While developing projects for UNDP’s Small Grants Programme (SGP), it is always useful to go through some of the previous grantee projects and make notes about the strategies and subjects they have covered. If you try to replicate some of the innovative strategies that received previous SGP funding, there is a better chance of funding success. Here we discuss a few such projects on different areas:
The King’s Domain Ltd/Gtee in Nigeria received a grant of USD 50,000 for the year 2014-15 to implement the “”Creating Access to Clean Energy for Households at Makoko Waterfront Communities Makoko, Yaba Lagos” Project. Makoko Waterfront Communities is a slum in Lagos that is estimated to contain about 50,000 householdsa 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 source 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 improve the environment. It will also improve the economic wellbeing of the beneficiaries as it will reduce their weekly expenditure on kerosene including cost of charging mobile phones and create jobs.
The organization called ‘Farming and Business Support Center’ received a grant of USD 3000 in 2014 to implement a project in the area of land degradation in Uzbekistan for “Planning project on development of a specialized informational web portal for farming enterprises and small businesses to reduce costs between “producer-consumer” interaction for a wide access to sustainable farming technologies
The Sri Lanka Environmental and Exploration Society’s grant amount of USD 48,562 for a project on building the capacity and knowledge management of the project partners of GEF Small Grants Projects. It is to enable SGP grantees and other CSO stakeholders to network, share and showcase best practices, innovative technologies and lessons learned developed by the civil society to promote the replication and scaling up of the results for greater policy influence and transformational change.
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