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07 June 2010
Aquaponics - The Genesis of an Industry in Barbados
Located in the South-Central hills of Barbados in the Caribbean, is a small low-income village called Bairds, with no more than 30 houses and 150
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14 June 2010
SGP Grantee in Tunisia Receives Presidential Award
Last June 14, the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development of Tunisia, Mr. Nadhir Hamada, presented the 2010 Presidential Award for
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06 July 2010
Tortoise Conservation in Bulgaria
Location: Village Banya, Municipality Nessebar, BulgariaIn June 2008 Gea Chelonia Foundation initiated a project aiming to work for the protection
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30 August 2010
First Rent-a-Bike Service in Macedonia
An SGP Project started in 2008 in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, the City of Skopje, the British Embassy in
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10 December 2010
National Coordinator of the GEF Small Grants Programme won Benazir Bhutto Human Rights Award
Masood Lohar, the National Coordinator of the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) implemented by UNDP in Pakistan received the "Benazir Bhutto Human
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14 January 2011
Local Solutions to Wastewater Problems
Wastewater treatment is a rare luxury in rural areas of Armenia, and domestic wastewater is subjected to either direct disposal to water bodies or
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29 October 2003
Major partnership to help manage local resources in the Pacific
On World Environment Day, June 5, NZAID, the New Zealand Government's aid and development agency, and the Global Environment Facility Small Grants
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29 October 2003
Environmental Education: A Great Combination
A second grant from GEF SGP enabled the foundation to establish a small endowment fund to support their activities, and this year they received a
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08 October 2005
SGP and PEMSEA Forged Partnership
The UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme and Regional Programme on Building Partnership on Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)
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08 October 2005
SGP and PEMSEA Forged Partnership
The UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme and Regional Programme on Building Partnership on Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)
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29 October 2003
Banphot has the Power
This year, however, Banphot will earn an extra 30,000 Thai Baht, or US $675, from the mangoes and bananas that he's growing on his land, and from the
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29 October 2003
Preserving Urban Biodiversity: Community Conservation at Kota Kinabalu's Likas Bird Sanctuary
"At Likas the students see more things," she said. "At the lagoon they saw only birds. Here there are mangroves, crabs, mudskippers." Though it
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