Marking the support of the 101 project by the Global Environment Facility/ Small Grants Programme, the “Communication Project” of the Human Forum for Women’s Rights supported by the Programme holds today a reception to launch “101 Local Initiatives to Protect the Global Environment/ Local Initiatives in Sustainable Development” publication.
The reception is held under the patronage of HE Dr. Yousef Al Shuraiki, Minister of Environment, with the participation of Ms. Christine McNab, UNDP Resident Representative in Jordan, and is attended by Representatives of diplomatic missions, donor programmes, concerned official institutions and representatives of Jordanian local communities, as well as the members of the Programme’s National Steering Committee are invited to attend the launching event.
The new publication provides an overview of the Small Grants Programme and its focal areas and mechanism, with a brief description of all the projects that have been supported to date. The publication aims at facilitating the flow of the required information about the Programme and its supported projects to non-governmental organizations eligible for funding by the Programme, which would enable them to implement environmental projects that serve their respective communities.
The United Nations Development Programme has initiated the Small Grants Programme in Jordan in 1992. Supported projects under this Programme deal with issues of biodiversity protection, climate change control, protection of international waters and land degradation control, addressing at the same time environmental and livelihood problems of the local communities.