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Leveraging Best Practices

This project aims to conduct a systematic effort to capture, document and share best practices of SGP grantees and partners. As a result of this project, stakeholders will gain a deeper appreciation of the gains achieved by the Small Grants Programme during the last decade through a variety of communication media.

A proactive project, this proposal shall address the recommendation of the Biennial Programme Review of the Philippine Programme in February 2002 on the need document and best practices and learnings of SGP-funded projects.

The project aims to:
a. undertake an evaluative follow-up study of all previous SGP grantees;
b. document lessons learned and best practices in print, website, and video forms;
c. develop a GEF workshop: design, facilitators manual, handouts and audiovisual materials in two versions featuring:
- deep ecology module for urban participants, for re-establishing personal connectedness with nature; and
- global perspectiveness and sustainable development concepts for rural participants, and orienting them into the GEF framework
d. disseminate lessons learned (leaflets, vignettes and video) to all past SGP grantees.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Center for Conscious Living Foundation Inc.

Country:

Philippines

Area Of Work:

Multifocal Area

Operational Phase:

Phase 2

Grant Amount:

US$ 47,540.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 2,313.50

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 49,891.98

Project Number:

PHI/32/02 GEF-RNE

Start Date:

12/2002

End Date:

6/2005

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Notable Community Participation

Community participated to this team by attending lessons learned meetings which is basically a process of eliciting, understanding and documenting some knowledge assets and sophia from best practitioners. It is understood that much of the knowledge assets and sophia in people are tacit (unexpressed, unrecognized or undocumented knowledge).

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

Future SGP grantees, particularly prospective project leaders, will obtain useful knowledge on what works best in the area of work similar to theirs, lessen the likelihood of repeating mistakes, re-use or adapt work templates that had been developed and made workable elsewhere, be sensitized to the success and danger factirs as well as facilitating and hindering factors that may affect their projects, and obtain a deeper gut-level appreciation of interconnectivity in Nature or deeper understanding of the GEF conceptual framework. External stakeholders both within and outside the Philippines will gain a deeper appreciation of the gains achieved by the UNDP GEF/SGP during the last decade through a variety of communication media.

Capacity - Building Component

The concrete indicators of each developmental element applied to a community or project partners are: financial assets; social assets; natural assets; knowledge assets; sophia which were all capture with this leveraging best practices and how to do it manual.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

There are selected IP case studies that will be included in the research such as the following: 1. Biodiversity Conservation for the Aytas; 2. Forest Integrated and Biodiversity Project 3. Batak Integrated Rural Development 4. Biogas Production and Utilization 5. Solar-Powered Hydraulic Water Pumping System 6. Enhancing Forest Margin Agriculture and Ancestral Domain Management in Minalwang 7. Cultivationm Production, Promotion of Native Cereals and Agro-Forestry Crops 8. Cinnamon Propagation and Reforestation Project 9. Community-Based Watershed Management and Micro-Hydro Development Project 10. Cateel Micro-Hydropower Rehabilitation Project 11. Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration of the Ligawasan Marsh 12. Ligawasan Marsh Integrated Conservation and Resource Management

Project Results

The project were able to document the lessons learned meetings among past GEF SGP grantees; best practices in html format for the SGP website and in practical "how to do it" manual in major Philippine language; human interest stories or vignettes on both best practices and best practitioners in printed and video formats.

Future SGP grantees particularly prospective project leaders, will obtain useful knowledge on what works best in the area of work similar to theirs, lessen the likelihood of repeating mistakes, re-use or adapt work templates that had been developed and made workable elsewhere, be sensitized to the success and danger factors as well as facilitating and hindering factors that may affect their projects, and obtain a deeper gut-level appreciation of interconnectivity in natureor deeper understanding of the GEF conceptual framework.

External stakeholders both and within and outside the Philippines will gain a deeper appreciation of the gains achieved by the GEF SGP Philippines during the last decade through a variety of communication media.

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