endangered Common Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibious) has been confirmed in the Tano River Wildlife Division since 1998. ( ... )
ere believed to have migrated from northern Cote d’Ivoire and entered the Tano basin through the Abe Lagoon. Locations where this sub-population have been observed stretch from Half-Assini at the south-west coast, through Asankragwa to Mehame (Asutifi District) in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. Current observations suggest that a small herd, with young, is resident in the proposed project
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2007
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27,500.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2007/004 |
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1.0 PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND INTENDED RESULTS
1:1 Project Background and Problem Definition
Woadze, is a community south of Hohoe District in the Volta Region of Ghana. This community and its environ is threatened with loss of biodiversity. The ( ... )
ity is boarded to the south by Goviefe Agordome, east; Hlefi in the Ho District and to the west is Tsrukpe, Botoku and Tsohor communities all in the Kpando District and Agate to the north. The Woadze community lies along the foot of the Weto Mountains. This mountain like many mountain ecosystems is rich in biodiversity (Conservation International, 1999). The slope of the mountain to its bottom
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Ghana
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Multifocal Area
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2006
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15,600.00
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Phase 3
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Project Number: GHA/CWI/06/006 |
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Abriem was classified as one of the worst guinea worm infested communities in the Ekumfi District. The community lacked potable water source and the main sources of drinking water is a stream.
Clinical analysis of these water sources indicated that ( ... )
water sources are full of bacteria and has an odour and has traces of iron. The results indicate a poor water supply coverage in the community. Water Coverage (defined as the number of people having access to basic level of service) indicated that 1,500 people have access to a hand-dug well (as against national standard of 150 people per hand-dug well). The distance from the community to
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