to reduce Burkina Faso’s energy-related CO2 emissions by substituting fossil fuels (kerosene and diesel) with solar power to provide electricity services for water pumping together with other attendant basic productive energy services to the targeted rural community users. The project will improve people’s livelihoods by promoting the use of renewable energy (solar PV) to provide potable drinking water and basic electricity services to the rural area, thus reducing the country’s dependency on imported fossil fuels (kerosene, diesel).

This GEF- MSP will work to help generate innovative ideas that contribute to the strengthening of environmental values among young people in Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay. The proposal will co-finance the World Bank Southern Cone Development Marketplace for the Southern Cone countries, entitled “Youth and Values: Believing in Your Future”. This is a Country- Level initiative under the World Bank Development Marketplace (DM) Program.

The project’s objective is socio-economic development of Sengor community through provision of electricity for domestic purposes, and utilization of energy for community based rural enterprises leading to enhanced livelihoods and poverty alleviation.

The project will i. Allow the Republic of Uganda to prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in Uganda in a coordinated way; ii. Assist Uganda in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; and iii. Strengthen Uganda’s national capacity to manage POPs and chemicals generally in an environmentally sound manner.

The development objective of the proposed Albania Natural Resources Development Project (NRDP) is to establish or maintain sustainable, community-based natural resource management in about 210 communes in upland and mountainous erosion-prone lands. This will lead to enhanced productivity and incomes derived from sustainable resource management, reduced soil degradation, improved water management, conservation of biodiversity, and strengthened public sector management of these resources.

The project will support the mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use within small, micro, and medium sized enterprise development and financing in five Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua).

Within the overall objective of the Stockholm Convention, which is to protect human health and the environment from POPs, the project will i.Develop a comprehensive country driven NIP for reduction and elimination of POPs in compliance with the provisions of the Stockholm convention; ii.Prepare the ground for implementation of the Convention in Tuvalu; iii.Achieve a high level of awareness of the POPs issue and sustained ownership of the NIP among all stakeholders; iv.Assist Tuvalu in meeting its reporting and other obligations under the Convention; and v.Strengthen Tuvalu’s national

The objective of the proposed Micro Hydro/ Program is to reduce the electrical energy costs in the tea processing industries in countries covered by the East African Tea Trade Association and meanwhile increasing power supply reliability and reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions through removal of barriers.

The purpose of the proposed Project is to establish an efficient and operational trinational framework for the integrated and sustainable management of the Montecristo Trinational Protected Area (MTPA), and contribute to the consolidation of the biological corridors that connect it to the MBC within the Trifinio Region of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

At pipeline entry: The development objective of this project is to support the conservation and sustainable use of the biodiversity in the MBR based on strengthening the institutional and local capacity for its management. The global objective is enhanced conservation of the biodiversity of regional and global importance in the MBR. At Work Program Inclusion: Oct 10 2006 The Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) is the largest protected area in Central America, spanning 2,112,940 ha of the northern part of the department of Petén in Guatemala. The reserve encompasses approx.