When twelve South American nations embark on a region-wide infrastructure development program — which contemplates 355 projects at a cost of $37 billion dollars — it makes sense that the citizens of the participating nations would be included in the decision-making process. Or not, apparently. According to representatives of civil society groups, governments are displaying […]
In Brazil and Southeast Asia, advisors for Global Greengrants Fund have been pioneering the creation of local environmental grantmaking organizations for grassroots and community action.
Paul C. Fay Jr, more popularly known as Chip, is a Senior Policy Analyst at The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), and Executive Director Samdhana, one of the Greengrants Alliance Funds.
The Malindi Marine Association (MaMa) began its existence in 1999 in a donated office space, with borrowed furniture and a budget which extended only as far as two volunteers could contribute from their personal bank accounts. However, thanks in part to funds from Greengrants, MaMa has been able to make a real difference in preserving […]
by Michael Kramer-Duffield The tsunami of December 2004 devastated many coastal areas of South and Southeast Asia. Some of the hardest-hit areas were those in which coastal mangroves had been severely depleted due to overdevelopment and poor resource management, among other reasons. In these mangrove-depleted areas there was little or nothing to buffer the impact […]
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