| Africa : Cameroon : 2004 |
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Global Village Cameroon To support broad participation in a national debate about two new proposed dam projects on the Lom and Pangar rivers in the East Province, one of which will inundate 600 square kilometers of forest reserve. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-667 Amount: $3,500 International Rivers
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Community Watershed Development Alliance Cameroon To fund education and development of citizen-led initiatives to protect watersheds and water resources and to coordinate efforts to get government to develop policies that address water management issues. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-361 Amount: $2,000 International Rivers
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Centre for Nature Conservation and Development To support the Ebensuk-Mambo community in its efforts to acquire and manage a community forest by funding legal, administrative and management planning costs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-639 Amount: $5,000 Donor Advised
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| Africa : Congo, The Democratic Republic of the : 2004 |
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Green Lawyers To support communities affected by the Inga Dam in their efforts to assert their legal rights through training and translation of the Citizen's Guide to the World Commission on Dams. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-353 Amount: $2,000 International Rivers
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| Africa : Ghana : 2004 |
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League of Environmental Journalists in Ghana To fund a journalist workshop on the negative impacts of gold mining on rural communities and the environment to increase coverage of mining issues in Ghana. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-384 Amount: $1,300 Earth Day Network
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Civic Response To support programs to limit mining in forest reserves and combat illegal logging in northern Ghana. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-592 Amount: $2,000 West Africa Advisory Board
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Naaha Soviala Women's Group To support the fight against desertification in northern Ghana by funding anti-brushfire workshops and procuring six bicycles for use in community outreach programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-591 Amount: $3,000 West Africa Advisory Board
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Volta Basin Development Foundation To fund a commemoration and public forum to help affected communities learn about the World Commission on Dams report and its findings on dams on the Volta River. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-354 Amount: $1,500 International Rivers
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National Coalition on Mining To support community efforts to protect forests and ensure that local affected communities and the people of Ghana receive equitable benefits from mining. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-593 Amount: $5,000 West Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Kenya : 2004 |
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Trans Mara Wildlife Forum To fund a program to ensure community participation in meetings to discuss management of the Masaai Mara National Reserve and decide issues such as equitable access. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-483 Amount: $2,000 East Africa Advisory Board
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Kambe Ribe Trustland Self Help Group To support efforts of communities affected by a lead mine to bring suit against the mining company by helping them learn about environmental laws and gather evidence of contamination in soils and water. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-482 Amount: $2,000 East Africa Advisory Board
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Malindi Marine Association To support efforts to protect the coastal and marine resources of the Malindi region and to help fishing communities halt the destructive practices of commercial prawn trawlers. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-486 Amount: $2,000 East Africa Advisory Board
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Kakamega Biodiversity Conservation Tour To support this association of forest guides in its efforts to improve local environmental education programs, promote eco-tourism in the Kakemega Forest and develop economic alternatives to forest destruction. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-485 Amount: $2,000 East Africa Advisory Board
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Community Sports Youth Initiative To fund a tree-planting program in Nairobi's Ngong Forest and a chess tournament to benefit protection efforts and call attention to development threats. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-487 Amount: $2,000 East Africa Advisory Board
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Association of Physicians and Medical Workers for Social Responsibility To fund a study on the effects of exposure to persistent organochlorides, DDT in particular, on nursing mothers in the Suba District. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-630 Amount: $3,000 Pesticide Action Network
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Mida Creek Guides and Conservation Group To support this association of forest guides in its efforts to protect fragile Mida Creek ecosystems and improve environmental education and eco-tourism programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-488 Amount: $2,000 East Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Liberia : 2004 |
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Sustainable Development Institute To organize and facilitate community input and public testimony from citizens and forest communities for a government review of the national forestry department. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-564 Amount: $4,800 Rainforest Action Network
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| Africa : Mali : 2004 |
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TAARE To fund education and training for women subsistence miners in the Tombola district to help them protect native tree species in the region and learn about their rights and obligations under the Mali mining code. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-666 Amount: $1,800 West Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Mozambique : 2004 |
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Justiça Ambiental To support this new environmental organization in educating the public, encouraging local participation in sustainable development and monitoring environmental compliance of large development projects. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-489 Amount: $5,000 Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Nigeria : 2004 |
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Mangrove Forest Conservation Society of Nigeria To support the protection of mangrove ecosystems and the coastal communities that depend on them through grassroots campaigns, workshops and publications. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-606 Amount: $2,000 Earth Island Institute
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Niger Delta Project for Environment, Human Rights and Development / Now called Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development To support a community-based mangrove restoration project near the coastal village of Bara-Nwezor, where a crude oil explosion in August 2003 leveled most of the surrounding mangrove forest. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-603 Amount: $3,500 Earth Island Institute
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Society for Water and Public Health Protection To fund a roundtable and press conference on the World Bank's water policies in Nigeria to draw attention to the social and environmental impact of dams now planned for the country. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-360 Amount: $1,500 International Rivers
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Environmental Rights Action (ERA) To support communities harmed by the West African Gas Pipeline project, and to assure that these communities are given a forum in which to voice their concerns and complaints. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-573 Amount: $5,000 Friends of the Earth
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Alternative Information and Research Organization To fund research and monitoring of two abandoned oil wells in Akwa Ibom State, where similar sites have caused major ecological and health problems. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-594 Amount: $5,000 West Africa Advisory Board
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Nigerian Environmental Society To fund publication of a report on water pollution in Lagos state with recommendations for pollution prevention by this environmental science and engineering group. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-468 Amount: $1,800 Earth Day Network
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Akpabuyo Bakassi Green Movement To fund efforts to help Cross River state coastal communities learn about the importance of protecting the last remaining mangrove forests in Nigeria through publication of a handbook for students, teachers and the general public. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-491 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Community Defence Law Foundation To fund a preliminary investigation of increased violence in the Niger Delta and its correlation to oil production in the region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-373 Amount: $4,000 Earth Island Institute
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Community Justice Project To support efforts to protect the legal rights of indigenous communities in Rivers and Bayelsa states from the destructive effects of oil exploration and extraction. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-471 Amount: $2,000 West Africa Advisory Board
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Community Action for Popular Participation To strengthen the National Coalition of Dam Communities through workshops, meetings with advisors and development of an action plan. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-556 Amount: $1,000 International Rivers
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Pandrillus To support efforts of Cross River state indigenous leaders to improve their ability to monitor logging activities in the wake of a recent breakthrough in government enforcement of forestry laws. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-520 Amount: $4,000 Earth Island Institute
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| Africa : Senegal : 2004 |
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Coordination des Organisations de la Societe Civile pour la Defense de l'Environment et le Developpement du Bassin du Fleuve Senegal To organize a first-ever forum on dams and development for civil society organizations throughout West Africa, and to support a world forum on clean water, both to be held in Dakar. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-557 Amount: $2,500 International Rivers
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Association Nationale des Groupements de Production et de Développement To fund training of women farmers in ways to improve yields, increase marketability of crops, and reduce pesticide use through integrated pest management. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-637 Amount: $2,500 Pesticide Action Network
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Pesticide Action Network Africa To fund a study of the use of the pesticide Paraquat in West Africa and to work with governments and citizen groups to develop a campaign to reduce its use. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-400 Amount: $5,000 Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : Sierra Leone : 2004 |
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Friends of the Earth Sierra Leone To support efforts to protect the Sierra Leone and encourage better management of natural resources through education, training and networking. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-574 Amount: $4,000 Friends of the Earth
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| Africa : South Africa : 2004 |
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groundWork To support this environmental justice organization's efforts to help marginalized communities take action against polluters. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-575 Amount: $3,000 Friends of the Earth
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Anti Privatisation Forum To support a campaign to hold industrial polluters, including a major manganese processor, responsible for the effects of lax environmental and safety practices. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-743 Amount: $4,000 Southern Africa Advisory Board
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South Durban Community Environmental Alliance To support this group's efforts to help the people of South Durban protect themselves from pollution, conserve resources and ensure environmental justice. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-484 Amount: $4,000 Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Timberwatch Coalition To fund a conference bringing together nearly 30 organizations from more than a dozen countries to discuss social and environmental problems posed by the emerging carbon market. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-652 Amount: $2,000 International Rivers
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Timberwatch Coalition To support this network of environmental groups in its efforts to monitor the timber industry and encourage sustainable resource use in South Africa. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-500 Amount: $4,000 Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Tanzania : 2004 |
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Agenda for Environment and Responsible Development To fund baseline studies in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya on the use of Paraquat and Endosulfan, which have been banned in the U.S. and many other countries. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-401 Amount: $3,000 Pesticide Action Network
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Global Service Corps Tanzania To fund training for local farmers in sustainable agriculture, to coordinate the work of the farmers' groups and to provide communication between those local groups and agricultural experts. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-597 Amount: $5,000 Earth Island Institute
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Tanzania Environmental Development and Animal Power Society To support this group's efforts to protect the environment of Tanzania and to fund a training program for small farmers in organic and intensive agriculture and installation of water systems. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-369 Amount: $2,000 Earth Island Institute
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Umoja Nambala To fund trainings in bio-intensive agriculture to improve local nutrition, alleviate drought-related problems, improve farm income and optimize production on small plots. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-370 Amount: $2,200 Earth Island Institute
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| Africa : Togo : 2004 |
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Association Nationale des Consommateurs et de l'Environnement du Togo To fund the promotion of sustainable agriculture among women's cooperatives in the prefecture of Tchamba, including workshops and demonstrations of relevant agricultural techniques. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-638 Amount: $2,500 Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : Uganda : 2004 |
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Nyakyera Secondary School Environment Club To fund environmental awareness activities, development of a native plant botanical garden, and a field trip program to link successful projects in the area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-501 Amount: $3,200 East Africa Advisory Board
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Pro-Biodiversity Conservationists in Uganda To fund education programs on the public health dangers of incineration, and to educate policy makers and citizens about alternative means of waste disposal. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-502 Amount: $1,145 East Africa Advisory Board
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Butamira Environmental Pressure Group To support the protection of the Butamira Forest Reserve through such activities as workshops on environmental rights, advocacy training and establishment of a tree nursery. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-554 Amount: $1,600 East Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Zambia : 2004 |
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Kabwe Environmental and Rehabilitation Foundation To fund creation of a research and education center in Makalulu, near Kabwe, where lead mining has left a legacy of pollution and sickness and where little is being done to help local people. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-382 Amount: $3,000 Special Opportunities Fund
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| Asia : Armenia : 2004 |
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Lore Ecological Club To fund a citizen volunteer clean up of the Dzoraget River Canyon, a habitat restoration program, and a series of educational presentations to be broadcast on local TV. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-379 Amount: $1,300 Earth Island Institute
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Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment To fund travel costs to allow a representative to attend a key meeting of Pesticide Action Network - Europe and support its efforts to strengthen regional networks and share information and strategies. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-661 Amount: $260 Pesticide Action Network
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Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment To support greater public and government awareness of pesticide hazards in Armenia and the Caucasus region, to fund a series of contamination studies, and to develop pesticide policy initiatives. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-395 Amount: $4,500 Pesticide Action Network
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| Asia : Australia : 2004 |
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CDM Watch To support the battle against global warming by providing information to NGO's on the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, particularly on how to utilize carbon sharing opportunities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-647 Amount: $4,000 International Rivers
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| Asia : Azerbaijan : 2004 |
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Center for Civic Initiatives To provide legal assistance to people and communities affected by the Baku-Tbilsi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and improve local access to information and redress. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-391 Amount: $4,950 IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : Bangladesh : 2004 |
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Coastal Development Partnership To fund 18 meetings of rural stakeholders in the Sundarban mangrove forest region, to ensure that environmental and social concerns are incorporated into the government's new policy on shrimp farming. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-605 Amount: $3,000 Earth Island Institute
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Gonosartho Basthobayan Sangstha To host a workshop on the impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on peasants in Bangladesh, where four varieties of GM crops are scheduled to be introduced in the near future. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-663 Amount: $3,000 Pesticide Action Network
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| Asia : Cambodia : 2004 |
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Khemara To fund Earth Day activities focused on protection, cleanup, and conservation of freshwater resources in Phnom Penh and five other communities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-440 Amount: $1,218 Earth Day Network
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Fisheries Action Coalition Team To fund research and monitoring of a pending Asian Development Bank project to develop ports in Tonle Sap Lake, particularly the impact on local peoples' livelihoods. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-529 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Veasna Chea To support the work of Veasna Chea, a human rights attorney from Cambodia, in her efforts to improve environmental rights in Southeast Asian nations through networking with human rights organizations and environmental groups. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-494 Amount: $5,000 Special Opportunities Fund
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Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia To help communities affected by a road development project funded by the Asian Development Bank and to ensure local access to information and compensation. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-389 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : China : 2004 |
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Defenders of the Huaihe River To fund monitoring of water quality in the Huaihe River, raise awareness of environmental threats to the river and provide legal assistance to victims of water pollution. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-610 Amount: $4,000 China Advisory Board
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Cultural Center for Communication Facilitators To support the work of this community development program, which offers micro-credit loans for alternative agriculture, establishes women's groups to increase their partipation in development programs and defends the rights of migrant workers. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-611 Amount: $1,000 China Advisory Board
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Green Wild of Xiamen University To support a national network of individuals and groups working on mangrove conservation and to promote better management of a local mangrove nature reserve. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-612 Amount: $1,200 China Advisory Board
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The Ganjiang River Environmental Society To support local residents in a broad range of monitoring and public awareness programs to protect the Ganjiang River from pollution caused by factories that have recently been relocated from coastal provinces. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-613 Amount: $800 China Advisory Board
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Green Hanjiang To fund monitoring by community groups of a large-scale water diversion project on the Han River, and to support local environmental education programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-614 Amount: $4,000 China Advisory Board
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Shenzhen Bird Watching Society To support long-term bird monitoring projects, environmental education in public schools and programs to increase public awareness of conservation issues in southern China. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-615 Amount: $3,000 China Advisory Board
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Anhui Federation of Environmental Students To link together student environmental groups working to protect the Wanjiang River and conserve endangered species in the region, and to support environmental education in rural primary schools. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-616 Amount: $1,500 China Advisory Board
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Beijing University Center for Conservation Biology To support resolution of confilcts in the environmentally fragile Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where the livestock practices of nomadic peoples often conflict with the protection of wildlife. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-617 Amount: $4,000 China Advisory Board
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China Bird Watch To support the preservation of wild birds and their habitats by linking bird watchers, scholars, government officials, education centers and NGOs through a newsletter and online forum. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-618 Amount: $1,200 China Advisory Board
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Green Stone To fund the creation of a network of student environmental groups, to fund a strategy meeting of student environmental leaders, and to maintain a website on environmental news. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-619 Amount: $300 China Advisory Board
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Green Watershed To fund participation of a broad range of stakeholders in a symposium on hydropower and sustainable development, organized by the UN, World Bank and Chinese government. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-656 Amount: $2,000 International Rivers
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EcoWomen To fund a five-day workshop for women working on environmental issues, focusing on sustainable agriculture and risks posed by pesticides, fertilizers and genetically-modified products. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-628 Amount: $4,000 Pesticide Action Network
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China Bird Watch To support a campaign to stop the draining of wetlands in Shangdong Province, which are Asia's largest winter nesting site for Whooper swans and a migratory resting area for other birds. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-738 Amount: $250 China Advisory Board
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Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Center Yunnan To fund a survey of pesticide companies and distribution chains in Yunnan province in order to develop more effective campaigns against the irresponsible sale and use of pesticides in the region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-627 Amount: $5,000 Pesticide Action Network
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Green Legal Action Team of Southwest University for Nationalities To fund student training on Chinese environmental laws and to provide legal assistance to communities in Southwest China involved in natural resource conflicts. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-769 Amount: $500 China Advisory Board
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Anhui Federation of Environmental Students To support coordination of student environmental groups in Anhui province campaigning to protect the Wanjiang River and to conserve endangered species. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-732 Amount: $3,000 China Advisory Board
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Green Stone To fund creation of a resource center in Nanjing that will help former student activists continue their involvement in environmental efforts. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-733 Amount: $4,000 China Advisory Board
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CONREHABIT, A.C. To support this group's efforts to develop an active and participatory civil society in China through publication of a newsletter and website on aid and development. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-735 Amount: $3,000 China Advisory Board
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Green Oasis To support communication and networking among Chinese environmental groups and the publication of reports on emerging environmental problems. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-737 Amount: $4,000 China Advisory Board
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Zijinshan Watch To support a campaign to stop logging on the environmentally and culturally-important Zijin Mountain, and to fund related nature tours and educational materials. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-740 Amount: $700 China Advisory Board
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China Green Student Forum To support this student environmental network in its efforts to provide information, resources and training. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-731 Amount: $2,500 China Advisory Board
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Green Earth Volunteers To support collaborative efforts by Chinese NGOs, journalists, academics and community members to work for integrated watershed management of the Nu and Jinsha Rivers. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-657 Amount: $3,000 International Rivers
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Green Stone To support student groups in Nanjing producing a photo exhibition of logging practices around Zijin Mountain, an area of great cultural and ecological significance. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-734 Amount: $400 China Advisory Board
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Green Camel Bell To support this new resource center in Gansu Province that promotes environmental education initiatives and develops new environmental leaders. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-768 Amount: $2,300 China Advisory Board
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Pingnan Green Association To support citizen efforts to stop the Chinese government's illegal dam construction inside the Mandarin Duck Brook Nature Reserve in Fujian province. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-767 Amount: $1,500 China Advisory Board
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Xinjiang Conservation Fund To support black stork conservation by funding a series of related photo exhibitions, environmental education initiatives and the publication of a book on black stork conservation. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-766 Amount: $2,000 China Advisory Board
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Save Tiger Action To fund research on the illegal poaching of Siberian tigers in China, and to support efforts to reduce it. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-736 Amount: $3,000 China Advisory Board
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Green Web of Beijing To support this grassroots network's programs to strengthen China's environmental movement through its newsletter, website and membership activities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-765 Amount: $1,600 China Advisory Board
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Institute of Environment and Development To support the development of several ongoing grassroots environmental initiatives into formal NGOs, and to conduct training seminars for young environmentalists. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-764 Amount: $2,500 China Advisory Board
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Wild Bird Society of Dalian To support environmental education efforts among fisherfolk of Shicheng Island and to promote conservation of the black-faced spoonbill. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-770 Amount: $1,500 China Advisory Board
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Green Watershed To fund a trip with journalists to visit the Nujiang River, one of the last two free-flowing rivers in Asia, to aid in a campaign against the Chinese government's plans to build a series of 13 dams on the Nujiang. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-358 Amount: $4,000 International Rivers
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Green Earth Volunteers To fund an inspection trip for researchers and journalists to remote Sichuan lakes and river gorges threatened by hydropower projects to raise public awareness and check the accuracy of environmental impact statements conducted in the area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-492 Amount: $1,000 International Rivers
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Green Wild of Xiamen University To support he development of the China Mangrove Fund, a mangrove conservation network, and to promote understanding of coastal management in southern China. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-775 Amount: $800 China Advisory Board
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China Green Student Forum To support publication of a student environmental newsletter and to promote conservation among student groups in Beijing. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-771 Amount: $1,800 China Advisory Board
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Xibaipo Bird Conservation Society of Pingshan County To fund conservation activities related to the protection of the black stork and its habitat in Pinshan County, Hebei Province. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-774 Amount: $200 China Advisory Board
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Green Camel Bell To support efforts to promote environmental education initiatives and set up an environmental resource center in Lanzhou city. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-730 Amount: $800 China Advisory Board
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Shanghai Grassroots Community To fund this new community-level environmental outreach program in Shanghai and to support its participation in local environmental activities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-728 Amount: $300 China Advisory Board
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Greener Beijing Institute To support the organizations' work, including the maintenance of an online Green Community, by funding its quarterly newsletter. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-772 Amount: $300 China Advisory Board
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Green Vanguards, University of Inner Mongolia To support efforts to increase awareness of desertification and grassland degradation problems in Inner Mongolia. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-773 Amount: $250 China Advisory Board
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Xi'an Green Camp To support a network of student environmental groups in northwest China, in part by funding research and publication of a handbook for startup groups. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-729 Amount: $450 China Advisory Board
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| Asia : Fiji : 2004 |
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Leadership Fiji To support development of an abandoned park in Suva into a community area and environmental education site, as well as the production of related educational materials. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-676 Amount: $5,000 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Live and Learn Environmental Education To fund a three-year program to train teachers and students to monitor water quality in Fiji's most polluted river and to work with citizen groups and government to find solutions. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-350 Amount: $5,000 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Georgia : 2004 |
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Association Green Alternative To support production of a documentary film highlighting the substandard working conditions of the workers constructing the Baku-Tbilisi Ceyhan Oil Pipeline. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-532 Amount: $4,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Energy Efficiency Foundation To support efforts to promote energy conservation in Georgia through publication of informational materials, including the quarterly Energy Regulation News. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-380 Amount: $1,300 Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : India : 2004 |
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The Other Media To support this student campaign to raise awareness about the Bhopal disaster, and to involve students and others in the push for justice in cases of corporate crime and industrial pollution. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-623 Amount: $2,300 India Advisory Board
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Samata To support civil society networks in developing advocacy strategies, mobilizing media coverage and lobbying policymakers concerning the Asian Development Bank's Annual Meeting. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-752 Amount: $825 India Advisory Board
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Rajadighi Community Health Service Society To support an initiative helping families in the Maldaha district of North Bengal improve their diets and promote soil and water conservation through organic vegetable farming. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-621 Amount: $3,409 India Advisory Board
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Institute for Cultural Research and Action To fund documentation of the practices of 50 leading organic farmers in Karnataka state, and to aid women farmers in Bangalore Rural District in beginning organic vegetable production. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-625 Amount: $3,355 India Advisory Board
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Development Research Communication and Services Centre (DRCSC) To fund training of farmers, gardeners and village agriculture volunteers in organic farming techniques in two drought-prone regions of Orissa. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-622 Amount: $4,500 India Advisory Board
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The Other Media To fund a Community Environmental Monitoring project, which will test and deploy simple, inexpensive and accurate tools to allow communities to montor air pollution. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-519 Amount: $3,000 India Advisory Board
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Tibet Justice Center To fund translation and publication of advocacy materials, which local Tibetan leaders need in their work to protect their communities from adverse effects of dam construction. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-493 Amount: $2,000 International Rivers
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The Other Media To support legal actions demanding restitution for environmental contamination and worker death and illness due to mercury exposure at the Unilever/HLL mercury factory in Kodakanal, Tamil Nadu. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-624 Amount: $4,000 India Advisory Board
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India Advisory Board To support independent study of four dams proposed for northeast India (Ithai Barrage, Tipaimukh, Mapithel and Gumti) and to fund two meetings to bring together people affected by existing water projects to share their experiences. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-504 Amount: $4,825 International Rivers
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Peoples Training and Research Centre To fund testing of quarry workers for silicosis, assistance for afflicted workers seeking compensation, and operation of an information center on occupational hazards. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-758 Amount: $2,000 India Advisory Board
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Dhanchebari Sister Nivedita Smriti Sangha To support sustainable agriculture enterprises and workshops on agricultural techniques, in order to improve the livelihoods of women in rural West Bengal |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-757 Amount: $3,000 India Advisory Board
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Development Research Communication and Services Centre (DRCSC) To fund the involvement of schoolchildren in West Bengal in a participatory survey of household waste generation and utilization, in order to promote recycling, composting and mulching. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-620 Amount: $3,090 India Advisory Board
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Samata To assist in the production of a series of photographs and stories to document the living and working conditions of women mine workers in the Eastern Ghats region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-517 Amount: $2,000 India Advisory Board
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Majlis Manch To initiate a campaign for just compensation for thousands of mill workers who have lost their jobs because of privatization programs pushed by the World Bank and other institutions. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-540 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management To support efforts to analyze and publicize the experiences of the Mukti Sangharsh Movement, which has worked for 20 years on behalf of people harmed by dam construction or drought. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-589 Amount: $2,000 International Rivers
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Small Savings Industries and Social Service Organization To fund expansion of a community environmental monitoring program for villagers living near the controversial SIPCOT chemical industrial area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-753 Amount: $400 India Advisory Board
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Coastal Poor Development Action Network To fund the development of a mangrove biological park reserve on an island in the middle of Pulicat Lake, which provides a livelihood for roughly 90,000 fisherpeople and their families. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-604 Amount: $3,000 Earth Island Institute
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NISHTHA To support a program to help women in the semi-urban area of South 24 Parganas learn organic farming techniques, start small garden plots and improve local diet. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-756 Amount: $3,590 India Advisory Board
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The Other Media To assist the investigation of some of the most toxic hazardous waste sites in the country and to prepare a report for the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Waste and Chemicals. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-516 Amount: $1,590 India Advisory Board
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Popular Education and Action Centre To support the campaign for the rights of stone quarry workers in Delhi and Haryana, especially the right to health care for workers affected with the deadly work-related ailment silicosis. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-515 Amount: $1,250 India Advisory Board
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Toxics Link To fund a workshop on an unprecedented and successful medical waste management program in the Philippines, which is dramatically reducing air pollution by funding alternatives to incineration. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-565 Amount: $1,128 India Advisory Board
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Hazards Centre, Sanchal Foundation To support studies of the health of industrial workers in the formal and informal sectors of the New Delhi economy, in order to gather information for health and environmental campaigns. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-750 Amount: $1,720 India Advisory Board
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Samrakshan Trust To support this organization's efforts to help forest-dependent communities live in harmony with nearby protected areas and to fund a program to protect natural areas in the New Delhi area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-368 Amount: $4,000 Earth Island Institute
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Development Centre for Alternative Policies (DCAP) To conduct informational and capacity-building campaigns designed to support the rights of communities displaced by large-scale hydroelectric projects in Uttaranchal State. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-672 Amount: $5,000 International Rivers
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Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action To support a study of the impact of hydroelectric projects on tribal displacement, fisheries, water quality and irrigation potential in the Chalakudy River Basin. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-670 Amount: $4,675 International Rivers
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Prayas To support activities in the central Indian village of Rawala, including promoting organic farming, educating the population about sustainable agriculture and training women in herbal medicine. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-754 Amount: $3,500 India Advisory Board
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Toxics Link To fund a collaboration between environmental and workers' safety groups documenting the effects of industrial pollution in Gujarat. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-668 Amount: $2,443 India Advisory Board
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Delhi Forum / Programme for Social Action To fund a consultative meeting on the World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy as it applies to India, to support dissemination of information to NGOs, and to help develop a unified response. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-505 Amount: $2,000 International Rivers
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Socio-Educational Trust To support training programs on grassroots community monitoring of the effects of pesticide use in six areas of Tamil Nadu. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-596 Amount: $4,000 Pesticide Action Network
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Ashoka: Innovators for the Public To support a study at two power plants in Gujarat examining health, environmental, socio-economic and legal impacts of coal power plants, and to conduct related health and legal seminars. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-755 Amount: $2,000 India Advisory Board
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| Asia : Indonesia : 2004 |
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Indonesian Forum for the Environment To support campaigns, in collaboration with civil society groups, to convince the World Bank to cease financing for oil, mining and gas projects in Indonesia. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-576 Amount: $6,800 Friends of the Earth
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Jaringan Kerja Pemetaan Partisipatif To assist the organization in its community mapping initiatives by funding mapping skills workshops for villagers and by developing map-based resource management plans. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-632 Amount: $4,967 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Kenayan Tanah Menang To support the community of Kenayan in its efforts to develop alternative livelihoods, better education, and sustainable agriculture based on cultural traditions that have eroded in recent years. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-457 Amount: $1,250 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Padung Kumang Sekajau To support Sekajau village in its efforts to restore degraded forests, develop sustainable alternatives to swidden agriculture, and manage local freshwater fisheries. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-456 Amount: $1,875 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Yayasan Duta Awam To help people harmed by an Asian Development Bank rural development project by teaching them to monitor project activities and submit formal complaints through ADB's new accountability mechanisms. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-536 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Unit Layanan Hukum SPP To support agrarian reform programs in Ciamis and Tasik districts through capacity-building projects, such as legal training, farmer workshops, and meetings with farmer organizations. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-553 Amount: $4,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Lidah Tani Blora To support a program to strengthen local farmers' organizations working for sustainability and agrarian reform in Central Java. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-522 Amount: $3,500 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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LBH Semarang To support a Land Dispute District Team in Batang District and to assist in the formation of a similar group in Kendal District, in order to ensure that property rights of communities and small landowners are respected. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-523 Amount: $4,500 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Krayan Hulu Ecotourism Committee To help communities in the Kayan Mentarang National Park buffer zone develop resource management capacity and ecotourism initiatives on their customary lands. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-362 Amount: $5,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Friends of the Peasant Schools To fund a community-based model school in the village of Bandung that will include an experimental farm for demonstrating sustainable agriculture. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-365 Amount: $5,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Indonesian Forum for the Environment To support an initiative called "Indonesian Civil Society Coalition for the Victims of Earthquake and Tusnami," which will work with local organizations on both emergency aid and long-term reconstruction. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-776 Amount: $18,000 Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Indonesian Forum for the Environment To support an initiative called "Indonesian Civil Society Coalition for the Victims of Earthquake and Tusnami," which will work with local organizations on both emergency aid and long-term reconstruction. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-762 Amount: $2,000 Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Walhi Lampung To fund the mediation of a land dispute between the local government and indigenous and other communities living in the Wan Abdulrachman Gunung Betund Protected Forest. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-521 Amount: $1,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Center of Research and Development for Fishers Community To fund a series of community meetings to identify degraded coastal areas in the mangrove zones of northern Sumatera and encourage better community management of coastal resources. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-377 Amount: $1,000 Earth Island Institute
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Mangrove Action Project Indonesia To fund demonstration workshops to help three coastal communities learn about sustainable livelihood alternatives such as bamboo cultivation and uses of the Nypa palm. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-376 Amount: $3,000 Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Israel : 2004 |
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Arab Jewish Center for Equality and Empowerment To support environmental education programs for Bedouin youth in the township of Hura, and to bring together Bedouin and Jewish youth in local clean-up efforts. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-759 Amount: $3,141 Earth Day Network
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| Asia : Kazakhstan : 2004 |
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TAN To aid the citizens of the village of Berezovka in starting an informational campaign and public hearings on health and environmental effects of the nearby Karachaganak gas and oil field. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-533 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) : 2004 |
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Ak-Shyirak To provide this new sustainable development organization with a permanent office, part of which will house a production facility for women's traditional crafts. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-608 Amount: $4,000 Earth Island Institute
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Human Development Center Tree of Life To support monitoring of three mining projects, including investigation of environmental and sociological effects on local populations. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-531 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Social Youth Foundation Unison To fund an atlas of Kyrgyz environmental initiatives to help coordinate and track projects, facilitate information sharing, and build public awareness of environmental challenges. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-371 Amount: $2,000 Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Malaysia : 2004 |
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Pesticide Action Network Asia/Pacific To support the participation of community organizations in the People's Caravan on Food Sovereignty, which seeks inclusion of various food sovereignty issues in the World Food Summit+10 in 2006. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-398 Amount: $4,000 Pesticide Action Network
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Community Association of Rumah Rayong To support the organic cultivation and international marketing of black pepper, first steps in ending the dependence of the Rumah Rayong community on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-600 Amount: $1,800 Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Micronesia : 2004 |
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Traveling Theater Turtle Team To fund a series of puppet shows, skits and other activities to teach children and adults in Micronesia about the need for sea turtle protection and marine conservation. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-678 Amount: $3,500 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Utwe Walung Marine Park To support ongoing development of this community-manage marine protected area and its education and ecotourism programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-348 Amount: $5,750 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Conservation Society of Pohnpei To fund local efforts to reduce solid waste and encourage sustainable practices, such as the use of cloth shopping bags instead of the plastic bags that have become a major problem in local marine and coastal ecosystems. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-506 Amount: $4,115 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Lelu Resource Management Committee To support restoration of an abandoned dredged area into a community conservation area and to fund fisheries management planning and a tree planting program to restore coastal ecosystems. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-508 Amount: $4,540 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Nepal : 2004 |
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South Asian Peasants' Coalition To fund a peoples' caravan to mobilize farmers across 11 Asian countries to protest agrochemical use and genetic engineering and to educate people about sustainable agriculture. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-397 Amount: $4,000 Pesticide Action Network
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Nepal Foundation for Change To allow members of local community groups to attend the UN hydropower symposium, where they will present a paper on the experience of Nepalese communities with hydropower benefit-sharing. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-669 Amount: $1,500 International Rivers
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| Asia : New Caledonia : 2004 |
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Point Zero / Baseline To support efforts to ensure that national and international pollution standards are met by large nickel mining operations in New Caledonia where mining threatens urban communities and indigenous peoples. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-352 Amount: $5,000 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Pakistan : 2004 |
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Rural Development Policy Institute To ensure that environmental recommendations of the Asian Development Bank's inspection team concerning the Chashma Right Bank irrigation project are being followed. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-684 Amount: $10,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Mauj To fund a series of community meetings about the impact of the Chasma Right Bank Irrigation Project to put pressure on the Asian Development Bank to reduce its negative effects. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-390 Amount: $7,000 IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : Palau : 2004 |
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Palau Conservation Society To support collaboration among community representatives and governmental agencies to coordinate the Marine Turtle Conservation and Monitoring Program. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-679 Amount: $1,167 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Palau Southwest Islands Learning Network To initiate a Palau Southwest Islands Learning Network designed to promote cultural survival and sustainable development through community planning workshops and youth programs to encourage greater awareness of local traditions. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-510 Amount: $4,500 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Belau National Museum To support development of a national herbarium for Palau, which has the most diverse flora in Micronesia, to encourage identification and preservation of plant species and traditional knowledge. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-507 Amount: $6,240 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Papua New Guinea : 2004 |
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Foundation for People and Community Development Inc To support efforts to protect the biodiversity and indigenous cultures of the Adelbert Range Conservation Area through development of alternative livelihoods. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-351 Amount: $4,648 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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KGWan Eco - Habitat To fund development of a sustainable forestry management plan, a forest inventory, a demonstration program for sustainable logging, a community center, and a tree nursery. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-513 Amount: $5,000 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Madang Forest Resource Owners' Association To fund the salary of a staff member who will design forest management systems that are economically viable, environmentally acceptable and socially beneficial. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-511 Amount: $5,000 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Toimtop Bio-Cultural Conservation Association To support efforts of the Tiemtop community to develop a plan to manage the 5,000-hectare Tiemtop Wildlife Management Area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-677 Amount: $3,000 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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New Ireland Environment Monitoring and Awareness Committee To help publicize conservation issues, provide technical aid to sustainability initiatives and support collaboration with other NGOs to monitor development projects. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-674 Amount: $3,500 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Mahonia Na Dari Research and Conservation Center To support a program to engage coastal and upland forest communities in protecting the rich coral reefs of Kimbe Bay from the effects of over-harvesting, industrial logging and oil palm plantation development. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-673 Amount: $4,000 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Southern Highlands Eco-Forestry Association To support a series of workshops to help traditional communities manage their forests and mineral resources in the face of pressures from mining and logging companies. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-512 Amount: $5,040 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Philippines : 2004 |
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Aromanon Sinimburan Tindeg Bansa, Incorporated To support the Eurmanen Ne Menuvu people of Central Mindanao in strengthening their traditional community governance structure and protecting their territorial rights. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-631 Amount: $5,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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National Indigenous Peoples' Children and Youth Federation To support a national indigenous children and youth festival to strengthen links among indigenous groups and improve the leadership skills of the nation's indigenous youth. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-437 Amount: $5,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Samahan ng mga Mangyan sa Tinis-an To fund a demonstration program for indigenous communities working to protect their culture and forests through development of sustainable agriculture and forest products such as rattan. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-438 Amount: $4,800 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Kahiusahan sa mga Higaonon Incorporated To support indigenous Higamon peoples in building a native-species tree nursery and other activities to rehabilitate watershed and develop agro-forestry programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-524 Amount: $5,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Lumad Peoples' Movement for Peace, Power and Righteousness To support this indigenous people's organization in its efforts to delineate and participate in the governance of Lumad traditional territories through creation of an advisory council and a governance plan. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-470 Amount: $5,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center To fund a five-year review of this group's work empowering marginalized people who are dependent on natural resources, and to fund planning for its next five years. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-577 Amount: $8,300 Friends of the Earth
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Malibago Tree Planters Cooperative, Incorporated To support an initiative to help indigenous Mandaya people develop a community enterprise based on the traditional art of weaving dagmay cloth from local fibers and dyes. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-478 Amount: $5,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Inter Peoples' Exchange, Incorporated To support the fifth annual month-long Lakbayk-Tribo bicycle ride to raise awareness of indigenous issues in the Philippines and fund activities, such as tree plantings, held in conjunction with the ride. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-366 Amount: $1,500 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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A Philippine Heritage To support this alliance of fishing communities in its efforts to promote local management and control of fisheries, develop marine protected areas and increase communication among its members. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-363 Amount: $4,600 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Kesetifun Cultural Care Foundation To support the Tasaday and Manobo Blit peoples in their legal efforts to prevent a private development corporation from logging, mining and building roads inside a protected rain forest area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-626 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Pesticide Action Network Philippines To fund medical relief programs for workers at a banana plantation in Mindanao who have suffered health problems from pesticide use and to provide legal support to those who first called attention to the problem. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-399 Amount: $3,000 Pesticide Action Network
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NGO Forum on Asian Development Bank To fund workshops for citizen groups trying to gain input into the Asian Development Bank's information disclosure policy to increase transparency and public participation in development decisions. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-388 Amount: $6,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Task Force Bugsuk and Sambilog To hold workshops on advocacy and organizing skills for SAMBILOG (the Association of Indigenous Peoples in South Palawan), which is seeking legal ownership over ancestral territories, fishing waters and forests. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-526 Amount: $4,800 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Center for Responsible Indigenous Peoples Towards Empowerment To fund a study of culturally-responsible and sustainable development initiatives for the indigenous people of El Nido, Palawan. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-525 Amount: $3,000 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Fisherfolks of Cavite Laguna Rizal Alliance To fund a campaign to protect and rehabilitate Laguna Lake and Manila Bay by supporting local fishing communities in their efforts to develop fishing regulations that protect subsistence fishing and limit commercial intrusions. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-364 Amount: $4,700 Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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| Asia : Russia : 2004 |
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Environmental Monitoring To support evaluation of the Russian space program's environmental impact on the Zmeinogorsk region, and to teach school children simple environmental monitoring techniques. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-700 Amount: $1,900 Russia Advisory Board
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Children Ecological Aesthetical Center To support a campaign to protect a natural monument in the Isilkul region known as Relic Forest Steppe, including clean-up, reforestation and roundtable discussions on environmental protection. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-701 Amount: $1,500 Russia Advisory Board
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Ecopolis Ecological Group To fund ecological awareness programs in the Krasnochekov region, including Cleanest Village and Cleanest Street contests, roundtables and an exhibition. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-699 Amount: $1,850 Russia Advisory Board
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Center Of Public Monitoring To support monitoring of three highly geodiverse lakes (Ik, Tenis and Saltaim) in Tomsk Oblast, and to hold seminars on improving the lakes' condition. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-702 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Village School Teachers To fund a series of trainings in Barnaul for teachers in the Altai region to help them better understand environmental issues and learn about activities that can engage students in protection efforts. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-429 Amount: $1,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Siberian Ecological Agency To fund efforts to raise public awareness of the potential hazards of a planned uranium-plutonium fuel plant in the Tomsk region and to promote a public referendum on this issue. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-430 Amount: $1,500 Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Ecological Student Inspection To support efforts to gain further protections for the Tomsk-Kalarovo natural area by ensuring compliance with regulations, organizing citizen reforestation programs and raising awareness. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-432 Amount: $1,200 Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Union Globe To support this group's efforts to help people in Tretjavovskyi District gain government attention and compensation for the environmental and health consequences of space launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-433 Amount: $1,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Ecological Committee (Omsk) To support creation of a network of groups working to protect the Irtysh River from industrial pollution and unsustainable use and to fund a website to improve coordination. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-434 Amount: $1,500 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Green Page To fund a youth program to clean up trash, monitor lake pollution, create interpretive displays and organize volunteer ranger patrols to protect local populations of wild lotus from collectors. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-436 Amount: $1,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Regional Public Organization Center of Ecological Policy and Information To support a project to preserve the Pine Grove area north of Tomsk City, which is one of the only untouched areas in the region and a target for housing development. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-703 Amount: $1,980 Russia Advisory Board
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Teachers Initiative Group To support local reforestation efforts and clean up a source of drinking water for the village of Fedosiha through a community-led volunteer program. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-469 Amount: $399 Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Cultural Layer To support a cleanup program for a lake that is a popular tourist destination and to fund efforts to raise public awareness about threats to the lake. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-425 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Great Baikal Trail Association To support this consortium of local organizations in its efforts to promote ecotourism and preservation of indigenous cultures in the Lake Baikal region through leadership training and education. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-372 Amount: $2,000 Earth Island Institute
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Cooperation To support independent ecological monitoring of mining operations in the Omskuchanskyi, Loskyi and Severo-Evenkiiskyi districts of Magadan Oblast. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-686 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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State Nature Preserve Hankaiskyi To organize broad efforts to restore the disappearing populations of amphibians in the Far Eastern region of Russia. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-692 Amount: $1,891 Russia Advisory Board
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Expert Lawyers Union To fund seminars in Omsk on protecting citizens' environmental rights, publication and distribution of a brochure spelling out those rights, and a series of public meetings with local government officials. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-691 Amount: $645 Russia Advisory Board
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Citizens Center on Nuclear Non-Proliferation To fund public education and a media campaign on spent nuclear fuel processing in Krasnoyarski Krai and creation of systems to improve public oversight. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-690 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Tengri School of Spiritual Ecology To support formation of a coalition of environmental organizations and activists opposing the recently-approved Altai Hydroelectric Power Station. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-689 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Albaga Indigenous Community To support efforts to protect and monitor lands sacred to the indigenous Shor peoples in and around the village of Ust' Azas and protect them from the destructive impact of poaching and tourism. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-427 Amount: $1,935 Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Indigenous People of Irkutsk To support the work of three indigenous Siberian communities to collect and share information on corporate encroachment on native lands, and to sponsor seminars on how those communities can protect their rights. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-598 Amount: $3,000 Earth Island Institute
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Initiatve Group Mirror To support development of an ecology school in the village of Konstantinovka that will hold trainings and seminars and engage students in activities to protect sensitive ecosystems in the area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-428 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Inititative Group Cedar To fund clean up and reforestation efforts along the Chick River and a public awareness campaign about this and other environmental problems in the region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-413 Amount: $1,145 Russia Advisory Board
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Tyumen Oblast Public Children's Movement Chir To fund an evaluation of the health of the Pyshma River, to publicize the results, to organize clean-up actions, and to hold seminars for fishermen who use the river. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-693 Amount: $1,918 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zoosphere To support an environmentally-themed art exhibition featuring works by local Siberian artists, and to produce an exhibition catalog for use by environmental organizations. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-687 Amount: $1,681 Russia Advisory Board
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Regional Public Youth Organization Nature Conservation Guard Taiga To support reforestation activities in the Novosibirskyi District, including a series of educational seminars on reforestation and a networking event for local and regional environmental organizations. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-688 Amount: $1,926 Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center To support creation of a regional network of groups working to protect rivers in the Tomsk region through education and collaborative action. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-412 Amount: $1,600 Russia Advisory Board
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Karelian Republican Council of the All-Russia Society of Nature Protection To fund a teacher workshop on the natural and cultural heritage of Karelia to improve local environmental education programs and provide tools and resources for teachers. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-378 Amount: $1,400 Earth Island Institute
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Initiatiative Group Of Bolotninsky Region Citizens To fund research to assess deforestation near the village of Novobibeevo and to support a citizen-led effort to reforest and monitor the forest's health. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-403 Amount: $1,500 Russia Advisory Board
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Kamchatka Youth Ecological Movement Oikumena To fund an informational campaign on the proposed construction of a nuclear power station in the area of Avachiskaja Guba and to ensure public participation in decision making processes. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-404 Amount: $700 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiatiative Group Planet To fund a youth group's efforts to restore riparian areas and banks of the Inja and Bolshaja rivers where erosion threatens water quality and habitat. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-405 Amount: $1,100 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Tunguska To support the creation of a school club called Friends of the Native Forest that will bring together high school students, youth and local citizens to work to improve the condition of local forests. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-407 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Obereg To fund citizen efforts to restore deforested hillsides near the village of Ust-Koksa that have created dangerous erosion problems and to raise local and governmental awareness of the hazards. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-411 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Tomsk Teachers To fund scientific study of the causes of water contamination in five villages where high levels of disease suggest contamination from sewage but where authorities have been slow to act. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-408 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Explorers To fund citizen clean up and monitoring of the Konstantinovka River and activities to raise environmental awareness, including a festival, a student expedition, and a conference. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-410 Amount: $1,617 Russia Advisory Board
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Karelian Republican Council of the All-Russia Society of Nature Protection To support sustainable development and alternative energy in northwestern Russia, and to fund a seminar on environmental protection for high school biology teachers from Karelia, Leningrad and Murmansk. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-602 Amount: $2,500 Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Forget Me Not To fund a campaign to protect the ecology of areas that support the growth of the pink lotus flower through biological assessment, monitoring and public awareness building. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-420 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Rostok To fund a reforestation, monitoring and education program to protect a birch forest near the village of Lozovoe where illegal logging is rampant. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-409 Amount: $1,228 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group for Forest Protection To fund an ambitious student volunteer reforestation program to restore 45 acres of forest and raise awareness of forest protection issues in the Pervomaisky region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-424 Amount: $1,000 Russia Advisory Board
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Amur Oblast' Nature Protection Organization Hraniteli Hingana To fund a public awareness campaign about deforestation in the Arharinskaya region and threats to the habitat of the far eastern crane and to work with government and citizen groups to develop solutions. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-422 Amount: $1,500 Russia Advisory Board
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National Collective Farm To support an inventory of wildlife on lands of the indigenous Orochi people and to fund roundtable discussions on sustainable development plans for the region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-698 Amount: $1,950 Russia Advisory Board
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Region To support a public information campaign on the construction of the Katun dam, and to initiate dialogue among regional governmental officials, grassroots groups and the media. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-697 Amount: $1,999 Russia Advisory Board
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Our Home To fund restoration of a five-kilometer path and pond area that were created by a locally-renowned World War II veteran and serves as an important environmental education site. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-696 Amount: $728 Russia Advisory Board
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Tourist Club To fund studies of seven sensitive natural areas to support efforts to gain protected status from the government. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-695 Amount: $1,573 Russia Advisory Board
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Non Governmental Organization Ledum To fund a volunteer citizen ranger program near the city of Birobidzhan to protect against illegal logging and educate people about forest ecology. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-421 Amount: $1,500 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Rodnik To fund ecosystem restoration near the village of Meinikovo where development threatens a forest with rare and endangered plant communities and to fund efforts to gain protected status for the area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-419 Amount: $1,000 Russia Advisory Board
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All-Russia Society of Nature Protection- Novosibirsk Branch To fund a youth program that organizes students to clean up and monitor local protected areas and learn about forest protection. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-416 Amount: $1,700 Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Lights To support volunteers working to protect forests near Sakhalin Island's major ports where illegal logging threatens forest ecosystems and sturgeon spawning areas. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-414 Amount: $1,950 Russia Advisory Board
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Wind Rose To fund an information campaign in the Tomsk region on the growing air pollution problem caused by industry and cars and to encourage development of clean air policies. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-418 Amount: $1,875 Russia Advisory Board
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Save the Manul To fund a study of the threats to the Manul (an endangered species of wildcat) and to bring public attention to the urbanization and poaching that have brought the Manul to the brink of extinction. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-694 Amount: $1,899 Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk Regional Organization Russian Nature Protection Society To fund mapping and ecological assessment of a sensitive forest area in order to gain protected area status from the regional government. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-417 Amount: $1,983 Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Vodnik To support a volunteer citizen monitoring program for Lake Arei, a biologically unique area that has gained protected area status but is not sufficiently protected by government officials. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-415 Amount: $2,000 Russia Advisory Board
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| Asia : Sri Lanka : 2004 |
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Saviya Development Foundation To support efforts to provide relief and rehabilitation services to Sri Lankan communities hit by the December 2004 tsunami. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-763 Amount: $2,000 Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Sri Lankan Working Group on Trade and IFIs To improve local participation in decisions on World Bank and Asian Development Bank projects by translating materials and conducting workshops for people affected by those institutions' projects. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-535 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : Taiwan : 2004 |
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Tainan Environmental Protection Union To fund coordination of an environmental festival in the town of Chi-Ku that will focus on local wetland habitat and the black-faced spoonbill to encourage increased local commitment to protecting local ecology. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-375 Amount: $4,000 Earth Island Institute
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Meinung People's Association To fund an international conference in Taiwan on alternatives to dam construction, and to promote the participation of Taiwanese communities in water policy decisions. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-599 Amount: $5,000 Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Thailand : 2004 |
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Karen Rivers Watch To facilitate networking and advocacy activities among grassroots groups and ethnic ogranizations on a planned series of dams known as "Salween." |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-720 Amount: $2,500 International Rivers
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Kachin Environmental Organization To fund workshops which will teach the Kachin indigenous peoples about their rights under Thai law, particularly in regard to several large dam projects planned for their region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-719 Amount: $2,000 International Rivers
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| Asia : Tonga : 2004 |
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Pupunga Siueli - Fasi-moe-Afi ‘a Tungi To fund sustainability trainings for women in the villages of Fasi-moe-afi on tree-planting, erosion control, composting, recycling, and other topics. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-349 Amount: $3,000 Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Vietnam : 2004 |
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Institute of Ecological Economy To study the impacts of the proposed Son La Dam on communities in the area, and to evaluate the proposed resettlement site to ensure that it will be an appropriate substitute for the lands that will be lost to flooding. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-555 Amount: $4,500 International Rivers
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| Central America/Caribbean : Belize : 2004 |
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Aguacaliente Management Team To fund construction of a boardwalk in the Aguacaliente Wildlife Sanctuary, which will ensure year-round access to the area and provide the local community with a more stable source of income. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-745 Amount: $5,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Southern Alliance for Grassroots Empowerment To support this southern Belize NGO network in its efforts to facilitate the work of community organizations and government agencies working toward sustainable development. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-466 Amount: $5,000 Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Costa Rica : 2004 |
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Asociación Protectora de Arboles Arbofilia To continue support for the campaign to prevent the SIEPAC power line from crossing the Carara Biological Corridor. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-742 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Asociación para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Cuenca Baja del Río Tempisque To fund ecotourism development for communities in the Guanacaste region, including workshops on local biodiversity, guiding, sustaining cultural traditions and English. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-465 Amount: $3,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Comunidades Ecologistas la Ceiba To support efforts nationwide to address environmental, agricultural, forestry and energy issues in light of international free trade agreements. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-581 Amount: $10,500 Friends of the Earth
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| Central America/Caribbean : Dominican Republic : 2004 |
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Cooperativa de Producción y Servicios Multiples Frutos del Sol To support the construction of two solar-powered food dehydrators, which will be used by organic farmers and managed in part by the local women's cooperative. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-636 Amount: $5,000 Pesticide Action Network
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| Central America/Caribbean : El Salvador : 2004 |
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Centro Salvadoreño de Tecnología Apropiada To support the Mesoamerican Forum on Dams in El Salvador, which will bring together communities and citizen groups to discuss regional strategies to stop or mitigate destructive projects. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-490 Amount: $5,000 International Rivers
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| Central America/Caribbean : Guatemala : 2004 |
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Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén To fund publication of the results of several community based resource management projects in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in order to share information and experiences among Petén communities and with two rural cooperatives in Siuna, Nicaragua. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-463 Amount: $3,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Vecinos para el Desarrollo Integral de Champerico To fund monitoring and protection efforts for the Coyolate River and surrounding estuaries and mangrove ecosystems threatened by the proliferation of unregulated shrimp farming, sugar cane production and firewood harvesting. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-467 Amount: $4,100 Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Campesina 13 de Marzo Rio Negro Rabinal Achi To assist 150 surviving families from the Chixoy dam massacre of the 1980s in seeking reparations from the Guatemalan government and the World Bank. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-749 Amount: $3,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Servicios y Apoyo al Desarrollo de Guatemala To support 20 women's groups in Huehuetenango in organizing to present their grievances to local authorities and in asserting their rights. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-746 Amount: $3,000 Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Haiti : 2004 |
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Haiti Survie To support this coordination center for Haiti's environmental groups, and to strengthen a network of five grassroots groups working in the northeast region of the country. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-582 Amount: $4,000 Friends of the Earth
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| Central America/Caribbean : Honduras : 2004 |
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Comite Pro Luz de las Comunidades de Champas, Cuyamel y La Celea, Iriona To help the communities of Las Champas, La Celea and Cuyamel develop a management plan to protect local resources and develop small scale hydropower for their energy needs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-461 Amount: $4,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Miskita Hondureña de Buzos Lisiados To support efforts of artisan and commercial divers to draw government attention to deterioration of marine ecosystems and to work toward greater protections. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-460 Amount: $5,200 Central America Advisory Board
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Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña To support indigenous Garifuna communities in Honduras in their efforts to protect ancestral territories and manage natural resources sustainably. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-459 Amount: $6,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Movimiento Ambientalista de Olancho To fund a series of community meetings in the Guayape region to gather input in advance of negotiations with government officials on community management of the region's forests. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-458 Amount: $5,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Garifuna Women's Ecotourism Network To assist in promoting ecotourism within protected natural areas that border Garifuna communities by publishing informational brochures and establishing a website. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-799 Amount: $2,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Cooperativa Agroforestal Rio Platano Limitada To support the fight against deforestation in the Platano River basin by involving affected communities and local authorities in developing resource management plans. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-748 Amount: $3,000 Central America Advisory Board
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Protección Hondureña Del Medio Ambiente To fund a detailed land survey, tree species inventory and water quality test of the El Pital Creek basin, which has been degraded due to poor farming practices and deforestation. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-747 Amount: $2,500 Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Nicaragua : 2004 |
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Programa Campesino a Campesino de la Unión Nacional de Agricultores y Ganaderos To support a strategic review and strategic plan for this nation-wide peasants' organization, which works to bring sustainable development to rural areas. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-801 Amount: $6,000 Central America Advisory Board
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León Environmental Youth Club To fund environmental education workshops to help groups in the León area learn about ways to build local awareness in schools and communities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-367 Amount: $4,000 Earth Island Institute
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Grupo de Jóvenes de Padre Ramos To help this youth group develop new, sustainable sources of income for their communities, including gardening projects, ecotourism and education programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-607 Amount: $3,000 Earth Island Institute
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| Central America/Caribbean : Panama : 2004 |
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Alianza para la Conservación y Desarrollo de Panama To fund seminars and capacity-building sessions for community members in the Naso del Rio Teribe area so they can make informed decisions about large dams planned on their ancestral lands. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-499 Amount: $1,500 International Rivers
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| Europe : Albania : 2004 |
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Albanian Youth Network for European Integration To support development of an environmental education program for high school students in Tirana as well as efforts to link up the Albanian environmental movement with its counterparts throughout Europe. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-760 Amount: $1,420 Earth Day Network
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| Europe : Bulgaria : 2004 |
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Adventure School Reverso To support efforts to protect the Kresna Gorge by strengthening local environmental networks and pressuring the European Community to raise standards for protection in the Kresna region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-393 Amount: $5,320 IFI Advisory Board
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For the Earth To initiate a public campaign against the proposed expansion of a ski resort deeper into a high alpine national park that contains many unique and critical wildlife habitats. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-530 Amount: $5,410 IFI Advisory Board
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| Europe : France : 2004 |
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World Forum of Fisher Peoples To support the 2004 General Assembly of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, the goal of which is to improve the economic viability and quality of life of fisher peoples and their communities around the world. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-588 Amount: $3,000 Special Opportunities Fund
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| Europe : Hungary : 2004 |
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Center for Environmental Studies To provide this organization with an opportunity to learn from and network with like-minded organizations in central and eastern Europe at the annual meeting of Pesticide Action Network - Europe. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-660 Amount: $650 Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Latvia : 2004 |
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Environmental Protection Club (Friends of the Earth Latvia) To support efforts to promote environmental and cultural values by holding an international seminar on alternative approaches to environmental activism. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-601 Amount: $2,500 Earth Island Institute
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| Europe : Poland : 2004 |
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Social Ecological Institute To support this sustainable development information center, including its publications and farmer-oriented training sessions on the effects of pesticides. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-629 Amount: $4,500 Pesticide Action Network
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Green Federation Gaja To fund several related projects in response to the takeover of Poland's largest pork producer by an American company with a poor environmental record. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-392 Amount: $3,900 IFI Advisory Board
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| Europe : Romania : 2004 |
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Terra Mileniul III To support efforts to halt development of the controversial Brasov Bors highway, which is being pursued without sufficient regard to its environmental impact. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-394 Amount: $3,100 IFI Advisory Board
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Speleological Foundation Bucovina To support a public education and ranger training program on the importance of bats to the ecological health of forests in the Suceava area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-527 Amount: $2,112 Earth Day Network
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For Mother Earth To fund travel costs to allow representatives of this organization, which focuses on environmental rights for the socially disadvantaged, to attend the Pesticide Action Network - Europe conference. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-662 Amount: $550 Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Slovak Republic : 2004 |
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Oikos To fund a study of Slovakia's current systems for monitoring pesticide residues on foods and potential reforms to improve public health and protect Slovakia's ability to export food crops. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-634 Amount: $3,000 Pesticide Action Network
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Friends of the Earth Slovakia To fund development of alternatives to current hazardous and municipal waste management practices and large-scale unsustainable tourism projects. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-585 Amount: $3,000 Friends of the Earth
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| Europe : Slovenia : 2004 |
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Ecology, Cultural diversity, Health To fund a media campaign to increase public awareness of the hazards of pesticides and stimulate discussion of potential pesticide regulations and alternatives. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-633 Amount: $2,000 Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Ukraine : 2004 |
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Sustainable Development and Ecological Research Center To support collaboration among local womens' and farmers' groups in combatting unsafe storage of pesticides in the region, and to prioritize certain sites for clean-up and rehabilitation. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-586 Amount: $2,000 Pesticide Action Network
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National Ecological Center of Ukraine To fund translation of key documents from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to enable public interest organizations to participate in a comprehensive review of IFC policies. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-651 Amount: $1,550 IFI Advisory Board
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| Europe : United Kingdom : 2004 |
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Protimos Educational Trust To support precedent-setting legal efforts by local organizations against multinational corporations involved in fraud in the World Bank-funded Lesotho Highlands Water Project. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-539 Amount: $4,910 IFI Advisory Board
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| North America : Canada : 2004 |
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Friends of Grassy Narrows To support a speaking tour by native Canadian activists and efforts to build greater cooperation between indigenous nations and environmental organizations. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-786 Amount: $2,750 Rainforest Action Network
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| North America : Mexico : 2004 |
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Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera La Colorada de En Medio To fund the maintenance of a communal catchment system on the San Marcial river, thus allowing proper water flow and enabling irrigation of communal agricultural lands downstream. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-713 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Laguna Baja To fund removal of the many abandoned vehicles in the town of Ejido Luis Echeverria and their transportation to a recycling center. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-706 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Laguna Baja To support creation of a conservation and sustainable development plan and zoning map for Laguna San Ignacio. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-707 Amount: $4,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Organización Comunitaria Pro-Desarollo y Conservación de La Laguna San Ignacio A.C. To support an sea turtle protection program that will include lessons in primary schools, public events and conservation training for local youths. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-708 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Museo Ballenero de Baja California Sur, A.C. To support the organization's work to strengthen networks of NGOs, governmental agencies and educational institutions devoted to environmental education in Baja California. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-709 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo Ecológico y Tortuguero El Pescadero To support a restoration and monitoring program at Los Cerrito Beach, a heavily-visited area with no tourist infrastructure, in order to protect the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems there. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-712 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Sociedad Cooperativa Única de Mujeres del Estero Morúa To support protection of the Morua River estuary and the development of ecotourism in the area, thus improving the quality of life for the members of this women's cooperative. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-714 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Prescott College A.C. To support three members of the indigenous Seri community in Kino Bay in obtaining diving certification, which will facilitate participation of local fishermen in research projects in the area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-715 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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CONREHABIT, A.C. To support the conservation of wild animals and their habitats through the construction of a Wild Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Center and the continuation of education programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-716 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Acuícola el Coral Sociedad Rural de Producción To support local campesinos who are modifying their existing shrimp ponds in order to minimize the environmental impact. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-717 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Campamento Tortuguero Playa San Valentín To support programs to preserve and protect endangered sea turtles in the state of Guerrero, particularly the operation of a conservation center in the area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-718 Amount: $3,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Organización Social para el Desarrollo To support the first forum for dam-affected people in Mexico to be held at the site of the proposed "Represa La Parota Dam. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-566 Amount: $5,000 International Rivers
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Grupo Ecológico Manglar, A.C. To fund a meeting of organizations working on coastal issues in Northwestern Mexico, which will include drafting of a proposal for the sustainable development of the region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-711 Amount: $1,500 Mexico Advisory Board
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Asociación Nuestro Bosque de la Ciudad de Mazatlan, A.C. To fund improvements to an urban park in central Mazatlán as a demonstration project for sustainable agriculture and environmental protection. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-451 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo de Trabajo de Termoeléctricas Fronterizas To fund a workshop for leaders of coastal communities in Baja affected by liquid natural gas terminals planned for the region and support their efforts to limit the destructive aspects of these facilities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-442 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Pro Esteros A.C. To fund a mobile water-testing laboratory to analyze water quality in the Colorado River Delta, which is inhabited by the Cucapa indigenous group and is part of a biosphere reserve. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-443 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Patricia Baum To support an environmental education program in the communities of Todos Santos and Pescadero that helps students and adults learn about marine conservation, endangered species, waste reduction and recycling. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-444 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Johath Laudino Santillán To fund the startup costs for a natural resources conservation campaign in Baja California Sur that will help communities take the lead in protecting the coastal and marine resources they depend upon. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-445 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo Ecológico Manglar, A.C. To expand a program to help communities in or near the forests of Singyata better understand and manage local resources and to improve education and capacity-building programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-447 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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The Community of El Rosario To support the Baja peninsula community of El Rosario in its efforts to restore a desert preserve, improve management of local resources and develop sustainable livelihood strategies. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-448 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, A.C. To fund efforts to educate communities on the impact of proposed natural gas terminals and ensure that local people have a voice in decisions that will affect them. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-441 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Ecoturismo Kuyimá To support this ecotourism organization's efforts to protect the San Ignacio Lagoon, attract tourists and gain official government registration. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-450 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Isabel Hernández Ramírez To fund environmental education in Sea of Cortez coastal communities designed to encourage sustainable development and protection of marine resources. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-446 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Ejido El Palmito To support this rural landowner collective's program of sustainable land use and ecotourism development in the Sierra Madre mountains of Western Mexico. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-453 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Organización Social para el Desarrollo To support local efforts to halt a major dam planned for Guerrero state through education, media outreach, and coordination with other organizations working in opposition. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-454 Amount: $1,500 International Rivers
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Locallis SC To support monitoring of the World Bank's Decentralized Infrastructure Reform and Development Project in Guanajuato, a project which may herald a weakening of the Bank's social and environmental standards. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-538 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Instituto de Derecho Ambiental, A.C. To fund legal support for local residents affected by a large smelting plant on the outskirts of Tamuin, and to analyze how the International Development Bank's new Independent Investigation Mechanism responded to this issue. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-537 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Centro de Fomento Agropecuario Regional To support the creation of the Regional Agroecology Center, which will promote environmental and economic sustainability for the residents of the Los Dolores region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-710 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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Espacio Autónimo To fund a study of how policies of the World Bank and InterAmerican Development Bank affect equitable access to potable water in Mexico, especially among marginalized groups. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-528 Amount: $4,180 IFI Advisory Board
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Conciencia y Educación Ambiental, A.C. To support environmental education in primary schools In Guaymas, and to conduct clean-up and reforestation campaigns in the area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-449 Amount: $5,000 Mexico Advisory Board
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| North America : United States : 2004 |
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Fund for Global Human Rights To support this organization's efforts to identify and fund grassroots human rights groups in places where the need is great and resources are limited. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-335 Amount: $5,000 Special Opportunities Fund
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Eyak Preservation Council To support efforts to raise public awareness about the continued effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and to pressure Exxon to fully compensate people negatively affected by the spill. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-357 Amount: $6,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Bank Information Center To fund translation of key documents from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to enable public interest organizations to participate in a comprehensive review of IFC policies. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-649 Amount: $11,900 IFI Advisory Board
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Fund for Global Human Rights To support this organization's efforts to identify and fund grassroots human rights groups in places where the need is great and resources are limited. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-334 Amount: $5,000 Special Opportunities Fund
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| South America : Argentina : 2004 |
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Bios Quilmes To fund an annual meeting that will bring together member organizations within Argentina and environmental groups from elsewhere in Latin America to discuss strategies, plan collaborative initiatives and strengthen grassroots groups. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-383 Amount: $3,000 Special Opportunities Fund
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Centro de Estudio e Investigacion de Estrategias Alternativas To fund a study of the effects of petroleum exploration and extraction in the San Martin region of Salta state and a workshop for affected communities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-552 Amount: $2,000 Andes Advisory Board
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Asociación Ambientalista EcoLaPaz To support this new organization's participation in nationwide campaigns to preserve native forests, abrogate an agreement on storing nuclear waste from Australia, and limit fishing in Argentine rivers. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-578 Amount: $4,000 Friends of the Earth
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Centro de Estudios sobre Tecnologías Apropriadas de la Argentina To fund research into the causes and consequences of health problems among Argentine farming communities exposed to pesticides. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-396 Amount: $5,000 Pesticide Action Network
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Center for Human Rights and Environment To fund translation of key documents from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to enable public interest organizations to participate in a comprehensive review of IFC policies. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-650 Amount: $1,550 IFI Advisory Board
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Center for Human Rights and Environment To support this organization's efforts to protect the environment and defend human rights through research, building capacity, legislation and litigation. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-333 Amount: $2,000 Donor Advised
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Center for Human Rights and Environment To fund travel costs for CEDHA representatives traveling to the World Social Forum in India where they will host three workshops on water rights, mining, and the rights of communities living near waste dumps. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-332 Amount: $3,000 Special Opportunities Fund
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Fundación Desarrollo y Equidad To fund follow-up publication of the lessons learned by citizens and community groups attempting to influence the World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy to help other groups effectively participate. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-534 Amount: $5,000 IFI Advisory Board
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| South America : Bolivia : 2004 |
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Fundación Illa To fund a program to adapt and promote the use of ayllus, the traditional Aymara village governance system, to stimulate cultural revival and natural resource management in highland Bolivia. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-665 Amount: $5,000 Andes Advisory Board
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Comunidades Tacanas: Altamarani, Cachichira y Villa Fatima To support the indigenous Tacana communities of Altamarani, Cachichira and Villa Fatima in their efforts to defend lands from illegal logging and sustainably manage their forests. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-476 Amount: $4,940 Andes Advisory Board
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Revista Nacional To fund research and publication of informational materials on the environmental rights of people affected by oil and gas exploration and drilling. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-548 Amount: $5,000 Andes Advisory Board
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Consejo Regional T'simane Moseten Pilón Lajas To fund capacity-building workshops with indigenous inhabitants of the Pilon Lajas Biosphere Reserve and government officials to help them develop a sustainable community management plan for the reserve. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-477 Amount: $4,906 Andes Advisory Board
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| South America : Brazil : 2004 |
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Rede de Educação Ambiental da Bahia To fund improvements to environmental education materials, development of new curricula, teacher training, statewide educator meetings and implementation of national and state-level environmental education policies. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-560 Amount: $4,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Associação em Defesa do Meio Ambiente de Araucaria To fund outreach materials, Web site improvements, and a study of ongoing conservation projects in the Atlantic Forest region to explore strategic opportunities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-543 Amount: $5,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Amigos das Aguas To support legal action to compel highway authorities in charge of two key highways to enforce laws and improve systems designed to protect major rivers from chemical contamination from truck accidents. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-545 Amount: $3,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Associação Pernambucana de Apicultores e Meliponicultores To fund creation of a registry of beekeepers, workshops on keeping native bees and new partnerships with local agronomy programs. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-572 Amount: $2,900 Brazil Advisory Board
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Friends of the Earth Brazil To fund monitoring of and a public information campaign about a large infrastructure program to build dozens of major roadways, dams, radio towers and other infrastructure projects, and to increase public participation in development decisions. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-579 Amount: $5,000 Friends of the Earth
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Fórum em Defesa da Zona Costeira do Ceará To support increased grassroots participation in and monitoring of coastal tourism development in Ceara by establishing local offices and distributing materials on the government's sustainability principles. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-571 Amount: $3,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Rede Pantanal de ONGs e Movimentos Sociais To support this Brazil-based network in collaborating with groups in Bolivia and Paraguay that are also working to protect the Pantanal region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-722 Amount: $2,016 Brazil Advisory Board
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Quatro Cantos do Mundo To fund the organization's work to strengthen socio-environmental groups in the Belo Horizonte region, and to help it develop an effective and integrated network. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-723 Amount: $1,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Sociedade Ecológica Amigos de Embu To support efforts to improve public access to information and increase public participation in the decision-making process regarding construction of the Rodoanel Highway in São Paulo. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-724 Amount: $3,550 Brazil Advisory Board
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Ordem dos Servos de Maria - Província Do Brasil To support the restoration and protection of a 200-hectare forest, known as Paiol Maria, near São Paulo. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-725 Amount: $5,169 Brazil Advisory Board
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Sociedade Beneficente de Pescadores de Ponte dos Carvalhos To fund an assessment of the effects of over-fishing in Pernambuco and the presentation of findings to governmental and civil society groups. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-727 Amount: $2,117 Brazil Advisory Board
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Fundação Águas do Piauí To support publication of a periodical journal on water conservation, environmental science and locally relevant environmental issues. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-558 Amount: $2,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Associação de Desenvolvimento e Preservação dos Rios Araguaia e Tocantins To fund production of flyers to be distributed to people at the beaches along the Araguaia and Tocantins rivers to inform them that if proposed dams are built on these rivers these beaches would no longer exist. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-514 Amount: $1,000 International Rivers
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Instituto de Ação Ambiental da Bahia To support efforts to strengthen the socio-environmental movement in Bahia through workshops, seminars, publications and coordination with government officials on policy initiatives. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-559 Amount: $4,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Canto Ecológico To fund a campaign to end the practice of using explosives to fish by purchasing the necessary equipment to patrol areas frequented by dynamite fishermen. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-761 Amount: $4,000 Earth Day Network
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Rede Cerrado de ONGs To support this network in its efforts to improve communication among its members and improve the capacity of its members to engage the public on key issues, such as sustainable use of Cerrado water resources. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-568 Amount: $2,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Associação Maranhense para a Conservação da Natureza To support efforts to strengthen environmental networks in the state of Maranhão, represent statewide interests at the national level and support a key network member organization in Urbano Santos. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-567 Amount: $4,500 Brazil Advisory Board
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Ecologia e Ação General support to assist in the start-up of the Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA), which will serve as the Brazilian member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-744 Amount: $50,000 Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Ações Para Preservação dos Recursos Naturais e Desenvolvimento Economico Racional To assist this environmental advocacy organization in its outreach efforts through the development of a website, new presentation materials and a set of basic publications. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-641 Amount: $2,666 Brazil Advisory Board
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Fórum de Debates sobre Energia de Rondonia To support efforts of this network of groups to publicize the impact of the proposed Madeira River Project in a form accessible to communities that will be affected by it. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-542 Amount: $2,150 Brazil Advisory Board
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Grupo Condor To fund a campaign to protect the Chapeco River Basin through educational materials, reforestation, water quality monitoring, and community meetings |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-546 Amount: $3,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Vida Pantaneira To fund environmental seminars and workshops for Pantanal communities, including boat transportation for participants, and to support economic development activities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-544 Amount: $3,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Associação dos Amigos e Moradores do Bairro Guapiruvu To support a community agroforestry initiative as part of broader efforts to promote civic engagement in local sustainable development projects. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-643 Amount: $2,500 Brazil Advisory Board
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Serra Acima - Associação de Cultura e Educação Ambiental To fund training for 25 farm families in monitoring the health of Atlantic Forest region of Serra do Mar, improving agricultural practices, and developing economic opportunities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-547 Amount: $3,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Instituto de Estudos Socio-economicos To fund travel expenses for grassroots citizen group representatives that could not otherwise afford to attend the Latin American Conference on International Financial Institutions in Rio de Janeiro. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-385 Amount: $7,000 IFI Advisory Board
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Fundação Ecologica Cristalino To fund an experiential program for local youth that focuses on conserving the biodiversity of the Amazon region, and to support work with local educators in developing an environmental curriculum. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-646 Amount: $5,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Sociedade Civil para o Desenvolvimento Socio-Ambiental e Cultural / Sociedade Formigas To support an environmental campaign to promote composting of household waste as a means of improving local gardening practices and an alternative to burning garbage. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-645 Amount: $5,666 Brazil Advisory Board
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Sociedade Cultural E Ambiental de Centro Grande - Canarios do Munim To support preservation of the cultural and environmental diversity of the Munim River basin of Maranhão state through community environmental education and promotion of sustainable development initiatives. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-680 Amount: $3,600 Brazil Advisory Board
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Associação FLORA Brasil To support the creation of a new network of civil society organizations, so they can effectively monitor, evaluate and participate in a government- and World Bank-funded tourism development program. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-681 Amount: $2,666 Brazil Advisory Board
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Associação Nascentes das Aguas Puras To support efforts to ensure that Atlantic Forest freshwater resources are sustainably managed and that local communities are engaged in resource planning and monitoring, and to fund an educational program on birds of the Atlantic Forest. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-642 Amount: $2,000 Brazil Advisory Board
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Aguape Rede Pantanal de Educação Ambiental To support the communications operations of this environmental network, which includes nongovernmental, governmental and academic organizations throughout the Pantanal region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-644 Amount: $1,500 Brazil Advisory Board
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Fórum de Lutas das Entidades de Cáceres To continue support for the campaign to protect the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, from the damaging effects of the Hidrovia waterway. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-704 Amount: $1,500 Brazil Advisory Board
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Grupo Ambiental e Cultural RAÍZES To fund a variety of cultural and environmental events which will improve the ecological awareness of people living in or near river basins in Mato Grosso state. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-705 Amount: $1,500 Brazil Advisory Board
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Centro de Apoio ao Pequeno Agricultor To fund a program to help farmers improve rice yields sustainably and avoid pesticide use where possible through education, training and a public information campaign. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-635 Amount: $5,000 Pesticide Action Network
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| South America : Chile : 2004 |
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Comunidad Indigena Yepu Alfitra To support an investigation of forest plantations in Osorno and their impact on Mapuche Hulliche communities in the San Pablo area. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-783 Amount: $4,250 Rainforest Action Network
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Federación de Comunidades Huilliche de Chiloé To support construction of an educational and cultural center that will provide information on sustainable forest management and organic gardening and will also help preserve indigenous Hulliche culture. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-782 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Agrupación Mapuche de Temuko Konapewman To support this organization's work with indigenous Mapuche communities throughout Chile to strengthen their ability to protect their environmental and other rights. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-785 Amount: $2,500 Rainforest Action Network
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Futafriends To support the quest for protected status for the Futaleufu River valley, which is threatened by possible construction of three hydroelectric dams. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-781 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Chiloé Bosques para Siempre To support work with local landowners in the Chiloé region to identify threats to the forests there and to set aside protected areas to promote ecotourism. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-780 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Centro de Conservación Ambiental Austral To support a study of the impact of a new roadway on pristine forests near Lake Puelo, and to protect the Rio Cruces nature sanctuary from toxic dumping by a nearby cellulose plant. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-779 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Red de Acción por la Justicia Ambiental To fund travel by an indigenous Mapuche representative to a Buenos Aires meeting on carbon trade, where she will discuss the impact of transgenic tree plantations on indigenous people in her region. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-682 Amount: $1,500 Special Opportunities Fund
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Asociación Comunitaria Nuevo Sol To fund a series of environmental awareness workshops, to support an ecology youth camp at a local farm and to produce a video on forestry, mining and water pollution. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-683 Amount: $5,000 Friends of the Earth
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Asociación de Autoridades Tradicionales y Cabildos U'wa To support workshops to help the U'wa people resist illegal oil prospecting on their traditional lands, and to facilitate their participation in local and national indigenous networks. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-658 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Asociación Centro Nacional Salud Ambiente y Trabajo Agua Viva To help build awareness of pending free trade agreements and their potential effect on the national environment, in part through the hosting of a national environmental forum. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-580 Amount: $4,400 Friends of the Earth
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| South America : Ecuador : 2004 |
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Inter-Federational Defense Committee To support indigenous Shuar, Achuar and Kichwa communities in their efforts to protect their ancestral homelands from oil companies drilling on tribal lands without consent. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-439 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Coordinadora de Gobiernos Locales Alternativos To support this network of municipalities that are considering alternative models of governance to improve equitability and protection of the region's rich ecology. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-475 Amount: $5,000 Andes Advisory Board
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Fundación Acción por la Vida To support a campaign to prevent oil companies from building major road networks in Yasuni National Park for exploration purposes. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-563 Amount: $2,200 Rainforest Action Network
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Altervia To fund a workshop on designing and building a wind-powered generator, and to publicize alternative energy and conservation opportunities for communities. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-653 Amount: $5,000 Andes Advisory Board
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales - FLACSO Sede Ecuador - Programa de Estudios Socioambientales To fund a study of whether pressure from foreign donors reduces the ability of local communities and organizations to set conservation priorities in the Andes. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-655 Amount: $5,000 Andes Advisory Board
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Junta Parroquial de Makuma To support this organization of Shuar people in its efforts to help maintain traditional practices and defend Shuar territory against widespread oil exploration and drilling. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-640 Amount: $5,000 Rainforest Action Network
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Centro Ecuatoriano de Derecho Ambiental To support local implementation of the Latin America Access Initiative, a tool designed to evaluate public access to information, participation of civil society and equitable access to the decision-making process. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-551 Amount: $4,750 Andes Advisory Board
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Sobrevivencia (FoE Paraguay) To launch a campaign to explain the effects that international financial institutions have on Paraguayan society and development, and to monitor the International Development Bank's new Mechanism for Independent Investigation. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-583 Amount: $3,000 Friends of the Earth
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| South America : Peru : 2004 |
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Red de Acción en Alternativas al uso de Agroquimicos To help solicit and incorporate public opinion and the input of small-scale producers in regional and national discussions on organic farming practices in Peru. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-654 Amount: $3,430 Andes Advisory Board
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Red de Permacultura America Latina en el Perú To support expansion of a composting project in a Shipibo-Konibo community in the Peruvian Amazon, part of the community's efforts to achieve economic and ecological sustainablility. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-784 Amount: $2,500 Rainforest Action Network
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Red de Acción en Alternativas al uso de Agroquimicos To support the organization's quest for justice for the families of 42 children who were killed in Taucamarca in 1999 when their morning milk was accidentally mixed with a deadly pesticide. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-664 Amount: $1,040 Pesticide Action Network
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Asociación Civil Labor To fund a review of the environmental and social impacts of gold mining at Yanacocha and Alto Chicama, to conduct a series of workshops for affected communities, and to develop recommendations for better regulation of mining. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-549 Amount: $5,000 Andes Advisory Board
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Centro Desarrollo Huayhuash To fund workshops to help indigenous peoples in the Cordillera Huayhuash create communal maps of traditional lands, inventory natural and cultural resources, and develop sustainable management plans. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-550 Amount: $5,000 Andes Advisory Board
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Radio Mundo Real To fund creation of radio news programs on important environmental issues, including reports from the World Social Forum, and to support their broadcast to isolated rural communities throughout southern South America. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-671 Amount: $10,000 Friends of the Earth
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Red de Grupos de Mujeres Rurales del Uruguay To support efforts to empower rural women through education and training programs, with a special focus on organic agriculture. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-584 Amount: $4,000 Friends of the Earth
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas para América Latina Uruguay To support cooperation among pesticide and rainforest activists in Uruguay with an emphasis on supporting joint efforts to ban the use of some chlororganic pesticides currently in use there. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-659 Amount: $3,500 Pesticide Action Network
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| South America : Venezuela : 2004 |
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Centro de Investigaciones Postdoctorales de la Universidad Central de Venezuela To support the participation of three indigenous representatives from Colombia and Ecuador in an international environmental colloquium in Caracas where they will speak on sustainable development and social justice. |
Year: 2004 ID: 50-474 Amount: $1,200 Andes Advisory Board
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