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24 January 2025
Ten years of community development in Cameroon’s Bogo landscape: an assessment of resilience and challenges
Located at the northernmost tip of Cameroon and spanning around 95,000 hectares of dry tropical savannah, the Bogo landscape encompasses the Sahelian
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24 January 2025
Strengthening Morocco’s Landscape Approach in COMDEKS Phase 4
Although Morocco has only recently joined the Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative Programme (COMDEKS) in its
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17 December 2024
GEF Small Grants Programme’s new phase
The GEF Small Grants Programme is a flagship initiative that over the past three decades has enabled civil society organizations to access funding
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16 December 2024
The power of local action: SGP highlights community-led solutions for triple environmental crises at global UN conferences
For the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2024 is a
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03 December 2024
ICCA-GSI at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification COP
During the sixteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) held in
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29 November 2024
From Soil to Strength: How Climate-Smart Agriculture is Empowering Persons with Disabilities
Gaynel Agustus likes to be on the ground, feeling the soil under her feet: “I love to get my hands dirty, and I love plants. Because I can’t
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26 November 2024
SGP launches Annual Monitoring Report 2023-2024
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is launching its
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29 October 2024
New IUCN guidelines on Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and protected areas
ICCA-GSI global partners launched the Recognising territories and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and localcommunities (ICCAs) overlapped by
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28 October 2024
ICCA-GSI at CBD COP: Increasing financial support to Indigenous Peoples and local communities
A series of events were organized by the ICCA-GSI at the 16th meeting of Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Conference
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22 October 2024
Guardians of the Páramos: Rural Women Lead the Fight to Save the Andes’ Water Temples in Colombia
On the cold, wet and foggy slopes of the Andes mountains in South America, a unique but fragile ecosystem illustrates the interconnection between the
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11 September 2024
Model Cooperation: Building Resilience in Small Island Developing States Through South-South Cooperation
While working as the Environmental Health and Safety Manager for a top hotel on the picturesque eastern Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, Richard
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16 August 2024
Six SGP grantees among Equator Prize 2024 winners
Grantees of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP) in Iran, Morocco, Senegal, Colombia, Kenya and Bangladesh are among
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