There are 168 projects that match your search.
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2016
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42,505.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/UN-REDD/2016/007 |
The Integrated Community Based Approach to Climate Change Mitigation in three Mangrove UNREDD+ Pilot Communities in Akpabuyo LGA of Cross River State shall be implemented in communities of Edik Idem, Akwa Obutong, Esuk Okon, Akpabuyo. These ( ... )
ities have population sizes of: Edik Idem (967), Akwa Obutong (1,003), Esuk Okon (636). These communities have over the years been exposed to unprecedented environmental challenges which include; deforestation of the mangrove ecosystems due to over-exploitation of the forest for fuel wood, flooding, Water pollution from illegal oil bunkering, poverty and unemployment. The project activities
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2016
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/UN-REDD/2016/001 |
During the visit of the Participatory Governance Assessment (PGA) team for the UN-REDD+ programme to the Boje communities, feedback indicated that, the small-scale farming systems which is a major source of income to the generality of community ( ... )
s is a threatened resource of great value. Unsustainable agricultural systems are practiced by these farmers in their bid to increase farmland area and income (PGA 2014). NCF seeks to adopt the integrated forest management approach to enhance the economy of the three selected in the forest-edge communities in Boje, thereby promoting activities that boost poverty eradication, promotion of improve
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2016
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30,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/UN-REDD/2016/006 |
The proposed project by PPA is to be implemented in Creek Town beech community where about 80% of the economically active population forms the agrarian labor force. The conservative poverty line of N3, 290/ person/ month, shows that over 70% of the ( ... )
live in poverty. This project specifically focuses on 100 women, 50 youths including Physically Challenged Population, who are often the most disadvantaged groups within rural communities. The proposed project beneficiaries are primarily reliant upon wood logging and fishing as major source of livelihood as well as small scale farming. With logging and clearing of farmland, most forests are
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2016
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29,501.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/UN-REDD/2016/005 |
The overall objective of the proposed project is to reduce poverty and enhance rural livelihoods through sustainable income generation for mangrove communities and improved management of mangrove forest resources in Anantigha and Esierebum ( ... )
ities in Calabar South Local Government Area in Cross River State. This objective will be achieved by tackling issues such as sustainable livelihoods, mangrove regeneration and forest management planning, innovative and efficient use of mangrove forest resources for fish smoking, and community level capacity building to enable individual and collective resilience to respond to climate change. The
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Nigeria
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Land Degradation
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2016
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/LD/15/31 |
The project seeks to reclaim degraded farm lands and reduce deforestation; caused by oil spills, by building local capacity to improve oil spill clean-up exercise and sustainable land management/agro-forestry. The intervention is part of a community ( ... )
h programme to empower Nigerian Youths (men and women) at the community grass root level to proactively participate in environmental remediation for sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Some of the project activities include advocacy and community dialogue; tree planting exercises and establishment of community nursery and orchards; construction of stone wall and drainages; provision
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2016
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34,634.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/UN-REDD/2016/009 |
As important as the forest is to the survival of the people of Edondon, the community has no clear forest management or land use plan or documented rules to regulate access and use of their (remaining) forest. In addition, they have held on to their ( ... )
g traditional system of agriculture requiring the complete removal of every standing tree in the farm land, and burning before cultivating any crop, and more than two-third of the population rely on agriculture for survival. However, yearly reduction in crop yield and increasing population are having direct implications on the remaining forest, which is assumed to have more fertile soil. The
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2016
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43,313.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/UN-REDD/2016/008 |
Old and new Ekuri communities have the largest community surviving pristine tropical rainforest in the world. The size of the forest spans more than 33,600 hectares. Like most conserved forest areas in Nigeria, the Forest of Old and New Ekuri is ( ... )
severe threat of depletion. This is due to increasing pressures from loggers etc. Therefore, certain measures have to be put in place to check the illegal activities of these loggers and also provide alternative means of livelihood to the locals who could use the lack of it as a cogent excuse for desecrating the forest resources. This project aims at promoting sustainable and community based
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Nigeria
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Land Degradation
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/LD/15/15 |
Ijan-Otun is a farming community of about 5,000 people. While the community has enjoyed appreciable support for development projects such as provision of boreholes and road that links it with major towns; it is grappled with the menace of erosion ( ... )
ooding which has devastated the village with untold hardship including difficulty in human and vehicular movement. This has also affected their farming activities and they are not able to easily convey farm produce from the farms to the nearest market. This is in turn affecting their income generating potential and desirable livelihood enhancement. Women are most affected because of their need to
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/CC/15/28 |
Makoko Waterfront Communities is a slum in Lagos that is estimated to contain about 50,000 households spread across Makoko, Okobaba and Iwaya settlements. More than 60% of the residents in the communities do not have access to grid and the major ( ... )
of energy is kerosene both for lighting and cooking with the huge health and environmental effects of carbon emission. Also, with the way their houses are designed to be on top of water, they have little or no land space to cook so most cooking indoors with concentration of Indoor Air Pollution (IAP). This project will eliminate the use of kerosene and thereby reduce carbon emission and
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/CC/15/23 |
Ijaiye –Ile is a community of subsistence farmers of about 10,000 people with poor rainfall challenges,scarcity of wtaer and depend on only rain fed agricultural products. Majority use firewood and kerosene for cooking. This project will utilize ( ... )
d research findings to maximize the benefits of Moringa oleifera to produce Moringa Bio-gel as an alternative source of energy for household cooking in the community in order to reduce the carbon di-oxide generated from burning firewood This will be achieved through conservation of Biodiversity by planting an additional 500,000 Moringa trees on the cooperative farmland at Ijaiye –Ile by the
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/CC/15/19 |
"Katsina Ala and Buruku communities are located in Benue state. While katsina ala community has an area of 2,402 km² with a population of about 224,718 at the 2006 national census, Buruku community on the other hand has an area of 1,246 km² with ( ... )
lation of 203,721 at the 2006 national census. Both communities lie on the banks of the Katsina-Ala River, a major tributary of the Benue River and are climate sensitive areas that are most vulnerable to climate change in Benue Statec. Reduced rainfall, drying up of the river and other surface water bodies, flooding, erosion, pest and disease infestation and land degradation are the most
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Nigeria
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Biodiversity
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/BD/15/21 |
Building Mangrove Forest Community’s/CSOs Response to Climate Change and Mangrove Conservation in Cross River state is a dedicated project that will be implemented in Akpabuyo Local Government Areas of Cross River State.
The project will ( ... )
bute to the reduction of carbon emission and encourage the use of alternative energy sources and promote environmental conservation at the grassroots level, through energy/environment/climate change education to schools and communities, training young persons on simple techniques of alternative energy source, carry out demonstration in the construction of simple improved cook stove with local
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Nigeria
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Biodiversity
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/BD/15/29 |
"Imeh and Umuakuru Communities are part of Igbo Agwuru Asa clan, Etche Local Government Area in the Rivers State. The communities are accessible by land with relative forest and farmland among other resources. Imeh Community has an estimated ( ... )
tion of 31,000 persons made up of 13,950 male and 17,050 female, while Umuakuru Community has a present estimated population of about 5,700 persons made up of 2,565 male and 3,135 female as obtained from community sources respectively. Livelihoods activities in the two communities are farming, trading and agro processing. However, the main occupation is collection and production of honey and
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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45,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/CC/15/22 |
Hulohwo/Kpakpata River Basin is located across the Gurara River in Abaji Area Council of FCT. It is made up of a population of about 5,000 people while Alagba is about 1000 people. Farming is the main occupation with methods of bush burning, tree ( ... )
g and slash and burn. The topography naturally slopes into River Hulohwo, an erosion challenge, deposition of sediments into the streams leading to eutrophication .To address these environmental challenges HTF has earmarked the following activities in this project; Oil Palm plantation (on 14 degraded hectares already donated by the community) to both mitigate land degradation and Climate change
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Nigeria
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Biodiversity
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2015
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34,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/BD/15/16 |
This project aims at in-situ conservation of threatened Red Capped Mangabey occurring within Mbiakong River Basin. The Red Capped Mangabey was previously thought to have gone locally extinct between central Ghana and the Nigeria-Cameroon border ( ... )
has been rediscovered in few forests in the southern part of Nigeria (Oates 2004).Few years ago, researchers from the University of Uyo during their studies discovered the presence of this species (although very few in number) within the Mbiakong wetlands. The River Basin is about 30 hectares in size and harbours some other primate species such as Angwantibo (Arctocebus calabarensis), Bush
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/CC/15/13 |
The communities have a population size of about 45,000 persons with farming as a major source of occupation. This project is aimed at boosting the economic ability and salvages the impact caused by the indiscriminate cutting-down of trees in other ( ... )
igate environmental challenges in the communities. This will involve creating awareness and enhance knowledge on climate change issues and its linkages to poverty and environment for informed decisions and policies improvement through training 50 community members (30 women, 20 Males) on coping strategies and sustainable adaptation practices to enhance food security and substantially protect the
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Nigeria
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Land Degradation
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/LD/15/24 |
InuguOmono has many Farmers’ groups and five Hunters’ groups. It is located in the upper Bassa Local Government Area of Kogi State. To get there is through the Igala – Land- axis of the State, or by boat crossing the River Benue through ( ... )
wa State and about 20km from the Benue River bank. It is 99% a Bassa- Kwomu speaking community with an estimated population of 15, 000, with several clans.The many activities of the local communities like bush burning, tree felling and fuel wood collection for sale and domestic cooking have resulted in fertile agricultural land being destroyed. The lack of mixed farming and wider variety of mixed
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Nigeria
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Land Degradation
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2015
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41,070.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/LD/15/26 |
The community is made up of about 10-15 thousand people who are mostly farmers and herders. The goal of the project is ‘To Reduce Land degradation caused by human activities through indiscriminate waste disposal. It is expected that the project ( ... )
elp to accomplish reduction of land degradation as well as climate change mitigation basically by reducing domestic waste burning and indiscriminate waste disposal which to a large extent causes blockage to the limited drainages, which eventually causes ill health to the populace, also increasing the dangers of erosion and flooding which is a major challenge in Akko LGA. TEMIN will organize
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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49,801.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/CC/15/27 |
Chukuku community is a rural community in Kuje Area Council of Abuja which has been in existence for many years. Chukuku as a community is a traditional Gbagyi settlement with all semblance of a traditional community, predominantly inhabited by ( ... )
nous people is located between Gwagwalada and Kiyi village. According to the 2006 census, it has about 220,000 inhabitants. The community dwellers were predominantly hunters by profession. However, due to the massive urbanization with the movement of the FCT to Abuja, which gave rise to the destruction of the natural habitat and the disappearance and extinction of most of the wild life within and
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Nigeria
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2015
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50,000.00
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Phase 5
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Project Number: NGA/SGP/OP5/Y3/STAR/CC/15/14 |
Most of the schools in the suburbs of South East local government are built on large open fields and have been hit by wind storms with some of their roofs removed. Some of the school environments have been eroded by the rains with erosion eating ( ... )
nto the land. Most of the schools do not have halls; hence assemblies are conducted outside the classrooms further exposing them to the elements. Due to lack of trees in the environment, the classrooms are usually very hot with no fans leading to very difficult environment for learning. Connecting Hearts Initiative has planted a few trees in about 40 schools. This is has however solved only a
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