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PEPFAR Small Grants Program
LUSAKA Today, the U.S. government, through its President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Community-Led Program, awarded over $1.25 million to 10 civil society organizations representing the ten provinces of Zambia. Martin Dale, Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy, and Dapyhne Williams, PEPFAR Country Coordinator, announced the grants during a virtual awards ceremony.
Mr. Dale congratulated the representatives from the selected organizations and spoke to the essential role the awardee organizations play in Zambia’s goal of reaching HIV epidemic. He stated, “The U.S. government takes pride in its support of civil society organizations such as yours. Community and civil society are key to the U.S. and Zambian governments’ strategy to reach and maintain HIV epidemic control.”
What is driving tilapia fish in Lake Jipe into near extinction
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IN 2015 Nile Tilapine fingerlings were introduced on the Kenyan side of Lake Jipe.
By Janet Murikira
The introduction of non-endemic fish species has left fishermen and researchers worried that this will increase competition in the Lake, further severing populations of the critically endangered Jipe Tilapia.
There is a 50 per cent likelihood that Jipe Tilapia, will become extinct within 20 years.
Steven Omondi does not miss his old fishing days. The 30 year old lives in Nghonji village along the shores of Lake Jipe, a shallow interterritorial lake shared by Kenya and Tanzania in the Taita Taveta and Kilimanjaro regions.
Mangrove Ecosystem in Mesurado Wetlands Under Enormous Threat: YCCI-Liberia Warns at Dialogue in Peace Island
Mangrove Ecosystem in Mesurado Wetlands Under Enormous Threat: YCCI-Liberia Warns at Dialogue in Peace Island
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YCCI-Liberia Executive Director Edwin Menscole at Peace Island Dialogue on Saturday April 4, 2020
MONROVIA Located at the back of the massive inter-ministerial complex, in Congo town, Peace Island- a beautiful piece of settlement has in the last decade seen its population surge to unbelievable levels.
Once a reserved government land, it is believed to have been occupied by mostly northerners who may have come to Monrovia fleeing conflict and violence resulting from the years of war.
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Small Farmers in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are expected to gain significant benefits from the Small Grants Program of the Food and Nutrition Security Project
Food and Nutrition Security Project.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is one of three countries in the region where the project is being administered by the University of the West Indies and The University of Technology, with funding from the International Development Research Center of Canada.
Grant funding of 7
-thousand US dollars each has been awarded to three local rural agricultural groups, who received the funds last Friday.
Delivering remarks at the hand-over ceremony, Co-ordinator of the Emergency Centre for Trans-boundary Animal Diseases ECTAD, Jethro Green, said Small Famers can cut production costs and improve their levels of income, when they work together.