There are 313 projects that match your search.
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1998
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42,436.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/033 |
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The River Ponpon and the Falls that occur along its length including the Boti Falls occur in the Dry Semi- deciduous forest zone in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The river takes its source from the Kwahu Southern Scarp Forest Reserve. Owning to ( ... )
deforestation and degradation of this reserve and the off reserve forests of the area, most indigenous biodiversity and the River Ponpon are under severe threat. The Boti Falls, one of Ghana’s popular ecotourism sites, no longer flow year round because of deforestation and farming the banks of the Ponpon River.The NGO is working with communities along the river to desist from farming too close
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Ghana
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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34,721.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/025 |
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The West Mamprusi District is bordered by the White Volta River on its northern side. The river together with the Red Volta and the Morago Rivers to the north and east respectively of the district are all bordered by government gazetted forest ( ... )
es which serves as international corridors for the movement of biodiversity, particularly elephants, between Burkina Faso, Ghana and northern Togo. The White Volta River also flows westwards and is joined by the Kulpaum River, which runs along the northern border of Ghana’s largest wildlife park – the Mole National Park. The protection of these riverine forests will reduce the trend of
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Ghana
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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29,249.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/024 |
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The East Mamprusi District borders the White Volta River and Morago River to the north. Both rivers are bordered by Government gazetted forest reserves and have been identified by GEF/SGP as an international corridor for the movement of ( ... )
ersity, particularly the African Elephants, Loxodonta africana, between Burkina Faso, Ghana and northern Togo. Because of degradation of these protected areas by fringe communities, the forests yield less food and elephants now come out of the forests more than before to raid farmers’ crops leading to human-elephant conflicts. The NGO worked with 10 fringe communities, particularly the
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1998
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5,726.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/030 |
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Nyagbo-Konda and Gagbefe are situated in the middle dry deciduous forest zone of Ghana and in a hilly area, which is part of the Ghana-Togo Highlands – a priority biodiversity area as identified by Conservation International. No protected area as ( ... )
as bee gazetted in the area. The project was to develop a conservation programme for the off reserve and develop a rational use for the natural resources in there including sustainable landuse and ecosystem exploitation. The project was also to improve the livelihood of the people through ecologically sustainable agriculture, bee keeping,
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
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1998
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8,573.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/032 |
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The southern Volta Region is typically coastal savanna and has a general low density of woody plants and hence does not have an abundance of fuelwood. The project was to build the capacity of 25 communities in the southern Volta to construct Fuel ( ... )
ent Woodsaving Stoves (FEWS).The adoption rate and use of the FEW stoves was low (less than 40 %) although trainees always described the stoves as useful in the sense that they consumed less fuelwood, produced less smokes and does not burn the user and is unlikely to cause a fire. NGO was to develop ingenious ways to popularise the stove to improve
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
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1998
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36,553.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GHA/98/029 |
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Fuelwood and charcoal together constitute over 80 % of the country’s energy consumption. Charcoal consumption is more prevalent in the urban areas with more than 70 % of urban households depending on this source for cooking. In 1996, it was ( ... )
ted that the annual consumption was about 800,000 tonnes. The traditional coalpot is the main cooking device that is used by households and this device is only about 18 % efficient. The Ahibenso, however is reported by the Ministry of Energy to be 39 % efficient and save between 35 40 % of charcoal compared to the traditional coalpot. Baseline studies of this project showed that of a total of 200
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
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1998
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5,120.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/036 |
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The objective of the project is to promote the adoption of energy efficiency measures and technologies among Ghanaian industries so as to conserve energy, save money and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. The project provided relevant ( ... )
ation on the benefits/costs of proven energy efficient technologies to industrial manager so they can make informed choices and investments with regards to technology types. Middle level managers and technical staff were also given training on the application of proven energy efficient technologies and were exposed to case studies of successful energy management industries to appreciate the cost
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
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1998
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5,000.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/038 |
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The Workshop on Gender and Renewable Energy Systems Development and Application was co-funded by GEF/SGP, UNDP and UNIFEM. It brought together 84 participants including renewable energy practitioners, experts and users who deliberated on the ( ... )
inkages between the environment, energy, food security and economic empowerment of women, particularly women’s’ agro-processing businesses. It also collated information on energy policies with particular reference to access by women including issues of design and development of future energy
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1998
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3,292.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/031 |
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The project was sited at Abomoyaw Anyansu Mpakadan, Apegusu and Aboaso fringing the Volta Lake in the dry semi-deciduous forest zone. The area was experiencing rapid deforestation particularly because of crop farming near the Volta gorge and along ( ... )
nks of the river. As a result of the Local Government ban on crop farming in the gorge area, the NGO proposed to popularize bee keeping that will provide a means of livelihood while improving pollination and propagation of flora biodiversity and improving carbon sequestration. The project had help 5 communities to start bee keeping using the Kenyan Top Bar Hives. Beneficiaries were to pass on an
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1998
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6,037.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/027 |
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The Centre is a Traditional Herbal Medicine Centre that uses many different herbs from the savannah zone of Ghana. Unfortunately, because of increases in human population and the demand for more farmlands, wild areas from which these resources are ( ... )
ed are shrinking. Other threats include bushfires and free grazing of livestock. As an answer to these threats, the Centre has been funded in the Pilot Phase to do in-situ protection of some species but this has faced serious bushfire.
In this project, the Centre was linked to plant taxonomist of the Ghana Herbarium and a horticulturist from the local university to assist in the collection,
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1998
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15,000.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/028 |
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The project is a jointly funded activity by the Centre, GEF/SGP, and the Royal Netherlands Embassy of Ghana to show a travelling exhibition prepared by the Rainforest Medical Foundation (RMF) to a wide spectrum of audience in the southern rainforest ( ... )
of Ghana. The emphasis of the exhibition is to show the significance of the loss of medicinal plants and diseases of and from deforestation particularly because hitherto not much attention had been given to the impending rainforest “catastrophe”. “It is generally accepted that medicinal plants provide the raw materials for at least 25 % of allotrophic western drugs”. The exhibits
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1998
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1,202.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: GHA/98/035 |
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The project produced a video production using cell animation to elucidate the harmful effects of unsustainable farming practices on forest resources, the ecosystem in general and human welfare in particular. The main target audiences are children in ( ... )
of school. The product is to be used as an educational tool that kids can learn from while having
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1995
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30,828.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: GHA/94/021 |
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Ebiram Forest is an off-reserve traditionally managed forest in the coastal savanna belt of Ghana. The general area is grassland with pockets of degraded dry semi-deciduous forests that are prone to fires. Ebiram Forest is one of such forests and ( ... )
es about 20 Ha. It borders the Nakwa river and provides protection for it. It harbours different kinds of wildlife and plants and is currently protected by traditional authority through taboos and religious norms. Trees for Future Ghana (TFG) worked with Ebiram community and members of 10 other communities in the catchment area to protect community forests and sacred groves in the area. Lessons
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1995
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33,333.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: GHA/95/022 |
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Marine turtles are endangered all over the world and are wholly protected by law in Ghana. However, they are hunted for food and killed in beach and purse seine nets. Predation by pigs and dogs and disturbance of the nesting sites constitutes the ( ... )
ajor threat to the species. The project was executed from Kpone through Prampam, New Ningo, and Old Ningo to Wekumagbe, which fall within the core nesting area for marine turtles in Ghana. Even though Ghana’s coastline is about 535 km long of which 375 km of this consists of sandy beaches and hence suitable for marine turtle nesting, only 64 km constitute the core marine turtle nesting area.
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1994
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32,292.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: GHA/94/019 |
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Lessons learnt from GEF/SGP projects in the arid/semi-arid zones of Ghana and to some extent even in the forest zones showed that the rate of deforestation and its effect on the Ghana environment was enormous. The main causes of deforestation were ( ... )
to be the following: unsustainable slash and burn agriculture or shifting cultivation, bushfires, over extraction of fuelwood from the wild and free-grazing of livestock leading to over-grazing. Further lessons learnt were that efforts at deliberate afforestation had not met with the expected success because of two major threats namely, bushfires and free grazing of livestock.
In response to the
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Ghana
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Multifocal Area
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1994
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10,527.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: GHA/93/011 |
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The vegetation of Bawku East District of Ghana is Sudan savannah with serious cases of deforestation and threat of desertification. The problem of deforestation is caused by high human population, slash and burn agriculture, bushfires and high ( ... )
ock populations. The NGO worked with 5 communities using train-the –trainer techniques to teach the community members the following: composting, soil conservation and erosion control, nursery practices, agroforestry, bushfire management and the construction and use of Fuel Efficient Woodsaving (FEW) Stoves. By the end of the project, the community members could prepare compost manure and nurse
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1994
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2,720.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: GHA/93/015 |
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The Ho District is a major honey production area. Most honey producers harvest honey from the wild using fire to kill or scare away bees – a practice that sometimes lead to bushfires. The project was to introduce the CBO members to modern methods ( ... )
keeping that will not lead to bushfires and increase the survival of bees who will in turn enhance the pollination of plants in the wild. The CBO was assisted to train 30 of its members in the use of the Kenya Top Bar Hive (KTBH) .The CBO was also assisted in managing their business to improve their
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1994
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50,000.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: GHA/94/018 |
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The Buabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary is located in the Nkoranza District in the dry semi-deciduous forest in the transition zone of Ghana. This zone is quickly changing from forest to grassland so the community’s dry semi-deciduous forest is an ( ... )
ed forest that is surrounded by grassland. The people and their traditional leaders have used ancient taboos to protect this forest which also is home to two endangered species of monkeys – Black and White Colobus monkeys, Colobus polykomos and the Mona monkey, Cercopithecus mona. As well as large members of colourful butterflies and other wildlife. The project for the first time negotiated
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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1994
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4,945.00
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: GHA/93/017 |
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The NGO worked with the community of Adaklu Vodze in the Ho District. This District is in the dry semi-deciduous forest and the aim of the project was to reduce the threats to the biodiversity in general while improving the incomes of the community ( ... )
s. They trained the community members in nursery practices, afforestation, agroforestry and modern bee keeping as well as bushfire management. By the end of the project, the NGO had started harvesting and selling honey to buyers in the city of Ho, the District and Regional
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
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1994
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1,061.27
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Pilot Phase
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Project Number: GHA/93/016 |
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The project was executed in the Adah-Foah/Kese area of the Dangme East District in the Coastal Guinea Savannah zone of Ghana. The area is severely deforested and those communities living along the coast depend mostly on mangrove species for ( ... )
od. The project was to popularize the use of the Fuel Efficient Woodsaving (FEW) Stoves. A train-the- trainer programme involved 30 women in the area. The adoption rate of the FEW Stoves was exceptionally high with over 90% of households in the training area using the
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