GEF/SGP funded community based organizations projects under operational phase 6 within Makgadikgadi wetland area

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GEF/SGP funded community based organizations projects under operational phase 6 within Makgadikgadi wetland area

February 18, 2021

Community Based Organisations (CBOs) within the Makgadikgadi Wetland Area (MWA) landscape have been funded by the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF/SGP) to initiate or establish start-up community livelihood improvement projects that also aims at save guiding the integrity of the environment. There are 15 Community Based Organizations (CBOs) within the Makgadikgadi Wetlands Area (MWA), seven of which have been funded by the United Nations Development Programme through the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF/SGP). The GEF/SGP effort is to meet the goal of ‘global environmental benefits secured through community-based initiatives and actions this effort corroborates the Botswana Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) policy whose mandate is to provide incentives for local communities to conserve and manage natural resources in their immediate environments by providing them special user rights and associated benefits from the resources through delegation to legally registered CBOs. This brochure summarises CBO led projects supported by GEF/SGP under its Operational Phase 6 (2015 to 2019).
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