There are 138 projects that match your search.
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Trinidad and tobago
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Community Based Adaptation
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SIDS-CBA/15/04 |
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The Project will focus on and target persons who have special needs i.e. persons with intellectual disabilities. The target groups will be recruited from Schools, Homes and institutions that cater to persons with special needs. It is proposed that ( ... )
ndred and fifty (250) persons benefit from this nine-month intervention.
As a nation prone to many tropical and natural disasters, one of the priority items on the national agenda (policies and plans) is managing and preparing citizens to respond and cope in the event of an emergency. However, this agenda while providing for persons with physical disabilities (and an appreciation that senior
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Trinidad and tobago
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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114,341.99
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y4/STAR/CC/14/04 |
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PROJECT SUMMARY
UNATT submits this proposal for a project entitled Mainstreaming Renewable Energy Resources and Raising Youth Awareness in Schools and Community Service Organizations in Trinidad and Tobago.
This is an extension of the previous ( ... )
P project, known by its short title – Alternative Energy Project. The short title for this second phase project is – Renewable Energy (RE) Project.
The goal and objectives of the first project were achieved substantially and the intention in this project is to apply lessons learnt to consolidate on the successful outcomes, to replicate, diversify and expand the original objectives. In
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Trinidad and tobago
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Community Based Adaptation
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2015
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47,466.40
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SIDS-CBA/15/01 |
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The Sans Souci Climate Change Adaptation project is aimed at increasing the resilience of the community to better respond to climate change events while ensuring the protection of the Natural Resources. The objectives are to decrease the level of ( ... )
ability to sea level rise, land-slides and increase the level of knowledge associated with climate change within the community. The project also focuses on strengthening the capacity of the Sans Souci Wildlife and Tourism Development group to respond effectively and efficiently to disasters in the area.
The project aims to measure the changes in the vulnerability of the project site to the
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Trinidad and tobago
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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16,071.21
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y5/STAR/CC/15/06 |
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Mission of the Central Pathfinders Environmental Foundation: Building the capacity of young adults to promote ecological conservation through sustainable environmental and agricultural awareness and development.
Problem the project aims to address: ( ... )
becoming increasingly challenging to gain and keep the attention of today’s youth using traditional teaching methods. As a result, teachers are continuously trying to develop novel teaching aids and methods to ensure the information being disseminated reaches its desired target. It is believed that a hands-on project such as Eco-Info Garden [EIG] will contribute to the alleviation of poor
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Trinidad and tobago
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International Waters
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2014
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49,923.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/IW/14/05 |
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THE SOCIAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION started 6years ago with a simple yet powerful guiding principle: creating equity through training of vulnerable at risk youth in rural communities in communications technologies. This guides our non-?profit ( ... )
zation in its main activities of:
1. Youth Training Youth in sustainable skills-? opening pathways to opportunities in future
employment in the knowledge industry or as trainers themselves
2. Building self-?esteem and selfhood by telling the story of rural youth and at-?risk communities
thorough The Good news Media (TGN)-? with their own voices and images.
3. Bridging the
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Trinidad and tobago
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Chemicals
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2014
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3,070.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/CH/14/03 |
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The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church intends to submit a full project grant proposal to the Trinidad and Tobago GEF, SGP, UNDP Office regarding financial support to establish POPs –free demonstration gardens at three educational ( ... )
utions in Trinidad. The May Collymore Women’s Missionary Society (WMS) of the church will be the implementing agency.
The project intends to disseminate the principles and practical use of POPs–free gardening amongst 100 pupils (and into their homes) of one primary school (Gaines Normal AME Primary School, 18 Woodford Street, Newtown, Port of Spain) and two kindergartens (Blakley AME
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Trinidad and tobago
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2014
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49,700.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y4/STAR/CC/14/02 |
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Sustain T&T is a non-profit company registered in Trinidad and Tobago dedicated to Sustainability Education and Communications.
Environmental and sustainability issues are often viewed as highly technical and often times boring. The marquee project ( ... )
ain T&T, Green Screen – The Environmental Film Series, works to bring relevant environmental issues to communities in an entertaining and engaging way through the use of film and animation. Now entering its fourth year, Sustain T&T proposes to expand the Green Screen platform in 2014/2015 to include community education, outreach and capacity building around the GEF SGP program specifically.
In
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Trinidad and tobago
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Chemicals
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2014
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/CH/14/04 |
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Project Aim: Using leadership trees and a living garden bottle wall to address land degradation, increase ecological diversity, increase physical activity, increased kinesthetic learning in core vertical competencies such as Financial IQ in a ( ... )
r learning environment that promotes creative unstructured play.
The Leadership Tree and Small Business Bottle Garden Project will:
1. Relieve school flooding
2. Lock away carbon dioxide on school grounds
3. Educate our Leaders of Tomorrow to become stewards of nature so they can lead reforestation and other environmental initiatives
4. Train students how grow their own food while learning
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Trinidad and tobago
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Land Degradation
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2014
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/LD/14/02 |
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Maracas Valley Action Committee (MVAC) is an environmental NGO committed to the sustainable development of Maracas Valley.
A previous UNDP GEF SGP Study entitled ‘Issues of Sustainable Development in Maracas Valley, Trinidad and Tobago’ was ( ... )
d out in 2009/2010 to monitor and evaluate land use trends and their effect from 1970 to 2009. That study involved the preparation of a socio-economic profile of Maracas Valley based on house to house surveys; a trend analysis indicating changes in land use and the effects on rivers, roads, water supply; a series of stakeholders meetings which identified concerns of the residents in the Valley;
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Trinidad and tobago
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Biodiversity
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2014
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/BD/14/06 |
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The Environmental Research Institute Charlotteville (ERIC) proposes to implement a project called: “Marine protected area co-management capacity building in NE Tobago”.
Our mission is to “value and integrate diverse knowledge and ( ... )
ences to manifest a mutually beneficial community of people and the environment for the responsible stewardship of North-East Tobago, from ridge to village to ocean”.
ERIC and stakeholders in NE Tobago have identified the need to increase the capacity of community based organisations in NE Tobago to monitor and eventually co-manage the marine resources in the area. This is critical since a
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Trinidad and tobago
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Biodiversity
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2014
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106,782.96
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/BD/14/01 |
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The Trinidad East Coast Fishery Bycatch Management, Livelihood Development and Bycatch
Reduction Project, initiated by Nature Seekers is a project geared towards reducing the incidental
gillnet capture of marine turtles off the north-east coast of ( ... )
d. The project is a continuation
of projects managed by the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST)
aimed at achieving the same objective. (See Appendix I-Project Background and Previous Efforts
for further Project details).
Studies have shown that the use of gill nets by fishermen has resulted in the following key
problems:
? Increased Bycatch- Increased unintentional
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Trinidad and tobago
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Chemicals
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2014
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46,583.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/CH/14/07 |
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The National Centre for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) is a private non-profit organization involved in the development and integration of persons with disabilities into the wider community. It was established on December 05, 1964 and registered ( ... )
the Companies Act of Trinidad and Tobago in May 1984 as a Company Limited by Guarantee. A nine (9) member Voluntary Board of Directors which is involved in policy formation and fund raising, governs the Centre.
The organization is applying to the UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme for funds to undertake the setting up of a paper recycling project for persons with
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Trinidad and tobago
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2014
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47,553.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y4/STAR/CC/14/01 |
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The project’s overall goal is to empower communities to apply practical knowledge of green
technologies to best meet the need of local circumstances. This goal is directly related to the
GEF target for the demonstration and transfer of low ( ... )
technologies at the community
level. The project’s outcome offers a means for livelihood improvement and the emergence
of grassroots leadership capable of inspiring the emergence of the next generation of
leaders in energy efficiency and climate change resilience. The project tactically focuses on
knowledge sharing and science education so as to build the adaptive capacity of
communities
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Trinidad and tobago
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Biodiversity
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2013
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119,326.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/CORE/OP5/Y2/BD/12/06 |
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This project is designed to address the issue of land degradation which is considered a focal area within the context of the UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP). The project is developed as part of a larger initiative ( ... )
implemented by The Cropper Foundation and its partners that seeks to build capacity of small-scale subsistence farmers within the Northern Range to implement sustainable farming practices (SFPs), explore opportunities for improving livelihoods and food security, and reduce the negative environmental impacts of unsustainable hillside farming.
The project will draw on lessons and experiences of a
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Trinidad and tobago
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2013
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48,662.20
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y3/CORE/CC/13/09 |
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Parvati Girls’ Hindu College is a denominational secondary school located in Debe, South Trinidad. Their history of community based environmental projects has engendered a culture of activism within the institution. Building on this foundation ( ... )
hool would like to initiate projects beyond its borders, both in geographical as well as demographic terms. It is in this light that they have undertaken the project, “Educating children about Climate Change one child at a time.” The goal of the project is to educate young persons (ages 9 to 19) about climate change and effect a change in their attitudes towards climate change.
The
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Trinidad and tobago
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CapDev
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2013
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/CD/12/05 |
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The United Nations Development Programme of Trinidad and Tobago Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) is launching the first Caribbean Knowledge Fair in April, 2013. Within the Latin American and Caribbean regions, local ( ... )
ffices are repositioning to respond more effectively to local grantees network demands for capacity building and institutional strengthening and for the promotion of evidenced-based practices and for the creation of mechanisms for sharing information and knowledge to promote learning, improve organizational practices and achieve successful outcomes. In the Caribbean region, as throughout the UNDP
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Trinidad and tobago
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Chemicals
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2013
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47,597.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/CH/13/08 |
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In 2006 three farmers were selected to be part of the T&T Farms (Farmers Access to regional
Markets) project. The project was part of Repsol E&P T&T Ltd’s (Repsol) CSR Strategy. The project was decided on upon after Repsol commissioned a report ( ... )
Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business which identified that agriculture was a major source of revenue for the community, despite the presence of numerous other energy related companies. The TT Farms project would provide small farmers with access to regional markets, reduce their risk and increase their profitability by allowing farmers to collectively focus on production, which would be
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Trinidad and tobago
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Biodiversity
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2012
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y1/CORE/BD/12/09 |
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The proposed project involves the enhancement of the capacity and capabilities of Asa Wright Nature Centre , to strengthen and execute its ongoing conservation education and community development programmes and its ecotourism operations. This ( ... )
t can also be considered a case study in Trinidad and Tobago as an exemplar of the use of ecotourism by an NGO to fund conservation action as well as a pilot in co-financing arrangements between a (multilateral) UNDP administered Small Grants Programme (SGP) and the national Green Fund.
Asa Wright Nature Centre (AWNC) is the owner and guardian for approximately 1,500 acres of forested land in
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Trinidad and tobago
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Biodiversity
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2012
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37,041.85
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y1/CORE/BD/12/02 |
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North East Sea Turtles (NEST) is a small-scale environmental community based organisation (CBO) based in Charlottevillethat aspires to protect the natural environment of the sea turtles in the North of Tobago.As one of the only locations on the ( ... )
to see three nesting marine turtle species frequent the beaches – the Leatherback, Dermochelyscoriacea (Dermochelyidae), Hawksbill, EretmochelysImbricata, and Green, CheloniasMydas (both Cheloniidae) – Charlotteville has the unique potential to diversify her economy into eco-tourism through NEST. However, environmental literacy is desperately concerning; Despite legislation stating
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Trinidad and tobago
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CapDev
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2012
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23,916.90
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Phase 5
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Project Number: TRI/SGP/OP5/Y2/CORE/CD/12/02 |
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Since 1995, GEF-SGP has provided funding and technical support to more than 80 civil society projects in Trinidad and Tobago in an effort to promote positive national change in the six GEF SGP focal areas. In spite of the availability of these ( ... )
ces, many CSOs remain trapped in a vicious cycle where lack of awareness and capacity prevents them from accessing the full range of financial and technical support that is potentially available to them and lack of organisational capacity (financial and human resources, skills and equipment) prevents them from implementing their mission, programmes and projects effectively. This situation is
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