Tag: UNDP
UNDP Supports National ID Systems in Sierra Leone
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says it is supporting civil registration and national ID systems in Sierra Leone and 24 other countries. This falls under the UN Legal Identity project and ...GEF Small Grants Stories: Using Renewable Energy to Promotes Low Carbon Rural Society in three ...
Across Africa communities, rural areas are always left behind when it comes to necessities like electricity supply, proper health care, educational institutions and several other facilities. Over the years, solar energy has ...Gef Small Grants Stories: Providing Basic Rehabilitation Services for Persons Living with Disabilities in Kailahun ...
Across the world, more than one billion people are living with some form of disability, and that’s 15 per cent of the global population. People with disabilities have poorer health outcomes, lower ...GEF Small Grants Stories: Using Banana Bark Peel Innovation to provide sustainable water supply in ...
The Grantee Over the past years getting clean water to drink in the Luawa Baoma community has been challenging; the only water catchment is located in the forest. The risk involved is ...GEF Small Grants Stories: Promoting Sustainable Agroecosystem as an aid to development in Fenesu Village, ...
The Grantee Residents of Fenesu Village were engaged in full-time hunting to create a living; they used to burn down forests to hunt bush meats, gather firewood, and for other economic gains. ...GEF Small Grants Stories: Empowering persons with disabilities through skills training in Pujehun District
The grantee Local Action for Development is a community-based organization in Pujehun district, southern Sierra Leone. Over the past years, through the UNDP GEF Small Grants Program, the organization have been able ...GEF Small Grants Stories: Creating alternative livelihood support to scale up sustainable mangrove conservation in ...
The Grantee We are operating in Rutile, Bonthe District. An area that has vast land of mangroves but due to the activities of Sierra Rutile Mining Company, and that of the resident’s, ...GEF Small Grants Stories: New skills to scale up sustainable biodiversity conservation in Pujehun District
The Grantee Gondama residents hunt for bushmeat, collect firewood, mine, farm and log near the Gola Rainforest National Park. These human activities destroy the environment. To protect the environment, we trained some ...GEF Small Grants Stories: Swamp Farms increase Food Security, and Prevent Deforestation in Gola Forest ...
The Grantee Few years ago, the Agency for Development and Poverty Alleviation (ADPA) did a survey in the Gola Forest Community to explore the impact of upland farming on the environment. We ...Sierra Leone launches e-ID for social and financial inclusion for 5.1 million citizens
Sierra Leone has digitized its national identification system to make it easier to deliver services to all citizens. The National Civil Registry Agency (NCRA) has launched an electronic identification system for 5.1 ...
