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A blue innovation boosting the resilience of coastal communities and marine ecosystems
As an area of global importance for marine conservation, the Big Islands region – whose communities depend on fishing – has a duty to preserve its fishing resources for both environmental and human re...
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A sustainable, resilient and equitable development in the Nouakchott region
Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, is subject to climate and demographic pressures. Alongside this, access to public transport and lighting is limited. The ARENDDRE project, supported by the FFEM,...
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Co-create and raise awareness to improve agricultural system resilience
In Egypt and Lebanon, water stress, desertification and over-exploitation of the water table are damaging agriculture. The FFEM is supporting the SupMed project in order to reduce this over-exploitati...
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A concept for sustainable blue tourism
The tourism industry, and mass tourism in particular, is causing considerable environmental damage. The FFEM is supporting a project seeking to help develop sustainable post Covid tourism in the Medit...
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One Limpopo One Health: addressing the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health together
Climate change and anthropic-derived pressures are exacerbating the competition between livestock and wildlife for use of Mozambique’s natural resources. The One Limpopo One Health (OLOH) project, sup...
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“Educating to conserve”: improving nature conservation through education.
How can the management of protected areas in Africa be improved? With support from the FFEM, the “Educating to conserve” project strengthens the capabilities of professionals in protected areas while...
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Conservation and innovative financing of high forest cover
The Amazon forest contains “vital reserves”, areas rich in both irrecoverable carbon and biodiversity. The FFEM’s support to four Amazon countries aims to encourage the emergence of innovative and sus...
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For a Plastic-Free Mediterranean Sea (BeMed+)
To combat plastic pollution in the Mediterranean, the association Beyond Plastic Med (BeMed) supports pilot initiatives. Its objectives are to build a network of stakeholders, strengthen their capacit...
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Sustainable development for small islands
The FFEM is supporting the Small Islands Organisation (SMILO) in its scaling-up of actions to embed long-term development of small islands and extend the “sustainable island” accreditation to new isla...
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Integrating biodiversity into regional planning in Southern Africa
The FFEM is supporting the SBAPP Project “Building biodiversity knowledge for action in Southern Africa” across South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi and Namibia, which promotes an integrated approach brin...
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Carbon credits to finance sustainable housing
Through the ACACIAS project, the FFEM is supporting the implementation of a carbon credit mechanism for developing sustainable construction in Benin and Ghana.
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Abating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Obsolete RAC equipment in West Africa
Domestic refrigerators and air conditioning can be highly emissive of greenhouse gases. To reduce their impact on the climate, the FFEM is supporting the Agora project, sponsored by the UNDP. The goal...
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Multi-stakeholder partnership for the sustainable management of protected areas in the Indo-Burma hotspot 2
Conserving biodiversity, maintaining ecosystem services and reducing local poverty in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, involving local communities and the private sector.
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Soft solutions to counter coastal erosion in West Africa
Coastal erosion along the West African coastlines is accelerated by human activity and climate change. To combat this phenomenon, the FFEM is supporting the Dakar Ecological Monitoring Centre in promo...
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Toward a new equilibrium between forest, fauna and populations.
Rich in exceptional biodiversity, the region around the Kibale national park has for several decades been subject to various destabilizing factors, from intensive poaching through to the use of danger...
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Small-Scale Initiatives Program for Civil Society Organizations in North Africa
Strengthening young Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia in the environmental field, by financing several small-scale projects and capacity building actions.
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Supporting the integrated and sustainable management of coastal territories, islands and marine areas and MPAs in the Mediterranean
COGITO is a partnership project working in the Mediterranean for the development and dissemination of convincing examples of the management and integrated co-management of coastal, island and marine a...
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Desalination of seawater using solar energy
Water supply is a major problem for small island communities. To address this, the solar-energy seawater desalination technology developed by Mascara allows drinking water to be produced at low cost a...
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Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Pointe à Larrée Territory
Promote sustainable and integrated development in the area of influence of the Pointe à Larrée Special Reserve, located in the Analanjirofo Region of Madagascar.
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