This newsletter features SGP's 2 plastic recycling projects in celebration of World Environment Day 2025. This newsletter was developed under the "Strengthening the Capacity of Civil Society Organisations to Independently Lead Community Development Efforts Through Accessing Grant Funding” project. This project was executed by the Region Ten Tourism Committee Inc.

This newsletter focuses on the country-wide capacity building workshops held in 2024 on the SGP concept and proposal development, features 2 SGP biodiversity projects in celebration of International Day for Biological Diversity 2025 and celebrates SGP Guyana's 12-year anniversary. This newsletter was developed under the "Strengthening the Capacity of Civil Society Organisations to Independently Lead Community Development Efforts Through Accessing Grant Funding” project. This project was executed by the Region Ten Tourism Committee Inc.

GEF SGP Trinidad and Tobago OP8 Country Programme Strategy

Annual Report 2023 of GEF SGP Trinidad and Tobago

In Operational Phase 8, SGP aims to engage local CSOs/CBOs in landscape-seascape approaches, giving them access to knowledge, skills, and grant assistance to enhance wellbeing, improve socioeconomic conditions, and deliver environmental benefits.

Report on a consultative meeting held by Women in Energy Sierra Leone Limited in March 2024 to address energy access and usage among vulnerable women in Sierra Leone. This initiative was driven by a rapid assessment conducted through Community Engagement Campaigns and Beneficiary Selection processes. The overarching goal of the project is to create equal access to clean energy and climate adaptation measures for vulnerable women, thereby contributing to reducing land degradation and improving sustainable land and community management. The project's focal point revolves around increasing access...

In 2018, eWomen Sierra Leone received $5,000 from GEF SGP to empower youth through social enterprises like waste management and female-run keke-taxis. Success led to $20,000 more in 2021 for building schools with plastic-bricks made from waste, gaining national and international recognition.

Youth Emergency Auxiliary Service Sierra Leone, supported by the GEF Small Grants Programme, launched an agroforestry and land reclamation project to restore 50 hectares of degraded lands, benefiting 500 people in Nongowa chiefdom, Kenema district, Sierra Leone

In 2024, Sierra Enviro Hope, supported by GEF Small Grants Programme, trained 345 rice farmers in Northwest Sierra Leone on safe agrochemical use through hands-on sessions on two demonstration farms.

The project titled "Ecological Restoration through Ecosystem-Based Adaptation of the Botanic Reserve at Fourah Bay College" represents a significant step toward biodiversity conservation and climate resilience in Sierra Leone. Supported by the Small Grants Programme, this transformative initiative was implemented by the Department of Biological Sciences at Fourah Bay College (FBC), University of Sierra Leone. Focusing on the restoration of the Botanic Reserve, the project applied ecosystem-based adaptation approaches to rehabilitate degraded landscapes, conserve native biodiversity, and streng...