Rainforest for Health: A Travelling Expedition
Rainforest for Health: A Travelling Expedition
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 region 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 travelled to all 7 Regional capitals in the forest zone of Ghana and received high recommendation.
 
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Project Snapshot

Grantee:
Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine
Country:
Ghana
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 15,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 22,000.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 43,000.00
Project Number:
GHA/98/028
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Capacity - Building Component
C-B
Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment
PA
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SGP Country office contact

Dr. George Buabin Ortsin
Phone:
233-242-977980
Email:
Ms. Lois Sarpong
Phone:
+233 505740909
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Address

UNDP, Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme P.O. Box 1423
Accra, Greater Accra, 233-302