Awards winners 2008

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Thailand
• Region:Asia (including Pacific)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Sustainable Tourism|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)

Relief to Self Reliance, a project involving Andaman Discoveries as one of the partners, will expand employment opportunities, strengthen local economic and cultural activity and promote sustainable resource management through community-based tourism (CB ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Cameroon
• Region:Africa
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management

Guiding Hope is looking to establish an environmentally and socially responsible, fair-yet-profitable trade in apiculture products by up-scaling the marketing and production of honey and wax, Guiding Hope plans to expand small-scale production of organ ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:India
• Region:Asia (including Pacific)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Health

Himalayan Oregano Oil against MRSA has potential to improve health. At the same time the partnership will provide a sustainable source of income for herb collectors through the collection of wild oregano and distillation of its essential oil and reduce vi ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Nicaragua
• Region:Latin America & Caribbean (GRULAC)
• Subject:Energy / Renewables|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)

Lighting up Hope and Communities aims to become a model for the creation of a financially self-sustaining business selling renewable energy products. Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa is a motivated group of women who are determined to improve the quality of ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Winner
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Brazil
• Region:Latin America & Caribbean (GRULAC)
• Subject:Climate change adaptation/mitigation|Food security|Water and sanitation

Pintadas Solar is setting out to help small farmers communities to adapt to climate change, improve local food security, mitigate their own carbon emissions, and reduce poverty by increasing income and creating local employment opportunities. Partners in ... View project details ^Featured

• SEED Finalist
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Philippines
• Region:Asia (including Pacific)
• Subject:Climate change adaptation/mitigation|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)|Waste management

The initiative seeks to achieve the following goals: • Commercialise the charcoal briquettes in Tupi and expects replication in other parts of the Philippines and across the world. • Create employment opportunities and local enterprises. • Reduce ope ... View project details

• SEED Finalist
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Armenia
• Region:Eastern Europe
• Subject:Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)

The initiative’s overall goal is an increased high quality production through improved farming techniques (e.g. high quality seeds, fertilizers) to provide a higher income for its members. The Farmers Union plans to create two cooperatives for the Shira ... View project details

• SEED Finalist
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Philippines
• Region:Asia (including Pacific)
• Subject:Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)|Waste management

The initiative seeks to achieve the following goals: • Develop the enterprise to become economically viable • Develop the capability of women to manage the enterprise • Raise awareness of women towards women’s empowerment and gender equality • Prac ... View project details

• SEED Finalist
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Armenia
• Region:Eastern Europe
• Subject:Health|Sustainable consumption and production (recycling)

The initiative will reduce poverty through entrepreneurial skills training, technical assistance and technology transfer in high yield gardening. The main goals of the initiative are: • Reduce poverty through entrepreneurial skills training, technical as ... View project details

• SEED Finalist
• Year of participation:2008
• Country:Jordan
• Region:Western Europe and Other regions (WEOG)
• Subject:Biodiversity / Natural resource management|Peace building / conflict resolution

The primary goal is to establish a concrete project which exemplifies the need to rehabilitate the Jordan River by creating a space where Jordanians, Israelis and Palestinians can meet freely without the need for a visa or permit. The goals are: • Deve ... View project details