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Project Description
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Project Description
The project is designed to develop educational and training materials in Urdu for GEF/SGP partners and providing training to NGOs/CBOs in proposal writing and creating awareness on issues of concern to GEF and organize orientation workshops for GEF/SGP. Project goals or objectives: 1.Development of educational and training materials in Urdu for key partners, of GEF/SGP; 2.Orientation about GEF/SGP focal areas and training for proposal development in ten different cities with collaboration of GEF/SGP partner organizations. Activities to be carried out under project: 1.Development of Reading Materials There is lack of quality reading material about Environment especially in Urdu. Sanjh intends to develop local body of literature in Urdu, so that common people and GEF/SGP partners come to know about global and local issues of Environment in simple and intelligible language. Description of the proposed materials is given below. i.Development, Poverty and Environment----Global perspective on Environmental degradation: During the last century human beings opted for such development which not only increased poverty but also proved to be dangerous for the natural environment. The proposed booklet will highlight the historical perspective of environmental degradation and establish relationship between development, poverty and Environment. It would be a brief booklet of 25-30 pages and it will cover major environmental issues like global warming, loss of bio-diversity, desertification, pollution and depletion of ozone layer etc. The approach would be to highlight problems, identify solutions and to elaborate by giving case studies. ii.State of Environment in Pakistan: It would be a booklet of 25-30 pages about overall situation of Environment in Pakistan with focus on major problems. It will describe current state of environmental degradation in Pakistan and relevance of community based initiatives for environment protection. In addition it will contain lists of resource persons, books, brochures and institutions working for environment. Environmental policies and legislation will also be given with reference to National Conservation Strategy, and Bio-Diversity Action Plan. iii.GEF/SGP Brochure: This would also be a booklet of 25-30 pages. It will give background of GEF/SGP, its history, management structure, sources of funding, implementation arrangements of global and national programme, areas of GEF/SGP concern, type of support provided to the NGOs/CBOs and procedure for seeking grants/support. The booklet will also contain list of GEF/SGP projects in Pakistan. A comprehensive NGO Kit will also be designed to provide relevant information to prospective grant seekers in a handy way. iv.How to develop a project proposal: It has been observed that community based organizations and local NGOs do have innovative ideas and sensitization about environmental issues but they are unable to convert them into workable project proposals. This booklet of 25-30 pages will provide guidance to the NGOs/CBOs for conceptualization and development of project proposals. v.Country Program Strategy: Office of the National Coordinator GEF/SGP has developed Country Programme Strategy for Pakistan in consultation with the National Selection Committee and UNDP. This document will be translated into Urdu and published in the form of a booklet. vi.Green Pioneers: Practical Leadership in Conservation and Development (In English ) There are many successful projects and good examples in the field of Environment protection. There is a need to document these success stories so that others can learn and be inspired by these examples of innovative leadership. The proposed booklet will contain twenty such stories. Each story will be no more than 1500 words and will be accompanied by a fact page containing maps, photos, logo, fact table etc. Sanjh will partially cover the cost of the production by marketing the book. vii.Newsletter: Objective of the newsletter is to disseminate information about successful community initiatives in environment and development and to share with activists news and views on current global trends in alternative development models. This eight page newsletter in Urdu will also serve as a watchdog to government policies and projects with a view to make them environment friendly. Case studies of successful projects will also be published and interesting solutions of various environmental problems will be highlighted. Environment activists, NGOs, Govt. departments, media people, donors and GEF/SGP staff and partners will be the main contributors and beneficiaries of the newsletter. It will be an awareness raising project and all the 1000 copies will be distributed free of cost. It will be circulated through GEF/SGP regional offices. viii.GEF/SGP Calendar: Sanjh will design a desk calendar as a monthly planner. The calendar will highlight environmental days/events, important thoughts, messages, facts and experiences about Environment. Visuals of threatened species and successful programs will also be included. The calendar and the greeting cards will help in networking, resource mobilization information sharing and creating awareness. ix.Greeting Cards: Sanjh will produce greeting cards based on visuals of threatened species and successful programs. The resources collected through marketing of these cards and the desk calendar will be recycled for future activities of the same nature. 2.Training Workshops on Project Pr
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