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Environmental Protection and Sustainable Integrated Management of the Guarani Aquifer
The main objective of the proposed initiative would be to support Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay in jointly elaborating and implementing a common institutional framework for managing and preserving the Guarani Aquifer for current and future generations. The Guarani Aquifer, named in honor of the Guarani Indian Nation, is one of the largest groundwater reservoirs in the world, and was only recently recognized as one interconnected system, extending through the four MERCOSUR countries for a total of 1.2 million km2.
Accelerating Renewable Energy Investments through CABEI in Central America
The overall objective of the project is to accelerate renewable energy investments through the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). The project is a regional approach, involving Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Belize which aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by promoting use of renewable energy systems for electricity generation in grid connected applications, thereby contributing to the economic development of Central America.
Power and Communications Sectors Modernization and Rural Services Project (PROMEC)
The Project will support the Government’s efforts to deepen pro-competition reforms in the telecommunications and electricity sectors, implement policies that will extend these services to the poor in rural areas as well as communication services for small and micro businesses, and adopt programs that foster efficient use of energy and use of RET for rural electrification.
Electricity Services for Rural Areas Project
The proposed project would complement ongoing IDA support (through the Energy sector Adjustment Credit) to the Government strategy for energy sector reform and liberalization that is spelled out in the Letter of Sector Development Policy issued in 1997.
Conservation and Sustainable Use of Traditional Medicinal Plants
The objective of the project is to : promote the conservation, sustainable use and cultivation of endangered medicinal plants in Zimbabwe, by demonstrating effective models at the local level, and developing a legal framework for the conservation, sustainable use, and equitable sharing of benefits from medicinal plants.
Energy Efficiency Project
The proposed project will make Croatia’s economy less energy intensive by establishing an economically and environmentally sustainable market for energy efficiency projects and services. It will do so by creating a core developer of energy efficiency projects within HEP, the national power utility. The new energy service company, ESCO, will promote, develop and finance energy efficiency projects.
Biodiversity Conservation in Cacao Agro-forestry
The rationale of the project is to improve the management of cacao-based poor indigenous small-farms according to both ecological and organic productive principles so as to ensure conservation and sustainable use of plant and animal diversity and provide a sustainable source of family income. The overall objective of the project is to promote and maintain on-farm biodiversity while improving livelihoods of organic cacao producers (indigenou, Latin mestizos and Afrocaribbean groups) in the Talamanca-Caribbean corridor in Costa Rica.
Assessment of Capacity-building Needs and Country-specific Priorities in Biodiversity, Phase II
The objective of the phase II biodiversity-enabling activity is to assist Ukraine to assess capacity building needs, identify priorities, and build consensus with respect to meeting its obligations under the CBD. A Clearing House Mechanism will be established to accelerate implementation of the CBD through appropriate hardware, software, and technical support. Funding for the CHM was not available to Ukraine under the phase I enabling activity. The phase II enabling activity would also facilitate the consultative process for preparing the second national report to the CBD.
Carbon Sequestration in the Desertified Rangelands of Hossien Abad, South Khorasan, through Community-based Management
The project would be a model initiative for the dual objectives of ofsetting biotic carbon and promotion of sustainable livelihood through participatory approach in combatting desertification. It would sequestor carbon, at a very high level, in the destertified lands of Hosseinababd through the establishment of a hand planted Haloxylon forest.
Community-based Management of On-farm Plant Genetic Resources in Arid and Semi-arid Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa
Goal:To improve the effectiveness of traditional farming systems for conservation of crop landraces of local and global importance. Purpose:To develop models for enabling environments for an effective contribution of traditional farming systems in biodiversity conservation and measures to maintain and promote wider adoption of viable systems.Objectives:1). To develop a framework that links best practices’ for conservation of crop landraces on-farm to decision-making and policy2).
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