There are 435 projects that match your search.
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2004
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50,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-GEF/04/07 |
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In this project 16 primary schools will be engaged in planting 320,000 indigenous trees on public hills in Rusinga island, and also plant woodlots in their own school compounds. While they will provide free labour for planting, out of school youths ( ... )
e engaged to water the seedlings for a period of 12 months. As an incentive, the project will partner with the 16 schools to meet some of their own school oriented needs such as books, libraries, classroom repairs, building toilet blocks
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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50,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-GEF-00-002 |
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The project aims at introducing alternative means of income, apart from fishing to the communities living near Lake Victoria. Using biomass gasification this project intends to generate electricity for Asembo Bay township, a small town on the shores ( ... )
Victoria. The electricity will be used for micro-enterprises like fish preservation, welding, posho milling and
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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50,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN/UNF-GEF/02/07 |
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The COMPACT initiative works with communities who reside close to the World Heritage Site of Mt. Kenya. To promote the conservation campaign in the Mt. Kenya region, the organization Tree is Life, of the Nyahururu Catholic Diocese, will paint 60 ( ... )
in three towns around the northern side of Mt. Kenya. They will mobilize artists, invite them to a workshop to expound on COMPACT and its activities and build the capacity of the artists to paint environmental murals. The artists will then negotiate for good wall space in areas where there is high people traffic. The paintings will capture the theme of conservation, with the intended goal of
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Kenya
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Biodiversity
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2003
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3,500.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN/UNF-GEF-PLN/02/2 |
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This planning grant will be implemented to support a baseline survey.
Burguret River water users plan to form a Water Users' Association. With funding from COMPACT, the Association will address the myriad issues that contribute to water conflicts ( ... )
eloping a water management plan for the catchment, promoting drip irrigation, and installing staff gauges along the river. This will provide a basis for self-regulation among the
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Kenya
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International Waters
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2003
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50,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GEF-KEN-02-08 |
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The Egerton University turns out 500,000 liters of waste water daily. This project will involve the university community, the local community in the surrounding areas to construct a vegetation based wetland to treat 100,000 liters of the waste water ( ... )
e Egerton University. This project will assist in cleaning river Njoro, which is the main river that flows into lake Nakuru, A ramsar site of international importance. Polutting Lake Nakuru has greatly affected the biodivesity in lake Nakuru. This project will serve as an example for the community to ask other industrial companies and factories around Lake Nakuru to also clean up their waste
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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49,985.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN UNF-GEF/03/03 |
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Banana cultivation and trade provides a major source of income and employment in many rural areas of Kenya. However the cultivation of bananas in Kenya is threatened by diseases, pests and other environmental pressures such as drought. Due to those ( ... )
s, the Institute of Biotechnology Research (IBR) developed tissue culture protocols for bananas 12 years ago and established a lab for en masse production of bananas with funding from the World Bank, Netherlands govt. and UNESCO. By using participatory approaches IBR established village nurseries and demonstration fields in the Mt. Kenya region and introduced TC banana technologies.
The
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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5,514.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN/UNF-GEF/03/001 |
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The members of the COMPACT Local Consultative Board, and 15 COMPACT project grantess made a tour to all projects situated around the Mount Kenya World Heritage Site. The visit has twofold objectives. First, it is intended to provide the Compact ( ... )
es a platform for learning from each other through sharing projects’ implementation experiences. Secondly the visit offers ample opportunity for project monitoring task by the LCB members. The activities of the NGO (NAREDA) include: logistics e.g. hiring transport and making hotel reservations, taking notes of discussions, compiling a report of the trip and disbursing it to
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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48,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-GEF-03-002 |
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The marine turtle in Kenya are under threat due to environmental stresses as well as their importance in meeting the socio-economic and socio-cultural requirements of Kenya’s costal communities. Local people are still exploiting sea turtles for ( ... )
eggs, shells and meat. In addition, turtle nesting beaches (rookeries) are being modified and/or being lost gradually to unplanned costal development and foraging habitats such as coral reefs and seagras beds are being destroyed by pollution, perennial sedimentation and unsustainable fishing. Many turtles are accidentally caught and drowned in fishing gear. The most widespread form of turtle
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Kenya
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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5,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-GEF-03-004 |
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Kenya lies astride the equator and has great potential to use solar power for lighting, refrigeration and water heating. Only about 4% of the country’s 4.5 million rural households have some form of electricity. The UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme ( ... )
ed a community project to demonstrate that grassroot communities living far from the grid can benefit from solar electricity, and in many cases are ready to use soft loans for this purpose. This project is a step towards popularizing solar energy in rural areas.
This project is part of the main funded one and was launched for the Coordination of activities with all consortia members and
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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20,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: CWI-KEN-03-02 |
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Water is hard to find in Ol Kinyei Location of Narok District. Families have to move in search of water during the dry season, remove children from schools, and men migrate to far away places with animals in search of water. There are no rivers or ( ... )
les. Natural springs are the only dependable sources of water. However, the springs are uncovered, and get contaminated by human and animal traffic. This project would help in protecting and de-capping 7 natural springs in the area.
Activities:
1. Undertake baseline data collection
2. Cap, protect and rehabilitate 7 springs
3. Plant indigenous trees and grass around the springs
4. Fence off
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Kenya
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Biodiversity
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2003
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26,435.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN/UNF-GEF/03/02 |
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The introduction and repatriation of the Bongo Antelope around Mt. Kenya will be accompanied by a comprehensive education program carried out by WHWF to create awareness of Mt. Kenya as a Protected Area. Activities include: compilation of ( ... )
ture, booklets and posters on the Bongo, setting up of an Education Centre which offers nature walks, game drives and animal orphanage visits, outreach sessions within the community and in
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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20,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-CWI-03-03 |
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The area around the Lusi Community suffers very severe droughts in the months of September, October and November. Due to limited capacity, the traditional ponds dry up in this period and people get water from Lake Victoria about 5 km away. When it ( ... )
lly rains the people draw stagnating pool water that is contaminated. As a result of contaminated water people suffer from numerous intestinal diseases, people’s individual livelihoods decline because their cows produce less milk, their livestock are exposed to infectious diseases as they travel through other villages in search of water and they are not able to maintain home gardens for their
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Kenya
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Biodiversity
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2003
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32,171.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN/UNF-GEF/04/04 |
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This project is intended to protect the forest resources of Mt. Kenya by changing the lifestyle of women groups and their families and to provide them with an alternative source of income and protein. For that purpose the Sagana Fish and Bee Keeping ( ... )
elf Help Group will:
- Construct eight fish ponds, each of them holding an average of 3,000 fingerlings
- Expand the existing tree nurseries and encourage members to raise indigenous tree seedlings in their own nurseries
- Construct a five strand solar powered electric fence to boost protection from intruders and wild animals
- Construct a 170 meter long stone wall tunnel for water
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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11,608.80
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GEF-KEN-03-005 |
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The GEF stakeholder workshop is held twice a year for participants drawn from the CBO and NGOs as part of capacity building in GEF/SGP thematic areas.The participants of the workshop were introduced by resource experts to the following thematic ( ... )
• Clarification of GEF/SGP focal areas (Biodiversity, Climate Change, International Waters
and Land Degradation). An additional subject was Biodiversity related economic.
• Writing of proposals through practical exercise in working groups.
• Presenting the proposals to the plenary with following discussions.
• The GEF SGP Project monitoring was also discussed
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Kenya
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Biodiversity
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2003
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3,800.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GEF-KEN-03-003 |
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Rusinga Island is Kenyas second largest island in Lake Victoria with an area of 43 sq km. The island was once covered with dense forest of indigenous trees which has been cleared for human settlement resulting in a tree cover of only 5-10%. The ( ... )
is characerized by ersoions and a loss of soil which is washed to the Lake Victoria. There is an urgent need for afforestation of the island both for fuelwood and other timber needs as well as for the protection of the soil and the general environment.
The Rusinga Island workshop was conducted to discuss the possibility for environmental intervention on the island. The 40 workshop
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Kenya
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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2,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-GEF-PLN-99-001 |
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Biomas based electric power generation model for sustainable development |
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Kenya
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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48,321.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: KEN-GEF-03-001 |
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Tsagwa Village in Kilifi District is situated 50 kms northeast of Mombassa Town. Most of the inhabitants are subsistence farmers, growing coconut, maize and cassava. The village is fairly isolated and even the daily newspaper is not available.
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njoys a good wind regime and wind speeds reach 25-45mph (22-39 knots).
Before the project started, most energy needs of the village were met by single use dry cell batteries, paraffin, diesel and firewood. Many batteries were not disposed properly, which resulted in soil and water contamination. The consumption of fuel wood is a serious factor in deforestation, air pollution and carbon dioxide
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Kenya
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2003
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3,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-GEF-PLN-03-002 |
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This is a planning grant. DEPROTECS will conduct preliminary activities including visits, baseline and topographic surveys, water analysis and Environmental Impact Assessment of the Ngura Wind Pump Irrigation Scheme to demonstrate the use of wind ( ... )
for micro irrigation. The NGO will submit a report of undertaken activities to the
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Kenya
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Multifocal Area
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2003
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46,197.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: KEN-GEF/04/01 |
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The Main objective/goal of this project is to involve fishermen and other beach dwellers in 10 beaches at Rusinga Island in tree planting and beautification of beaches and also develop crafts for income generating, with the ultimate aim of ( ... )
ting the waters of Lake Victoria. The Victoria Youth group will work with several other beach based groups to:
1. Identify already formed beach cooperatives and other groups to work with
2. Plant trees in 10 beaches at least 100,000 seedlings planted in the 10 beaches
3. Participating fishermen to purchase half the seedlings required
4. Make different types of crafts for income
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Kenya
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Biodiversity
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2002
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50,000.00
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Phase 2
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Project Number: GEF-KEN-02-009 |
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The Ngong road Forest sanctuary is a 620 hectares piece of forest carved out of the larger Ngong forest. The Ngong Road sanctuary Trust, a civil society body holds the title deed for the sanctuary on behalf of the Forest Department of the Government ( ... )
for the purpose of protecting it and developing it for sustainable use by local and international guests to Kenya.
For some of the residents, the neighbouring Ngong forest provides a source of income from the harvesting of various products including firewood, poles and medicinal plants. As there are no fences access is easy. This has threatened its flora and fauna that include 120 bird spp.,
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