| Africa : Burkina Faso : 2005 |
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Association Marche Mondiale des Femmes / Action Nationale du Burkina Faso
To fund sending a representative to South Africa, where she will participate in the African portion of the World March for Women. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-017
Amount: $5,000
Friends of the Earth
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| Africa : Cameroon : 2005 |
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Alternatives Durables pour le Développement
To organize a workshop for 20 peasant leaders on pesticide use, appropriate alternatives and relevant Cameroonian legislation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-167
Amount: $2,500
Pesticide Action Network
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Global Village Cameroon
To support this organization in monitoring international financial institutions, and to fund a meeting of organizations concerned with the proposed Lom Pangar dam. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-285
Amount: $2,500
International Rivers
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African Center for Applied Forestry Research and Development
To fund a study, utilizing local residents as researchers, of the impact of temporary infrastructure built during the construction phase of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-844
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Organization for the Environment and Sustainable Development
To support the mobilization of the Bivouba and Bonguen communities to help protect their community forests, and the surrounding buffer zones, from illegal logging and poaching. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-996
Amount: $3,000
Rainforest Action Network
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| Africa : Congo : 2005 |
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Association pour la Protection de l'Environnement et de la Promotion de l'Agriculture Biologique
To support research on problems of pesticide use in and around Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, and to inform farmers about pesticides containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs). |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-977
Amount: $2,500
Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : Congo, The Democratic Republic of the : 2005 |
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National Center for Development and Popular Participation
To fund participation of a representative of this group in a 3-day conference in Brussels on the topic of export credit agencies and human rights accountability. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-095
Amount: $1,266
IFI Advisory Board
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Organisation pour la Sédentarisation, l'Alphabétisation et la Promotion des Pygmées
To promote the rights of Pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo by acquainting them with the new World Bank forest code, which may lead to increased destruction of their traditional forests. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-008
Amount: $6,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Avocats Verts
To organize an information campaign concerning the Inga III Dam project, a planned addition to two existing hydropower facilities at the Great Falls of the Condo River. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-255
Amount: $1,500
International Rivers
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Promotional and Educational Centre For Local Communities
To organize an information campaign concerning the Inga III Dam project, a planned addition to two existing hydropower facilities at the Great Falls of the Condo River. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-256
Amount: $1,500
International Rivers
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| Africa : Gabon : 2005 |
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Education pour la Defense de L'Environment et la Nature
To fund an international workshop designed to increase civil society monitoring of a World Bank-funded forestry initiative in Gabon. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-253
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| Africa : Ghana : 2005 |
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Environment Care Group, Kindoma
To fund a public education project to minimize indiscriminate bush burning, protect tree seedlings and combat desertification. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-219
Amount: $3,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Crisis Action Solutions Organization
To support a campaign to halt illegal mining in forest reserves in western Ghana, and to inform miners and their communities about the dangers of mercury use in the mining process. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-067
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Third World Network Africa
To fund the travel of four civil society representatives from developing countries to the Civil Society Strategy Meeting on International Financial Institutions in Accra, Ghana. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-843
Amount: $10,000
IFI Advisory Board
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League of Environmental Journalists in Ghana
To support a workshop for 30 journalists, focusing on the destruction of Ghana's forests and its impacts on forest communities and the environment. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-227
Amount: $4,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Western Region Development Network of NGOs
To support a project to improve the capacity of journalists to report on environmental issues in West Africa, including a fact-finding trip to selected areas. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-218
Amount: $3,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Ghana National Coalition Against Privatization of Water
To support a civil society campaign against a planned World Bank project to privatize Ghana's urban water system. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-845
Amount: $12,000
IFI Advisory Board
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National Coalition on Mining
To support research on mining in Ghana's forest reserves, and to use results of that research for community-level advocacy and networking. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-897
Amount: $4,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Guards of the Earth and the Vulnerable
To support work to oppose unsafe mining practices, including the conditions that led to the drowning of two people in October 2005. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-222
Amount: $1,800
West Africa Advisory Board
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Center for Public Interest Law
To fund research for and preparation of a pamphlet on environmental compliance in the mining sector. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-066
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Kenya : 2005 |
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Community Development Initiative
To establish a tree nursery in the Kahawa Wendani school compound, both as a demonstration plot and as a source of seedlings for the community. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-299
Amount: $2,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Kenya Debt Relief Network
To support a project to collect and publicize information on 25 years of IMF and World Bank loans in Kenya. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-251
Amount: $6,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Uaso Nyiro Water Users Association
To fund establishment of an ecologically sustainable and commercially viable land use system in the Uaso Nyiro River basin. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-297
Amount: $5,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Kashoto Youth Club
To purchase indigenous tree seedlings that will be planted in schools and communities in Nairobi. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-300
Amount: $500
East Africa Advisory Board
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Mt. Kenya Conservation Action Group
To start tree nurseries, conduct environmental education programs, and promote energy-saving items such as smokeless cookers. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-301
Amount: $4,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Millennium Community Development Initiatives
To launch a magazine, entitled The Environmental Barometer, which will highlight environmental best practices in the Eastern Africa region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-298
Amount: $7,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Community Development Initiative
To support construction of drainage trenches, education of residents on proper waste disposal, and establishment of a community tree nursery. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-894
Amount: $5,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Friends of City Park
To support efforts to settle the park's legal standing, carry out biodiversity inventories, and promote a sense a sense of ownership among Nairobi residents. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-895
Amount: $4,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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African Rivers Network
To fund travel for Southern African participants to attend a meeting of the Africa Rivers Network, in order to coordinate continent-wide campaigns. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-006
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Lesotho : 2005 |
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Survivors of Lesotho Dams
To support gatherings and workshops in three dam-affected areas -- Katse, Muela and Mohale -- and to support the organization's annual general meeting. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-236
Amount: $2,000
International Rivers
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Transformation Resource Centre
To fund travel for representatives of communities harmed by the Lesotho Highlands Water Project to attend a World Bank meeting in Maseru. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-075
Amount: $2,500
International Rivers
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Transformation Resource Centre
To fund a booklet on lessons from the six-dam Lesotho Highlands Water Project, in order to avoid future replication of the same mistakes. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-203
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Transformation Resource Centre
To fund advocacy for community members who have suffered damage to their homes during construction of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-061
Amount: $4,000
International Rivers
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| Africa : Mali : 2005 |
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Fondation pour le Developpement au Sahel
To support a campaign to identify key actors in pesticide production and consumption, and to collaborate with other groups promoting organic agriculture. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-166
Amount: $3,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Cercle de Développement Participatif pour l'Enfance
To support a women's group that is rehabilitating old mining sites near the village of Dabale, and promoting greater access for women to the restored lands. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-220
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Mission Sahel
To fund an exchange program between mine-affected communities, and to organize action groups to defend community rights under the Mali Mining Code. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-900
Amount: $5,500
West Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Mozambique : 2005 |
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Vozes do Zambeze
To aid this new organization in gaining a role for Zambezi River basin community members in decisions on major development projects. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-296
Amount: $1,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Nigeria : 2005 |
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Our Niger Delta
To support an educational speaking tour called "The Price of Oil," which will focus on educating the Nigerian people about the situation in the Niger Delta and preventing an increase in social and environmental instability there. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-130
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Association of Host Communities Forum on the West African Gas Pipeline Project
To support efforts to oppose the World Bank-supported West African Gas Pipeline Project, including a complaint through the World Bank Inspection Panel Process. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-254
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation
To support official registration of the organization, which will carry on the legacy of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa by advocating for human rights, the environment, peace-making and community action. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-129
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Economic Empowerment and Environmental Protection Network
To fund construction of a water well, which will be used for sustainable development projects in a rural Niger Delta community. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-125
Amount: $1,500
Earth Island Institute
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Society for Water and Public Health Protection
To support this organization's work to ensure local people's access to clean water, including public information campaigns on issues surrounding dam construction. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-146
Amount: $1,500
International Rivers
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Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People
To support research on environmental practices of oil companies operating in the Niger Delta. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-835
Amount: $5,000
Friends of the Earth
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Akpabuyo Bakassi Green Movement
To strengthen the capacity of local groups to monitor and report on the effects of oil extraction and logging in Cross River State. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-068
Amount: $4,300
West Africa Advisory Board
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Rainforest Resource and Development Centre
To support a statewide mobilization campaign to protect community livelihoods and conserve the Cross River's environment through education and advocacy. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-899
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Niger Delta Women for Justice
To fund publication and distribution of a report on actions by women's groups to expose oil companies' negligent environmental and human rights practices in the Niger River Delta. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-069
Amount: $3,917
West Africa Advisory Board
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Committee on Vital Environmental Resources
To fund reporting on the impact of refineries in the Niger Delta, roundtable sessions with members of affected communities, and dissemination of materials on environmental justice advocacy. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-898
Amount: $4,500
West Africa Advisory Board
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Oilwatch Africa
To enable organizations working on oil and mining issues in West Africa to participate in the Annual Strategy Meeting of the Africa Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-896
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Socio-Economic Rights Initiative
To fund participation of a representative of this group in a 3-day conference in Brussels on the topic of export credit agencies and human rights accountability. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-093
Amount: $1,666
IFI Advisory Board
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| Africa : Senegal : 2005 |
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Pesticide Action Network Africa
To fund participation by Senegalese and Ethiopian environmentalists in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-316
Amount: $3,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : South Africa : 2005 |
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Save the Wild Coast Campaign
To support advocacy campaigns involving road, mines and other development projects in the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-295
Amount: $4,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Ogoni Solidarity Forum
To raise South African awareness about and support of the Ogoni people of Nigeria and other indigenous peoples in oil-rich areas. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-294
Amount: $3,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Injiya ya Uri
To establish a demonstration program on Zero Waste at a local school, and to oppose proposals for local incineration and storage of hazardous wastes. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-032
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance
To support this alliance of environmental organizations, which works to represent communities of the "Vaal Triangle." |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-291
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Tanzania : 2005 |
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Maksoru Women Group
To support expansion of a cooperatively-run, bio-intensive farming plot and agricultural outreach activities to nearby communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-929
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Tanzania Environmental Development and Animal Power Society
To fund sustainable training workshops for community groups, to support a food security campaign and to conduct a feasibility study of micro-financing programs for small farmers. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-114
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Langa Youth Group
To support agriculture seminars and sustainable farming activities, including the establishment of a rainwater capture system and improvement of a community-owned tree nursery. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-115
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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Diocese of Meru Forestry Project
To support a program to distribute native timber, fruit and ornamental trees to improve livelihoods and the environment. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-226
Amount: $4,500
Rainforest Action Network
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Akeri Kati Group
To fund bio-intensive vegetable gardening, including seed purchase, design of a marketing plan and construction of water storage wells. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-116
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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| Africa : Togo : 2005 |
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Association Nationale des Consommateurs et de l'Environnement du Togo
To fund a new campaign to inform the people of southern Togo about the potential dangers of using and producing the pesticide Lindane. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-979
Amount: $3,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Young Volunteers for the Environment
To support a nine-nation West African youth forum on social justice, focusing on the theme of corporate responsibility in the production and use of pesticides. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-978
Amount: $2,500
Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : Uganda : 2005 |
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Kashare Environmental Protection and Development Initiative
To fund a variety of projects, including environmental seminars, a tree nursery and training on energy-saving stoves. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-893
Amount: $1,500
East Africa Advisory Board
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Rural Women Development Association
To support sustainable agriculture initiatives, including training in agricultural methods and financial management, and to establish a small loan system. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-018
Amount: $3,000
Friends of the Earth
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Environmental Protection and Food Security Initiative
To support integrated pest management projects and biodiversity conservation in the Name, Gama and Kaposi sub-counties of Uganda |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-168
Amount: $2,500
Pesticide Action Network
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Nyamirama 2015 Community Projects
To support a bee keeping program, one of the group's income generation and community conservation projects. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-891
Amount: $3,500
East Africa Advisory Board
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Africa Institute for Energy Governance
To fund a review of energy policy and laws in Uganda, focusing on opportunities for public participation, access to information and access to justice for the poor. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-892
Amount: $3,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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National Association of Professional Environmentalists
To fund a meeting of environmentalists, government officials and others about the deteriorating ecological conditions around Lake Victoria. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-286
Amount: $2,500
International Rivers
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National Association of Professional Environmentalists
To support staff training and other capacity-building activities for this organization, which promotes public awareness of environmental issues and potential solutions. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-154
Amount: $2,000
International Rivers
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Nyakyera Secondary School Environment Club
To support programs on community environmental awareness and wetlands conservation, as well as the expansion of a botanical garden. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-302
Amount: $6,500
East Africa Advisory Board
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National Association of Professional Environmentalists
To support efforts to gain the release of the environmental impact assessment of the Bujagali Dam project, to analyze that report and to share the results. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-303
Amount: $3,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Zambia : 2005 |
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Zambia Energy and Environmental Organisation
To increase awareness in the community about such health and resource issues as the need to reduce charcoal consumption through use of improved cook stoves. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-292
Amount: $4,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Green Living Movement
To fund training on community resource monitoring and evaluation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-293
Amount: $3,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Asia : Armenia : 2005 |
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Greens' Union of Armenia
To initiate a comprehensive forestry project, covering three geographic regions, which will protect remaining forested areas and reforest degraded ones. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-995
Amount: $3,500
Rainforest Action Network
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| Asia : Australia : 2005 |
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Alliance Against Uranium
To allow isolated members of this alliance of indigenous communities to attend a national planning and networking meeting in South Australia. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-019
Amount: $4,500
Friends of the Earth
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| Asia : Bangladesh : 2005 |
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Centre for Coastal Environmental Conservation
To support construction of a turtle farm, which will breed endangered and ecologically-significant turtles. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-128
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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An Organization for Socio Economic Development
To fund restoration of mangroves in the Khulna district that have been damaged by commercial shrimp cultivation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-126
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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Alternative Movement for Resources and Freedom Society
To fund a campaign to provide fresh drinking water and proper sanitation facilities for indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-020
Amount: $4,500
Friends of the Earth
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| Asia : Cambodia : 2005 |
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Development and Appropriate Technology
To support sustainable use of the forests around Tonle Sap Lake through awareness-building activities and the dissemination of fuel-efficient stoves. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-924
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : China : 2005 |
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Pingnan Green Association
To support creation of a website for the organization, as well as continued pollution monitoring of the RongPing Chemical Plant. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-175
Amount: $600
China Advisory Board
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Community Participation Action
To fund publication of a community action newsletter as a means of promoting sustainable community development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-043
Amount: $2,500
China Advisory Board
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Green Anhui
To fund establishment of an environmental center, focusing on youth environmental activism, in the city of Hefei. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-044
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Longjiang
To support the development of a statewide environmental resources center in Harbin, which will be a repository for environmental information and a center for initiatives. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-171
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Beijing Green Cross
To fund publication of a newsletter to promote successful models of rural community development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-174
Amount: $600
China Advisory Board
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Green Anhui
To fund a regional environmental center in Hefei, to strengthen the network of student environmental groups there, and to support campaigns to preserve Dabieshan Mountain and the Huaihe River. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-172
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Xinjiang Conservation Fund
To fund start-up of an environmental education website with resources for environmental organizations, school programs and universities in Northwest China. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-048
Amount: $4,200
China Advisory Board
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China Bird Watch
To support publication of China Bird Watch newsletters for 2006, and to support the organization's efforts to conserve wild birds and their habitats. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-173
Amount: $2,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Stone
To support Green Stone's nature education programs and to promote student environmental activism. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-047
Amount: $700
China Advisory Board
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Hainan Province Education Centre of Ecology and Environment
To fund a website and a biodiversity-themed exhibit at a local university museum, and to support a campaign to reduce the illegal trade in endangered sea turtles. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-046
Amount: $600
China Advisory Board
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Green Hanjiang
To fund a newsletter and various educational materials to promote conservation in the Hanjiang River basin. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-045
Amount: $1,400
China Advisory Board
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Green Earth Volunteers
To support a newsletter which will provide information about impacts of various development projects on river ecosystems and the people who depend on them. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-107
Amount: $2,000
International Rivers
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Beijing Earthview Environment Education and Research Center
To support the Chinese translation and production of fifteen Television Trust for Environment films, which will be available for free screening and downloading from a digital library. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-170
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Camel Bell
To support creation of an environmental resource center in the city of Lanzhou, which will serve as a support base for environmental activism in the province. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-280
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Center Yunnan
To fund investigation of the production and use of the highly toxic pesticide Paraquat in China, as well as workshops on the subject for farmers in Yunnan Province. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-980
Amount: $4,250
Pesticide Action Network
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Pesticide Eco-Alternatives Center Yunnan
To fund participation by Chinese environmentalists in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-308
Amount: $1,500
Pesticide Action Network
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Green Eyes
To support wildlife patrol activities, a shark conservation campaign, and newsletter- and web-based environmental education programs. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-104
Amount: $4,000
China Advisory Board
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Xi'an Green Camp
To fund the establishment of an office to serve as a resource and information exchange center for environmental groups in Xi'an. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-937
Amount: $600
China Advisory Board
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Beijing Green Cross
To fund publication and dissemination of a newsletter that will help Chinese environmental organizations build networks and share experiences. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-936
Amount: $600
China Advisory Board
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China Bird Watch
To support network-building among bird-watching groups across China, and to aid them in efforts to safeguard the ecological health of bird and human habitats. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-105
Amount: $1,200
China Advisory Board
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Green Longjiang
To fund a new environmental resource center in the northeastern city of Harbin, in order to encourage environmental initiatives and to monitor the timber and wildlife trade with the Russian Far East. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-102
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Guizhouren Net
To help the group establish an office in Guiyan, capital of Guizhou province, in order to improve support for grassroots organizations and coordination with government departments. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-283
Amount: $1,250
China Advisory Board
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Yunnan Participatory Watershed Management Research and Promotion Center
To cover the costs of sending a river management specialist from Hong Kong and another from Thailand to the 4th NGO Forum on International Cooperation in China. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-112
Amount: $1,250
International Rivers
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Beijing Earthview Environment Education and Research Center
To support the production and distribution of a documentary film about the illegal wildlife trade between China and South Korea |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-281
Amount: $200
China Advisory Board
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Green Stone
To fund creation of an environmental resources center in Nanjing, and to promote networking among student environmental organizations in Eastern China. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-940
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Civilization Society of Harbin University of Commerce
To fund production and distribution of educational materials on water conservation, including water-saving kits, for use on university campuses in Harbin |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-279
Amount: $800
China Advisory Board
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Green Union of Harbin Institute of Technology
To fund monitoring of pollution in the Songhua River basin and examination of the impacts of that pollution on rural communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-278
Amount: $900
China Advisory Board
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Green Longjiang
To support development of an environmental resource center in Harbin, focusing on river conservation and water pollution monitoring. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-277
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Wild Bird Society of Dalian
To support the establishment of a conservation center in Dalian, on China's northeast coast, to protect the only known breeding colony for the black-faced spoonbill. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-103
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Petroleum and Environment Network
To fund research on environmental impacts of oil and natural gas exploitation in Northwest China, particularly China's West-to-East natural gas pipeline project. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-106
Amount: $2,000
China Advisory Board
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Petroleum and Environment Network
To support publication of a monthly electronic newsletter and maintenance of a website detailing the effects of petroleum exploration and extraction. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-938
Amount: $600
China Advisory Board
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Yunnan Participatory Watershed Management Research and Promotion Center
To fund translation and publication of a report called Beyond Dams - Options and Alternatives, in order to stimulate discussion at a time when the Chinese government has over 300 dams planned for Southeast China. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-108
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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Green Anhui
To fund creation of an environmental resources center in Anhui province, and to support various environmental initiatives in the city of Hefei. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-939
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Save Tiger Action
To fund travel to a meeting of the Nature Conservation Program of Northeast Asia, which will focus on conservation of the Siberian tiger and Amur leopard. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-282
Amount: $600
China Advisory Board
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| Asia : Fiji : 2005 |
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Macuata Women's Organization
To launch this organization of women who have played supporting roles in the traditional governance of the island of Vanua Levu. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-037
Amount: $2,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Lau Provincial Council
To strengthen the capacity of communities on Kabara Island to manage and store their water resources effectively. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-821
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Laje Rotuma Initiative
To fund a mobile environmental resource center, which will provide training for local volunteers in environmental education and expand resources for environmental outreach programs. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-819
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : India : 2005 |
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Partners in Justice Concerns India
To fund a study of the environmental and public health effects of bauxite mining in Chhattisgarh state. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-059
Amount: $2,700
India Advisory Board
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Rainforest Information Center (RIC) Australia
To support the Periyar Tiger Reserve Project, which seeks to increase the size of this protected area of rainforest and to improve ecological practices along its buffer zones. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-999
Amount: $2,000
Rainforest Action Network
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AID India
To fund production of 1600 library bags, which will be produced by women in tsunami-affected areas and will be made from local, sustainable materials. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-933
Amount: $4,250
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Samata
To fund investigations into the status of two World Bank-funded coal mining projects that were recently censured by the World Bank's own inspection panel. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-010
Amount: $4,450
IFI Advisory Board
|
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Coastal Poor Development Action Network
To support post-tsunami mangrove restoration on the Andaman Islands, including information programs, mangrove replanting and establishment of community-based protected zones. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-803
Amount: $12,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Hill Areas Development Organisation
To develop the capacity of the indigenous Naga people to negotiate with the government about the controversial Tipaimukh Dam in northeast India. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-021
Amount: $4,000
Friends of the Earth
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Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)
To expand a campaign to hold a local power plant to more stringent pollution standards by involving local stakeholders and other Indian groups working on similar issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-947
Amount: $2,250
India Advisory Board
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Partners in Justice Concerns India
To fund a project to promote organic farming, including training and creation of community-monitored seed banks, in three regions of Chhattisgarh state. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-060
Amount: $3,600
India Advisory Board
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Chotanagpur Adivasi Sewa Samiti
To support creation of a community center, which will provide a venue for meetings on such subjects as tree planting, forest protection, and assessment of coal mining projects. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-998
Amount: $2,500
Rainforest Action Network
|
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Kalpavriksh
To support monitoring of development projects in ecologically sensitive areas and to assist in advocacy and litigation when those projects threaten the environment and people's livelihoods. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-058
Amount: $3,500
India Advisory Board
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Pralhad S. Malvadkar
To support programs for doctors and other medical personnel to improve their ability to diagnose and treat occupational and environmental illnesses. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-057
Amount: $1,900
India Advisory Board
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The Other Media
To support a campaign to monitor mercury poisoning among residents near a now-closed thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, and to apply for compensation for victims. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-056
Amount: $3,500
India Advisory Board
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Dharmesh Shah
To fund logistical support for the Green Festival Initiative, an informal student-run "zero waste" program that organizes workshops and media events. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-055
Amount: $335
India Advisory Board
|
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Coastal Poor Development Action Network
To fund relief for tsunami victims, primarily families of fisherfolk, from villages surrounding Pulicat Lake |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-791
Amount: $2,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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The Other Media
To support community environmental monitoring in communities bordering the SIPCOT Chemical Industrial Estate near Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-042
Amount: $4,000
India Advisory Board
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Chetana Society
To support investigation and monitoring of industrial pollution and its environmental consequences around Hyderabad, and to publish related reports in the local language of Telugu. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-064
Amount: $4,500
India Advisory Board
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Partners in Justice Concerns India
To promote eco-friendly weaving techniques and to increase the viability of the small-scale hand looming industry. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-264
Amount: $4,400
India Advisory Board
|
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North East Affected Area Development Society
To fund advocacy campaigns concerning the proposed construction of two mega-dams in the Assam district of Northeast India. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-969
Amount: $3,000
International Rivers
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Thanal
To fund a zero waste pilot project in Muttocud Ward as a model for other community-level zero waste initiatives in Kerala. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-946
Amount: $5,000
India Advisory Board
|
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Ankur Kala Women's Center
To support a program to select and train women from six villages to develop demonstration organic gardens. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-945
Amount: $3,600
India Advisory Board
|
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Samrakshan Trust
To support design and implementation of a community-based conservation plan for six primate species in the areas around two north Indian wildlife sanctuaries. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-122
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
|
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Samata
To support civil society planning for the Asian Development Bank's Annual Meeting in Hyderabad, India. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-249
Amount: $7,704
IFI Advisory Board
|
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Development Research Communication and Services Centre (DRCSC)
To fund seed centers and nurseries, as well as other programs to encourage organic agriculture and self-sufficiency. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-944
Amount: $4,800
India Advisory Board
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Diptiben Nautamlal Bhatt
To fund a study of consumer knowledge and attitudes toward organic food, and to promote its increased production. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-262
Amount: $1,820
India Advisory Board
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Dharmesh Shah
To fund coordination of the Green Festival Initiative, an informal student-run "zero waste" program that organizes workshops and media events. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-942
Amount: $1,600
India Advisory Board
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Vijay P. Kanhere
To support a team of activists to continue their work on environmental and occupational diseases. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-263
Amount: $4,000
India Advisory Board
|
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India Advisory Board
To fund a study of India's new "Look East" development policy, including its effects on the environmental and property rights of communities in affected border areas. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-842
Amount: $6,200
IFI Advisory Board
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Peoples Training and Research Centre
To fund diagnostic equipment for an occupational health and safety clinic, which will provide a more effective means of diagnosing workplace hazards related to dust and noise pollution. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-265
Amount: $2,275
India Advisory Board
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The Other Media
To fund a variety of student outreach activities on issues related to the Bhopal toxic disaster and corporate accountability. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-267
Amount: $4,000
India Advisory Board
|
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Rural Volunteers Centre
To support local communities in learning about environmental policies and in exercising their rights on natural resource issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-147
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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Johanna Lokhande
To support a study and awareness campaign about domestic pesticide and chemical use, and to provide alternatives for households. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-268
Amount: $1,820
India Advisory Board
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Action for Social and Human Acme (ASHA)
To support a program in seven Dongria Kondh villages to improve the health and water-holding capacity of area soils. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-266
Amount: $4,400
India Advisory Board
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Genetic Resources Energy Ecology and Nutrition (Green) Foundation
Green Foundation is a community-based organization that has been working for the past eleven years with small and marginal farmers in the semiarid regions of South India. This grant will support Green Foundation in authoring portions of a UN-sponsored evaluation of agriculture practices and policies around the world. |
Year: 2005
ID: 52-007
Amount: $900
Pesticide Action Network
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| Asia : Indonesia : 2005 |
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Dian Niaga
To support various charitable organizations working to assist in recovery and reconstruction after the tsunami. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-051
Amount: $8,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Mining Advocacy Network
To fund travel of a Indonesian activist to Newmont Mining's shareholders meeting and to a series meetings for representatives from communities around the world that have been affected by Newmont's operations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-954
Amount: $725
Special Opportunities Fund
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Lombok Heritage Society
To provide a venue for cultural activities, and to educate the community about its Lombok heritage through community events. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-356
Amount: $5,050
Samdhana
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Forum Bangun Aceh
To support rebuilding of tsunami-devastated economies by providing direct assistance to hundreds of local businesses seeking to rebuild and reopen. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-983
Amount: $4,100
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Community Alliance for Pulp Paper Advocacy
To strengthen community-based forestry within ex-logging concessions, and to document environmental impacts of the wood pulp industry in Indonesia. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-992
Amount: $4,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Mangrove Action Project Indonesia
To host a mangrove reforestry and tsunami recovery workshop in Andhra Pradesh, India. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-052
Amount: $18,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Advocacy Network for North Sumatra Fisherfolk
To fund mangrove rehabilitation projects in coastal villages of North Sumatra, including community education, direct replanting, and participatory mapping of mangrove forests. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-073
Amount: $7,500
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Yayasan Laksana Samudera
To fund educational and mangrove replanting activities on Bengkalis Island in Riau Province. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-149
Amount: $5,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Environment Organization of Asia
To fund start-up grants for Achenese women who are establishing a network of community-based business cooperatives. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-003
Amount: $10,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Mining Advocacy Network
To fund travel for an Indonesian activist to the Annual Shareholders Meeting of the Newmont Mining Corporation and to meetings of communities affected by Newmont's operations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-007
Amount: $2,300
Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Forum Bangun Aceh
To support direct assistance to hundreds of tsunami-damaged businesses to enable them to rebuild and reopen. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-934
Amount: $5,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Bandung Institute of Technology
To fund a project to popularize bamboo as a sustainable material for reconstruction after the December 2004 tsunami. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-150
Amount: $1,500
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Indonesian Forum for the Environment
To support legal action on behalf of two villages whose land rights are threatened by a new law. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-346
Amount: $5,000
Samdhana
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Komite Solidaritas Desa
To fund a volunteer-run program in East Nusa Tenggara to provide clean water to nearby villages and build community autonomy through self-reliance and inter-village cooperation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-361
Amount: $5,040
Samdhana
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Yayasan Kerja Pemukiman Rakyat
To support a successful program which enables farmers in West Lombok to cultivate their land sustainably so they are not forced to become migrant laborers. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-360
Amount: $4,500
Samdhana
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Mangrove Action Project Indonesia
To continue medium-to-long-term mangrove rehabilitation projects begun in response to the December 2004 South Asian tsunami. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-221
Amount: $35,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Komite Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Aiq Buka
To support a program to strengthen community stewardship of a locally-managed ecotourism area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-359
Amount: $4,500
Samdhana
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Lembaga Amana Gapa Samudra
To fund several activities in Sumbawa, including a mangrove management program and an environmental education program for teachers. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-358
Amount: $4,300
Samdhana
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Pondok Pesantren Nurul Haramaen
To support development and implementation of a sustainable management plan in the Nusa Tenggara region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-357
Amount: $5,000
Samdhana
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Gumi Paer Rinjani
To fund creation of a community-based natural resource management organization in the Rinjai area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-355
Amount: $2,210
Samdhana
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Yayasan Puter
To support participatory land use planning and the development of local criteria for physical reconstruction of villages in Aceh Province. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-353
Amount: $5,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Yayasan Bantuan Hukum Bantaya Palu
To fund a meeting on forest policy, which will be attended by representatives of 31 villages in the Mamuju-Utara district. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-352
Amount: $2,100
Samdhana
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Simpul Rumah Alir-Information and Communication Society
To support a simple community radio station, which will provide programming on social issues, strengthen community networks and help ensure local access to information. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-362
Amount: $4,234
Samdhana
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Dian Niaga
To support tsunami relief programs in Aceh, including water storage, food and clothing distribution and training of local people to begin a bakery. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-794
Amount: $3,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Yayasan Cinta Alam
To fund ten independent films on environmental, social and cultural issues in Sulawesi. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-351
Amount: $3,000
Samdhana
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Jaringan Advokasi Tambang / JATAM (Mining Advocacy Network)
To co-fund a documentary film about the struggle of Buyat Bay residents against pollution by an international mining company. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-344
Amount: $5,000
Samdhana
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Konfiden
To fund travel to a conference on Knowledge Sharing for Local Development in The South. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-343
Amount: $2,247
Samdhana Institute Indonesia
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Yayasan Rakata Alam Terbuka
To fund a carpentry and wood-building workshop in the tsunami-stricken area of Calang. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-354
Amount: $5,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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KELOLA
To support a continuing campaign to hold an international gold mining company and the Indonesian government accountable for the pollution of Buyat Bay. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-836
Amount: $5,000
Friends of the Earth
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KARSA Institute (Rural and Agrarian Reform Institute)
To fund participation by an Indonesian environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-317
Amount: $900
Pesticide Action Network
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Indonesian Forum for the Environment
To fund local organizations in providing emergency tsunami relief for victims in Aceh and North Sumatera, and in beginning post-emergency rebuilding. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-805
Amount: $3,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Management Body of Marine Sanctuary
To support efforts to involve local community members in the delineation and regulation of the Sebesi Island Community Base Marine Sanctuary, an area set aside for coral reef protection. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-802
Amount: $5,000
Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Environmental Bamboo Foundation
To support forest preservation and income generation in rural areas by holding a workshop on bamboo housing construction and by building a prototype low-cost house. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-796
Amount: $5,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Kelompok Nelayan Pesisir Karya Segara
To fund efforts to gain legal recognition for sustainable coral farming. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-342
Amount: $5,000
Samdhana
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Indonesian Forum for the Environment
To fund travel for expert witnesses to testify in the civil lawsuit over Newmont Mining's dumping of waste in Buyat Bay. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-235
Amount: $3,185
Special Opportunities Fund
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Murkele Organization
To help the indigenous Alifuru people create and implement a forest management plan in areas of Seram Island where illegal logging has depleted much of the forest cover. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-915
Amount: $4,526
Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Yayasan Batukaru
To establish a local organization to plan and coordinate organic farming and sustainable development in the Prana Dewi area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-349
Amount: $4,400
Samdhana
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Balai Perempuan Ujungalang Kampung Laut
To fund an educational film to strengthen community identity in the face of illegal threats to seize communal lands. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-888
Amount: $5,000
Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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Center of Research and Development for Fishers Community
To fund a series of mangrove management workshops, participatory mapping seminars and meetings with local government agencies in order to assist in tsunami recovery. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-910
Amount: $4,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Yayasan Acehkita
To support programs to increase the capacity of women to participate in the planning and execution of relief programs in Aceh, as well as programs to help them recover their livelihoods. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-901
Amount: $5,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Koalisi Solidaritas Kemanusiaan Bencana Alam
To support this coalition in coordinating the tsunami relief work of its roughly 24 member organizations, and in providing liaison with national and international aid bodies. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-777
Amount: $10,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Yayasan Leuser Lestari
To fund the organization's work in coordinating groups of relief volunteers from nearby Sumatra who have been responsible for search & rescue and aid distribution. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-788
Amount: $5,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Telapak Association
To support tsunami relief efforts, particularly in monitoring environmental challenges to the relief efforts and coordinating communications between local organizations and international aid groups. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-789
Amount: $5,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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RAKATA
To relief services to tsunami-affected peoples in Aceh, including a mobile clinic and a transit station and warehouse in Medan. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-790
Amount: $7,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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|
| Asia : Kiribati : 2005 |
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Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific Kiribati
To fund the training of 1,500 community members in techniques of home organic farming, and to establish a demonstration plot which will be used as a training site and seedling provider. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-161
Amount: $3,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Malaysia : 2005 |
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Partners of Community Organizations
To fund a one-week advanced GIS mapping workshop for community mappers working to preserve indigenous land rights in Sarawak and Sabah. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-919
Amount: $4,500
Earth Island Institute
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Third World Network Berhad
To fund participation by a Malaysian environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-321
Amount: $900
Pesticide Action Network
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Consumers Association of Kapar Selangor
To fund outreach and capacity-building programs for women working on local rubber plantations and palm oil estates, as well as educational programs on the negative effects of pesticides. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-974
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Asia : Micronesia : 2005 |
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Conservation Society of Pohnpei
To fund the monitoring and assessment of 30 potential fish spawning sites around the island of Pohnpei, part of an effort to identify new sites to be designated as Marine Protected Areas. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-834
Amount: $3,135
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Conservation Society of Pohnpei
To support the newly-formed Pohnpei Environmental Club, which improves high schoolers' awareness of environmental issues and involves them in protection activities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-833
Amount: $960
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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|
| Asia : Nepal : 2005 |
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All Nepal Peasants' Association
To support peasant participation in a seminar on food sovereignty -- the right of communities to define which agriculture-related policies are most appropriate to their own circumstances. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-133
Amount: $4,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Shree High Altitude Herbal Growers Group
To support capacity-building for three groups working to promote sustainable herbal cultivation that ensures the conservation of wild herbal stocks. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-117
Amount: $3,500
Earth Island Institute
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Shree Deep Jyoti Youth Club
To fund environmental training sessions in four different villages, to create two forest restoration areas, to arrange two women's handicraft training sessions and to implement a medicinal plant cultivation program. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-118
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Pakistan : 2005 |
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Village Conservation Committee Kuju Payeen
To fund new programs designed to increase rural incomes, reduce pressure on the mountain ecosystem and encourage local participation in conservation efforts. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-922
Amount: $4,500
Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Papua New Guinea : 2005 |
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Gabsonkeg Womens Group
To support a variety of projects, including a community land use planning program, reforestation of a degraded grassland area, and the marketing of non-timber forest products. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-832
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Gogol / Naru Resource Owners' Association Inc.
To fund land-use planning and communication programs of by organization, which conserves and rehabilitates a 10,000 hectare area of the heavily-logged Gogol Valley. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-831
Amount: $3,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Ona Kipiyufa Environment and Landcare Group
To combat soil erosion and deforestation in the area by setting up conservation committees in area villages, and by establishing central tree nursery. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-829
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Deboin Peoples' Foundation
To support development of communities in the Binandere Tribal Region, and to provide them with environmental training materials. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-034
Amount: $3,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Alotau Environment Limited
To support community training programs in beekeeping and small-scale coconut oil production, as well as publication of environmental education materials. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-825
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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NGO Environmental Watch Group
To support the organization's work to serve those whose livelihoods, environment and property rights have been affected by mining operations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-824
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Oro Community Environment Action Network
To support this start-up organization in its environmental awareness and advocacy work with communities in Oro Province. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-823
Amount: $3,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Lake Murray Resource Owners Association
To provide logistical support for efforts to protect community rights and support community-based resource management in the largest remaining rainforest in the South Pacific. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-822
Amount: $3,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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OGAYO Integrated Conservation and Development Association Inc
To support environmental awareness and community enterprises that are alternatives to oil palm plantations and other large-scale development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-039
Amount: $3,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Kuka Community Group
To support a variety of watershed and other restoration projects in Boungainville, an area that recently emerged from ten years of civil strife. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-830
Amount: $3,484
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Hogave Conservation and Eco Tourism
To fund ecotourism programs, as well as eco-forestry training seminars for local landowners. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-041
Amount: $2,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Conservation Forum of PNG
To support grassroots community groups and to fund coordination of environmental campaigns throughout the country. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-033
Amount: $3,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Naimai Community Development Association
To continue a project which promotes the wise use of forest resources and assists the Naimai community in marketing non-timber forest products. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-793
Amount: $4,534
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Inaugl Health and Conservation Association
To support projects including construction of a community center, seminars on biodiversity conservation training on eco-tourism promotion, and forest rehabilitation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-155
Amount: $3,600
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Ol-nga Kogen Youth Group
To support a program to collect, propagate and replant indigenous seedlings in order to help reforest grassland areas. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-156
Amount: $3,740
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Barefoot Community Services
To support training and workshops for environmental and conservation organizations in East New Britain Province. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-157
Amount: $3,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Managalas Development Foundation
To fund the Managalas Community Leaders Summit, which will bring together community leaders from throughout the district to discuss sustainable development options. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-158
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Turubu Eco-Forestry Association
To support this community-based organization in increasing awareness among local forest and coastal communities of planned industrial logging and fishing projects in their areas. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-038
Amount: $3,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Gandipondi Elementary School
To fund a one-week training workshop for elementary school teachers, who will develop an environmental education curriculum. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-040
Amount: $3,194
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Philippines : 2005 |
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Misamis Oriental Farmers Association
To support a campaign highlighting the environmental and social consequences of construction of a coal-fired power plant near Cagayan de Oro City. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-022
Amount: $2,000
Friends of the Earth
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Cordillera Peoples Alliance
To fund travel for one Vietnamese and several Lao participants to the Third General Meeting of Rivers Watch East and Southeast Asia (RWESA), to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-223
Amount: $1,000
International Rivers
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Sentro para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo
To fund travel by Filipino peasant leaders to the Asian Forum on Agrarian Reform, which will focus on land tenure issues and sustainable development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-132
Amount: $4,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Advocates of Science and Technology for the People
To fund a series of workshops and discussions across the Philippines, resulting in a draft alternative to the country's current mineral policy. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-928
Amount: $4,500
Earth Island Institute
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Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme
To fund a video documentary on sustainable management of gaharu trees in East Kalimantan. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-345
Amount: $5,000
Samdhana Institute Indonesia
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Supreme Council of Datus Alimaong Mati Chapter
To fund programs to build the capacity of indigenous peoples living in Baranguay Macambol, where an international mining company plans to establish a nickel laterite mining project near an environmentally sensitive coastal area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-023
Amount: $4,500
Friends of the Earth
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Indigenous Peoples Research Center Mindanao Incorporated
To support the organization in a wide range of activities to aid Lumad indigenous people in obtaining title to traditionally-held communal lands. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-348
Amount: $5,000
Samdhana
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General Assembly of Women for Reforms Integrity, Equality, Leadership and Action
To support seed distribution and community-based environmental seminars to aid the rehabilitation of communities affected by recent typhoons. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-121
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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National Agribusiness Development Center Foundation, Incorporated
To fund two farming communities that are adapting a diesel-powered corn dryer to run on organic farm waste. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-347
Amount: $10,000
Samdhana
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Ecological Waste Coalition of the Philippines Inc.
To fund a campaign focusing on the involvement of international financial institutions in waste and pollution-related issues in the Philippines. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-252
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Women Development, Incorporated
To fund community need surveys in six indigenous Mansaka communities and to educate community members about their legal rights under the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-909
Amount: $5,000
Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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NGO Forum on Asian Development Bank
To launch an Asian branch of "IFI Watchnet," a global network of organizations that monitor the actions of international financial institutions. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-841
Amount: $4,500
IFI Advisory Board
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Participatory Enhancement of Diversity of Genetic Resources in Asia Program
To fund participation by an Filipino environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-310
Amount: $900
Pesticide Action Network
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Ubpaan En Ni Apu Mendadtem
To support indigenous communities in sustainably managing their lands by providing skills training, establishing tree nurseries and constructing basic food processing equipment. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-908
Amount: $5,000
Southeast Asia Advisory Board
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NGO Forum on Asian Development Bank
To fund case studies of the environmental and human rights effects of Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects, as well as recommendations based on those findings. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-028
Amount: $7,000
IFI Advisory Board
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MASIPAG
To fund participation by a Philippine environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-307
Amount: $900
Pesticide Action Network
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| Asia : Russia : 2005 |
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Semipalatinsk Union
To support activities to protect the rights of Environmental Migrants -- refugees from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan who now reside in and around Novosibirsk. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-187
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Altai
To fund development of an environmental protection project that will bring together different grassroots youth groups in the Altai. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-881
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East
To fund travel for indigenous representatives to participate in negotiations on compensation for communities displaced by the Sakhalin Oil and Gas Project. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-853
Amount: $7,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Public Organization Time Doesn't Wait
To support the clean-up and reforestation of six hectares near Uglegorsk City and the creation of a eco-trail through the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-875
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Altai
To fund field trips to identify, photograph and map natural features in Altaisky Krai that will be designated for protection, and to conduct opinion polling relative to the project. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-876
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk Regional Public Organization Ecological Association
To fund a gathering of young environmental activists in Krasnoyarski Krai to develop possible solutions to the growing trash disposal problem. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-877
Amount: $1,711
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Fund for Educational Support Planet
To fund reforestation activities in the Altai Republic, and to attract attention to the rapid degradation of the taiga ecosystem in the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-878
Amount: $1,360
Russia Advisory Board
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Indigenous Peoples Association of the North
To support public environmental monitoring and review of logging activities around the indigenous Dogordon Village, located in the Russian Far East. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-873
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Charusa
To continue a project to involve local residents and tourists visiting the River Inya to take part in the region's protection. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-880
Amount: $1,790
Russia Advisory Board
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Youth Ecological Agency Planet
To fund an environmental trail through unique natural features of the Charysh area of Altai Krai, in order to decrease recreational impact on the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-872
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Khabarovsky Krai
To support a series of public hearings on the environmental impact of the Sakhalin oil project, in order to inform the local population and ensure that construction complies with relevant environmental regulations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-882
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Squad Altair
To protect the natural monument known as Amrinskoe Gully by holding training sessions for local environmental activists, distributing educational materials, and staging clean-up sessions. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-884
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zoo
To conduct a series of lectures about a specially protected nature territory, to organize tours of the area, and to create a club of young environmentalists. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-885
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Zabaikalsk
To fund efforts to alleviate conflict between the supporters of the Daurskyi Nature Preserve and farmers from the surrounding region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-886
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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NGO Ecopatrol
To organize public hearings and round table discussions on the issues of wildlife management and public participation in environmental decisions. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-932
Amount: $1,830
Russia Advisory Board
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Great Baikal Trail Association
To fund a new Great Baikal Trail Center in Sevrobaikaslk, and to support construction of trails and a resource library for ecotourism development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-920
Amount: $4,500
Earth Island Institute
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Public Organization Debut
To fund staging of an environmental play by a children's theater in the village of Kolyvan', as well as the play's tour of the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-879
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Children Ecologocal Club Blue Bird
To organize local high school students from troubled families to clean up a local recreational area called Kok-Tei. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-860
Amount: $528
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Organization Vostok ( East)
To create a Ecotourism Coordination Center in the Prymorie Region, which will help preserve national monuments there. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-195
Amount: $1,633
Russia Advisory Board
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Tengri School of Spiritual Ecology
To oppose construction of a dam on the Katun River, by arranging for an independent environmental impact evaluation and by raising public awareness of the issue. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-196
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group All Together
To fund environmental education programs, some of which will involve participation of children with behavioral problems. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-197
Amount: $1,170
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecology
To fund a public meeting and opinion poll in portions of Novosibirsk Oblast on a possible bird hunting moratorium during the spring hatch. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-198
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Tomsk Teachers
To fund efforts to involve residents of five villages in Tomsk Oblast in a campaign to improve water quality. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-199
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Teachers Initiative Group
To support a series of expeditions to catalog the flora, fauna and other key aspects of areas that can be designated as Natural Monuments. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-874
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Club Horizon
To support a program to reforest the Ob River basin and organize a forestry school in the Smolensk District. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-859
Amount: $500
Russia Advisory Board
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Sources
To focus attention of the local population and authorities on developing alternative energy sources in Groin Altai. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-194
Amount: $1,581
Russia Advisory Board
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Environmental Fund Sikhote-Alin
To create an organization to perform public environmental monitoring and review of industrial logging in the Bikin River valley. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-861
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Pervomaiskyi Nature Resources Protection
To support programs to organize children from two local youth sport camps into groups that will clean up three local lakes. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-862
Amount: $1,891
Russia Advisory Board
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Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North Kolta Up
To fund increased participation of local indigenous communities in environment-related decision making in the Karagasokskyi District of Tomsk Oblast. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-863
Amount: $1,890
Russia Advisory Board
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Ongudai Region Special Protected Nature Territories Association
To establish a temporary system of public monitoring of natural features and ecological attributes of the Altai area, to allow for better area protection and improved reporting of violations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-867
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Biosphere
To send a group of environmental experts to the River Om for 10 days to evaluate ecosystem conditions and develop recommentations to improve the condition of the river and its tributaries. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-868
Amount: $1,993
Russia Advisory Board
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GOO V Budushee Vmeste
To support mass media campaigns on the environmental situation in Novisibirsk. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-870
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Aniva
To support a program to research the negative ecological and social impacts of the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project on the local community. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-858
Amount: $1,330
Russia Advisory Board
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The Union of Chita Volunteer Environmental Squads
To fund a series of training sessions for environmental groups in the Chita region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-189
Amount: $1,654
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Environmental Wave
To support four different local environmental education and information outposts, which facilitate citizen participation in campaigns on oil/gas development, mining, illegal clear-cutting and other issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-124
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Live Water
To support creation of a Youth Eco-Agencies Network that will study and monitor fresh water resources in the Amur River basin of Prymorie. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-178
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoton
To fund a plant census and assessment of human impacts on the Shelabolihnskyi region of the Altai. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-234
Amount: $1,450
Russia Advisory Board
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Ural Ecological Union
To support a program to highlight alternatives to existing energy industries, and to establish a working group of stakeholders to oversee the program's implementation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-119
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Novosibirsk Branch of All Russian NGO Russian Ecological Independent Expertise
To support a formal assessment of a new park development plan in Novosibirsk, and to organize public meetings to discuss the issue. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-177
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Union of Indigenous People Kun
To support a range of environmental protection and restoration activities conducted by the Telengits indigenous people in the Altai. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-190
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Volunteer Ecological Squad Delta
To fund a wildlife census, stream restoration, creation of a nature trail and environmental training for high school students. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-232
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Assistance to Citizen Initiatives
To fund publication of news bulletin on energy-saving techniques, new building construction methods, "green" energy alternatives and other related issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-120
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Live Creeks
To fund protection of the habitat of rare invertebrate marine species in the area and to attract attention to the sharp decline in the area's biodiversity. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-233
Amount: $1,531
Russia Advisory Board
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Altai Regional Public Organization Irbis
To support development of eco-tourism in different parts of the Altai Republic, and to establish regular monitoring and clean-up activities in collaboration with local indigenous communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-188
Amount: $1,890
Russia Advisory Board
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Citizen Council 100 houses
To fund restoration projects at Lake Bezymyannoe, in the suburbs of Novosibirsk, and to change local citizens' attitudes toward the lake. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-176
Amount: $1,575
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Center for Environmental Expertise
To organize and publicize an environmental impact assessment of lead and zinc mining in the Lake Baikal region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-186
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Sakhalin Environment Watch
To support independent citizens' monitoring of construction sites for the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 oil and gas development projects on Sakhalin Island. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-243
Amount: $5,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Student Club Ecos
To support community clean-up and environmental awareness activities along the Aksha River. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-184
Amount: $1,871
Russia Advisory Board
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Tomsk Regional Children's Youth Public Organization Siberian House
To organize a media campaign for protection of natural monuments in Tomsk Oblast, and to conduct ecological inventories in several nearby natural monuments. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-183
Amount: $1,755
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Squad
To fund restoration and clean-up of a park in Odesskoe village, as well as efforts to gain that park Specially Protected Area status. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-182
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Ecodom
To support creation of a recreational tourist zone, with protected status. in the traditional territory of the Shores indigenous group, and to combat illegal logging in the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-200
Amount: $1,860
Russia Advisory Board
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Center for Promoting Sustainable Development
To fund various activities to increase collaboration between young environmentalists and government entities, businesses and other sectors of society. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-185
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecocenter Alkor
To fund development and implementation of technologies for solid waste collection and recycling in the coastal areas of the Vostodk Nature Reserve. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-179
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecodefense
To support activities of the Chernobyl +20 Coalition, a network of about 30 organizations raising public awareness of continuing nuclear issues in the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-260
Amount: $1,450
Friends of the Earth
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Initiative Group School Forestry
To support an environmental education campaign, as well as student and citizen reforestation activities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-181
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Public Ecological Center Dauria
To fund a grant writing workshop for grassroots environmental and social groups in the Krasnoyarsk region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-201
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Revival
To fund restoration of the Voikovskaja Forest ecosystem, which has suffered from illegal logging and fires. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-231
Amount: $1,494
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Around You
To support campaigns for improved waste disposal, public cleanup and reforestation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-193
Amount: $1,500
Russia Advisory Board
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Baikal Center for Environmental Expertise
To support an environmental impact assessment at the proposed Khiagda uranium site, and to compile a public handbook for monitoring the environment in the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-123
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Children Public Organization VIEKO Kedr
To fund restoration of a pine forest and to expand a tree nursery, using participation of at-risk youth. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-192
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Mikhailovskyi Chemical Technological College Students
To support a campaign to obtain official Natural Monument status for Crimson Lake, a local recreational site currently under the threat of agricultural development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-180
Amount: $1,428
Russia Advisory Board
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Protection of Rare Species
To organize a campaign to raise awareness of endangered plants and animals of the Western Altai region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-229
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Ecology Teachers
To fund high school environmental clubs and environmental events for the local community. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-191
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecotrails of Pryamurie
To support creation of an eco-trail near Svobodnyi City, the third largest city in the Amur area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-230
Amount: $1,410
Russia Advisory Board
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| Asia : Samoa : 2005 |
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Ole Siosiomaga Society
To link up private landowners and members of the Upolu and Savaii communities in a flying fox conservation campaign, an impetus for forest conservation in the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-818
Amount: $3,700
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Faasao Savaii Society
To support implementation of a wide-ranging project to protect local ecosystems and implement sustainable income-generating activities on the island of Savaii. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-820
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Village Council for Satapuala
To support the rehabilitation and reforestation of the water catchment area for Satapuala village. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-036
Amount: $3,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Simple Law
To support public awareness projects, including pamphlets on environmental legislation and workshops on environmental issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-159
Amount: $3,480
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Savaia Village Council
To fund construction of metal rubbish bins for Savala village, a pilot program for island-wide waste management efforts. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-035
Amount: $3,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Village Council for Satapuala
To continue the project of rehabilitating the water catchment area for Satapuala Village. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-160
Amount: $1,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Sri Lanka : 2005 |
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Vikalpani National Federation
To fund establishment of a center to distribute information on pesticide use in Sri Lanka, and to support pesticide monitoring activities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-975
Amount: $3,000
Pesticide Action Network
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World Forum of Fisher Peoples
To support the organization's annual meeting, which will focus on resisting international privatization and infrastructure projects that threaten small-scale fishers' way of life. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-248
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Saviya Development Foundation
To fund relief, including food, drinking water and medical supplies, for fisher communities and other tsunami victims in Sri Lanka. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-804
Amount: $2,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Center for Environmental Justice
To fund tsunami relief, including desalinization of local wells, organization of community groups to restore greenbelts and replant mangroves, and mediation of environmentally-related disputes. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-800
Amount: $15,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Saviya Development Foundation
To fund relief, including food, drinking water and medical supplies, for fisher communities and other tsunami victims. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-795
Amount: $8,000
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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| Asia : Taiwan : 2005 |
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Tainan Environmental Protection Union
To fund a series of events to promote public interest in ecological preservation around the city of Chiku. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-921
Amount: $4,500
Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Thailand : 2005 |
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Sustainable Development Foundation
To fund participation of a representative of this group in a 3-day conference in Brussels on the topic of export credit agencies and human rights accountability. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-096
Amount: $1,273
IFI Advisory Board
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Inter Mountain Peoples Education and Cultures in Thailand Association
To support the production of participatory maps of community lands and resources, and the study of traditional uses of biological resources. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-350
Amount: $5,025
Samdhana
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Foundation for Ecological Recovery
To fund a review of a $40 billion Asian Development Bank project to construct a series of dams throughout the Mekong region and on the Salween River in Burma. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-050
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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Responsible Ecological Social Tours Project
To fund a 3-day workshop and training seminar on coral reef ecology in Phang Nga Bay, which suffered great damage from the December 2004 tsunami. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-074
Amount: $2,660
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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Naucrates
To support cleaning, assessment and restoration activities in environmentally sensitive regions of Phra Tong Island, which was badly hit by the 2004 tsunami. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-072
Amount: $4,340
Tsunami Recovery Advisory Board
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SEARIN
To support the Thai Baan Research network in developing grassroots groups and research sites in the Mekong, Salween and Yom river basins. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-257
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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| Asia : Turkey : 2005 |
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Kurdish Human Rights Project
To support an international conference to assess the environmental and social impacts of dam construction in southeastern Turkey. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-148
Amount: $2,000
International Rivers
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| Asia : Tuvalu : 2005 |
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Tuvalu Association of Non Governmental Organizations
To support programs to involve communities in the outer islands of Tuvalu in evaluating the ongoing conservation area project. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-826
Amount: $3,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Tuvalu Association of Non Governmental Organizations
To continue the "Project Aware" environmental education initiative among 8th graders of Tuvalu. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-827
Amount: $3,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Vanuatu : 2005 |
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Wan Smolbag Theatre
To support the Blacksands and Tagabe communities in cleaning up the Tagabe River. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-828
Amount: $4,177
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Bahamas : 2005 |
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Earthcare
To fund legal challenges to a tourist resort development which threatens key habitats on Bimini Island. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-101
Amount: $2,500
Special Opportunities Fund
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| Central America/Caribbean : Belize : 2005 |
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Toledo Institute for Development and Environment
To support a community conservation program to preserve the remaining hicatee freshwater turtle population in the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-088
Amount: $2,500
Central America Advisory Board
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Toledo Institute for Development and Environment
To support an adult education program in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras to improve local participation in the management of the Sapodilla Caye Marine Reserve. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-087
Amount: $4,850
Central America Advisory Board
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Barranco Village Council
To fund a new program through which village elders will work with youth to build dugout canoes and educate them about the cultural and environmental importance of the surrounding marine environment. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-086
Amount: $5,000
Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Costa Rica : 2005 |
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Asociación de Jóvenes Agricultores de la Zona Norte
To fund development of a publicity strategy for rural, community-based adventure tourism, in order to diversify and augment peasant families' sources of income. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-079
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Guatemala : 2005 |
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Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de las Víctimas de la Violencia Maya Achi
To support hiring of a new technical coordinator for the campaign to ameliorate the conditions of communities affected by construction of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-952
Amount: $2,000
International Rivers
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Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén
To fund an international conference on sustainable development in the Peten region, including a review of the first ten years of community forest management in Central America. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-078
Amount: $4,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Sotz'il
To support a series of consultations between indigenous leaders and communities in order to help draft an alternative agenda for national development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-080
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Coordinadora de Comunidades Afectadas por la Represa Hidroeléctrica Chixoy
To fund the third annual meeting of the Latin American Network Against Dams, and for Rivers, their Communities and Water. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-134
Amount: $10,000
International Rivers
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Comunidad Maya Sipakapense
To support the mobilization of local community members to resist development of a local mine. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-084
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Comunidades Rurales para el Desarrollo Integral
To fund a training seminar for community leaders, focusing on leadership skills and sustainable agriculture practices. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-811
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Campesina 13 de Marzo Rio Negro Rabinal Achi
To cover the expenses of bringing Central American participants to a meeting of the Latin American Network Against Dams and for Rivers, their Communities and Water. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-085
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Estoreña Para el Desarrollo Integral
To build the capacity of the Q'eqchi Maya communities living within the mining concession area recently purchased by a Canadian mining firm.. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-813
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Trópico Verde
To strengthen the capacity of local organizations in Eastern Guatemala to help manage coastal resources there. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-089
Amount: $2,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Comunitaria de Desarrollo Integral JEDREPS
To support local communities adversely affected by land use change and soil erosion by funding office materials, training programs, and exchanges with other communities practicing sustainable agriculture. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-812
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Honduras : 2005 |
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Medios de Comunicación Alternativos y Conexos S. de R. L. (El Libertador)
To support efforts to publicize information concerning human rights and environmental abuses in Honduras, especially concerning the logging and mining industries. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-810
Amount: $3,600
Central America Advisory Board
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Terco Producciones
To fund an inventory of cultural and natural resources in the Mosquitia region of Honduras, and to produce a documentary on Misquito culture and their tradition of sustainable natural resource management. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-083
Amount: $3,500
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Comunidades Campesinas para la Conservación y Desarrollo de la Biosfera Tawahka Asangni
To support efforts by the nine communities living within the Tawahka-Asangni Biosphere Reserve to build on their successful natural resource management program and to influence national-level decisions on the environment. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-082
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña
To support reforestation, waste management and community-based reef management programs in the Garifuna community of Punta Gorda, on the island of Roatan. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-090
Amount: $5,500
Central America Advisory Board
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Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña
To fund environmental and eco-tourism efforts by the Garifuna community of Cachauate, within the recently-created Cayos Cochinos Marine Reserve. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-091
Amount: $6,500
Central America Advisory Board
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Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indigenas de Honduras
To fund a first-ever international gathering of groups throughout Central and South America that have been affected by International Financial Institution projects. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-009
Amount: $7,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Nicaragua : 2005 |
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Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral Comunitario Urbano y Rural
To pay start-up costs for this organization, which will improve the quality of life for Nicaraguans by promoting sustainable agriculture, creating small businesses and improving education. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-809
Amount: $5,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Nacional de Cluster y Redes locales para el Desarrollo
To fund exchanges among community leaders involved in community-based rural tourism, focusing on evaluating community resources and identifying economic opportunities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-081
Amount: $4,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas para Centroamérica
To fund participation by a Nicaraguan environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-315
Amount: $830
Pesticide Action Network
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Cooperativa de Servicios Multiples Amigos del Bosque
To support development of a locally-managed sustainable forestry plan for this agricultural cooperative. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-814
Amount: $4,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Cooperativa Agropecuaria de Servicios Múltiples Extracciones Esenciales Siuna R.L.
To support this agro-forestry cooperative, located in the buffer zone surrounding the BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve in Nicaragua, in developing a business plan for marketing sustainably-harvested essential oils. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-815
Amount: $3,500
Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Panama : 2005 |
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Asociación Gardi Sugdub
To support a community environmental education program, which will include workshops for local leaders, site visits to sensitive areas and environmental education activities for young people. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-242
Amount: $4,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Alianza para la Conservación y Desarrollo de Panama
To support indigenous Naso and Ngobe communities in developing a legal campaign and alternative development plan in the face of hydroelectric projects that threaten their lands. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-259
Amount: $2,500
International Rivers
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| Europe : Belgium : 2005 |
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Proyecto Gato
To support a campaign for the reform or discontinuation of financing for a series of dams that are displacing local peoples without their consent. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-854
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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| Europe : Czech Republic : 2005 |
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Hnuti DUHA Usti nad Labem
To support a campaign to enforce existing mining boundaries and thereby prevent destruction of the historic village of Horni Jiretin. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-026
Amount: $4,500
Friends of the Earth
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| Europe : Lithuania : 2005 |
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Western Lithuania Consumer Federation
To support a program to promote awareness of chemical pesticides in agricultural and household products. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-162
Amount: $4,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Macedonia : 2005 |
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Macedonian Association of Doctors for the Environment
To fund a series of roundtables in rural areas on pesticide use, as well as a workshop in the capital on standards for food, water, air, and soil quality. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-973
Amount: $4,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Netherlands : 2005 |
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International Council of the World Social Forum
To fund costs for delegates from the Global South to attend a meeting of the International Council of the World Social Forum. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-290
Amount: $1,550
Friends of the Earth
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| Europe : Poland : 2005 |
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Polish Ecological Club Lubuski Branch
To fund an information campaign on organic farming, including publication and distribution of brochures, contacts with the mass media, and maintenance of a website. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-972
Amount: $3,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Stowarzyszenie Ekologiczno-Kulturalne Klub Gaja
To support publication of an ecological news bulletin, round table discussions and other programs to protect and restore Polish rivers. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-113
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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| Europe : Romania : 2005 |
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Alburnus Maior
To fund travel of a Romanian activist to Newmont Mining's shareholders meeting and to a series of meetings for representatives from communities around the world that have been affected by Newmont's operations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-913
Amount: $1,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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Terra Mileniul III
To support a campaign to raise public and political awareness of nuclear issues and to prevent construction of a third nuclear reactor at the Cernavoda power plant. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-261
Amount: $2,000
Friends of the Earth
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| Europe : Slovak Republic : 2005 |
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Center for Sustainable Alternatives Support
To support a pesticide-awareness campaign, including improved monitoring of commercial pesticide use and the advocacy of economic accountability for polluters. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-163
Amount: $4,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Ukraine : 2005 |
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Green Doctors
To fund participation in a conference on sustainable agriculture and organic farming in the Ukraine and neighboring countries. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-971
Amount: $1,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Ecoclub
To fund an "Energy Tour," which will visit areas near existing or planned nuclear plants, and which will inform the public about the issues involved. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-027
Amount: $4,500
Friends of the Earth
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Crimean Republic Association for Ecology and Peace (Dzankoy Branch)
To support installation of a wind turbine in Simferopol, in order to demonstrate the viability of wind power and to educate students and the public about this form of energy. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-923
Amount: $4,500
Earth Island Institute
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| Europe : United Kingdom : 2005 |
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Bretton Woods Project
To support creation of an African branch of "IFI Watchnet," a global network organizations that monitor the actions of international financial institutions. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-840
Amount: $6,400
IFI Advisory Board
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| North America : Canada : 2005 |
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Grassy Narrows Anishanaabe Kwe
To fund a regional gathering of indigenous Anishnaabe women, with the aim of regaining control of traditional lands in the face of large-scale logging projects. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-990
Amount: $5,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Halifax Initiative
To fund the participation of Southern representatives in a conference on Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) and human rights accountability. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-029
Amount: $351
IFI Advisory Board
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Pennywhistle Educational, Artistic and Cultural Endeavors, Incorporated
To support a new forest stewardship project in central and eastern Saskatchewan. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-288
Amount: $3,700
Rainforest Action Network
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Boreal Forest Network
To fund a campaign skills traing camp for members of a dozen First Nations communities that are protecting their traditional areas from various industrial threats. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-016
Amount: $2,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Western Mining Action Network
To fund travel by leaders of Canadian indigenous communities affected by mining operations to attend WMAN's biennial network-wide conference. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-902
Amount: $5,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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| North America : Mexico : 2005 |
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Colectivo Chilpancingo Pro Justicia Ambiental
To pressure the Mexican government to enforce existing environmental laws in the case of toxic pollution from an abandoned battery recycling site in Tijuana. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-207
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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Educación para la Paz, A.C.
To support the Third Annual Mexican Dam-Affected People's Conference, which will create commissions on human rights and environmental impact. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-284
Amount: $4,750
International Rivers
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Asociación Nuestro Bosque de la Ciudad de Mazatlan, A.C.
To support various infrastructure and clean-up projects in Mazatlan's City Park, including a tree nursery and demonstration garden. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-216
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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Consejo Ciudadano Para el Ordenamiento y Desarrollo de Bahia de Kino
To launch a citizen's council in Kino Bay, which will advocate sustainable community development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-238
Amount: $2,370
Mexico Advisory Board
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Asociación Ecologica de Usuarios le Rio Hardy-Colorado, A.C.
To support a micro-enterprise project in the Colorado River delta that will harvest invasive tamarisk trees and use the wood for construction and handicrafts. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-217
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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Consejo de Basura Playa Colorada
To fund waste management, and other environmental programs in Playa Colorado. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-215
Amount: $2,490
Mexico Advisory Board
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Santuario Animal El Refugio
To support an animal shelter in La Paz, which is working to create a bird sanctuary on a local communal farm. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-213
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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Genero, Medio Ambiente y Sociedad, I.A.P.
To fund the Fourth Annual National Women's Conference, which will link together women's organizations working on the environment, health and other issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-214
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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Sociedad de la Palapa de Todos Santos, A.C.
To support a Mobile Classroom Program which offers educational opportunities to the children of migrant workers -- mostly of indigenous background -- living in corporate farm camps. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-211
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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Sociedad de Historia Natural NIPARAJA, A.C.
To support a water quality monitoring program in the La Paz region of Baja California Sur, and to begin filtration of rural community wells. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-209
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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CTAM COYAII
To begin an education campaign on the importance of estuaries to the economic and cultural survival of the Cormac indigenous communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-239
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo de Mujeres de Isla del Conde Las Margaritas
To fund expansion of this program, in which local women sustainably cultivated and sold plants and herbal projects. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-965
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Johath Laudino Santillán
To support a natural resource conservation campaign among the communities of the Bahia Magdalena area of Baja California Sur. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-968
Amount: $2,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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Mujeres Bordando Motivos para la Naturaleza
To fund expansion of embroidery production for this women's cooperative, which provides job opportunities for and promotes environmental awareness of residents of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-926
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Comunidad Ecológico de Syngayta
To support environmentally-friendly activities in this cooperative, such as ecotourism, sustainable agriculture and crocodile-raising. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-966
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Colonos y Propietarios del Fraccionamiento Playas de Tijuana, A.C.
To continue a campaign to promote sustainable sources of energy as alternatives to several liquid natural gas terminals planned for the coast of Baja California. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-206
Amount: $2,790
Mexico Advisory Board
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Tierra, Mar y Desierto
To fund capacity-building seminars for women in the community of San Isidro Comondu, focusing on skills needed for environmental activism. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-964
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Mujeres y Conservación en El Sargento
To fund a series of clean-up and other environmental projects, both to improve life in the community and to foster interest in this new organization. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-963
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Mujeres y Conservación en la comunidad de La Ventana
To fund a series of clean-up and other environmental projects, both to improve life in the community and to foster interest in this new organization. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-962
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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El Pescadero Community Rural Public Library
To support establishment of a public library in the small town of El Pescadero, in order to strengthen the community and expand its environmental awareness. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-961
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, A.C.
To fund a study of two proposed Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) facilities, including the issues of environmental impact and regulatory status. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-960
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Ciudadanos Preocupados
To support a campaign against unsustainable tourist development near the city of La Paz, and to involve youth in efforts to clean local beaches and mangrove areas. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-959
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Niños Defensores de la Tierra
To fund the start-up of this grassroots initiative, which focuses on issues of solid waste disposal and protection of the nearby Sea of Cortez. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-958
Amount: $3,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo de Ecologia y Conservación de Islas, A.C.
To fund a water purification system for Guadalupe Island, in order to protect freshwater springs necessary to animal life there. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-957
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Fundación Biósfera A.C.
To fund practical seminars on resource conservation for communities near protected areas in the Sea of Cortez. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-956
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Amigos del Vizcaino, A.C.
To fund a traveling environmental education campaign on conservation of the highly endangered Peninsular Pronghorn in the El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-204
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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Isabel Hernández Ramírez
To support environmental education for island communities in or near the Sierra de la Laguna biosphere reserve in the Sea of Cortez. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-967
Amount: $2,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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La Colectiva Feminista Binacional
To support activities addressing occupational health and chemical exposure of factory workers in the border region around Tijuana. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-205
Amount: $4,540
Mexico Advisory Board
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La Joya de los Duran
To promote this cooperative's carpentry project, part of a larger program of sustainable development in the area. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-927
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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Huicholes y Plaguicidas
To support education of farm workers and community members about the human and environmental health risks of pesticides and other agro-toxins. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-169
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| North America : United States : 2005 |
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Lakota Action Network
To support participation of a Lakota Action Network member in a community organizing internship, and to provide follow-up support when the intern returns to his or her community. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-244
Amount: $5,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Black Mesa Water Coalition
To support a participation of a Black Mesa Water Coalition in a community organizing internship, and to provide follow-up support when the intern returns to his or her community. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-245
Amount: $5,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Grantmakers Without Borders
To support the organization in creating new international donors, moving current international donors into social justice philanthropy and improving the effectiveness of international giving. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-912
Amount: $3,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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Center for International Environmental Law
To fund travel for South American participants to attend the World Social Forum in Venezuela and the World Water Forum in Mexico. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-153
Amount: $2,840
Special Opportunities Fund
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International Indian Treaty Council
To support a project called the North-South Indigenous Peoples' Network Against Pesticides, which involves groups in 15 countries. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-981
Amount: $2,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| South America : Argentina : 2005 |
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Center for Human Rights and Environment
To fund a workshop, Access to Information, Public Participation and Transparency in the Americas, at the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-808
Amount: $2,750
Special Opportunities Fund
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Bios Quilmes
To strengthen the organization's capacity to act as a nationwide networking hub for environmental organizations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-271
Amount: $3,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Fundación Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales
To support the Mapuche indigenous communities and others in protesting planned dams on the Corcovado River in Patagonia and the related expansion of an aluminum smelter. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-852
Amount: $1,500
International Rivers
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Asociación Ecologista Piuke
To support the independent analysis of dam projects planned for the Corcovado River in Argentine Patagonia and the participation of indigenous Mapuche and other communities in decision-making on those projects. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-887
Amount: $1,500
International Rivers
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Fundación Proteger
To support the distribute and publicize a Spanish-language book on the politics of dams, including distribution of copies to dam-affected communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-955
Amount: $3,700
International Rivers
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| South America : Bolivia : 2005 |
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Collective of Applied Studies in Social Development
To fund participation of a representative of this group in a 3-day conference in Brussels on the topic of export credit agencies and human rights accountability. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-094
Amount: $1,374
IFI Advisory Board
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Comité de Lucha Contra el ALCA Santa Cruz
To support an Alternative Social Caravan to mobilize communities to resist the socially and environmentally detrimental effects that the Free Trade Area of the Americas will have on Bolivia's peasants. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-914
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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| South America : Brazil : 2005 |
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Sociedade Civil para o Desenvolvimento Socio-Ambiental e Cultural / Sociedade Formigas
To support an environmental education campaign focusing on sanitation issues and the link between environmental protection and human health. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-370
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Rede da Juventude pelo Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade
To fund programs to promote environmental awareness in youth groups and the inclusion of young people in environmental organizations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-332
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Centro Escola Mangue
To strengthen the programs of the Mangrove School, and to involve mangrove-dwelling communities in the sustainable management of those ecosystems. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-374
Amount: $1,500
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Comunidade Amigos dos Justinos
To support several projects, including community environmental education, tree planting, trash management and alternative income generation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-371
Amount: $4,600
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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GT Energia do Fórum Brasileiro de ONGs e Movimentos Sociais
To fund publication of materials on hydroelectric dam development in the Uruguay River basin, in order to support environmental and community groups in resisting large dam construction in the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-372
Amount: $1,560
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Centro de Estudos Ambientais
To support the organization in promoting community self-sufficiency and sustainability as alternatives to current agricultural and other practices. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-329
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação de Defensa da Vida e da Natureza do Vale do Río Uruguai
To provide general logistical support to the many communities and grassroots groups working against a vast array of hydroelectric projects Brazil's Uruguai River basin. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-837
Amount: $5,000
Friends of the Earth
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Associação Amigos do Meio Ambiente Mangue Ferido
To support clean-up activities along rivers and streams in municipalities of Jaboatão dos Guararapes and Santo Agostinho Cape, and to integrate those activities into a larger environmental campaign. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-373
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Rede Integrada de Organizações Socioambientais
To support four youth-led environmental organizations working on environmental education and sustainable local development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-330
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação de Monitores de Iporanga e Região
To fund programs involving young people from Iporanga and São Lourenço da Serra in sustainable tourism development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-369
Amount: $1,500
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Instituto de Permacultura e Ecovilas da Mata Atlântica
To promote the concept of permaculture, and to contribute to the creation of both rural and urban sustainable communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-333
Amount: $2,900
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação Novo Encanto de Desenvolvimento Ecológico
To provide community educators in Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul with Environmental Toolkits on the concepts of permaculture and agro-forestry systems. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-341
Amount: $2,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Centro dos Direitos das Populações da Região de Carajás
To fund participation in conferences and development of materials opposing the expansion of industrial soybean farming in Southern Maranhao and Parnaiba. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-334
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Fórum em Defesa da Zona Costeira do Ceará
To fund documentation of the agricultural history of the Ceara Region, and to help forge sustainable agricultural practices there. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-336
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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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: 2005
ID: 50-797
Amount: $35,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Centro de Tecnologia Agroecológica de Pequenos Agricultores
To support the organization's programs, including organic farming, agroforestry, raw material processing and production of herbal medicines. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-337
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Ecologia e Ação
To provide the new Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA), a member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds, with its yearly grantmaking budget for 2005. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-798
Amount: $85,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Assembléia Permanente de Entidades de Defesa do Meio Ambiente da Bahia
To support this organization in protecting the Atlantic Rain Forest, including its work to connect and mentor smaller environmental organizations working on that issue. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-338
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação dos Moradores e Agricultores da Serra da Abelha II
To support this agricultural cooperative society in its sustainable development projects, and to document the history of its progress. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-339
Amount: $3,500
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Movimento Popular Ecológico de Sergipe
To fund a conference on sustainable development, to support fishing communities harmed by commercial shrimp farming, and to support programs with the Quilombola and Xocó communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-340
Amount: $2,500
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Assembléia Permanente de Entidades de Defesa do Meio Ambiente da Bahia
To develop alternatives to a proposed water diversion project that will harm the residents and the ecology of the Sao Francisco River Basin. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-335
Amount: $5,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Instituto Terramar
To fund participation of six experienced activists in a public hearing on the proposed construction of a large-scale shrimp farm |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-127
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Ecologia e Ação
To provide the new Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA), a member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds, with its yearly grantmaking budget for 2005. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-071
Amount: $15,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Brigada 1
To fund equipment and training for volunteers working to prevent and fight forest fires. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-331
Amount: $3,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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| South America : Chile : 2005 |
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Comité Nacional Pro Defensa de La Fauna y Flora CODEFF
To support education of local communities about sustainable forest management, and to establish working models of such management systems across different ecosystems. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-997
Amount: $2,500
Rainforest Action Network
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Asociación Mapuche Ñankuchew
To support a meeting of 30 community leaders, focusing on land recovery and resource management efforts. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-991
Amount: $4,500
Rainforest Action Network
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Alianza por una Mejor Calidad de Vida / Red de Acción en Plaguicidas de Chile
To support a campaign to ban the use of Lindane and other chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides -- the best known of which is DDT -- throughout Chile. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-976
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Consumer and Users Organization of Chile
To fund a project to protect the rights of the Diaguita indigenous community and help them advocate for legislative reform. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-131
Amount: $3,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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Agrupación Mapuche de Temuko Konapewman
To fund travel of two community members to international meetings on genetically engineered trees and industrial tree plantations, both of which are major issues in Chile. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-241
Amount: $3,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Mapu Domuche Nehuen
To fund travel for two Pehuenche indigenous women from Chile to testify, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, on resettlement of communities displaced by dams on the Bio-Bio River. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-246
Amount: $1,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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Acción Por los Cisnes
To support a campaign to inform community members and tourists about the contamination of the Cruces River from a nearby cellulose plant. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-269
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales
To fund a new nationwide network to promote environmental justice in Chile. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-270
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Pesticide Action Network Chile
To fund participation by a Chilean environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-313
Amount: $830
Pesticide Action Network
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Consumers Union Chile
To fund participation by a Chilean environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-311
Amount: $830
Pesticide Action Network
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| South America : Colombia : 2005 |
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Asociación de Productores para el Desarrollo Comunitario de la Cienaga Grande de Lorica
To support this rural collective in protecting the Sinu River valley by strengthening environmental education programs in local schools and by providing villagers with bicycles. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-838
Amount: $5,000
Friends of the Earth
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Grupo Juvenil Ambiental Gesepaz
To fund national youth assemblies in three regions, focusing on themes of biodiversity, territory and water issues. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-024
Amount: $4,500
Friends of the Earth
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Asociación RAPALMIRA
To fund participation by a Colombian environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-312
Amount: $830
Pesticide Action Network
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| South America : Ecuador : 2005 |
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Defensa y Conservación Ecológica del Intag
To fund the travel of a community activist to Canada, where he will participate in a campaign to stop a Canadian company from developing a large copper mine that will threaten communities and protected areas in Ecuador. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-002
Amount: $1,500
Rainforest Action Network
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Junta Parroquial de Makuma
To fund a new website to improve the Shaur indigenous community's contacts with other indigenous communities and to support their handicrafts and tourism projects. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-001
Amount: $2,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Centro de Derechos Economicos y Sociales
To fund participation of a representative of this group in a 3-day conference in Brussels on the topic of export credit agencies and human rights accountability. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-092
Amount: $2,070
IFI Advisory Board
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Comité de Gestión Ambiental y Manejo de Recursos Naturales de la Asamblea de Unidad Cantonal
To fund several programs, including a series of workshops on integrating an environmental perspective into local development planning, as well as environmental education programs at local schools. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-098
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Unión de Organizaciones Campesinas de Quevedo
To support a campaign to unite local communities in their fight against the Baba Quevedo Vinces dam, which will affect the livelihoods of nearly 10,000 subsistence farmers in coastal Ecuador. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-099
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Asociación de Jóvenes de la Nacionalidad Cofán del Ecuador
To help found this organization, which will work to develop environmental leaders among the youth of the Cofan indigenous people. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-025
Amount: $4,500
Friends of the Earth
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Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas del Tercer Mundo
To fund a national conference around the topics of free trade agreements and IIRSA (the Integration of Regional Infrastructure for South America), an unprecedented series of mega-projects throughout South America. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-144
Amount: $4,600
Andes Advisory Board
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Corporación Acción Ecológica
To support three indigenous Shuar federations in resisting large-scale, open-pit copper and gold mining in Shuar lands on the border of Peru and Ecuador. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-846
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Juan Pablo Muñoz
To support local communities in an inventory of forest resources and medicinal plants in the central coast region before an intellectual property rights agreement with the United States goes into effect. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-848
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Asociación Indigena de Limoncocha
To fund this indigenous group's community mapping project, which will guide it in pollution remediation negotiations with Occidental Petroleum and the Ecuadorian government. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-849
Amount: $4,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Comité Ecuatoriano para la Defensa de la Naturaleza y el Medio Ambiente
To support establishment of a cohesive environmental agenda in Ecuador through collaboration with environmental organizations, local communities and the National Environmental Assembly. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-097
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Association of Huaorani Women of the Ecuadorian Amazon
To fund a meeting of Huaorani and Kichwa communities to discuss planned oil development in Yasuni National Park. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-287
Amount: $1,500
Rainforest Action Network
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Coodinadora Campesina Popular
To fund a regional assembly of organizations resisting large-scale mining projects proposed for Morona Santiago province, and to educate the public on the effects of such mines. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-276
Amount: $2,500
Andes Advisory Board
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas para América Latina Ecuador
To support a national meeting of the Pesticide Action Network-Ecuador and a campaign to disseminate information of the effects of pesticides. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-275
Amount: $2,500
Andes Advisory Board
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| South America : Paraguay : 2005 |
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Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Trabajadoras Rurales e Indígenas
The National Coordinating Committee of Rural Women Laborers and Indigenous Women (CONAMURI) is a feminist organization dedicated to preventing the exploitation of women and promoting a less gender-biased society. This grant supports their work to improve working conditions for women, including their environmental health. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-375
Amount: $1,000
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Centro de Estudios y Formación para el Ecodesarrollo
To fund a campaign to influence public policy and bring about the elimination of the use of two highly toxic pesticides. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-164
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Trabajadoras Rurales e Indígenas
To support victims of agro-chemical spraying and to promote safer use of such chemicals in the country. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-328
Amount: $1,500
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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| South America : Peru : 2005 |
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Grupo de Formación e Intervención para el Desarrollo Sostenible
To support local responses to environmental problems such as the negative effects of mining activities, and to provide affected communities with access to legal representation. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-839
Amount: $5,000
Friends of the Earth
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Grupo de Trabajo Racimos de Ungurahui
To fund a forest inventory and management plan for the territories of the Nahua indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-851
Amount: $2,900
Andes Advisory Board
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Grupo de Trabajo Racimos de Ungurahui
To strengthen this group's ongoing legal case against Occidental Petroleum for damage caused in Anchuar territory in the northern Peruvian Amazon. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-993
Amount: $3,500
Rainforest Action Network
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Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental
To support several organizations protecting the rights of the La Oroya community and taking legal action against a mining company for allegedly contributing to high lead levels in local children. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-847
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Red de Permacultura America Latina en el Perú
To support the indigenous Achual community in a reforestation project, which will also help provide them the provision of a stable, year-round income. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-289
Amount: $4,300
Rainforest Action Network
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International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements Peru
To fund participation by a Peruvian environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-320
Amount: $850
Pesticide Action Network
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Red de Acción en Alternativas al uso de Agroquimicos
To fund participation by a Peruvian environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-314
Amount: $1,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Grupo de Formación e Intervención para el Desarrollo Sostenible
To fund a program to equip community leaders with the necessary legal tools to enter into negotiations with gold mining companies, and to empower community members to campaign nonviolently for their rights. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-141
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Asociación Civil Labor
To fund the establishment of a network for information exchange about the IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure of South America.) |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-247
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Asociación Guarango Cine y Video
To launch a nationwide grassroots education and advocacy campaign on non-violent conflict resolution, focused on the increasing number of violent conflicts in Peruvian mining communities. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-142
Amount: $3,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Comité de Comunidades para la Gestión de Proyectos de Biodiversidad
To support seven Machiguenga communities in the lower Urubamba Valley in monitoring changes in the natural resource base as a result of Camisea natural gas operations. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-850
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Associación de Defensa y Educación Ambiental
To fund an inventory of the 100+ native medicinal plants in the Cerro Negro de Llapa district, a first step in seeking protected status for the region. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-274
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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| South America : Uruguay : 2005 |
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RAPAL Uruguay
To fund publication of a study of the detrimental effects of pesticides and other agro-toxins on human and environmental health in northern Uruguay. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-165
Amount: $3,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Unión Internacional de Trabajadores de la Alimentación
To fund participation by a Uruguayan environmentalist in the UN-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-319
Amount: $830
Pesticide Action Network
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| South America : Venezuela : 2005 |
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Organización Indígena Piaroa Uwotjuja del Sipapo
To support a team of indigenous youth who are collecting information for digital maps of the lands of the Hiwi and Piaroa peoples in the Orinoco-Sipapo basin. |
Year: 2005
ID: 50-994
Amount: $3,500
Rainforest Action Network
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Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
To fund an investigative visit by community representatives from oil-affected communities of Bolivia, Costa Rica and Ecuador to oil-producing regions of Venezuela. |
Year: 2005
ID: 51-250
Amount: $6,000
IFI Advisory Board
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