Ekuri Initiative

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Summary

This project focuses on the conservation and sustainable management of the Ekuri Community forests.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $125 was raised for this project.

Received $125 from 3 donations from people like:

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

To provide two villages (with a population of 6,000 inhabitants) with the support and assistance needed to ensure sustainable harvest of timber, vegetables, rattans, and other products from community forests.

Activities

Forest inventory training; Tree harvesting and conversion; Taxation of forest products and management of funds; Support innovative and sustainable harvesting of timber, vegetables, rattans, and other products from the Ekuri community forest

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $125

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $125. The original project funding goal was $5,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.equatorinitiative.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Reduce poverty and conserve biodiversity through sustainable harvesting, processing and sale of timber and non-timber forest products from Ekuri community land and through the sale and marketing of resulting products.

Project Message

The sustainable harvesting of timber and non-timber forest products, resulting from stock surveys and assessment techniques is a means of exploiting local resources without destroying them.
- Sean Southey, UNDP's Equator Initiative Manager

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Sean Southey,
UNDP's Equator Initiative Manager
405 Lexington Avenue
4th floor
New York, NY 10174
United States
212-457-1709
Email:

Project Sponsor

United Nations Development Programme

Organization

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
One United Nations Plaza
21st Floor
New York, NY 10017
United States
212-906-5000
http://www.undp.org

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