There are 181 projects that match your search.
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Sierra Leone
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/1/11/2022/44 |
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This intervention titled ?Innovative Community-based Conservation of Indigenous Forest Ecosystem and Promotion of Climate Resilience Sedentary Crop Production for Livelihood Improvement of Women Farmers and Farming Families in Luawa Chiefdom? ( ... )
s to conserve remnant of indigenous forest covering 200 hectares severely prone to deforestation due to slash and burn farming exacerbated more recently by the ravage harvests and export of rare and threatened species of tropical hardwood spurred by swarms of foreign companies. This initiative shall survey and place under conservation three intact forest and embark on forest corridor expansion
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Sierra Leone
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/LD/1/11/2022/30 |
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The overall goal of this project is to promote improved Inland Valley Swamp (IVS) Cultivation and planting of economic tree crops as an alternative and sustainable agricultural practices among targeted forest edge communities. The current ( ... )
ional upland slash and burning agricultural practices is a major cause of deforestation and land degradation communities adjacent the Gola Forest National Park. This project gears towards providing a sustainable alternative to the above practice thereby minimizing deforestation and enhancing the restoration of degraded forest. This project will involve the development of 10 acres of IVS with
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Sierra Leone
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Land Degradation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/LD/1/11/2022/32 |
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A high proportion of Sierra Leoneans living in rural parts of Kenema District which is in the Eastern Region of Sierra Leone engage in small scale or artisanal mining. This sector is characterized by low level capital investments, high labor inputs ( ... )
low level of minerals output, with shallow workings, mainly concentrated in the superficial geological deposits, including alluvial sands and gravels in main river basins. Artisanal mining is usually practiced at community level, with a single unit-owned licensed enterprise or non-licensed operators or individuals hired by a working artisanal miner or land owner and family (i.e. a household).
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Sierra Leone
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/1/11/2022/39 |
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The project is a scaling-up of the Electrification Of Two Villages Through The Use Of Solar Generated Power, and focused on upgrading the light system in kabomboh village and expand to three more surrounding villages that are demanding light for ( ... )
communities. These will be provided with 24 hours off-grid solar power electricity for better living conditions and helps to create jobs and businesses for youths and women entrepreneurs. In carrying out activities as planned financial and energy operator?s policies in the renewable energy sector for rural electrification has become the corner stone.
Primary Objectives:
To Scale-up the
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Sierra Leone
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/1/11/2022/34 |
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Climate change has caused several shocks and hazards to rural farmers, as crop productivity has drastically reduced. This has rendered many rural farmers in abject poverty and majority are food insecure. To combat this challenge, the introduction of ( ... )
able agricultural practices through Climate Smart Agriculture, Organic farming, mulching, irrigation and livestock management should take the center stage for agroecology. Due to poor crop productivity as a result of poor soil nutrients as the soil has been depleted with continuous cropping, farmers have turned to the application of inorganic fertilizer to boost plants growth. It is recorded that
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Sierra Leone
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Land Degradation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/LD/1/11/2022/31 |
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The goal of this project is to improve the quality of life in rural communities in the East of Sierra Leone through more efficient land use practices and sustainable use. The problem that is being addressed is that communities do not practice ( ... )
ive agriculture on their land because there is a lack of awareness of the use of their land, as well as who owns the land, and what their rights are as user of the land. This results in an uncoordinated and inefficient use of land, which, as most community members are farmers, imperils their own livelihood. In addition, with inefficient use of land, soil degradation and deforestation will occur
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Sierra Leone
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/1/11/2022/41 |
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This project is designed to plant economic trees to achieve and strengthen plantation farming and climate change adaptation in Futa and Bumbeh, Pejeh Chiefdom, Bengi, Kpangaa Chiefdom.
The project has two objectives:
1) To empower communities and ( ... )
uth to create a safer, healthier, cleaner, and greener environment.
2) To alleviate poverty through building, strengthening, and empowering the communities to produce adequate amounts of food without destroying the environment.
At the end of the project, we are expecting a change in the Agricultural practice of farmers in the target communities and an environmentally sustaining
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Sierra Leone
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Land Degradation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/LD/1/11/2022/40 |
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This project aims to contribute to the protection of the Gola Rain Forest, its ecosystem and biodiversity as key global heritage. it focuses on raising environmental awareness especially among youths and women and persons with disabilities, ( ... )
ing and maintaining traditional ecological knowledge, maintaining good forest cover, promote an alternative sustainable livelihood activities focused on NTFP, especially apiculture (beekeeping) as well as promoting sustainable land and forest management practices. The target is to stabilize or increase the population of species and their distribution while decreasing the threat and act as
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Sierra Leone
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/LD/1/11/2022/37 |
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The MIE ?Cassava Compact Revolution? initiative adopts the Mobile Cassava Processing Technology capable of processing cassava into gari at farm gate and at a considerably lower cost thus putting more money into both the farmers? purses and that of ( ... )
s the cultivation of cassava has increased exponentially in response to the Government?s food diversification policy, it certainly comes with its own challenges including potential environmental issues if robust and innovative measures are not put in place to address the emerging issues. This project?s main objective, therefore, is to create food self-sufficiency and a sustainable source of
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Sierra Leone
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Land Degradation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/LD/1/11/2022/35 |
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This proposed project is specifically designed to strengthen community participation and contributions to improve sustainable forest landscape restoration, forest management and improve management of natural forests in Bargbewe chiefdom in Bo ( ... )
cts through promoting agroforestry initiatives, build up community forest governance frameworks, and promote better understanding of landscape restoration and forest governance approaches. This project intervention seeks to enhance food security and resilience of targeted farming communities through climate smart agricultural schemes streamlined with post harvesting processing, value addition and
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Sierra Leone
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Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Mitigation
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CC/1/11/2022/43 |
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People?s Empowerment and Development Agency (PEDA) is proposing this intervention in response to challenges posed by climate change which require technological changes on the part of many stakeholders, but also major behavioural shifts at various ( ... )
to help communities increase their adaptive capacity. The overall objective of this project is to improve the food and nutrition security situation of women in smallholder farming communities in Kpanga chiefdom of Pujehun district, by increasing access to agricultural inputs and enhance ecological stability through sustainable land use practices including soil and water conservation, integrated
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Sierra Leone
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Chemicals
Chemicals
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CH/1/11/2022/28 |
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The project is titled ??Strengthening the livability and beauty of the environment at the same time use waste management as an enterprise for sustainable development??. The main aim of the project is to protect human health and the environment from ( ... )
pogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds. The project objectives include:
1) Reduce the use of harmful chemicals (i.e., mercury) and destructive practices (i.e., dredging) in gold mining
2) Increase recyclable material produced by communities that can be converted building materials with WHH provided recycling machines.
3) Improve community members (i) knowledge of
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Sierra Leone
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Biodiversity
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/BD/1/11/2022/45 |
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The Fourah Bay College (FBC) Botanic reserve is located on the plateau of Mount Aureol (one of the lowest mountain ranges at the Western Area Peninsula Forest (WAPF), about five kilometer south of the centre of the capital Freetown. It is a 81 ha ( ... )
ion of the Western Area Peninsula Forest (WAPF), which has been put under the management of the Fourah Bay College (FBC), University of Sierra Leone (USL) and is being used as a natural laboratory for research and studies in the University. The WAPF is the westernmost isolated patches of rain forest in Sierra Leone and is the only forest reserve found on a mountain close to the coast in West
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Sierra Leone
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Chemicals
Chemicals
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2022
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20,000.00
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OP7 Y3 (July 22-June 23)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y3/STAR/CH/1/11/2022/42 |
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The project titled ?Transforming plastic waste into useful materials ? is an innovative initiative on the control of plastic pollution in Sierra Leone. Plastic pollution accounts for 80% of all marine debris found from surface waters to deep-sea ( ... )
nts which further threaten marine ecosystems and affects food safety as fish represents 20% of the animal protein source for around 3 billion people. Waste Way Cycle sees this environmental issues and want to transform this harmful waste to useful products.
Main Objective
The main objective of the project is transforming plastic waste to useful material and products that will help minimize
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Sierra Leone
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Chemicals
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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: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/CH/15/10/2021/17 |
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This project shall produce bricks from plastics which can be used to build affordable government and government assisted schools. They can also be used to build additional classes for schools that need more classes to accommodate higher enrollment. ( ... )
believed that the intervention will lead to increased awareness about environmental issues and will improve the livelihoods of the beneficiaries. When addressed and communities learn the importance together with pupils, it will encourage the young and old to advocate against littering. The project objectives are:
1. To sensitize stakeholders on the importance of circular economy and zero plastic
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Sierra Leone
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Biodiversity
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2021
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10,000.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/15/10/2021/14 |
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The project is titled ?Building Back Better Women in Lokomassama and Kaffu Bullom Chiefdoms, Port Loko District ?. The objective is to plant fast growing trees as wood lots which in future, provides fuel wood for drying fish as an alternative to ( ... )
ve wood that is widely harvested presently. Knowing that it will take 3 to 4 years for the trees to be matured enough for harvesting, the project proposes agricultural livelihood support to 40 women as an income generating activity that has the potential to improve their wellbeing. Vegetable farming (onion, pepper, carrot etc) is proposed because it has huge potential in the target community.
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Sierra Leone
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Chemicals
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2021
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20,000.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/CH/17/12/2020/9 |
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This project aim to sensitize farmers about the harmful effects of pesticides when not used properly and the need for using pesticides properly. Farmers would be trained on pesticide handling, storage, and the proper use of personal safety gears. ( ... )
s would be trained on how to identify harmful and prohibited pesticides. Protective gears would be supplied to farmers and encourage them to pay a cost recovery amount which would be kept in a locally controlled account for sustainability. The payment should be either in cash or in kind using their produce after harvest and the amount to be paid would be determined by them. Pesticides would be
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Sierra Leone
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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: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/17/12/2020/2 |
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Sierra Leone
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Land Degradation
Land Degradation
Land Degradation
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2021
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25,000.00
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OP7 –Y2 (Jul 21-Jun 22)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/LD/15/10/2021/13 |
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This project will enable GEF to monitor and keep track of all the trees planted in the Sierra Leone by various CBOs, CSOs and NGOs under the SGP grant and be able to determine how much carbon credits they will in due course contribute toward ( ... )
tem restoration efforts in the country. This project will empower Grantees with Open Data Kit (ODK) skills to collect digital information of the trees they have planted and be able to manage the information in a database, which they would create themselves. 2030 targets of the sustainable development goal 15.3 are to combat desertification and restore degraded land. This project will provide
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Sierra Leone
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Biodiversity
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2021
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20,000.00
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OP7 - Y1 (Jul 20-Jun 21)
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Project Number: SLE/SGP/OP7/Y1/CORE/BD/17/12/2020/8 |
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The proposed project is a community-driven action designed to ensure targeted communities play a central role in mangrove biodiversity conservation and management. The primary objective is to prevent the loss and destruction of the mangrove forest ( ... )
h the promotion of co-management involving local communities, district authorities (local council, chiefs and ward development committees), relevant line ministries (Agriculture & Marine Resources) and agencies operating in the proposed project location. The project seeks to empower local coastal communities in two (2) chiefdoms to take ownership and responsibility for the protection of the
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