There are 386 projects that match your search.
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Guatemala
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Climate Change Mitigation
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1998
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4,951.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-10-97 |
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This project will help directly to the implementation of a governmental disposition to diminish air pollution, through the analysis and measurement of combustion gases, it is a recently issued law and will be a citizen?s duty to make car tests to ( ... )
ate in the country. The activity was supported by a Swiss agency and the SGP will contribute to spread the about the goodness of this laws. NSC decided to contribute with 30% of the requested funds and ATAMEGUA accepted with the compromise to collect the rest with associates and other donors. Objectives for this project are: to establish a car?s gases testing workshop at Quetzaltenango, to
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Guatemala
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Biodiversity
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1998
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2,520.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-09-98 |
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To provide basic information for the design and operations of a green iguana farm, to establish a sustainable farming facility following technically and economically oriented practices.
This study was approved by the NSC to ( ... )
tate an appropriate management of the green iguana, a reptile specie that is under great hunting pressure but accepts captive breeding and is susceptible of a productive management.
The study will allow the proposing organization have the information needed to fulfill legal requirements for this
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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1,984.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-06-98 |
OBJECTIVES
To provide to this organization the tools to identify market options for their ecotourism center on a forest management area.
This project will develop a feasibility study for market options for ecotourism activities and ( ... )
ement needs of the actual ecotouristic and training center facilities that this association owns and manages at El Novillero, Sololá.
An specific consultant will be hired to elaborate the
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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9,449.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-12-98 |
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To provide training and facilitate the use of native fast growing, multipurpose, species of trees to diminish dependence on mangroves for domestic uses on the buffer zone of the RAMSAR declared Manchón Guamuchal wetlands and ( ... )
tion of an internationally important watershed.
This project will facilitate trees for protecting the watershed of the Ocosito river, one of the main tributaries of the Manchón Guamuchal wetlands and mangroves, with the establishment of a tree nursery to be managed by the local community of La Blanca, main users of mangroves and other natural forest species of the wetlands.
The
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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16,145.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-07-98 |
To provide access to stakeholders to training on agroforestry and soil conservation activities.
This project has the purpose of provide training through practice on agroforestry, soil conservation and improved forest management at 8 ( ... )
ities.
It includes the promotion of native fruit tree species and the introduction of women as main actors of the
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Guatemala
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Biodiversity
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1998
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14,851.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-20-97 |
Training and implementation of basic forestry skills to diminish the impact of household uses of native trees by local communities women.
Objectives: To provide access to training on forestry activities and the use of tree seedlings of native ( ... )
ecies for reforestation purposes. /This project will develop a series of workshops to strengthen organizations, provide specific training on forestry related activities such as forest species seed selection and tree nursery establishment, as well as tree planting techniques and forest protection to 6 community women's
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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14,851.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-22-97 |
Judges and law enforcement agents training on Guatemala?s environmental law.
Objectives: To provide regional and local law enforcing authorities (judges, fiscals, police officials, governmental agencies authorities) with adequate information ( ... )
national and international environmental laws. /This project will develop training workshops and materials with an appropriate technical level to support environmental law enforcement in the SGP region of work. This includes the production and publication of a specific Manual and related training
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Guatemala
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International Waters
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1998
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9,921.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-03-98 |
To provide options to avoid the pollution of the Lake Atitlán watershed due to inorganic garbage and provide options for local people's management of this kind of garbage through training and recycling practices that generate direct income.
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project will build a recycling center at the village of Panajachel, which is an important tourist center on the Lake Atitlán protected area.
Local people will be trained on recycling activities as an income generation option, and garbage will be sold to recycling companies.
A collection system will be designed and implemented on
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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7,559.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-04-98 |
OBJECTIVES:
To provide access to training on environmental, soil conservation and forestry activities and implement learned practices on stakeholders plots.
This project will develop a series of workshops to strengthen the three ( ... )
ipant organizations, provide specific training on environmental themes, soil conservation and forestry related activities.
The project will develop a series of soil conservation actions, as new options to avoid erosion and soil nutrient depletion.
This actions involve forest management and tree
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Guatemala
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Biodiversity
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1998
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8,168.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-21-97 |
Environmental education activities at three communities, endangered sea turtles rescue activities and mangrove rescue activities at a RAMSAR declared wetland and related ecosystems.
Objectives:
1)To establish a nature information center for ( ... )
s at the Manchón Guamuchal main point of public entry.2)To provide continuity to efforts of environmental education and sustainable use of mangroves and endangered species of sea turtles. /This project will establish a public information center about the local wetlands natural resources, provide pamphlets and information prepared by local people to visitors, continue the environmental education
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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7,943.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-01-98 |
Objectives:
1)To provide means to recover native orchard species while at the same time provide diversification of production of vegetables.2)To provide training for stakeholders on sustainable practices of soil conservation and organic ( ... )
g practices and strengthening organization's support to participants. /This project includes the creation and maintenance of a series of orchards with native species of vegetables that will provide access to the participants to seeds and plants for the production of organic fertilizers and pest controls. A series of workshops will be conducted to give access to participants to this new
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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11,051.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-13-98 |
To provide training to trainers on permacultural and organic farming activities for 5 communities on the southern slopes of Sololá volcanoes.
This project will develop a series of workshops to train trainers of stakeholders, mainly women, on ( ... )
c farming, soil conservation and local and or endemic medicinal plants agricultural practices, as part of agroforestry subsistence plots.
The region in which will be developed is considered one of the most biodiverse parts of the South West region of
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Guatemala
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Biodiversity
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1998
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8,898.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-17-97 |
Training on improved methods for resination and basic forestry skills for native pine forests conservation.
Objectives:
To provide a means to recover native pine species that are being used for resination with non-sustainable methods.2)To ( ... )
e training for stakeholders on sustainable practices of resination and basic equipment for using new methods and strengthening organization?s support to participants. /This project includes the creation and maintenance of a tree nursery to provide access to participants to trees of native pine species for reforestation purposes. A series of workshops will be conducted to make a participatory
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1998
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12,832.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-10-98 |
OBJECTIVES:
To provide a training and practical base for stakeholders that are interested in abandon agrochemical use on coffee plantations and want to diversify plantation shade with native fruit tree species.
This project will allow the ( ... )
olders to have appropriate training and technical advise for ecological production of coffee and at the same time obtain seedlings of native fruit tree species that are being lost due to agricultural and cattle ranching expansion, to be used on the coffee plantation system as natural
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Guatemala
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Biodiversity
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1998
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13,619.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-19-97 |
Training and implementation of forestry activities related to the rescue of endangered and endemic high-altitude forest tree species.
Objectives: To rescue six endangered high altitude forest species with emphasis on the high altitude fir ( ... )
guatemalensis, an endemic species of Guatemala, and five more that suffer from non-sustainable use threats at a local level. /This project will develop a series of training workshops in six communities and establish one tree nursery in each one of these communities which will be maintained and attended by local committees. The grant permits the hiring of one project coordinator and two forestry
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Guatemala
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Multifocal Area
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1997
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7,261.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-09-97 |
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Training and application of forestry, agroforestry and organic agriculture techniques and skills.
This project is based on educational activities for adults, CORCI members, on issues related to the conservation of water and forest resources which ( ... )
sely related to agroforestry. The organization is a successful group that export quality vegetables and their project born from the need to have natural fertilizer to improve production without losing soil and vegetable quality, for this purpose they need to extend their forested areas to use forest leaves as mulch and other organic farming techniques. Objectives of this project are: to increase
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Guatemala
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Biodiversity
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1997
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15,936.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-18-97 |
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Shell farming, basic forestry activities on dry forest coastal ecosystem, environmental education at community schools, community hunting profile and migratory and resident avifauna research on a RAMSAR declared wetland.
Objectives:
1)To ( ... )
e sustainable use options of a native specie of mollusk, Anadara grandis.
2)To establish hunting monitoring activities.3)To provide trees for reforestation purposes of dry forest local species in one community.
3)To provide biological monitoring activities of migratory and native bird species.
4)To provide continuity to environmental education activities in 4 local community
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Guatemala
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Biodiversity
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1997
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7,715.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-02-97 |
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This project was designed with the active participation of teenagers that have seen the forest of their native areas being degraded during the last decade and decided to take actions to mitigate such problem, Cantel is a county that still have ( ... )
s of subtropical conifer forests and they are of crucial importance for water sources conservation. The project will work with the following objectives: to arise public awareness among local population through educational activities done by FUMEDI volunteers at schools and public reunions, to establish a forest actual assessment and, through this study, know which areas will need priority actions
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Guatemala
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Climate Change Mitigation
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1997
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14,852.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-06-97 |
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This project was developed with community participation and involvement since the design phase. This community had asked TPS, the project responsible NGO, to advise them in ways to improve their already degraded lands. After a diagnostic phase the ( ... )
ty needs for the whole community were established and they decide to begin with appropriate technology solutions to their problems. They begin with training for the people adaptations that these new technologies need and after that they request for SGP help on this issue. Objectives of the project are: to proved access to appropriate technology solutions for environmentally related health
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Guatemala
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Biodiversity
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1997
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12,211.00
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Phase 1
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Project Number: PPS-08-97 |
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This project will be working on the establishment of areas that need to recover their original forest cover through reforestation activities based on the local tree and plant biological diversity. The area to be improved is the summit of the ?Siete ( ... )
? volcano, an already legally declared area since 1989. To date this is the first time the NGO receives support for such activities. The area itself is one of the last remaining cloud forests in the region, with a wide variety of plants, wildlife and endemism among them. Objectives to this project are: to recover degraded forest areas with local species of both trees and bushes, to attend as
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