| : Kyrgyzstan : 2007 |
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Inilchek Community
To establish a resource and training center that will serve as a hub to build community awareness around protecting the snow leopard and its habitat. Also to produce high-quality camel and sheep wool productsto improve the economic stability of herder women, thereby increasing their interest in conservation activities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-434
Amount: $4,500
Earth Island Institute
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| Africa : Benin : 2007 |
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Organisation Beninoise pour la Promotion de l'Agriculture Biologique
To send a representative to participate in the United Nations International Assessment of Agricultural, Science and Technology for Development, to be held in Nairobi, January 2008. Specifically, the representative will participate as part of the panel of Lead Authors and Reviewers of the Africa Regional Report. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-526
Amount: $2,500
Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : Cameroon : 2007 |
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Eku and Kith Common Initiative Group
To hold two workshops in the Kupe and Manenguba mountain areas, which have been heavily impacted by the expansion of multinational banana and pineapple plantations, for local farmers to network, form alliances, and develop strategies to maintain their land rights and livelihood practices. This organization works to promote organic farming and agro forestry so as to better conserve regional biodiversity and alleviate poverty. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-525
Amount: $3,500
West Africa Advisory Board
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Committee for the Coordination of Sustainable Development
To evaluate the impacts of the Chad-Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project, the largest World Bank financed project in Africa. Through participatory meetings and workshops, the pipeline's effects on health and farming production will be assessed and made public. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-484
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Forêts et Développement Rural
To develop a sustainable beekeeping project, with the goal of alleviating poverty among women and youth in Ngomedzap while preserving biodiversity. Activities include constructing and installing the hives and training community members in beehive management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-297
Amount: $4,583
Friends of the Earth
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Reseau de Foresterie Communautaire
To hold a workshop about the difficulties of managing income from logging for forest dwelling communities. The goal of this project is to create a more equitable system for the distribution of this income that emphasizes sustainable development. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-235
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| Africa : Chad : 2007 |
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Public Interest Law Firm
To support the general activities of this public interest advocacy organization, including the initiation of legal cases regarding oil extraction issues. This organization is especially interested in cases concerning inadequate compensation, poor management of toxic waste, and other environmental and community health impacts of extractive industries. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-469
Amount: $10,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Congo, The Democratic Republic of the : 2007 |
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Organisation pour la Sédentarisation, l'Alphabétisation et la Promotion des Pygmées
To evaluate the impacts of a Congolese road project which will cut through the Mambassa region, a rainforest region home to the Batwa (Pygmy) communities as well as valuable timber and mineral resources. Thirty Batwa leaders will be trained how to advocate for the recognition of their rights in regards to the road project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-499
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Green Lawyers
To increase community awareness of laws related to water and fishery management, in the face of threats posed by internationally financed infrastructure projects. This organization seeks to defend the rights of local communities through legal assistance, research, and monitoring. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-486
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Promotional and Educational Centre For Local Communities
To raise awareness of the human and natural damage that will occur if the proposed Inga Dam Project is constructed on the Congo River. Specifically, to organize a workshop with members of communities that will be affected by the dams to record citizen comments and include these concerns in the case presented to the World Bank, the project financer. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-240
Amount: $4,000
International Rivers
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| Africa : Egypt : 2007 |
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Day Hospital Institute for Development and Rehabilitation
To support activities related to their Toxic Free Future campaign. As the regional hub, the Institute will coordinate activities to involve civil society organizations in the implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, as part of their overall work to promote public and environmental health. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-989
Amount: $25,000
Donor Advised
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| Africa : Ethiopia : 2007 |
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Movement for Ecological Learning and Community Action
To facilitate a dialogue among the stakeholders of the Sheka forest, one of the last remaining intact forests in southwest Ethiopia, to generate community-based conservation plans. A workshop for 60 community members, including religious leaders, clan leaders, elders, women, and youth will be held to begin the dialogue process. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-324
Amount: $5,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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| Africa : Ghana : 2007 |
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Adrobaa Community Group
To increase the ability of this group to effectively oppose the detrimental practices of international gold mining company Newmont. Two workshops will be held to build advocacy techniques and learn negotiation and leadership skills. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-147
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Practitioners of Alternative Medicine
To promote the use of medicinal plants to enhance the socio-economic and cultural development of the Volta region. Activities include four workshops involving 200 traditional healers and 60 traditional authorities from surrounding communities, and the purchase of medicinal plant seeds to establish a local nursery. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-271
Amount: $4,583
Friends of the Earth
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Network for Environment and Development Africa
To hold two roundtable sessions on issues related to the management of International Financial Institution financed mega projects, and to promote alternative development strategies. The roundtables will be comprised of local community members, non governmental organization representatives, and policy makers. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-233
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Foundation for Grassroots Initiatives in Africa
To build the capacity of community based and civil society organizations to monitor the impacts of International Financial Institutions and national level economic policy development. This foundation strives to improve the human rights and social and economic wellbeing of the poor, especially women, and to include them in trade and development policy. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-232
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Africa Initiative on Mining Environment and Society
To fund the participation of four representatives from the Africa Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society in the World Social Forum, to be held in Nairobi. The event will offer the opportunity to share strategies and to network with like-minded organizations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-986
Amount: $12,480
West Africa Advisory Board
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The Network for Women's Rights in Ghana
Netright works to promote women's rights in Ghana by building a coalition of groups and individuals committed to this cause. This grant funds travel by members to the World Social Forum in Nairobi, where they will have an opportunity to engage with similar civil society organizations from around the world. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-988
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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The African Challenge
To promote better land use in the region by planting seedlings along the shoulder of a newly constructed road where erosion has become a chronic problem. This organization works on a variety of environment and development issues that focus on improving land management and resource use. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-153
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Kenya : 2007 |
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Rachel's Development Programme
To purchase enegy saving cookstoves and fireless cookers to use in a children's home, in order to help them more efficiently use natural resources like firewood. The purpose of this organization is to ensure food security and sustainable income for its members, who are primarily farmers. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-365
Amount: $700
East Africa Advisory Board
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Daughters of Mumbi
To fund the participation of two members of this organization in the Understanding Global Finance, Building International Resistance conference in Bangkok. Daughters of Mumbi is comprised of self-organized groups of five members or more, and currently has more than 2,500 members, most of whom are women subsistence farmers or small business owners. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-259
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Malindi Green Town Movement
To continue a legal case over land in Malindi, in which, allegedly, private developers were corruptly allocated land designated as public open space. The organization is registering complaints with the National Environment Tribunal and the Public Complaints Commission, and holding public awareness meetings at schools in the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-403
Amount: $7,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Meko Ma Kwa Nduuka Women Group
To support women in the construction of terraces to alleviate soil erosion and improve crop production. This women's group works to address diverse social, economic, and environmental issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-366
Amount: $5,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Nuru Support Group
To create awareness about the benefits of wild herbal medicines and sustainable harvesting practices. This organization, which is run by people living with HIV/AIDS, will establish a community garden to grow indigenous vegetables and traditional herbal medicines. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-364
Amount: $2,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Kenya Wetlands Forum
To conduct research on key wetlands currently threatened by development, including the Yala Swamp and the Tana River Delta. This research will be publicized in the media and among other non-governmental organizations working to protect wetland ecosystems. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-402
Amount: $8,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Africa Biodiversity Network
To enable two representatives of this organization to attend an international conference on Genetically Modified Organism-Free Zones, supporting their work to maintain the Seed Diverse and Genetically Engineered-Free Zones already established in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. The Africa Biodiversity Network's mission is to work toward the creation of an independent, self-sustaining, and sovereign Africa comprised of empowered communities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-243
Amount: $3,500
East Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Lesotho : 2007 |
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Environmental Justice and Advocacy Centre
To empower communities to bring attention to the negative impacts of large-scale development and resource extraction projects, with the goal of promoting positive alternatives and community participation. This organization undertakes advocacy campaigns aimed at improving the quality of life of communities affected by these mega-projects. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-270
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Liberia : 2007 |
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Skills and Agricultural Development Services
To build community awareness about the negative consequences of mining, deforestation, and illegal hunting in the East Nimba Nature Reserve through forums in six communities. A community action plan will be developed that is aimed at promoting sustainable forest management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-280
Amount: $2,500
Rainforest Action Network
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Environmental Foundation International
To hold forums in four key communities around the SAPO National Park in order to discuss ongoing illegal activities and their impacts on the biodiversity of the park. A community action plan will be developed in conjunction with community groups comprised of elders, hunters, miners, youth, and women. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-281
Amount: $2,500
Rainforest Action Network
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| Africa : Malawi : 2007 |
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Citizens For Justice Malawi
To support a campaign to create public awareness of the effects of a proposed uranium mine in Malawi. An Australian mining company has released an environmental impact assessment with numerous flaws and no long-term environmental management provisions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-900
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Citizens For Justice Malawi
To build awareness about the impacts of uranium mining, specifically regarding a recent uranium mining license granted to Paladin Resources, which was granted despite a lack of a long-term environmental management plan. Through the campaign, this organization, the only one that focuses on mining in Malawi, aims to prepare citizens to effectively insert their voices in the mining debate. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-300
Amount: $4,584
Friends of the Earth
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| Africa : Mali : 2007 |
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Organisation pour un Developpement Integre au Sahel
To inform people in the Sahel region about the dangers of using chemicals in harvesting fish. ODI-Sahel will organize public meetings and produce radio broadcasts to clearly illustrate the harmful impacts of chemicals not only for the environment, but also for fisher people and consumers. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-178
Amount: $3,750
Pesticide Action Network
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Malian Association for Development Research Council
To increase public awareness of national environmental protection laws as they relate to the Niger River. Workshops will be held with the Tienfala community based on the principles of information, education, and communication. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-152
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Association Support to Aged People in Mali
To conduct a study on the active oil companies in Mali and their impacts on local people. The information will be presented to affected communities and the Parliament, with the goal of increasing public awareness of the negative impacts that result from oil development. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-146
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Association for Support to Community Development Activities
To support KeMacina communities in their struggle against large-scale logging practices in the region. Also to fund a community-based tree planting project to restore environmental quality and educate people about the importance of forest health. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-149
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Morocco : 2007 |
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Web-Environment-Development
To produce multimedia resources detailing the dangers of pesticide use and distribute them to key public groups that are in frequent contact with pesticides. Based on comments from these groups, the materials will be revised and then more widely distributed to agricultural professionals, with the goal of reducing pesticide reliance. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-176
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : Mozambique : 2007 |
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Friends of the Forest
To support a public march to create awareness about issues related to forest resources and sustainable resource management. Friends of the Forest is a coalition of non-governmental organizations, businesses, academic institutions and individuals that focuses on sustainable forest management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-156
Amount: $2,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Nigeria : 2007 |
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Committee on Vital Environmental Resources
To organize an awareness building campaign about climate change and biofuels, directed at youth involved in the Young Environmentalist Network. The Committee believes that women and youth play a vital role in environmental protection and strives to promote more balanced participation in decision-making processes. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-348
Amount: $6,200
West Africa Advisory Board
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Ijaw Mothers of Warri
To initiate the project Oppression Has No Gender; the organization will collect stories of discrimination and oppression experienced by those residing near the oil fields of the Niger Delta. This project will allow for conservation and consultation with men, women, and youth regarding how to handle future incidences of discrimination, and promote a deeper understanding of the effects of oppression and discrimination throughout the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-468
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Host Communities Network
To organize Community Climate Crises Committees, which monitor and report on the state of the regional climate and the impacts of extractive industries on local communities. This network works to mobilize the wisdom and strength of community activists to resist environmentally destructive oil and mining practices in Nigeria. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-349
Amount: $7,500
West Africa Advisory Board
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Alternative Information and Research Organization
To publish a handbook that will instruct volunteers how to monitor environmental health and the impacts of extractive industries. This organization works to inform and empower the people and communities of Akwa Ibom State to ensure the protection of the environment and human rights. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-350
Amount: $6,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Women Environmental Programme
To carry out and publish a baseline survey of mineral resources in the region, and organize focus group discussions for fifteen affected communities. This organization aims to build the capacity of women and children to address issues that affect their quality of life. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-352
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Ogoni Solidarity Forum
To publish educational materials for the Ogoni people to ensure clear communication regarding development initiatives that will impact them. A concurrent goal of the Forum is to pressure oil companies to respect human and environmental rights in Ogoniland and the Niger Delta as a whole. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-351
Amount: $6,948
West Africa Advisory Board
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Community Research and Development Centre
To organize two seminars in northern and southern Nigeria to educate stakeholders about renewable energy sources and the concept of energy efficiency. The goal is to establish a network of renewable energy advocates in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-353
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Social Action
To support the campaign to end gas flaring in Nigeria by 2009. Social Action promotes education, mobilization, and solidarity for communities working for environmental justice, democracy, and social change in Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-347
Amount: $4,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Social Action
To continue the campaign against the illegal practice of gas flaring by strengthening this coalition of civil society actors, media officials, and academics. Activities include documentation of the negative impacts of gas flaring and producing flyers that explain these dangers for local people. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-150
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Akpabuyo Bakassi Green Movement
To strengthen independent monitoring of extractive industries in Cross River State that threaten local livelihoods and environmental health. Activities will include baseline research and reports, training community-based observer teams, and publication and distribution of monthly reports from communities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-148
Amount: $4,300
West Africa Advisory Board
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The Naked Option
To produce a feature length documentary film that reveals how local women use cultural practices to fight environmental and social destruction caused by oil and gas corporations in the Niger Delta. This film will serve to highlight the devastation caused by this industry as well as local strategies for resisting corporate development. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-151
Amount: $5,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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Host Communities Network
Host Communities Network (HoCoN) mobilizes community-level activists to resist destructive oil and mining practices in Nigeria. This grant funds travel by HoCoN members to the World Social Forum in Nairobi. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-987
Amount: $5,500
West Africa Advisory Board
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Society for Water and Public Health Protection
To improve decision making in water and energy development by including perspectives from a wide variety of stakeholders. The Society's mission is to ensure local people's access to adequate and clean water. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-241
Amount: $3,500
International Rivers
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| Africa : Senegal : 2007 |
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Pesticide Action Network Africa
To send representatives from five African-based organizations to Pesticide Action Network International’s conference in Penang, Malaysia. The conference, titled 'Convergence Towards Common Actions and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment', will focus on strengthening the International Instruments on Pesticides, and will enable organizations focusing on pesticide issues from around the world to network and collaborate. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-531
Amount: $15,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : SENEGAL : 2007 |
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Coordination des Organisations de la Societe Civile pour la Defense de l'Environment et le Developpement du Bassin du Fleuve Senegal
To implement this organization's advocacy plan to create dialogue between the different actors involved in water management of the Senegal River Basin. The goal of this plan is to create a holistic, lasting, and equitable management plan that improves the living conditions of the people that live along the river. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-249
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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| Africa : Senegal : 2007 |
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Association des Agriculteurs Naturalistes du Senegal
To send a representative to Pesticide Action Network International’s conference in Penang, Malaysia. The conference, titled 'Convergence Towards Common Actions and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment', will focus on strengthening the International Instruments on Pesticides, and will enable organizations focusing on pesticide issues from around the world to network and collaborate. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-559
Amount: $1,500
Pesticide Action Network
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Association Senegalaise de Producteurs de Semences Paysannes
To hold two workshops to help women select appropriate native seeds for the region and teach successful gardening techniques based on traditional agricultural knowledge. This organization's goal is to improve food security by building capacity among local groups to produce their own food in a safe and ecologically-sound manner. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-180
Amount: $3,750
Pesticide Action Network
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| Africa : Sierra Leone : 2007 |
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Network Movement for Justice and Development
To enable civil society representatives from Mali, Guinea, and Burkina Faso to participate in the annual African Initiative on Mining, Environment and society strategy meeting. The focus of the meeting will be the socio-environmental effects of extractive industries in West Africa, with the goal of advancing innovative mining sector strategies. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-330
Amount: $6,000
West Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : South Africa : 2007 |
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Sustaining the Wild Coast Association
To provide professional legal, education, and practical logistical support to rural households that are affected by large development projects. Funds will also be used to organize workshops for the people of the Wild Coast region, so that stakeholders can avoid implementation of unsustainable policies and plans. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-898
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Women's Leadership and Training Programme
To hold 18 workshops to educate young women about the importance of biodiversity and sustainable natural resource use. This group works with historically disadvantaged girls and young women to increase their self-confidence, knowledge, skills, and leadership development. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-266
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : SOUTH AFRICA : 2007 |
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Collaborative Archive of South African Biodiversity
To construct a database called the Treehouse Life Archive, which will contain information on the plants in the Cape Town area and utilize a user-friendly interface to facilitate knowledge sharing. This organizations works to foster public interest in South Africa's unique and threatened indigenous plants. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-267
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : South Africa : 2007 |
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Jubilee South Africa Campaign on Platinum Mining
For general support of this organization, which advocates on behalf of communities that have been negatively impacted by platinum mining in Limpopo. Activities include protecting grave sites from mining development and campaigning against the granting of mining licenses to companies that have had serious human rights infractions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-263
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Coalition Against Water Privatisation
To support communities in mobilizing against water privatization in South and Southern Africa; activities include educational campaigns and workshops to strengthen among community members. Funds will also be used to ensure that communities have access to legal representation in order to use the courts to challenge the constitutionality of water privatization. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-269
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Durban South Photography Project
To support a five week long photography exhibit that documents the stories of residents living in close proximity to heavy industrial development in South Durban. Funds will enable the group to produce a brochure about the exhibit, ensure that the exhibit is correctly displayed, and train community members to act as exhibit guides. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-256
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Earthlife Africa Cape Town
To publish a book about environmental crisis, including global warming, titled Stories for Fire Dogs. The book includes practical actions to take and a petition to the South Africa national government for the reader to sign. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-292
Amount: $1,500
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Earthlife Africa Johannesburg
To carry out an independent epidemiological study that documents health problems related to uranium ground and surface water contamination in the Wonderfontein Spruit. One aspect of this study will be to assess the impact of heavy metals and radio nuclides on the food chain. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-265
Amount: $5,000
Southern Africa Advisory Board
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Injiya ya Uri
To establish a community Zero Waste pilot program in Diepkloof comprised of crafts training, organic gardening, and recycling. The goal of this program is to create sustainable, local economic development through environmental and creative learning programs. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-999
Amount: $15,000
Donor Advised
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Environmental Monitoring Group Trust
To produce and distribute a documentary that investigates the best and worst practices associated with large dam construction projects in Africa. In particular, the documentary will examine the socio-environmental impacts of the Kariba Dam, in Zimbabwe and Zambia, and the Mphanda Uncua Dam in Mozambique. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-515
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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| Africa : Tanzania : 2007 |
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Tumaini Women's Group
To initiate sustainable income-generating activities, including the production and sale of energy efficient stoves, harvesting jatropha seeds to make biofuels and soap, and a beekeeping project to produce honey. This group works to promote energy efficiency, food security, and the protection of the environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-367
Amount: $5,500
East Africa Advisory Board
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Agenda for Environment and Responsible Development
To fund participation of a Zambian representative in a conference on Persistent Organic Pollutants, to be held in Dakar, Senegal. Mr. Kaposhi will present his research on integrated vector management as an alternative to over-reliance on pesticides, and he will consult with like-minded organizations and governmental delegates. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-088
Amount: $3,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Kilimo Hai Arumeru
To train farmers in sustainable agricultural skills including business management, microfinance, nutrition, and tree planting. In turn, these farmers will become trainers in their own right, extending the network of knowledgeable sustainable agriculture leaders. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-103
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Reach Youth of Tanzania Trust Fund
To construct a community nursery with medicinal herbs, and to raise awareness about the benefits of sustainable agricultural practices. The mission of this organization is to motivate youth activism as related to various socio-environmental issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-368
Amount: $5,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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| Africa : Togo : 2007 |
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Young Volunteers for the Environment
To send a representative to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to train local organizations in strategic methods used to address the negative impacts of dam projects. Additionally, the representative will visit the Inga Dam and surrounding communities to facilitate an informed dialogue between community members and Congolese authorities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-506
Amount: $1,650
International Rivers
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| Africa : Uganda : 2007 |
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National Association of Professional Environmentalists
To disseminate information about the devastating social and environmental impacts of large-scale infrastructure investments in the region. The goal of this campaign is to promote alternative approaches to water and energy projects based on sustainable principles. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-077
Amount: $3,800
IFI Advisory Board
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Africa Institute for Energy Governance
To support a campaign to identify and analyze key national policies and laws that are being used in the regulation and control of the oil sector in Uganda. A workshop will be held to create awareness about the need for public participation and enhanced civil society groups that are working on the issue. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-401
Amount: $8,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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Centre for Community Development Alternatives
To train people to collaborate with their local governments to promote sustainable resource management. This community-based organization works through dialogue and forums to develop policies and legislation that promote the sustainable utilization of the environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-369
Amount: $3,000
East Africa Advisory Board
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National Association of Professional Environmentalists
To enable this organization to fulfill its role as the current Secretariat of the African Rivers Network, coordinating different civil society organizations to promote solidarity among communities affected by dam construction. NAPE's goal is to ensure transparency and accountability in the development process. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-522
Amount: $2,000
International Rivers
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Sustainable Development Watch
To monitor the activities of a palm oil company, BIDCO, to ensure that environmental regulations are followed. Funds will cover the costs of solar powered communication equipment to facilitate monitoring activities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-276
Amount: $4,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Africa Institute for Energy Governance
To document the views of community leaders in the districts of Masindi, Buliisa, Kibale and Hoima regarding oil development in the region, to be submitted to the Gas and Oil Policy Committee, which is formulating the new oil policy in Uganda. The goal of the project is to ensure that community perspectives are included in oil development, and that the oil industry remains accountable to the public. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-357
Amount: $1,000
Donor Advised
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| Africa : Zimbabwe : 2007 |
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Southern Africa's People Solidarity Network
To support the participation of activists from the area in the South African Development Community Peoples' Summit, an annual event where social justice organizations meet to discuss issues affecting the region. This year's focus is on governance and human rights, especially as it relates to the violation of peoples' economic and political rights in Zimbabwe. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-229
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : Armenia : 2007 |
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Charitable Women NGO
To demonstrate effective examples of integrated pest management as an alternative to chemical pesticide use in family gardens in the town of Saghmosavan. Charitable Women's goal is to promote alternative agriculture methods and support economically marginalized families. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-179
Amount: $4,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Asia : Australia : 2007 |
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National Toxics Network
To support the Network's Pacific Program for Environmental Health and Justice, which aims to strengthen the organization's presence in the Pacific (especially Papua New Guinea) and to contribute to regional and international efforts to expand the environmental health movement. The Program's primary objective is to improve the networking capacity of existing and newly-formed non-governmental organizations working to improve environmental health policy in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-584
Amount: $25,000
Donor Advised
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| Asia : Azerbaijan : 2007 |
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Monitoring on Social-Economic Rights Training Center
International financial institutions(IFI's) are funding a number of mega-projects in Azerbaijan. This grant funds a project to increase the role of civil society in ensuring transparency concerning IFI-funded loans. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-071
Amount: $4,400
IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : Bangladesh : 2007 |
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Coastal Development Partnership
To plan strategic public events leading up to the Annual General Meeting of the Asian Development Bank to bring attention to the negative impacts of large-scale International Financial Institution-financed projects. The mission of this organization is to restore the ecological integrity of the Sundarban Forest, one of the world's largest remaining mangrove forests. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-074
Amount: $4,500
IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : Cambodia : 2007 |
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Conservation and Development on Cambodia
To advocate for the rights of two communities involuntarily relocated by the Cambodian Highway 1 expansion project, financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). A grievance claim will be filed with the ADB's accountability mechanism and made public to other villages affected by the highway, with the goal of encouraging more communities to file additional complaints. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-503
Amount: $4,960
IFI Advisory Board
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3S Rivers Protection Network
To hold a workshop in Ratanakiri province to promote an informed dialogue about hydropower projects planned for the Sesan and Srepok Rivers. Civil society organizations, community members, and key government officials will attend the meeting. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-561
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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| Asia : China : 2007 |
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Green Camel Bell
To promote the conservation of endangered medicinal plants. Also to promote social and environmental responsibility in the financing of community development projects in the Gansu region of Northwest China. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-404
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Global Village of Beijing
To establish of a network of Chinese organizations that will be able to respond to the increasing threat of toxic chemicals on environmental health. The organization will host a skill-building workshop for citizen groups and initiate a mini-grant program to provide incentive for further action. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-445
Amount: $30,000
Donor Advised
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Green Camel Bell
To provide further support for a resource center in Lanzhou city, Gansu province. The center is used as a hub for local environmental activists and an information center for conservation of local forest and grassland ecosystems. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-033
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Dalian Environment and Resources Center
To support a marine and coastal wetland conservation program in the Dalian region. The Center will organize university student environmental clubs to examine the negative impacts of coastal development, and will convene a series of lectures on migratory birds and marine species. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-546
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Longjiang
To support Green Longjiang in its work to assess and publicize the planned Argun River water-diversion project. Some experts have anticipated that this project will have serious environmental impacts on downstream regions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-034
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Eyes
To continue the wildlife rescue program in Cangnan County. The program aims to protect animals targeted by poachers and illegal traders. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-550
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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GreenSOS
To continue with the establishment of an environmental resource center for student groups in Chengdu. The center will also facilitate a small grants program to support student environmental activities in western China. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-255
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Eyes
To support Green Eyes as it continues to expand its network in East China. The funding will strengthen the operation of Green Eyes' headquarters in Changnan county, Zhejiang province. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-036
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Kunming
To investigate pollution in the Dalongtan River, which runs underground and empties into Dianchi Lake in Kunming. Green Kunming will undertake investigative activities, publish the findings of the research, and begin media outreach efforts, with the overall goal of increasing awareness of environmental contamination in the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-410
Amount: $500
China Advisory Board
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Xinjiang Conservation Fund
To support the establishment and operation of a resource center in Urumqi for environment and development projects in Xinjiang province. The Fund will organize regular lectures and meetings on environmental challenges in Xinjiang, and publish a Xinjiang environmental newsletter. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-037
Amount: $15,000
China Advisory Board
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Xinjiang Conservation Fund
To develop a Taiga forest conservation project in coordination with local nomad communities in northern Xinjiang Province. The Xinjiang Conservation Fund aims to support effective community-based conservation and development projects throughout the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-405
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Anhui
To support Green Anhui in identifying pollution sources in Wuhu city, Anhui province. Also to investigate links between environmental pollution and reproductive health, in order to safeguard the health rights of workers in mines and chemical plants. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-038
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Oasis
To establish a civil society group based in Wuxi that will address the pollution in Taihu Lake. Chemical companies dump polluted industrial materials directly into the lake; the goal of the group is to promote citizen awareness regarding the need to clean up the lake. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-406
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Green Stone
To promote the clean up of Taihu Lake. The group will develop a map of polluted rivers that are adding to the increasingly-polluted conditions in the lake; it will also support a publicity campaign in southern Jiangsu province to increase the strength of the youth environmental movement in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-407
Amount: $5,000
China Advisory Board
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Shining Stone Community Action
To fund the publication of the Community Action newsletter and support environmental education for migrant workers' children. Community Action aims to improve public participation in community development and promote sustainable development through shared learning. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-409
Amount: $1,400
China Advisory Board
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Green Jilin
To fund establishment of an environmental resource center in Changchun, Jilin Province. This center will support environmental activism among university student groups. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-035
Amount: $10,000
China Advisory Board
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China Green Student Forum
To continue the green bookshelf program and student leadership training of this student-run environmental network. Also to support capacity-building efforts for student groups in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning province. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-252
Amount: $15,000
China Advisory Board
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Shining Stone Community Action
To create an environmental education program for the children of migrant workers, with a focus on community issues. A long term goal of the project is to spread the idea of environmental protection to rural areas when children return to their hometowns from Beijing. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-362
Amount: $1,000
Donor Advised
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Green Anhui
To promote environmental health projects in the southwestern region of Anui province. Part of this project includes working with the Wannan Medical College and Anui Normal University to produce environmental health hand books and an environmental health program. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-253
Amount: $12,500
China Advisory Board
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| Asia : Fiji : 2007 |
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Live and Learn Environmental Education
To heighten awareness and action among chiefs and tribal councils regarding the protection of forests and marine biodiversity in Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea. The project will address illegal resource harvesting activities and aims to phase out commercial and illegal logging in favor of alternative livelihood options in over 200 villages. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-329
Amount: $30,000
Donor Advised
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Fiji Organic Association
To enable this organization to officially register and attain an independent status. As a result, they will be able to better meet their mission to promote sustainable agricultural practices and protect Fiji's environment and farmers. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-105
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : India : 2007 |
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The Other Media
To support The Other Media's Corporate Accountability Desk in their efforts to improve toxic waste accountability in India. A key aspect of this project is bridging the gap between policy makers and pollution-affected communities; discussions will be facilitated among these groups with the goal of advocating for improved corporate accountability. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-593
Amount: $20,000
Donor Advised
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Periyar Malineekarana Virudha Samithi
To protect the Periyar watershed, with a specific focus on the damaging effects of DDT use. Funds will be used to support a community-based effort to draw national and international attention to the dangers of the high levels of DDT use in the region and support the community's public declaration against the presence of DDT in their lives. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-177
Amount: $4,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Kalpavriksh
To create a campaign to raise awareness of Indian legislation governing biodiversity protection, with the goal of strengthening regional networks and expanding outreach activities to isolated areas. Kalpavriksh works to empower local people to take an active role in the sustainable development of their community and natural resources. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-169
Amount: $5,000
India Advisory Board
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Popular Education and Action Centre
To support the work of PEACE, which advocates on behalf of workers affected by occupational diseases, especially silicosis, in the Lan Kuan area of New Delhi. Its work focuses on improving government regulations and collaborating with other organizations to establish rehabilitation programs for victims of occupational hazards and diseases. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-168
Amount: $3,400
India Advisory Board
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Samrakshan Trust
To initiate an educational component of their environmental campaign to protect forests and wildlife in the region. Activities include working with local people to design and implement an action plan, and monitoring the subsequent impact of these education activities on peoples' attitudes towards the environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-107
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Save the Childhood Foundation
To implement an efficient water pump system in villages where this foundation works. With the implementation of the new pumps, villagers will no longer have to walk long distances to reach other water sources. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-301
Amount: $10,000
Donor Advised
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Tasneem Balasinorwala
To create appropriate measures to conserve the forest cover in Pune, which has shrunk dramatically in recent years despite protective legislation. Funds will be used to develop a 'master development plan' and expand an informational website that outlines the importance of forest protection and explains the laws that limit tree felling. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-170
Amount: $1,500
India Advisory Board
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Aikatan Sangha
To fund publication of a document that discusses the problems caused by construction of a large reservoir on the Hukaharaniya River. No environmental impact assessment was completed prior to dam construction, and the grantee organization plans to demonstrate the destruction that the dam has caused to the surrounding areas. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-079
Amount: $2,500
International Rivers
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Development Research Communication and Services Centre (DRCSC)
To create a documentary that assesses and publicizes environment and development-related concerns of the rural people of Orissa, especially as related to agricultural methods and systems. The documentary will be shared with village members and other grassroots organizations, and will also be submitted for screening at various film festivals. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-160
Amount: $2,000
India Advisory Board
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Manshi Asher
To investigate the social and environmental impacts of Special Economic Zones-which are being established with increasing frequency in India-on marginalized communities. Four cases will be evaluated, with attention placed on local as well as broader, national-scale impacts of these industrial development zones. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-167
Amount: $4,545
India Advisory Board
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Social Development Foundation
To campaign for the rehabilitation of the dilapidated fisheries of the Maryadpur region, through workshops and public education initiatives. This organization focuses on improving livelihood opportunities for the Dalit ethnic group, with an emphasis on promoting the role of Dalit women in fisheries management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-166
Amount: $4,000
India Advisory Board
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Raghunath K. Manwar
To participate in the annual Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims, which works to improve the safety standards in the workplace. Manwar's mission is to empower marginalized groups by educating them about their legal human rights. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-325
Amount: $650
India Advisory Board
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The Other Media
To enable the president of the ex-Mercury Workers Welfare Association to travel to the annual meeting of the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims . This network works towards improving the safety of Asian workplaces and protecting the health rights of workers and accident victims in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-326
Amount: $650
India Advisory Board
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Laya
To promote food security and sustainable agriculture, through the development of community seed centers, organic farming demonstration plots, and organic agriculture training sessions for women. This organization focuses on tribal rights, sustainable resource management, and women's empowerment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-161
Amount: $5,000
India Advisory Board
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Piyush Sethia
To support the activities of Speak Out Salem, a community-based organization committed to raising awareness of the environmental impacts of industrial development. Initiatives include offering tours to groups that highlight examples of urban pollution, promoting sustainable development methods such as organic farming and biodiesel, and participating in a city-wide tree planting project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-173
Amount: $1,370
India Advisory Board
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India Advisory Board
To fund a Training of Trainers session for community leaders in Northeast India on the role of international financial institutions (IFI's) in the region. HRDF believes that this program will help the people of Northeast India to gain a measure of sovereignty over local development and environmental projects. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-068
Amount: $4,950
IFI Advisory Board
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Ashok Kumar Jena
To research the potential social and environmental impacts of an industrial steel plant under development in Orissa, including impacts for small-scale farmers, biodiversity, and hydrological systems. The research will be community-based and employ rigorous standards. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-164
Amount: $1,800
India Advisory Board
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India Advisory Board
To support the Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India to provide a just and unbiased forum for people impacted by the projects and policies of the World Bank. One of the goals of this organization is to seek greater state responsibility and transparency in regards to loans from the World Bank. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-230
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Society for Rural Education and Development
To improve the livelihoods of Dalit women who work for a shrimp farm and have suffered serious health problems resulting from toxic effluents associated with shrimp cultivation. The Trust will provide the women with legal assistance and hold workshops on leadership skills and sustainable development possibilities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-479
Amount: $4,500
Pesticide Action Network
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Gaurab Ghosh
To research uses for the invasive plant species water hyacinth, which currently clogs the canals and rivers of West Bengal. The goal of this project is to, with the cooperation of local youth groups, explore possibilities for productive use of this plant, including paper production and composting. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-163
Amount: $2,350
India Advisory Board
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Dharmesh Shah
To fund a fellowship for Shah on pollution-related issues. Shah will work to improve pollution control in Kondungaiyur, expand zero waste efforts, and participate in community campaigns on water issues and pollution monitoring. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-172
Amount: $2,900
India Advisory Board
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Knowledge, Hope, Opportunity and Justice
To evaluate the potential social and environmental impacts of a proposed coal-fired power plant at Jaigad, which community groups have said will threaten adjacent ecosystems, including a unique mango tree. The mission of this organization is to promote environmentally and socially just development among the communities of Maharashtra, especially the Dalits, women, and other marginalized groups. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-171
Amount: $4,000
India Advisory Board
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Institute for Motivating Self Employment
To strengthen the burgeoning movement against Special Economic Zones, areas designated by the Indian government for industrial development which threaten the rights of underrepresented people to maintain use and control of their lands. Efforts will be focused in Singur, a small agricultural community that depends on land that an auto manufacturer is planning to develop. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-174
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Bidhichandrapur Chetana
To implement sustainable agricultural practices including community organic gardens, a seed bank, and a poultry farm. This organization's mission is to promote comprehensive social development and responsible natural resource management, especially for marginalized populations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-162
Amount: $4,000
India Advisory Board
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Partners in Justice Concerns India
To expand sustainable agriculture practices within the Dalit community of Chhattisgarh by maintaining a demonstration garden, starting a seed bank, holding workshops, and creating a campaign targeted at Dalit women farmers. This mission of this organizations is to advocate for the empowerment of women, Dalits, and other marginalized groups through awareness building, education, training, and the facilitation of organization-building at the grassroots level. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-165
Amount: $5,000
India Advisory Board
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| Asia : Indonesia : 2007 |
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Federation of Indonesian Peasant Union
To support the 2007 World Forum on Food Sovereignty, which focuses on an important alternative to the prevailing market-led approaches to food production and distribution. This grant will help ensure that delegates from Southeast and East Asia can travel to Mali for the Forum, and it will also help fund translation services for the participants. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-076
Amount: $6,250
IFI Advisory Board
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Save Our Borneo
To assist local communities in protecting and conserving the Eastern corridor of Borneo's Tanjun Putting National Park, one of the few remaining safe havens for orangutans. This organization aims to promote a higher quality of life among Kalimantan communities by implementing community based sustainable nature resource management strategies. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-277
Amount: $3,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Indonesian Forum for Environment District Office in West Kalimantan
To build public awareness about the negative impacts of the rapidly expanding palm oil industry in West Kalimantan, through radio campaigns and other local media. One of this organization's main objectives is to combat the expansion of palm oil biodiesel based producers in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-278
Amount: $3,000
Rainforest Action Network
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| Asia : Kazakhstan : 2007 |
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Greenwomen Public Association/Environmental News Agency
To support a public awareness campaign for a persistent organic pollutant (POP)-free future for Kazakhstan and its Central Asian neighbors. Activities include training workshops, press conferences, and creation and dissemination of informational materials on the risks posed by POPs. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-581
Amount: $25,000
Donor Advised
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Karaganda Ecological Museum
To conduct an investigation into the activities of Mittal Steel Temirtau, a steel mining complex in central Kazakhstan. Mittal Steel is one of the largest polluters in the country, and the Museum aims to publicize the company's environmental impact. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-231
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| Asia : Malaysia : 2007 |
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Consumers' Association of Penang
To support the Zero Waste and other Persistent Organic Pollutant Free Alternatives: Towards Sustainable Clinical and Solid Waste Management project. This project aims to develop a network of informed individuals, communities, civil society organizations, health practitioners and policy makers in Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Taiwan. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-388
Amount: $35,000
Donor Advised
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Sarawak Dayak Iban Association
To create a mobile legal clinic that will deliver free legal services and increase public awareness of human rights for the underserved indigenous Dayak communities. The clinic will also serve to increase awareness of indigenous issues in Borneo among national and international organizations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-104
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Micronesia : 2007 |
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Traditional and Medicinal Botanical Garden Association
To support the recognition and preservation of the biodiversity of Pohnpei. This project promotes indigenous plants, and is complemented by an outreach and education component regarding the traditional uses of native plants. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-320
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Pohnpei Farmers Association
To assist this group in reaching its goals of supporting local farmers and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. Sustainable agriculture benefits food security, community health, and income generation. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-087
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Xavier High School
To support several pilot environmental projects based on sustainable principles, including a forest reserve and an organic farm. By involving youth in these initiatives, the school promotes long-term solutions to the land and ocean degradation and pollution in the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-086
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Island Food Community of Pohnpei
To increase awareness about the importance of local foods for nutrition and cultural preservation. Activities include trainings at elementary schools about nutritional content and preparation of locals foods, radio programs, news releases, and collection of native food specimens to create a pilot farm and gene bank. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-321
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Kosrae Invasive Species Taskforce
To implement the Kosrae Invasive Species Taskforce strategic action plan, with the goal of minimizing the impacts of invasive species in the region. The taskforce works through community support and collaboration to identify, plan, and execute appropriate control and management strategies for invasive plant and animal species. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-322
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Chuuk Conservation Society
Chuuk Conservation Society protects local natural resources by developing applicable management models, developing legislation, and introducing environmental education programs. This grant provides general support for the organization, particularly its outreach efforts. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-085
Amount: $1,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Nepal : 2007 |
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Red Panda Network- Nepal
To establish a community-based monitoring program for the endangered red panda in the Panchthar-Ilam-Taplejung corridor in eastern Nepal. The program will provide current information on red panda distribution, and involve local communities to increase awareness of the benefits of red panda conservation. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-432
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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| Asia : Palau : 2007 |
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Palau Conservation Society
To continue work in the Community Visioning project, which aims to engage communities in land use planning and sustainable development on Babeldaob Island. Activities include community-based needs assessments, creating leadership groups in each community, and finalizing a planning guide to facilitate the process. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-448
Amount: $50,000
Donor Advised
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| Asia : Papua New Guinea : 2007 |
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Dadakul Wildlife Management Association
To promote education of local community members about the endangered Queen Anne Birdwing Butterfly (QABB). The Dadakul Wildlife Management Association will also restore QABB habitat and monitor QABB populations in the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-080
Amount: $5,785
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Tekira Skills Training Institute
To develop a business plan for a training center and ecotourism project, and to install audio visual equipment in the center. This institute was established in Babaka Village to improve and enhance the livelihoods of community members, through activities that promote local culture and gender equality. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-308
Amount: $5,130
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Fajaba Cultural Group
To construct a community learning center that will serve as a space to teach local youth traditional methods of protecting their forest and marine resources. This organization was established in Koroko Village to maintain and strengthen the local culture, which has enabled community members to live in harmony with their land and environment for generations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-310
Amount: $4,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Dust Community Development Association Inc.
To build a community learning center that will support environmental awareness building and serve as a location to train members in sustainable resource management. This association was established to empower community members and clan groups in the Ijivitari District of Oro Province. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-309
Amount: $4,480
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Kama SDA Primary School Environmental Action Committee
To increase environmental awareness among school children; activities include developing a forest plot where the children can plant and grow native tree seedlings. In addition, the committee will work to develop a World Environmental Day action plan for activities for future years. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-316
Amount: $3,520
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Haia Management Committee
To promote sound wildlife and fish management, with the goal of providing a sustainable food source for the community. Expert biologists will be brought into the community for advice on managing recently constructed freshwater fish ponds. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-317
Amount: $3,264
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Karimui Conservation and Resource Management Programme
To support community development and biodiversity protection initiatives in the Karimui district of Simbu Province, an area with high numbers of endemic, threatened rainforest species. Meetings will be held with landowners and other stakeholders to establish management committees, and baseline data will be established to aid in measuring project efficacy. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-319
Amount: $4,820
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Voice of Yongos
To establish a plant bank to collect and cultivate culturally rare trees, ferns, medicinal plants, and orchid species that are being destroyed by slash and burn farming methods. Additionally, this group will promote public awareness of environmental problems and new approaches for sustainable resource use in the broader community. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-318
Amount: $3,825
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc.
To provide immediate relief and emergency supplies to communities in Oro Province that were affected by a recent tropical storm. The Center is working with community members, business owners, members of parliament, and other partner organizations to ensure that relief funds reach people living in remote and isolated areas. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-540
Amount: $2,500
Donor Advised
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Saua Development Foundation Inc.
To carry out environmental awareness projects in eight remote villages in the Kompiam region, with the goal of fostering discussions about conservation and development issues. The mission of this organization is to enable people to better manage their natural resources and to build the capacity of local decision-makers. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-488
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Ailan Awareness Inc.
Ailan Awareness seeks to strengthen the capacity of coastal communities to manage marine resources and to protect marine biodiversity in and around New Ireland, an island surrounded by coral reefs, mangrove forests, and untouched beaches. This grant provides general support for the organization. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-081
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Naimai Community Development Association
To hold ten meetings with community members to promote the marketing of non timber forest products and sustainable forest management. Non timber forest products include okari nuts, organic coffee, and spices. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-279
Amount: $4,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Asiki Eco-Lodge and Nature Center
The Asiki Eco-Lodge and Nature Center was established to assist local landowners and communities in developing eco-tourism as an alternative to environmentally destructive projects in this region of Papua New Guinea. This grant will fund a variety of activities, including development of a sustainable management plan for the area and promotion of the area as an eco-tourism destination. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-082
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Tulele Peisa Incorporated
To assist communities affected by climate change in the Bougainville province. Activities include creating small-scale sustainable development projects that benefit local community members. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-083
Amount: $6,700
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Kuka Community Group
To continue support for a water supply project for communities affected by civil war. The project aids the communities and also provides them with incentives to protect the local watershed. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-084
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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NGO Environmental Watch Group
For general support of this organization, which works to uphold the rights of citizens, especially in regards to mining activities. Its goal is to improve the practices of companies, assist in environmental rehabilitation, and ensure sustainable livelihoods for those who depend on mining. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-311
Amount: $5,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights Inc.
To provide immediate relief and emergency supplies to communities in Oro Province that were affected by a recent tropical storm. The Center is working with community members, business owners, members of parliament, and other partner organizations to ensure that relief funds reach people living in remote and isolated areas. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-538
Amount: $5,000
Donor Advised
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OGAYO Integrated Conservation and Development Association Inc
To establish a program to produce and market non-timber forest products as alternatives to large-scale resource development projects like palm oil plantations. This community-based tribal organization was initiated to protect Ogayo tribal land and resources, and to promote sustainable development initiatives. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-495
Amount: $4,500
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Ecological Waste Coalition of the Philippines Inc.
To promote Zero Waste Resource Management to deal with increasing waste problems and natural resource depletion, with the goal of achieving a Zero Waste society by 2020. Activities include reducing waste, closing illegal dumps, and pressing for an incineration ban. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-730
Amount: $20,000
Donor Advised
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Save our Lives, SOS! Panay and Guimaras
To hold a seminar for the coastal municipalities of Estancia, Banate and Guimaras to develop awareness about the impacts of oil spills, and to spearhead marine conservation activities. This organization aims to mobilize local, national, and international sectors to protect and rehabilitate areas affected by oil spills. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-360
Amount: $1,000
Donor Advised
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Save the Valley, Serve the People Alliance for the Environment of Cagayan
To initiate a sustainable livelihood project that provides an alternative to slash and burn agriculture and logging for the indigenous people of the Zinundungan Valley. This community-backed project is centered around water buffalo and provides income as well as a food source for local people. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-102
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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Peoples Alternative Study Center for Research and Education on Social Development
To organize a series of seminars for poor urban communities on the negative impacts of the Philippines' domestic and foreign debts. The seminars will highlight the relationship of International Financial Institutions to these debts in terms of the pressures to privatize natural resources and increase the presence of extractive industries throughout the country; participants will be able to network and build alliances to strategize about campaigns to combat these impacts. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-485
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Bukidnon Farmers' Organization
To conduct a series of trainings on Alternative, Diversified, and Integrated Farming Systems in 3 municipalities to promote sustainable agriculture activities. This is a province-wide farmers' organization that works to promote agrarian reform and build the capacity of its members. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-223
Amount: $3,500
Pesticide Action Network
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Save our Lives, SOS! Panay and Guimaras
To hold a seminar on socio-environmental awareness in three coastal municipalities that have been adversely affected by oil spills. This organization aims to mobilize local, national, and international sectors to address the negative impacts of oil spills and inform people about their right to a clean environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-101
Amount: $3,000
Earth Island Institute
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Kalikasan--People's Network for the Environment
To organize a three-day national conference on the negative socio-environmental impacts of the Philippines' mining industry. The conference will serve as a space to reinvigorate an anti-mining campaign and bring together representatives from non-governmental and grassroots organizations involved in mining-related advocacy. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-433
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Ecological Team Drofa
To preserve and protect the Kamyshlovka River, a key ornithological area, by promoting public awareness and dialogue between citizens and government officials. Activities include creating a map of the area to be protected, organizing student clean-up expeditions, coordinating bird protection teams, and organizing a public conference about the project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-115
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Black Stork
To create a refuge for wild animals like the Siberian Deer from poachers; specifically to reforest an area in collaboration with local environmental groups, citizens, and students. A complementary education campaign about the importance of endangered species will also be carried out. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-128
Amount: $1,982
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Inspectors
To fund a public education campaign about the importance of rare and threatened plants, with the goal of reducing illegal rare plant smuggling. Educational seminars with customs workers will be held, in addition to producing a brochure about how to identify plants that may be smuggled across the border in this region of the Altai Republic. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-116
Amount: $1,455
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team Velston
To assess the environmental damages to Lake Zharyldykol, located in the northwest part of Omsk, which has been degraded by illegal fishing and cattle grazing. Clean up and restoration activities will also be organized, with the goal of establishing a nature monument status for the lake. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-117
Amount: $1,585
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoloigcal Club Last Environment
To conduct a campaign to protect the Manchurian Fir Tree of the southern Primorski Krai region. This association of journalists works to promote ecological awareness and knowledge, and to encourage government bodies to make environmentally-sustainable decisions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-118
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Earthmen
To clean up and reforest two nature sanctuaries--Lake Kazachka and Suetskyi Dome--with the participation of high school students, forestry staff, and the village administration. 40,000 seedlings will be planted to reforest 10 hectares of degraded lands. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-130
Amount: $1,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group of Luskutovo Village residents
To eliminate a large unauthorized waste dump in Tomsk, and prevent continued use of the site. The groups will also organize a public event around the closure of the dump to generate public action on the issue. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-381
Amount: $1,405
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center Strizh
To designate the Baturino-Simanskyi area--home to a number of rare and endangered bird species--as an Important Bird Area, according to the criteria of the international ornithological community. A bird census will be conducted, along with a report regarding current habitat threats, to promote better stewardship of the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-120
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoprotection
To build public awareness regarding the possible impacts of a proposed atomic power station in Tomskaja Oblast. Activities include a press conference, opinion polls, seminars, and roundtable discussions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-121
Amount: $1,972
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center Alkor
For a clean-up project in the coastal area of Livadiya, which has suffered a severe solid waste problem resulting from heavy tourism impacts. This organization works to organize and coordinate environmental and social initiatives in the Nakhodka City District of Livadyia. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-125
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Petrel
To restore an oak forest near Arhara Village, including monitoring and protecting reforested areas. They will also carry out a complementary education campaign about the importance of forest protection. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-127
Amount: $1,900
Russia Advisory Board
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Barabinsk Branch of Russian Nature Protection Society
To support the preservation of a the Cape Kazantsevsky nature sanctuary in the Lake Chany area of Western Siberia, through the involvement of local youth in nature protection activities and monitoring. This organization is the Novosibirsk branch of the All-Russia Society of Nature Protection formed in 1958. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-119
Amount: $1,965
Russia Advisory Board
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Nature Protection Team
To build support among the public for the creation of the Bastak natural reserve, which borders the Pompeevka area. The project will create public awareness of the importance of this reserve through expeditions to the area, information campaigns, and roundtables with citizens and government officials. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-135
Amount: $1,991
Russia Advisory Board
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Vesnyanka
To unite leaders of the youth environmental movement in Luchegorsk City through conservation projects. Activities include an environmental assessment of the Pozharskyi area, and a public education campaign to draw attention to the problems of environmental contamination and biodiversity loss. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-138
Amount: $1,999
Russia Advisory Board
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Indigenous People's Communtiy Trust
To create an information center in an indigenous community of the Altai, to educate leaders about their environmental rights. As a result, local indigenous representatives will be able to better represent and defend their rights at the government level and in the court system. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-139
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Regional Public Organization Tolkyn
To create public awareness of the ecological and cultural importance of nature sanctuaries in the Altai region through production of a video that will be aired on a regional television station as well as press articles, and culminating in a discussion with local government officials and the State Assembly. This organization works to preserve and restore the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of the Altai. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-140
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Union of Kamchadals
The Union of Kamchadals works to protect the human rights and legal interests of the indigenous Kamchatka people, who were deprived of all rights under Soviet rule. Funds will be used to organize a coalition of local tribal communities along the Tigil River to promote national wildlife management, protect fishing places from poachers, and create better measures to protect the salmon on which the Kamchatka rely. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-136
Amount: $5,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team Spring
To monitor the environmental condition of the Osha River; activities include involving youth in monitoring and clean up, and creating and distributing a report about the findings of the assessment to the State Ecological Department. This group is a branch of the Omsk Children and Youth Ecological Center. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-141
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecoclub ECLIPS
To promote environmental education for youth in the Irkutsk, Baikal region by involving students and teachers in ecological monitoring activities. The Ecoclub will collaborate with various schools to create a formalized system for environmental monitoring and research regarding the pollution and degradation of the Irkutsk environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-131
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Ecoworld
To organize a youth environmental festival that focuses on recycling and the importance of protected areas; the event will be covered by the media and followed up with a television program on the same issues. This group focuses on promoting environmental awareness among youth. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-143
Amount: $1,886
Russia Advisory Board
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Kemerovo Regional Public Organization
To initiate legal action against a Moscow-based mining company that extracts manganese deposits. The goal of the legal action is to prevent the re-licensing of this company, and to continue the organization's awareness-building campaign about the negative impacts of extractive industries throughout the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-113
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Equilibrium
To restore and protect state reserves and national parks with teams of local volunteers, including youth. This organization will also carry out a special event, the Day of Siberian Animals, to inform local people about the need to protect rare and endangered species in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-134
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Russian Nature Protection Society
To clean up small rivers in the Khabarovskyi Krai region that have been contaminated by industrial pollution and consequently caused serious health problems for local people. Monitoring, clean-up, and environmental education activities will be completed involving student associations and citizens as well as municipal agencies. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-133
Amount: $4,205
Russia Advisory Board
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Nizhnaja Eltsovka
To carry out an environmental awareness campaign in Nizhnaja Eltsovka about solid waste pollution and its impacts on the Eltsovka River. A meeting will be held with the heads of the relevant municipal agencies to pressure for halting logging and promoting clean up activities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-144
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Team Clean Planet
This branch of the Ecological Center works to promote environmental awareness in the Sargatka Municipal District of Omskaja Oblast. Funds will be used to restore Lake Inberen and the surrounding rivers through reforestation and cleaning up a natural spring. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-145
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Green Landing
To promote clean solid waste management and prevent new illegal dumping grounds for household and industrial solid waste pollution. Activities include publishing a manual on solid waste management, creating a video on proper techniques, conducting seminars on waste management laws, documenting current illegal dumps, and organizing clean-ups. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-137
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Let's Protect City-Forest Akademgorodok
To conduct a campaign to protect an ecologically valuable public park from housing developments. Activities include constructing a website, involving the public media, and submitting a formal challenge of the zoning decisions. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-114
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center of Public Health
To analyze the soil, water, and human health pollution impacts in a area believed to be contaminated by a local tin smelter. The report will be submitted as part of a lawsuit to force the company to clean up contamination and provide compensation to local people whose health has been adversely affected. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-142
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Live Spring
To protect a cedar forest that is threatened by new building constructions. Activities include organizing public monitoring groups, a clean-up campaign, and reforestation projects. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-421
Amount: $1,800
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiatiative Group Planet
To clean up illegal waste from around a freshwater spring, and to monitor the water quality. As a result of this project, there will be an accessible source of water for local villagers. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-374
Amount: $1,725
Russia Advisory Board
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Novosibirsk Branch of All-Russian Nature Protection Society
To hold a series of seminars for 25 junior high school ecology teachers to introduce an innovative environmental education system. A pilot project will be carried out in selected schools in Novosibirsk. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-375
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Citizens Center on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
To support two projects: a public campaign around the problem of radioactive waste in the Yenisei River; and a campaign to bring attention to the repression of Russian non-governmental organizations by the government. One goal is to create more links between the Russian legislature and non-governmental organizations to create a space for dialogue and public opinion. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-123
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Center of Ecological Assessment and Environmental Monitoring
To hold seminars in the Tomsk area with a coalition of scientists, government representatives, non-governmental organizations, and wildlife managers to address environmental problems in the region. The Center's members include Tomsk Polytechnic University professors and students, and works to bring greater public attention to environmental issues, especially radioactive pollution. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-126
Amount: $1,460
Russia Advisory Board
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?cological Public Centre of the Republic Sakha (Yakutia)
To protect the rights of indigenous communities in the northern Sakha Republic, which are threatened by a hydroelectric power station on the Timpton River. Research on the impacts of the station will be presented to government officials and tribal communities, with the goal of ensuring indigenous participation in decision-making processes. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-411
Amount: $2,991
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Osinniki
To document the environmental and health impacts of a proposed solid waste storage area near the Senkina River. The group will work towards initiating legal action against the site. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-413
Amount: $2,550
Russia Advisory Board
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Women's Council of Inder Village, Dovolenskyi District
To conduct a series of cleanups in and around Inder Village, and to form a monitoring group to protect the coastal zone of the nearby lake and nature sanctuary area. This women's association aims to improve the environment in the region and increase public awareness regarding environmental issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-373
Amount: $1,030
Russia Advisory Board
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Krasnoyarsk Regional Ecological Union
To bring attention to the negative environmental consequences of the mega Bogunchanskaya Dam project on the Angara River, the largest hydroelectric project under construction in Russia. The group will launch a broad information campaign, create a website, and produce a video entitled 'Environmental Problems of the Boguchanskaya Dam Construction'. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-420
Amount: $4,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Non Commercial Partnership Ecological Committee (Omsk)
To protect water resources in Omsk from pollution and promote public participation in water resource management. The organization aims to unite the regional environmental movement and to strengthen partnerships among various stakeholders in water management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-415
Amount: $4,950
Russia Advisory Board
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The Amur Regional Children's Public Organization "Green World"
To create a network of environmental organizations in the Amur region that will focus on public education, a media campaign, and increasing citizen voice in advising environmental legislature. Green World is a youth environmental movement that promotes environmental awareness among the local population. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-422
Amount: $1,987
Russia Advisory Board
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Siberian Ecological Agency
To monitor power lines in Tomsk Oblast to assess the threat that they pose to birds, thousands of which die each year as a result of contact with the lines. The organization will complete a study that identifies the area's most vulnerable bird species and outlines a long-term protection plan. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-429
Amount: $2,930
Russia Advisory Board
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Oikos
To improve environmental protection efforts in the Berezovsky Wildlife Area. Activities include conducting a wildlife census, replanting trees, creating an ecological map of the protected area, and building public awareness about the importance of the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-122
Amount: $1,260
Russia Advisory Board
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Great Baikal Trail Association
To increase and diversify environmental education materials available to the public along the Lake Baikal trail system. The trails currently cover more than 400 miles and provide a key opportunity to introduce conservation to rural populations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-097
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Buryat Regional Amalgamation of Lake Baikal
To fund an environmental impact assessment as a baseline study of environmental conditions in the Baikal region. As a result, mining impacts will be able to be accurately measured and evaluated. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-096
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Initiative Group Zarechnyi Parostor
To support a collaborative tree planting involving students, local residents, government officials, and logging company representatives. An information booklet will also be published and distributed that discusses the value of the southern Taiga ecosystem. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-377
Amount: $1,658
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Let's Protect City-Forest Akademgorodok
To challenge a judicial order that allows for residential construction in the local city park. Activities include holding a public protest, distributing information about the environmental impacts of destroying the park, and working towards achieving a protected status for the park area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-416
Amount: $3,000
Russia Advisory Board
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The Great Baikal Trail Association
To support the organization's trail-building youth camps, which promote youth environmental education and active participation in the environmental movement. The Lake Baikal region is the focus area for a system of hiking trails, as part of an initiative to promote ecotourism and economic development for local communities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-444
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Sakhalin Environment Watch
To organize independent air pollution monitoring near the Sakhalin Energy liquefied natural gas plant in the southern part of Sakhalin Island. It is believed that the plant, the oil terminal, and the tankers will discharge toxic substances into the atmosphere, threatening a nearby community. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-359
Amount: $1,000
Donor Advised
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Center for Environmental Problems Solution Eco-Accord
To support Eco-Accord's Chemical Safety Program, which focuses on raising awareness about the effects of persistent organic pollutants on human health and the environment. Eco-Accord also aims to facilitate the ratification of the Stockholm Convention in the Eastern Europe, Caucuses and Central Asia region as part of its work to seek new approaches and solutions to environmental, economic and social problems at the local, national, and global level. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-991
Amount: $25,000
Donor Advised
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Initiative Group Revival
To reforest two hectares of degraded land in the village of Kozhevnikovo, and fence it off to protect it from cattle grazing. This youth-focused group is also developing a proposal to submit to the village authorities that will promote broader reforestation efforts. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-376
Amount: $1,535
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecological Center
To establish a public campaign to protect the Bolshaja River in the area of Bolsherechie, Omsk. Activities include meetings with local citizens and government officials, organizing clean-up trips, and establishing stronger links among environmental groups. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-124
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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NGO Siberian Environmental Center
To generate awareness about the problems of industrial pollution and household waste in the Inya river. Specific activities include involving the local population in clean up efforts, distributing informational booklets on the issue, and creating a map of the river and adjacent protected areas that indicates the main points of pollution. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-372
Amount: $1,670
Russia Advisory Board
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RITM
To acquire protected status for an area threatened by illegal logging and waste pollution. the necessary documentation about the area will be collected and submitted to the appropriate agency. The necessary documentation about the area will be collected and submitted to the appropriate agency, and a public committee will be created that will maintain contact with authorities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-378
Amount: $2,000
Russia Advisory Board
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Initiative Group Spring
To clean up the shores of the polluted Lake Lunchinino in collaboration with local residents, students, and the village administration. In addition, this citizen-based group will produce a video about the importance of the lake and distribute it among local residents. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-382
Amount: $1,200
Russia Advisory Board
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Young Correspondent
This youth journalist club covers activities of local youth clean up campaigns through an environmental page in the regional newspaper. Funds will be used to print three special edition issues of its environmental bulletin and begin work on a new media project about endangered plants and animals in the Kozhevnikovo area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-383
Amount: $1,159
Russia Advisory Board
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MEBO-Center
To teach local people about the importance of protecting the natural heritage of the Novosibirsk area; activities include field trips, the publication of an educational handbook, and the production of a video about nature preserves. This initiative group was created by teachers and students of the Novosibirsk State University in the Botany and Ecology department. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-370
Amount: $1,590
Russia Advisory Board
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Ecologists of Bolotninskyi
To hold a seminar for teachers in the Bolotnino region on rare and protected plants in the area, and to create a public center to monitor the state of rare plants. Additional activities include organizing field trips and school research events to conduct a rare plant census, the preparation of recommendations for the protections of rare plant species, and holding a conference to publicize the findings of the project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-371
Amount: $1,575
Russia Advisory Board
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| Asia : Samoa : 2007 |
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Village Council for Satapuala
To hold workshops to increase awareness about the threats that solid and liquid waste pose for health and water quality, and to develop an action plan to improve waste management. The Satapuala Village Council governs all village affairs and appoints task forces to address the development needs of the village. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-315
Amount: $2,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Village Council of Vaipouli
To continue with efforts to redirect a river away from homes and traditional grounds. The river has increased in intensity as a result of climate change, posing a direct threat to village homes and traditional gathering places. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-497
Amount: $1,246
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Matai Council of Sale'a'aumua
To support a waste management clean-up campaign, complemented by an environmental education component. This is a traditional village council that works to promote the long-term health and well-being of its citizens. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-493
Amount: $2,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Fasitootai Methodist Church
To slow coastal erosion through re-planting magroves and awareness building workshops, to mitigate the effects of natural disasters. This youth group was established to build awareness in the village about issues related to the erosion of coastal areas. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-314
Amount: $3,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Savaia Village Council
To rehabilitate the freshwater springs along the shoreline of Savia Village, which have been destroyed by cyclones and rough seas. The Village Council works to meet the social, cultural, development, and environmental health needs of the community, and one of the priorities identified is providing a clean source of drinking water. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-323
Amount: $4,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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Gagaemauga 3 District
To support the Gagaemauga 3 District's campaign to assess climate vulnerability and implement preventative measures. The coastal areas around seven villages will be replanted; water supplies will be augmented; and a marine conservation plan will be established with community participation. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-312
Amount: $9,000
Pacific Islands Advisory Board
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| Asia : Thailand : 2007 |
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Palang Thai
This organization is dedicated to conducting public-interest analyses of energy policies, and to empowering grassroots communities to use renewable and alternative energy sources. Projects include working with policy makers to provide comments on energy policy, and publishing articles that promote sustainable energy use. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-358
Amount: $1,000
Donor Advised
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SEARIN
To improve monitoring efforts of four proposed hydropower dams on the Mekong River. Activities include site visits and the compilation and dissemination of information about the potential negative impacts of the dams. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-508
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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Mangrove Action Project - Asia Regional Office
To support a community-based mangrove restoration project in the area adjacent to the village of Ban Taling Chan, which has been negatively impacted by shrimp farming. The project will incorporate the Ecological Mangrove Restoration methodology, which aims to restore mangrove forests in a manner that maximizes biodiversity. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-260
Amount: $5,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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| Asia : Vietnam : 2007 |
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Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development
To incorporate Son La and Lai Chau provinces into a previously-initiated study on dam project resettlement programs. The study will examine land compensation, job creation and access to public services, and will pay particular attention to key environmental and health issues such as epidemic disease, water sources and waste management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-560
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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Rural Development Services Center
To hold a workshop about the main issues faced by ethnic communities affected by multilateral development banks (MDBs), with the goal of training grassroots organizations in effective advocacy methods. MDB activities have had significant environmental impacts, especially regarding agriculture and energy production. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-284
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Costa Rica : 2007 |
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Instituto Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas de la Universidad Nacional
To enable the coordinator of this organization to attend the Pesticide Action Network's International Conference in Penang, Malaysia. The theme for this year's meeting is Convergence Towards Common Action and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-470
Amount: $3,280
Pesticide Action Network
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| Central America/Caribbean : Dominican Republic : 2007 |
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International Women Peasant Comission
To enable four women's movement leaders to attend the follow-up meeting to the International Financial Institution and Trade Agreement Strategy Caucus of International Peasant and Indigenous Leaders, which took place in July 2007 in Chiapas, Mexico. This meeting will allow for further opportunities to plan global activities to train and educate rural women leaders about the impact of International Financial Institutions on their lives and on the environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-487
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : El Salvador : 2007 |
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Colectivo Barrilete
To protect the forests around the municipality of Zaragoza. Community members will map the forest zone and formulate a sustainable management plan; the group will also produce and distribute educational materials that emphasize the importance of forest conservation. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-399
Amount: $4,688
Friends of the Earth
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| Central America/Caribbean : Guatemala : 2007 |
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Asociación Para El Desarrollo Sostenible de la Juventud
To educate communities in Huehuetenango about the environmental impacts of open pit mining, with the goal of promoting community-based activism and resource management. Because communication infrastructure is week in the area, a series of radio announcements and community visits will be used to spread the message to the affected communities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-449
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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PRODESO
To hold workshops on soil recuperation, forest management, and composting for agricultural communities. This organization's mission is to transfer knowledge, technology, and financial resources to community groups to improve their quality of life in a sustainable manner. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-203
Amount: $2,700
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Civil Colecitvo Madre Selva
To print and distribute a book about peasant resistance to the usurpation of land rights. The mission of this organization is work with community representatives to protect and defend the natural environment of Guatemala. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-450
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Instituto Indigena Mayaense
To promote sustainable and organic agriculture for local farmers, in order to counter the negative effects of non-organic fertilizers and the Green Revolution. Activities include producing radio spots to promote the program and inviting local elders to teach children about traditional agriculture methods. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-451
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural
To support an organic agriculture campaign as follow-up to the experiences gained at the Second Latin American Conference on Organic Agriculture. Activities include distributing 3,000 copies of a magazine on organic agriculture throughout the country. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-452
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación para la defensa de Montaña Las Granadillas
To support three aspects of this organization's work to protect the environment surrounding the Las Granadillas Mountains: soil conservation; seed and plant protection; and water conservation. Activities include workshops with local communities, capacity-building sessions for community members, and producing educational materials about the importance of conserving this area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-454
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Grupo de mujeres Ik Luna
To recuperate the natural vegetation in the region of Santiago Atitlan from the effects of Hurricane Stan. The focus of this effort is on reforestation, which will control erosion and improve the quality and quantity of potable water for communities in the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-205
Amount: $2,800
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Petén
To enable the leaders of this association to travel to an international meeting on rain forest conservation, where they will be able to share their efforts in Guatemala and learn from the experiences of others. The goal of ACOFOP is to incorporate local communities' voices in the development and implementation of a sustainable development model for managing the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Peten. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-211
Amount: $4,500
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de los Pueblos Indígenas de América
To increase awareness and build capacity among indigenous communities impacted by detrimental environmental practices; specifically, this campaign focuses on mineral concessions in the Sipakapense territory. Activities include holding workshops and roundtables with indigenous communities and producing radio spots. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-198
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Qachuu Aloom o Madre Tierra
To fund scholarships for the participation of 20 people in the fourth annual Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Producers and Researchers in Organic Agriculture. The conference will include presentations by national and international speakers, field visits, and workshops on various issues around organic agriculture. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-202
Amount: $2,875
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Ulew Che Ja
To replant deforested areas with native tree species of cultural and ecological importance; and to hold a workshop with community leaders to train them in forest conservation. This Association works with rural communities in the municipality of Totonicapan to promote healthy forests, with the primary goals of providing safe drinking water. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-201
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Vecinos para el Desarrollo Integral de Champerico
To patrol vulnerable mangrove areas to prevent illegal activities; and to educate coastal community leaders about the laws that protect their resources and the importance of coastal ecosystems. AVEDICHAMP aims to protect, conserve, and restore the Guatemalan coastal ecosystems in the Southern Pacific region of the country. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-200
Amount: $2,900
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Productores de Cacao del Sur Occidente de Guatemala
This association aims to improve the market competitiveness of the organic cultivation of cacao, with the goal of both conserving the environment and reducing rural poverty. This grant will enable the association to officially register as a legal entity, to create a strategic plan for future action, and to initiate dialogue with several municipalities along the southern coast of Guatemala. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-199
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Desarrollo de Concepción Huista
To assist small-scale organic coffee producers in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness in the production and commercialization of their product. Specifically, funds will construct a small store and cover the costs of the necessary agricultural and technological materials to increase production and sales. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-204
Amount: $2,800
Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Haiti : 2007 |
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Lambi Fund of Haiti
To support a reforestation project in badly degraded areas of Haiti and a peer exchange among peasant women in Kenya and Haiti to share best practices and encourage advocacy. Specific elements of the project include pilot demonstrations, education, training and technical assistance, and planting one million trees. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-157
Amount: $95,000
Donor Advised
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| Central America/Caribbean : Honduras : 2007 |
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Vía Campesina
To send sixteen indigenous leaders to the Continental Encounter of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas in Sonora, Mexico. The conference serves as a forum for discussion and alliance-building regarding indigenous rights abuses associated with Free Trade Agreements and other International Financial Institution-financed initiatives. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-502
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Red de Desarrollo Sostenible - Honduras
To support 16 community meetings in different locations to create a participatory base for designing conservation and sustainable natural resource management in the region. This network works to strengthen the institutional capacity of public and private organizations to successfully promote sustainable social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental development in Honduras. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-215
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Cooperativa Agroforestal Rio Platano Limitada
To support the development of this organization, including designing a website and creating presentations, pamphlets, and flyers. COAFORPLA is a cooperative that works to improve the livelihoods of its members through developing sustainable agroforestry practices. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-221
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Empresa de Servicios Múltiples Isaura Rodríguez de
To ensure that a small hydroelectric energy project in the Rio Cuyamel watershed is managed in an environmentally-sustainable way. The energy project was established to help alleviate poverty in the region while effectively managing natural resources. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-467
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Comité de Desarrollo Local de Río Coco
To build a composting trash system to improve health conditions, map the green areas of the community that are potential ecotourism sites, and ensure that key parts of the town have electricity and are well-lighted to foster a sense of security. This organization works to extend the economic benefits of ecotourism to all families in Rio Coco. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-220
Amount: $2,700
Central America Advisory Board
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Cooperativa Mixta Nuevo Real Limitada
To help families create financial savings accounts and secure investment activities that allow them to better plan for the future, with a focus on remittances that families receive from relatives in the United States. Activities include creating a Board of Directors within the municipality government, and identifying those families in the area that receive remittances. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-214
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Medios de Comunicación Alternativos y Conexos S. de R. L. (El Libertador)
To investigate and report on environmental and human rights issues that are typically left out of the mainstream media. Specifically, the paper El Libertador will investigate government strategies for poverty reduction in ethnic minority and farming communities and their impacts on local people. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-464
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Moskitia Asla Takanka
To organize the indigenous communities on the banks of the Segovia and Patuca Rivers with the goal of reversing the current trend of native lands being usurped by outside encroachment. This is an umbrella organization comprised of 10 independent indigenous federations, and promotes organizing strategies based on local action and legal government action. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-218
Amount: $2,700
Central America Advisory Board
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Federación Nacional de Pescadores Artesanales de Honduras
To support the organization in creating ten proposals to be submitted to a government small grants program, for projects including developing business strategies, promoting capacity building for local leaders, and administrative strengthening. The Federation was established to create a sustainable artesian fishing sector managed by local fisher people. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-537
Amount: $4,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Kiuhsi Pusalka
To develop sustainable livelihood options for rural populations, especially women. Activities include buying seeds, training community members in silviculture, and purchasing key forestry equipment and tools. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-219
Amount: $2,600
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas Miskitas
To create multi-media materials to support and strengthen this Moskitia-based organization's mission to increase women's capacity to realize their rights. Activities include developing a website and designing interactive presentations about the group's work supporting women's rights, natural resource conservation, and the protection of indigenous culture. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-463
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Fundación Madera Verde
To promote sustainable forestry management combined with the production of sustainable furniture goods. Workshops will be held with local craftspeople to improve quality control, and brochures will be created to promote the sale of the finished products. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-465
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Patronato Pro Mejoramiento Comuidad Garifuna de San Juan
To enable Garifuna community leaders to analyze the impacts of globalization in Mesoamerica, including themes related to Plan Puebla Panama, human rights, climate change, and energy issues. This organization works to ensure the collective rights of the Garifuna community and promote sustainable development and improved quality of life. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-216
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña
To support a sustainable ecotourism project in the Garifuna, Miskito, Pech and Tawahka pueblos. This organization works with indigenous Garifuna communities throughout Honduras to protect their ancestral territories, knowledge, and way of life. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-217
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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| Central America/Caribbean : Nicaragua : 2007 |
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Union de Cooperativas Agropecuarias para el Desarrollo Rural Sostenible de Nicaragua Ciudad Dario R.L.
To develop a strategic action plan for the community to promote environmental issues and work towards sustainable natural resource use. Three workshops will be held with community members and government officials to work towards the action plan. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-459
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Cooperativa de Servicos Múltiples Mujeres para el Desarrollo
To hold six capacity-building workshops to improve working conditions for local women who work at a tortilla factory, the House of Corn, in Ocotal. The House of Corn was established to provide a safe work environment for women; activities include reducing the use of firewood in the cooking process (to reduce smoke inhalation as well as forest destruction) and improving quality control and administrative practices. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-458
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Unión de Comunidades del Territorio Tasba Pri
To construct 34 homes for families whose houses were destroyed by Hurricane Felix. This organization is comprised of members of all of the Miskito indigenous communities in the Tasha Pri territory. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-536
Amount: $5,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Federación Nacional de Cooperativas (FENACOOP, R.L.)
To implement an ecotourism initiative as part of the activities of this rural cooperative network. Activities include capacity-building workshops, technical assistance, and creating a strategic action plan for the project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-461
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Productores de Reposición Forestal y Comercialización de Tejas y Ladrillos
To purchase land in order to expand a tree nursery in the municipality of la Paz, and to purchase a motorcycle so that visits can be made to communities where forestry projects are underway. ASEROFOR is a group of concerned citizens that works to restore, preserve, and transform the region's forests so that they can be a sustainable benefit to local communities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-207
Amount: $2,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Fundación para el Desarollo Turístico y Ecológico de la Micro, Pequeña y Mediana Empresa
To develop a rural ecotourism market based on sustainable principles, and promote the participation of women in these projects. Activities include workshops to identify the potential for tourism development, and evaluation of the available resources pertinent to ecotourism in the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-213
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación Nacional de Cluster y Redes locales para el Desarrollo
To carry out a systematic revision of the environmental decision making processes of the municipalities of Buenos Aires, Potosi, Cardenas, San Jorge, and Rivas, with the goal of increasing the dialogue between state institutions and the public and promoting locally-based environmental management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-212
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Fundación Nicaragüense para el Desarrollo Sontenible
To purchase land in order to expand a tree nursery in cooperation with the Asociacion de Reposicion Forestal. The goal of this project is to establish sustainable forestry practices for local communities in the municipalities of San Francisco Libre, San Rafael del Sur, Nagarote, y La Paz Centro. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-206
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Comisión de Salud Consejo Regional Atlántico Norte
To organize a regional meeting bringing together community leaders to ensure that their opinions are represented in a new health care policy. Created by the Nicaraguan government, the goal of the policy is to develop a precedent-setting intercultural regional health care plan that incorporates both ancestral traditions and cultures of local people-based on a close relationship with nature and use of native plants-as well as Western medicine. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-210
Amount: $3,500
Central America Advisory Board
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Asociación de Artistas y Artesansos Grupo Raíces
To increase the capacity of Nicaraguan artisans to design their products in an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable manner through workshops and meetings with experts. The products will be displayed at a regional fair. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-208
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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Fundación para el Desarrollo Municipal de Rivas
To work towards the official legal declaration of a protected zone for the Nocarime Lagoon in the Buenos Aires municipality. A consultant will be hired to write the declaration, and visits to the lagoon will be arranged for local councilmen, government representatives, and members of civil society. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-456
Amount: $3,000
Central America Advisory Board
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BlueEnergy
To send a representative to the RedLar Mesoamerica Walking Towards Alternatives forum, to conduct a workshop on renewable energy projects. The organization's mission is to provide low-cost, sustainable solutions to the energy needs of poor communities in Nicaragua. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-507
Amount: $450
International Rivers
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| Central America/Caribbean : Panama : 2007 |
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Alianza para la Conservación y Desarrollo de Panama
To present the findings of a scientific investigation about the impacts of four dams that will be built in the traditional Naso and Ngabe territories. The results will be presented by community leaders, to disseminate the information to local communities and grassroots organizations so that they can network and cooperate in their campaign against the construction of these dams. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-272
Amount: $300
International Rivers
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| Europe : Albania : 2007 |
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Ekolevizja Center
To fund training sessions for Albanian civil society organizations interested in monitoring the activities of international financial institutions. The training sessions will focus on how to develop research skills, media relations programs, and linkages with likeminded organizations in Albania and overseas. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-070
Amount: $4,900
IFI Advisory Board
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| Europe : Belarus : 2007 |
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Fundacion Pumalin
To promote a toxic-free future for Belarus by campaigning against waste incineration. A team of local and regional non-governmental organizations will be created and trained so that they can effectively work on chemical and waste issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-736
Amount: $18,000
Donor Advised
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| Europe : Belgium : 2007 |
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Health and Environment Alliance
To support the Chemical Health Monitor Project, which aims to reduce the harmful effects of hazardous chemicals on human health. Project activities include increasing available resources on health impacts, working in closer alliance with the transatlantic health and environment community, and designing a public awareness campaign about the harmful effects of toxic chemical exposure. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-993
Amount: $40,000
Donor Advised
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| Europe : Bulgaria : 2007 |
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Environmental Association Za Zemiata
To organize a national working group of non governmental organizations and concerned citizens who will work together to stop waste incineration and promote healthier alternative practices. A campaign plan will be created that will integrate research and publications, workshops and trainings, and production of public education materials. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-390
Amount: $20,000
Donor Advised
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Green Policy Institute
To campaign against two International Financial Institution-financed (IFI) oil pipelines in the Black Sea region. Through community education regarding the negative impacts of oil traffic, the Institute plans to strengthen opposition to IFI funding of these projects. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-482
Amount: $15,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Nacionalno Dvizenie Priately na Zemiata
To implement an awareness-building campaign about the negative effects of pesticides on the environment and public health. Activities include maintaining an informative website and monitoring the implementation of European Union pesticide-related legislation throughout Bulgaria. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-477
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Croatia : 2007 |
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Zelena Akcija
To campaign against a solid waste incinerator in Zagreb, which will threaten the environment and health of the surrounding neighborhoods. This organization's goal is to encourage public participation in decision making around issues that affect the quality of life for Croatian citizens. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-239
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| Europe : Czech Republic : 2007 |
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Hnuti DUHA Usti nad Labem
To protect the communities of Horni Jretin and Cernice from the negative impacts of coal mining. Activities include an awareness-building conference and the establishment of a permanent office for the organization. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-299
Amount: $3,750
Friends of the Earth
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Health Care Without Harm Europe
To stop the pro-incinerator lobby from rewriting Europe's waste regulations to their advantage. Health Care Without Harm Europe is part of an international coalition working to transform the healthcare industry worldwide so that it is ecologically sustainable and does not pose harm to people and the environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-997
Amount: $30,000
Donor Advised
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| Europe : Hungary : 2007 |
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Waste Prevention Alliance
To support this network of 17 non-governmental organizations in halting the current municipal solid waste incinerator projects in Hungary and promoting clean alternatives. Activities include increasing citizen awareness of the dangers of solid waste incinerators and the benefits of safer alternatives and monitoring European Union waste regulations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-389
Amount: $20,000
Donor Advised
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| Europe : Lithuania : 2007 |
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Western Lithuania Consumer Federation
To increase public awareness of the negative impacts of pesticides on food and drinking water sources through an electronic publication. This federation is comprised of over 17 member organizations in Western Lithuania, including many voluntary groups, that provide information and advice about basic consumer issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-175
Amount: $4,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Macedonia : 2007 |
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Eco-Sense
To fund various activities highlighting the impact of international financial institutions in Macedonia. Eco-sense plans to organize public seminars, hold a film festival, develop a website, and publish a variety of materials on the subject. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-072
Amount: $2,820
IFI Advisory Board
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| Europe : Poland : 2007 |
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Association of the Biadacz Youth Young Village
To raise public awareness of the ecological and human benefits of organic agriculture, with a focus on youth. Activities will include workshops with local farmers, creating an informational brochure, and meeting with politicians to promote a national committee dedicated to reducing pesticide use. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-189
Amount: $4,500
Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Slovenia : 2007 |
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Ecology, Cultural diversity, Health
To maintain and update a user-friendly webpage that informs the public about the dangers of pesticide use and promotes alternatives. This organization coordinates awareness-building activities about the environment, health, and intercultural understanding. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-478
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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| Europe : Ukraine : 2007 |
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Center for Civil Society Problems Studies
The World Bank is considering funding for the Dniester Pump Storage Plant, a facility that would support the Ukraine's nuclear industry. CCSPS will launch a campaign to publicize the technical, economic, energy and environmental flaws of this plan. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-073
Amount: $5,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Geoecological Association
To design an electronic database to chart environmental concerns and actions that have been taken on behalf of these concerns in order to improve strategic organizing in protecting the environment of the Crimea region. This group of students and professors from the Taurida National University is striving to protect the unique ecological habitats of the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-098
Amount: $1,500
Earth Island Institute
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The Association of Ecological Education
To hold a workshop in environmental education methods for 30 leaders of Ukrainian environmental organizations. The Association unites members of the community to promote environmental awareness and involve youth in a variety of activities, including research, publicity campaigns, and environmental trips. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-099
Amount: $1,500
Earth Island Institute
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas de América Latina
The mission of Environment-People-Law (EPL) is to promote the rule of law for the protection of the environment. This grant will support the right to public participation in environmental matters by working for positive outcomes in 4 or 5 SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) cases. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-003
Amount: $5,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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The Association of Ecological Education
To hold the third annual conference for an alliance of environmental organizations, called the All-Ukrainian Ecological Movement Khortitsky Forum. The goals of this conference are to strengthen networking among grassroots organizations and to promote their participation in environmental decision-making processes. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-436
Amount: $2,500
Earth Island Institute
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Council of Organizations for Children and Youth
To create and equip a resource center that will be the hub of the environmental movement in Northern Crimea. The center will hold workshops, provide consulting and technical services, and serve as a general support network for grassroots environmental initiatives. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-100
Amount: $2,000
Earth Island Institute
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| Europe : United Kingdom : 2007 |
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Piankhi Research Group
To send a representative to a conference of African and Chinese non-governmental organizations in Shanghai. Additionally, the representative will meet with Chinese and international journalists, and will attempt to bring public attention to the negative socio-environmental impacts of the Chinese-financed Merowe dam project in Sudan. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-510
Amount: $2,300
International Rivers
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CHEM Trust
To support a campaign to reduce human and wildlife exposure to toxic chemicals that have been linked to birth defects, reproductive health problems, and cancer. CHEM Trust is particularly concerned with chemicals that cause long term harm. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-386
Amount: $50,000
Donor Advised
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| North America : Canada : 2007 |
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Nature Conservancy-Canada
To support the British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis, a collaborative project designed to provide resource managers, scientists, decision-makers, and other stakeholders with better information related to planning and management of Canada’s Pacific waters. An atlas will be created that identies areas of high conservation value through spatial analysis. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-534
Amount: $40,000
Donor Advised
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Wild Earth
To support participation from First Nation communities in an alliance-building meeting, in which participants will share experiences and work to create a stronger movement for environmental conservation. Wild Earth organizes this event to bring together grassroots environmental groups from South Coastal British Columbia that face a variety of socio-environmental challenges. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-193
Amount: $3,800
Rainforest Action Network
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Boreal Action Project
To hold a workshop at Raven's Creek as part of the Hollow Water First Nation program, which focuses on communication strategies, nonviolent disobedience, art as advocacy, international law, and children's activities. This organization works to build civil society capacity among indigenous peoples of Canada, so that they can better defend their lands against large scale resource extraction pressures. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-251
Amount: $3,000
Rainforest Action Network
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Georgia Strait Alliance
To continue campaigning along the coast of British Columbia to bring about lasting solutions to the negative ecological impacts of salmon farming (aquaculture); specifically, to win industry commitment to closed containment technology, which is less threatening to the environment and biodiversity. Georgia Strait Alliance's mission is to protect and restore the marine environment and promote sustainability through public education, advocacy, and public policy work. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-996
Amount: $35,000
Donor Advised
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| North America : Mexico : 2007 |
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Sistemas Naturales y Desarrollo, A.C.
To continue a biodiversity conservation and environmental education project in El Pescadero, with the goal of enabling the residents of this small, coastal, rural community to identify environmental problems in the region and design appropriate solutions. Sistemas Naturales y Desarrollo is a research organization that examines natural resource distribution, use, and degradation throughout the Nayarit region of Mexico. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-391
Amount: $10,000
Donor Advised
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Land Research Action Network
To host leaders of Via Campesina, an international peasant and indigenous peoples movement, to attend a grassroots meeting based on the format of the World Social Forum in Chiapas. The meeting will enable grassroots leaders to strategize on how to address issues of globalization, resource exploitation, and international trade. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-108
Amount: $4,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Red Fronteriza de Salud y Ambiente
To continue a campaign to educate the public about the risks associated with pesticide use. The network will create a coalition against pesticides that will work throughout the state of Sonora. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-665
Amount: $4,572
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Parque Nacional Constitución de 1857
For general support of this organization. Specifically, to improve the facilities available in the park's multi-use room, which is used for workshops, exhibitions, and public talks about the environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-666
Amount: $2,285
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Mujeres Bordando Motivos para la Naturaleza
To support the development of a small business network of women-run cooperatives based on principles of sustainability and environmental protection. Funds will be used to increase the skill base of the cooperative members to create new products. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-106
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Porque los amamos los protegemos, A.C.
To establish an animal rescue center. Funds will purchase medicine and equipment and pay a veterinarian to staff the center. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-668
Amount: $2,606
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Fundación Biósfera A.C.
To organize a workshop to discuss environmental legislation related to fishing, agriculture, tourism, and hunting. By bringing together representatives from each of these sectors, they will be able to disseminate key regulatory information to communities in the region; they will also form an on-going committee within the Foundation for future collaboration. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-663
Amount: $4,572
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Grupo Carey
To further develop a program that creates crafts from trash. The goal is to provide local people with a source of income while promoting recycling and environmental awareness. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-669
Amount: $2,254
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Sociedad Cooperativa de Pescadores Cordeleros de San Blas, Nayarit
To improve protection of key fishing grounds and enforce environmental laws. This organization is comprised of twenty local fisherman who practice traditional fishing techniques. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-670
Amount: $3,595
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Colectivo San Pancho
To provide general operating support for this organization. It seeks to promote the cultural identity of Nayarit state through activities such as eco-art festivals and environmental education. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-671
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Alianza de Comunidades Hermanas de la Costa por la Conservación
To develop eco-tourism projects as sustainable economic alternatives for this alliance of eight coastal communities. Especially given the significant development pressures faced by this region, promoting community partnership around economic development is crucial. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-672
Amount: $4,572
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Grupo Los Angeles del Estero San Jose
To protect and preserve natural resources in the San Jose Estero region. The group will collaborate with other like-minded organizations to increase public awareness of environmental issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-673
Amount: $1,500
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Zonas Verdes de Punta Banda
To carry out beach and highway clean-ups, create green spaces and recreational areas, promote recycling, and develop environmental education initiatives. This organization focuses on improving social welfare through the restoration and preservation of the Punta Banda area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-667
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Asociacion de Minusvalidos de BCS
To hold a capacity building workshop to teach disabled individuals how to make and sell arts and crafts made of natural materials. This workshop will allow them to learn a trade while encouraging conservation practices. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-658
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Red Fronteriza de Salud y Ambiente
For general capacity-building support of this organizations, which works to design solutions to environmental problems in the United States-Mexico border region. Focus areas include women's health, energy and climate change, and coastal tourism. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-988
Amount: $1,000
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Santuario Animal El Refugio
For general support of the Refuge. This organization provides free and low-cost treatment, vaccination, and sterilization for pets, and is a shelter for abandoned and stray animals in El Pescadero. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-652
Amount: $4,572
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Revista Alternativa
To produce a multi-disciplinary article about South Baja California's ecosystems and ethnobiology, to be published in the magazine and widely distributed. The goal of the article is to promote and protect the socio-environmental culture of the area. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-653
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Fondo Acción Solidaria, A.C.
To repair the roof of the organization, without which it cannot function. Also to translate the Memorandum of Understanding that FASOL, as a member of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds, will sign with Greengrants. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-336
Amount: $1,300
Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo Interdisciplinario de Cartografía
For general support of this South Baja California organization. Comprised of cartography specialists, the organization produces and distributes resource-specific maps with the goal of raising awareness about natural resource protection in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-654
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Asociacion de Familiares de Enfermos Mentales de La Paz, BCS, AC
To hold several workshops that focus on nature as therapy for special needs and mentally disabled children and adults. Activities include craftmaking from objects found in nature. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-655
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Center for Political Analysis and Social and Economic Research
To enable leaders of Via Campesina, an international peasant and indigenous peoples movement, to attend a grassroots meeting based on the format of the World Social Forum in Chiapas. The meeting will allow grassroots leaders to strategize on how to address issues of globalization, resource exploitation, and international trade. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-109
Amount: $4,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Asociación Sudcalifoniana de Discapacitados en Audición y Lenguaje
To produce and distribute an educational video that focuses on the relationship between humans and nature, especially as related to cultural practices. The video will be adapted for the deaf population that this association represents. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-657
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Consejo de Organizaciones de Medicos y Parteras Indigenas Tradicionales de Chiapas
To organize a statewide assembly focused on monitoring and analyzing the regional environmental impacts of policies financed by the Inter-American Development Bank. This network of traditional healers, midwives, and doctors aims to defend, strengthen, and develop the indigenous health system through the diffusion of traditional knowledge and training and capacity building. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-327
Amount: $15,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Asociación de Personas con Discapacidad Visual
To develop an 'Art in Palm' project, which teaches blind people to make crafts from palm leaves. This organization supports and empowers the blind population of South Baja California. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-659
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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CONREHABIT, A.C.
For general support of this organization, which aims to rehabilitate and conserve the natural habitat of the region. Activities include public education on wildlife issues, biodiversity field research, and combating illegal wildlife trafficking. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-661
Amount: $4,572
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Red Ecologista por el desarrollo de Escuinapa, Sin
To hold a capacity building workshop to address the risks of agrochemical use in rural communities in the Palmito del Verde valley. Many of these communities are located near giant chile and tomatillo plantations where agrochemical use is rampant. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-662
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Alianza de Comunidades Hermanas de la Costa por la Conservación
To assist in the coordination of the integration of regional organizations, with the purpose of facilitating the exchange and diffusion of information and services related to sustainable development. This alliance aims to build environmental awareness among the coastal communities of Nayarit. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-294
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupos por la Defensa de Parque de Villa de Seris
To protect the Villa de Seris park, on the banks of the Sonora River though public citizen actions, including marches and events. This is one of only two green spaces in Hermosillo. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-664
Amount: $2,743
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Angeles del Estero de San Jose, A.C.
To launch a campaign to protect the elegant tern. Activities include algae control, water monitoring, a bird inventory, and trash pick-up brigades. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-227
Amount: $3,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo Mejibó
To create educational materials for middle and high school students about sustainable development and conservation. Activities include training students to use PowerPoint presentations to promote conservation education among various audiences. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-656
Amount: $3,200
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Bordadoras de las Animas
This women's cooperative creates quality embroidered products, enabling them to support themselves and their families and remain in their own communities instead of migrating to cities. Funds will purchase general supplies. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-195
Amount: $3,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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Amigos de Agua Caliente, A.C.
To improve this group's environmental education center so that it is more accessible to the public. This group works to preserve the flora and fauna of Baja California through education and animal protection efforts. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-225
Amount: $3,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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Sistemas Naturales y Desarrollo, A.C.
Sistemas Naturales y Desarrollo, A.C. studies the dynamics of resource exploitation and protection, and then provides local communities with information to help them participate in decision-making processes. This grant funds a new association of women's groups that have received charitable financial donations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-236
Amount: $3,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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Club de Ecologia
To train students in environmental skills, with the goals of increasing awareness of biological diversity, cultivating a sense of responsibility to protect the environment, and promoting critical thinking in solving environmental problems. This club works to strengthen public knowledge of local ecosystems through hands-on and field-based science for students. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-238
Amount: $1,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo Vicente Guerrero Proyecto de Desarrollo Rural Integral
To produce a documentary of the Immigrant Trail, with the goal of educating the general public about the role international financial institutions have played in the migration of peasant farmers from Mexico to the U.S. The mission of this organization is to promote campesino-led sustainable agriculture development, and is a member of the Campesino a Campesino movement. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-258
Amount: $4,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Proyecto Ecoturistico la Trinidad
To complete a ecotourism project, including cabins and a dining room, to provide services for tourists hosted by the community. The ecotourism project generates income for the community and promotes sustainable resource management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-437
Amount: $5,000
Earth Island Institute
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Genero, Medio Ambiente y Sociedad, I.A.P.
To construct an information center that will serve as a place to receive information, education, and other services for this low-income community, in order to improve the quality of life, the status of women, and the health of the environment. This organization seeks to improve the wellbeing of marginalized sectors of society, including women, youth, and the elderly. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-264
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México A.C.
To enable the coordinator of this organization to attend the Pesticide Action Network's International Conference in Penang, Malaysia. The theme for this year's meeting is Convergence Towards Common Action and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-475
Amount: $3,280
Pesticide Action Network
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Amigos de Agua Caliente, A.C.
To protect the flora and fauna of the region through environmental education and restoration. Also to raise native endangered and threatened species of reptiles and amphibians for release in the wild. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-938
Amount: $1,500
Fondo Acción Solidaria
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Grupo de Mujeres de la Comunidad de San Evaristo
To rehabilitate a site that has been illegally used as a solid waste dump. This is a women-led organization that aims to unify the San Evaristo community around projects that improve their quality of life and the environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-295
Amount: $1,700
Mexico Advisory Board
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Hogar Yachi'il Antzetic
To support this organization's efforts to protect and promote the rights and culture of indigenous women in Chiapas. The organization gives emotional and legal support to women related to issues of health, reproductive rights, self-esteem, empowerment, and human rights. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-304
Amount: $1,000
Donor Advised
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Casa del Artesano Sudcaliforniano
This cooperative of artisan craftspeople focuses on increasing profit while emphasizing commercial justice, social inclusion, and ecological sustainability. Funds will be used to widen their market area to other states. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-196
Amount: $3,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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Consejo de Organizaciones de Medicos y Parteras Indigenas Tradicionales de Chiapas
For general support of this organization, which was created in 1994 to coordinate the work of 17 organizations comprised of traditional healers, doctors, and midwives. It aims to defend, strengthen, and develop the indigenous health system through the diffusion of traditional knowledge and training and capacity building. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-302
Amount: $1,500
Donor Advised
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Comunicadores del Desierto, A.C.
To fund radio broadcasts on Radiobemebe FM on issues including tourism, water, pesticides, energy use and climate change. Comunicadores del Desierto (Desert Speakers) operates this station to ensure that civil society has access to important public messages regarding human rights, health, gender, culture, and environmental issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-194
Amount: $2,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Centro de Estudios para el Cambio en el Campo Mexicano
To host leaders of Via Campesina, an international peasant and indigenous peoples movement, to attend a grassroots meeting based on the format of the World Social Forum in Chiapas. The meeting will enable grassroots leaders to strategize on how to address issues of globalization, resource exploitation, and international trade. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-110
Amount: $4,000
IFI Advisory Board
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Naturaleza para Todos A.C.
To produce fifty radio spots that discuss the negative social, environmental, and economic impacts of international financial institution-backed projects in Chiapas. Radio is a key mode of communication because of the high illiteracy rates in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-069
Amount: $4,370
IFI Advisory Board
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Grupo de Ostioneros de Bahia Santa Maria
To introduce sustainable management techniques to oyster farmers in Sinaloa and Nayarit. This group organizes and builds skills among the families involved in the oyster industry to promote sustainable oyster harvests. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-181
Amount: $1,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Biologos de Ensenada, A.C.
To increase membership in this organization, which is comprised of biologists working to promote science-based natural resource protection and conservation. Funds will be used to acquire formal legal status as a nonprofit organization and hold public awareness events. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-182
Amount: $1,072
Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo de La Palma Azul
To construct a tree nursery for a restoration project in Baja California focused on reintroducing the blue palm and other species. Native plant restoration is a key way to improve ecological health in degraded areas. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-188
Amount: $3,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Centro de Estudios de Tecnologicos del Mar No. 11
To hold a workshop on horticulture and aquaculture for high school students learning about sustainable resource use. The Center's goal is to cultivate social problem solving skills among students to that they may better address challenges in their communities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-183
Amount: $2,590
Mexico Advisory Board
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Telar Natural
To become a legal organization and increase its visibility in the community through printed materials, a website, and public events. Telar Natural (Natural Weaving) works to promote community-based natural resource management and critical self-reflection. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-184
Amount: $3,500
Mexico Advisory Board
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Red de Promotoras de Salud y Ambiente de Cobanaras
This network of women's groups in eight municipalities in Sonora is working to make conservation and protection of the natural environment a primary focus of Mexican society. Funds will be used to hold several capacity-building workshops for environmental leaders and create five youth environmental clubs. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-185
Amount: $5,000
Mexico Advisory Board
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y Alternativas en México A.C.
To fund travel for a member of RAPAM to attend a conference on persistent organic pollutants, to be held in Dakar, Senegal. The RAPAM representative, an expert responsible for the campaign to eliminate the use of DDT in Mexico, will present his experiences and exchange ideas with others. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-089
Amount: $2,500
Pesticide Action Network
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Telesecundaria 70
To continue the efforts to restore the Rio Hardy, which has been devastated by human influences. Activities include creating a space for seed germination of native plants and workshops with students to explain the process and goals of the restoration project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-187
Amount: $1,275
Mexico Advisory Board
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Grupo Biosfuture
To hold a workshop on hydroponic agricultural techniques for local farmers in the semiarid region of Baja California. A demonstration model will be completed to help with education efforts. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-186
Amount: $2,727
Mexico Advisory Board
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| North America : United States : 2007 |
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Western Mining Action Network
To support this network's sixth annual conference entitled Mining and Energy: Community Perspectives. Funds will support participation of indigenous communities in Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-237
Amount: $5,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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Grantmakers Without Borders
Grantmakers Without Borders is a philanthropic network dedicated to increasing funding for international social justice and environmental sustainability. This grant provides general support to the organization. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-004
Amount: $3,000
Special Opportunities Fund
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International Indian Treaty Council
To hold a series of capacity-building workshops run by the North-South Indigenous Network Against Pesticides throughout the Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa. The International Indian Treaty Council works to promote the sovereignty and self-determination of indigenous peoples. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-480
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Amazon Watch
To fund travel by two leaders of Peru's national indigenous Amazonian federation, AIDESEP, to Houston, Texas for the National Petroleum Engineer Expo. The leaders will speak on behalf of the indigenous peoples of Peru, and inform potential investors of the serious social, environmental, and legal implications of investing in extractive activities in indigenous territories. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-006
Amount: $3,000
Rainforest Action Network
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International Accountability Project
The Asian Development Bank is revising its policies concerning safeguards for individuals and communities that would be affected by Bank-sponsored projects. This grant will fund a campaign to pressure Bank decision makers to live up to those safeguards, and not to weaken them. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-075
Amount: $4,000
IFI Advisory Board
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| South America : Argentina : 2007 |
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Taller Ecologista
To campaign for a Zero Waste law for Rosario as part of this group's focus on creating a toxics-free Argentina. Taller Ecologista aims to raise awareness among key political, health, and community actors on pollution and related problems. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-591
Amount: $25,000
Donor Advised
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Bios Quilmes
To produce a documentary and manual that demonstrate the negative impact that biofuels have on sustainable agriculture and food supply throughout the region. The focus of this campaign is on educating youth and encouraging dialogue. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-392
Amount: $5,000
South America Regional Fund
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Centro de Estudios sobre Tecnologías Apropriadas de la Argentina
To send a representative to Pesticide Action Network International’s conference in Penang, Malaysia. The conference, titled 'Convergence Towards Common Actions and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment', will focus on strengthening the International Instruments on Pesticides, and will enable organizations focusing on pesticide issues from around the world to network and collaborate. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-529
Amount: $3,280
Pesticide Action Network
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Taller Ecologista
To organize a seminar entitled Building Capacity for the Sustainability of the Plata Watershed. The objective of the seminar is to mobilize campaigns throughout the watershed to address the negative socio-environmental impacts of regional mega-projects associated with the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA) initiative. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-524
Amount: $3,500
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Fundación Eco Urbano
To create six youth eco-clubs that cultivate environmental leaders and awareness. Activities include producing a video documenting the successful citizen campaign to block a dam on the Parana Madio River, demonstrating the powerful impact of collective action. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-064
Amount: $4,700
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Centro de Políticas Públicas para el Socialismo (CEPPAS)
To send a leader of the community to a key international meeting on indigenous rights, thereby giving them a chance to voice their concerns around oil development in front of an international audience and network with those facing similar challenges. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-158
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Asociación Civil Chaloy Espacio Cultural
To fund a tour among eight communities in the Missions Province that explains issues facing small-scale fishermen in maintaining a sustainable livelihood. The tour will include a performance, mural-painting, and information distribution in each community. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-061
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Fundación Flora Nativa
To design and implement an environmental education initiative in Mendoza, which will involve the participation of more than 35 indigenous Huarpe families as well as the regional municipality. The initiative will support efforts to create the first protected zone in the region, and will be managed entirely by Huarpe indigenous groups. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-516
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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| South America : Bolivia : 2007 |
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Cooperativa Agrícola Integral Campesino Limitada
To finance the start-up of a small business that will provide natural food products to the local Gibraltar municipality school. The business will provide employment to 30 women and promote the conservation of the local forests from which the ingredients will come. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-046
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Foro Boliviano Sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo
To fund a conference on the conservation of the Madera river in the Amazon. Goals of this organization include the financial support of community environmental legal battles, and the incorporation of sustainability into political debates. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-274
Amount: $4,640
Andes Advisory Board
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Coordinadora en Defensa de la Cuenca del Río Desaguadero, Lagos Uru Uru y Poopó
To organize a meeting of communities affected by mining activities in the Desaguadero River region, with the goal of building awareness and training citizens in environmental management and defense of rights. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-047
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Programa Juvenil Iglesia Evangélica Luterana Boliviana
To hold youth seminars to discuss environmental issues as they relate to the region, including river and water contamination, landfill issues, air pollution, and environmental education. The youth program of the Church was formed to mobilize regional youth around environmental issues and promote environmental responsibility. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-388
Amount: $5,600
Andes Advisory Board
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Ambiente de Vida en el Chaco Ambio Chaco
To document to socio-environmental effects of mega dams on the health of local community members. Workshops will also be held to educate impacted communities about their rights to compensation and corporate responsibility requirements. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-273
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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| South America : Brazil : 2007 |
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Associação Movimento Paulo Jackson Etica, Justica, Cidadania
To support the travel of participants to the International Day of Action for Rivers. A group of 400 people -- including indigenous leaders, fishermen, and others who depend on rivers for their livelihoods -- will gather to discuss ways to confront the planned diversion of the San Francisco River. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-060
Amount: $3,000
International Rivers
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Quatro Cantos do Mundo
For general capacity building support. This organization implements environmental education programs and promotes sustainable development and alternative technologies in communities, and builds collaborative partnerships among civil society groups, businesses and governmental agencies. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-253
Amount: $5,469
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Movimento de Mulheres Trabalhadoras de Altamira Campo e Cidade
To increase the participation of the peoples of the Xingu River in bringing about awareness of the negative socio-environmental impacts of the Belo Monte mega-dam project. This dam project will have significant implications for the lands and livelihoods of people who live along the river. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-240
Amount: $6,445
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação Gaúcha de Proteção ao Ambiente Natural
To build a green office for this organization. This pioneer organization focuses on promoting environmentally-friendly public policies by working in concert with public institutions and officials. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-241
Amount: $6,994
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Agirazul
To improve this organization's communication capacity. It focuses on increasing information flows among environmental organizations. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-242
Amount: $4,740
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação Instituto Anima
To strengthen organizational capacity. This organization was founded in 1998 and focuses generally on environmental awareness and sustainability. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-243
Amount: $5,820
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Paz e Natureza Pantanal
To create an environmental prize. The mission of this organization is to promote human rights, environmental sustainability, and cultural awareness in the Pantanal. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-244
Amount: $4,970
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Serra Acima - Associação de Cultura e Educação Ambiental
To complete a participative assessment of the Paraitinga Basin. The assessment will identify opportunities for forest recovery and agroecology, and will include participation from youth. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-245
Amount: $3,488
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Serra Acima - Associação de Cultura e Educação Ambiental
To hold an exchange among farmers and technicians in Cunha, Cooperfloresta and Apremavi. The exchange will promote shared learning around best practices for sustainable agriculture. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-246
Amount: $3,293
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação Vale das Araucárias
To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-247
Amount: $1,247
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação do Bairro da Barra J. Alves
To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-248
Amount: $1,247
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação do Bairro do PARAIBUNA e SÍTIO
To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-249
Amount: $1,247
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação dos Moradores e Amigos do Bairro do Sertão de Santa Bárbara
To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-250
Amount: $1,247
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Instituto Caipora de Ecologia
To protect the Paranaiba River in Floriano and deal with water pollution issues. This organization was created to promote environmental protection and citizen engagement in environmental issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-239
Amount: $5,139
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Rede MangueMar Brasil
To form a branch of this organization in Bahia. The organization promotes the rights of traditional communities living by marine and mangrove ecosystems. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-252
Amount: $5,089
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação Reciclando o Peixe
To increase production of sustainable fisheries. This organization works to improve the capacity of community members, especially women, to sustainably support themselves. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-264
Amount: $1,886
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Vida Pantaneira
To develop youth environmental leaders through environmental education courses. This organizations promotes solidarity and empowerment among the under-represented peoples of the Pantanal, including indigenous, Afro-descendant, youth, and women. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-255
Amount: $2,994
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Rurais de Loreto
To document and distribute information about the process of creating ethanol from sugar cane, including environmental factors and market actors. This organization promotes rural worker rights and is comprised of 1,380 members. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-256
Amount: $4,990
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Agrotec
To improve health care available to the Xavante and Wedera indigenous communities. Activities include training the staff at the health care center. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-257
Amount: $7,484
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação de Moradores da Comunidade de Antônia Maria Coelho
To build a central office and production kitchen to produce and sell fruit preserves. This organization focuses on improving the quality of life in the community of Antonia Maria Coelho. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-258
Amount: $1,497
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Instituto Diversidade
For general capacity building support. This mission of this organization is to create sustainable development opportunities to improve the quality of life for local people. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-259
Amount: $4,990
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Ecosciência
For general capacity building support. This organization owns a 350-acre area that they are using to promote ecotourism, environmental education, and sound natural resource management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-260
Amount: $4,940
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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EcoChaco
For general support of this organization to register as a legal nonprofit. Its goal is to improve the quality of life in the community of Carmelo Peralta along the Paraguay River. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-261
Amount: $4,665
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Rede Terra Viva
For general support of this organization. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-262
Amount: $998
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Instituto Visão Futuro
To promote the use of art to create environmental awareness. This organization works to promote environmental sustainability and holistic community health and culture. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-263
Amount: $5,988
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens
To increase awareness about the potential impacts of projects associated with the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA). This organization works to stop the construction of large dams to protect river systems and traditional ways of life of riverbank communities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-265
Amount: $2,495
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Ecosaúde
To improve health in the Serra do Amolarand Porto da Manga. This organization is comprised of young medical students who want to improve access to health care and emphasize the connection between healthy environments and healthy people. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-238
Amount: $4,960
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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GT de Juventude do FBOMS
To support collective action, led by youth, against the Madeira River mega-dam project. The goal is to increase community participation in mobilizing against the project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-267
Amount: $134
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação do Sítio
To create a rotating micro-loan fund to support youth sustainable income projects as part of the Viver na Mata Atlantica program. Each project will be expected to create a business plan and engage in sustainable markets. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-251
Amount: $1,247
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associação Caras de Pau em Defesa da Arte-Educação
To increase awareness about the potential impacts of the Madeira River mega-dam project. The goal is to increase community mobilization against the project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 53-266
Amount: $2,495
Centro do Apoio Socio-Ambiental (CASA)
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Associacao Sociocultural Yawanawa
To construct two wells and sanitary facilities for the communities of Tiburco and Mutum in Nova Esperanca. The new facilities should mitigate the diarrhea epidemics that regularly impacts the communities and improve the overall health of village members. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-286
Amount: $20,000
Donor Advised
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Comissão Pastoral da Terra - Paraíba
To hold a seminar for rural workers that live by World Bank-financed land projects in the state of Paraiba, in order to identify and discuss how these projects impact land tenure, loan repayment, and other socio-economic issues. The Commission aims to assist the struggle for land reform and labor rights in Brazil, and supports rural workers in leading this process. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-328
Amount: $4,850
IFI Advisory Board
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Associacao Sociocultural Yawanawa
To provide a five day training and capacity building workshop to train 25 people from five villages in preventing illegal fishing, hunting, and logging. Funds will also be used to construct two monitoring outposts in remote areas of the territory and buy a boat and GPS system to aid in monitoring efforts. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-275
Amount: $4,000
Rainforest Action Network
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| South America : Chile : 2007 |
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas de América Latina
To strategically take advantage of emerging national bans and growing concerns on endosulfan, a highly toxic pesticide used significantly in soy bean production in the region. This Southern Cone member of Pesticide Action Network International will work with government representatives, local communities, and other relevant stakeholders to promote bans, phase-outs, and provide alternatives to endosulfan, as well as nominating it to be included in the Stockholm Convention of Persistent Organic Pollutants. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-001
Amount: $20,000
Donor Advised
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Corporación Privada para el Desarrollo de Aysén
To build awareness about the socio-environmental impacts of dam construction throughout Patagonian Chile. In an event titled 'Cavalcade for a Patagonia without Dams', community leaders will ride by horseback for 300 kilometers through areas that will be potentially affected by dams, and end in the regional capital of Coyhaique with a rally. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-440
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Comité Nacional Pro Defensa de La Fauna y Flora CODEFF
To campaign to prevent a mega hydroelectric project being undertaken by Endesa, Colbun, and Xtrata in the Aisen Reserva de Vida in southern Chile. The campaign will focus on communication and awareness through regional radio spots, publishing weekly press articles, and distributing posters to publicize the issue. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-248
Amount: $7,000
Donor Advised
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Defensores del Espiritu de la Patagonia
To create a local television channel focused on the probable impacts that will result from a proposed hydroelectric project on the Baker and Pascua rivers. This citizen group works to promote participation in development projects, and to defend peoples' rights in the area of Cochrane. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-393
Amount: $4,998
South America Regional Fund
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Fundación Terram
To support continued operation of the Chiloe Labor and Environment Observatory, established in part with a previous Greengrants grant. This program focuses on monitoring industry compliance in the aquaculture industry (specifically salmon farming) with legal and voluntary environmental and labor standards. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-994
Amount: $40,000
Donor Advised
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Sindicato de Pescadores Artesanales Union la Boca
To fund a baseline study of maritime resources in the Sixth Region of Chile, in the hope of creating a special management area to conserve the ocean's natural resources. Related activities will involve joint projects with the local university and the municipality. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-078
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Centro de Investigacion Eutropia
To develop environmental education workshops for local fisher people and rural schools. The focus of the workshops will be to promote knowledge of biodiversity and the importance of conservation through hands-on learning. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-226
Amount: $5,022
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Corporacion Ong Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales
To build capacity among communities affected by mining projects under the Argentine-Chile mining agreement. Activities include assessing the potential impacts of this agreement throughout northern Chile, mapping the most vulnerable communities and ecosystems, and holding workshops with communities to discuss their socio-environmental rights. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-552
Amount: $5,000
South America Regional Fund
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Centro Ballena Azul
To promote the creation of a multi-use protected coastal marine area in southern Chile in a region recognized as a vital breeding ground for the blue whale. Centro Ballena Azul (Blue Whale Center) researches marine ecosystems in order to encourage conservation strategies and promote sound sustainable resource management. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-928
Amount: $10,000
Donor Advised
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ONG Inti-Llanquiray
Inti-Llanquiray works to confront socioeconomic discrimination against indigenous populations of the region, and to help them defend their cultural, land, and environmental rights. This grant funds construction of a meeting place for Inti-Llanquiray, and also supports refurbishing a local library and a small community radio station. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-066
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Corporacion Ong Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales
To organize a series of panel discussions for communities affected by mining and dam projects and cellulose plantations. This is part of a larger campaign to extend the network of environmental grassroots organizations in Chile, in conjunction with the Network of Action for Social and Environmental Justice. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-518
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Posicionamiento Local
To recover the ancestral lands and natural resources of indigenous Mapuche Huilliche communities, by using GIS analysis and mapping to delineate indigenous territories. The results of this analysis will be available on the internet and will help to inform the organization's larger project of developing a sustainable management plan for recuperated lands. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-520
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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| South America : Colombia : 2007 |
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Asociación Agropecuaria Alternativa de los Montes de Maria-Asalma
To re-establish local agricultural practices based on yucca, corn, honey and sheep for rural communities displaced by violence that are now returning to their homes. This organization focuses on basic land rights and food sovereignty. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-043
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas Eperara Siapidara de Nariño
To support creation of an environmental strategy for the indigenous community of Tajitas. The grantee will organize three workshops on the themes of ethical and environmental legislation, and will also arrange meetings to discern the communities' concerns regarding land and resource use. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-044
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Consejo Comunitario de la Cuenca del Río Yurumangui
To build awareness about the negative impacts of palm oil and coca cultivation for environmental sustainability in the Yurumangui region. Activities include community roundtables and posting public signs and billboards. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-442
Amount: $4,973
South America Regional Fund
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Fundación para el Desarrollo Rural
To support work to restore degraded areas of the Río Cañaveralejo and Cascarillas Creek watersheds. Over 290 families depend upon these areas as a water source. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-051
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Centro de Estudios Regionales del Pacífico
To help communities in the municipality of Tadó begin ecological and cultural zoning of their territory. This zoning is particularly important due to the pressures being exerted on the region by extractive resource companies. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-045
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Gran Consejo Comunitario del Río Patía Grande, sus Brazos y la Ensenda
To hold two workshops in the Patia Grande region to discuss ethnic and cultural identify, community leadership, and environmental health. The goal of the workshops is to promote indigenous knowledge regarding forests and medicinal plants, as part of a broader initiative to revitalize Afro-Colombian communities throughout the Pacific region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-441
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Frutos de Iguaque SAT
To assist this network of 500 farming families in promoting organic agriculture techniques and applying for organic certification for their products. In additional to organic agriculture, this organization works to improve community members' quality of life and advocate for basic rights to food and land. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-438
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas para America Latina
To enable the coordinator of this organization to attend the Pesticide Action Network's International Conference in Penang, Malaysia. The theme for this year's meeting is Convergence Towards Common Action and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-476
Amount: $3,725
Pesticide Action Network
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Asociación de Mujeres Afrodescendientes y del Caribe Graciela Chaines
To organize a series of workshops for the Afro-Caribbean women working on the beaches of Cartagena and Palenque de San Basilio on beach conservation techniques. The workshops will create a space for women to dialogue and strategize about environmental conservation and livelihood issues. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-553
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Consejo Comunitario de la Comunidad Negra de Juanchaco
To educate community members about the Colombian laws relevant to ancestral land conservation, with the goal of improving the legally-supported, collective administration of the Juanchaco territory. The Council promotes sustainable natural resource management and fosters citizen engagement in political processes. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-532
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Consejo Comunitario de la Comunidad Negra de Pilamo
CCCNP works to defend the cultural territories of Afro-Colombian communities, with an emphasis on the creation and implementation of an environmental management plan. This grant will be used to protect local wetlands, which include three lagoons, two water sources, and a portion of the shore of the Rio Palo. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-975
Amount: $5,000
South America Regional Fund
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Consejo Comunitario de la Unión
To assess plant species loss in the area that is due to erosion and contamination from gold mining. Plant samples and seeds will also be collected and cultivated in a community greenhouse. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-517
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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| South America : Ecuador : 2007 |
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Red de Accion en Plaguicidas sus Alternativas para America Latina
To initiate a health study of how the people who use pesticides are affected by them; the study will take place in the provinces of Los Rios, Guayas, and El Oro. This network works to improve the quality of life by reducing and eliminating pesticide production and use and encouraging a shift to a sustainable model of agricultural production throughout Latin America. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-222
Amount: $5,000
Pesticide Action Network
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Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas del Tercer Mundo
To organize a conference which will allow organizations and networks to share information and strategies relevant to resolving the social and economic debts between Latin America and the United States. This Institute facilitates interaction and exchange among socio-environmental organization from across Latin America. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-296
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Fundacion Rio Napo
To hold a series of seminars and workshops about the importance of water conservation. Activities include water quality monitoring, technical analysis, and litigation. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-242
Amount: $5,000
International Rivers
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Red de Accion en Plaguicidas sus Alternativas para America Latina
To enable the coordinator of this organization to attend the Pesticide Action Network's International Conference in Penang, Malaysia. The theme for this year's meeting is Convergence Towards Common Action and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-472
Amount: $3,280
Pesticide Action Network
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| South America : Paraguay : 2007 |
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Colectivo Ybytyrusu por el Desarrollo Integral
To fund workshops with local communities and groups on the themes of natural reserve designation, water resource management, and exchange of debt for nature preservation. Colectivo Ybytyrusu will also prepare various educational materials and pamphlets to be used in conjunction with the workshops. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-062
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Instituto Natura
To support a campaign to set sustainable limits on catches and establish standards of environmental quality for the fishing industry. Activities will include a workshop to initiate the campaign, lobbying of specific departments of the government, press conferences, and radio and television ads. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-048
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Asociación Ecologista Trópico Seco
To educate the communities of Ayabaca, Pacalpampa, and El Carmen de la Frontera about the latest referendum on regional mining activities. This is a volunteer organization that works to protect the increasingly endangered dry tropical ecosystems in northern Peru. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-400
Amount: $4,687
Friends of the Earth
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Centro Desarrollo Huayhuash
To hold community mapping workshops in Pacllon, Quero, and Chiquian in order to give people the skills to inventory natural and cultural resources with the goal of creating community-based sustainable development plans. Also to fund a trip for Huayhuash leaders to visit the community of La Oroya so that they can gain insight about the long-term impacts of mining development. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-111
Amount: $1,350
Donor Advised
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Red de Acción en Alternativas al uso de Agroquimicos
To enable the coordinator of this organization to attend the Pesticide Action Network's International Conference in Penang, Malaysia. The theme for this year's meeting is Convergence Towards Common Action and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-471
Amount: $3,280
Pesticide Action Network
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Centro Desarrollo Huayhuash
To continue to support community mapping and resource management initiatives in the communities of Pacllon, Quero, and Chiquian in the Cordillera Huayhuash. Also to hold an exchange visit between Huayhuash leaders and the La Oroya community, which has long suffered the impacts of mining development. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-384
Amount: $2,722
Donor Advised
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Red de Acción en Agricultura Alternativa
To send a representative to participate in the United Nations International Assessment of Agricultural, Science and Technology for Development, to be held in Nairobi, January 2008. Specifically, the representative will participate as part of the panel of Lead Authors and Reviewers of the Africa Regional Report. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-528
Amount: $2,500
Pesticide Action Network
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Centro De Promoción y Desarrollo Rural Amazónico
To perform diagnostic tests on the health of the Abujao River and the people that live along its banks; this area has been contaminated by mercury used in gold mining at the mouth of the river. The results of the study will be presented to local authorities. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-385
Amount: $2,330
Andes Advisory Board
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Coordinadora Nacional de Comunidades del Perú Afectadas por la Minería
To hold a workshop about environmental rights, based on the experience of this grassroots organization over the last ten years. This organization works to defend the collective rights of the indigenous communities negatively impacted by mining in the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-387
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Grupo de Formación e Intervención para el Desarrollo Sostenible
To provide legal defense to communities affected by mining activities, specifically the Yanacocha Gold Mine in Cajamarca. Especially because some environmental leaders have been victims of violence in the past, GRUFIDES will also complete an analysis of necessary security measures to reduce the chance of unwanted conflict, as well as lead an awareness campaign about the environmental dangers of gold mining. |
Year: 2007
ID: 51-945
Amount: $5,000
Donor Advised
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Grupo de Formación e Intervención para el Desarrollo Sostenible
To continue the legal case against the Yanacocha gold mine (owned by Newmont) and raise awareness about the negative effects of the current mine and its intended expansion on surrounding communities. Funds will also be used to analyze how to safely continue GRUFIDES' advocacy work in the light of recent death threats and abduction attempts against the group's leaders. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-052
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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Coordinadora Regional de Comunidades Afectadas por la Mineria Región Tacna
To support the development of small community groups that have formed in response to the pressures of mining and other extractive industries. Activities include workshops and facilitating networks among communities, with the goal of raising awareness about the negative impacts of mining. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-050
Amount: $2,750
Andes Advisory Board
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Comunicaciones Aliadas
To design and implement a national bilingual radio campaign targeted at rural and indigenous populations to inform them about the socio-environmental impacts of proposed projects that are part of the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure (a multi-lateral continent-wide development initiative). Also to produce and distribute information packets to journalists on issues related to this initiative. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-391
Amount: $5,400
South America Regional Fund
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Coordinadora Regional de Comunidades Afectadas por la Minería de Moquegua
To strengthen a community-based campaign to pressure the Aruntani mining company for increased social and environmental accountability. Workshops will be held in three affected communities and will culminate in a march to the city of Moquegua. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-049
Amount: $2,850
Andes Advisory Board
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Red Ambiental Loretana
To support this youth-run environmental network in its public education campaign regarding good practices in natural resource management. Specifically, funds will be used to build and maintain a website, produce radio spots, and design and produce t-shirts and music to increase the campaign's effectiveness. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-257
Amount: $5,000
Andes Advisory Board
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| South America : Uruguay : 2007 |
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Grupo Guayubira
To strengthen this group's campaign against cellusose plants, which damage forests as well as local livelihoods. Through workshops, presentations, and research, Guayubira strives to promote a more sustainable forest management model. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-065
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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El Fogón Cooperativa Agropecuaria Limitada
To produce and distribute a documentary that highlights the natural value of the riparian zone in central Uruguay, which provides key ecosystem services for vulnerable aquatic resources. The documentary will be presented in educational institutions throughout the region. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-439
Amount: $4,967
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Instituto Cultural Casa Bertolt Brecht
To protect and manage the Guarani aquifer through a series of workshops with activists in Paysandú, Bella Unión, Tacuarembó and Rivera. Subsequently, a meeting will be organized in Montevideo with representatives from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, to develop regional strategies to counter the negative effects of the internationally-financed Guarani Aquifer System Project. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-481
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Movimiento por la Vida el Trabajo y un Desarrollo Sustentable
MOVITDES works to deter the advance of monoculture forests and the installation of pulp factories in the Uruguay River watershed. This grant provides support for the organization to expand its informational programs. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-067
Amount: $5,000
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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RAPAL Uruguay
RAPAL is a network of organizations and individuals opposing the indiscriminate use of pesticides and seeking to promote viable alternatives. This grant supports a study of common native plants that can naturally combat the agricultural pests common in Uruguay. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-059
Amount: $4,800
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Vida Silvestre
To evaluate the experience of Uruguayan non-governmental organizations working on environmental issues, with the goal of strengthening the movement's capacity. The publication will be circulated among the public and government sectors. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-523
Amount: $4,851
Southern Cone Advisory Board
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Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas para América Latina Uruguay
To send a representative to Pesticide Action Network International’s conference in Penang, Malaysia. The conference, titled 'Convergence Towards Common Actions and Strategies on Protecting Human Health and the Environment', will focus on strengthening the International Instruments on Pesticides, and will enable organizations focusing on pesticide issues from around the world to network and collaborate. |
Year: 2007
ID: 52-530
Amount: $2,486
Pesticide Action Network
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