DGM Brazil, approved in March 2015 with the aim of strengthening Indigenous Peoples, Quilombolas, and Traditional Communities, published its first Call for Proposals on January 25th, 2016, which will support projects in natural resource management, market oriented projects, and projects that respond to immediate threats in the Brazilian Cerrado biome.
Read MoreOn February 24 and 25, the first meeting of the National Steering Committee of the DGM was held in the city of Accra, Ghana. Thirteen representatives from local communities of the Brong-Ahafo (BA) and Western regions along the border with Ivory Coast, (the area of intervention of the DGM Ghana), were introduced as members of the National Steering Committee (NSC).
Read MoreA massive blizzard did not prevent the DGM National Executing Agencies (NEA) from attending the Planning and Coordination Meeting with the Global Executing Agency (GEA), Conservation International, held in Arlington, Virginia.
Read MoreThe DGM is participating in a number of events at the upcoming UNFCCC COP 21 in Paris this December. Members of the DGM Global Steering Committee from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, and Peru will speak on panels at two DGM Side Events.
Read MoreThe Saweto Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Peru was approved in August 2015 and launched in Lima on October 9, 2015. Partners at AIDESEP have just released a video presenting the program (Spanish only).
Read MoreThe first issue of DGM Digest has been released. The issue includes the announcement of six new countries to join the DGM as well as information about Peru's recently approved DGM Country Project.
Read MoreThe first meeting of the DGM Global Steering Committee was held in Bali from July 25-27. GSC members from Brazil, DRC, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines attended, as well as observers from the World Bank, Climate Investment Funds, Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative, Conservation International-Indonesia, and the DGM National Executing Agencies from Brazil and Indonesia.
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