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Sign advertising Forest Mist bottled water. — Selling bottled water to save the forests at Kikuyu Escarpment KBA in Kenya.

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Strengthening Civil Society’s Engagement with the Private Sector in the Eastern Afromontane

Grantee Name: Nature Uganda

Hotspot: Eastern Afromontane
Location: Burundi, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, Ethiopia, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda
Amount: $16,000
Dates: Aug 2015 – Feb 2016
Keywords: Networks, Private sector

Facilitate participation of four CEPF grantees from the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot in the Pan-African Business and Biodiversity Forum in Ghana; organize a knowledge exchange meeting for grantees with projects in key biodiversity areas (KBAs) where the private sector also has operations and/or where there is an opportunity for green enterprise; and organize a side event to profile CEPF's engagement with the private sector, CEPF's broader commitment to KBA conservation and protection, and the mainstreaming of KBAs into policy and development planning.

Strategic Direction : 1 Mainstream biodiversity into wider development policies, plans and projects to deliver the co-benefits of biodiversity conservation, improved local livelihoods and economic development in priority corridors.

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Strengthening Civil Society’s Engagement with the Private Sector in the Eastern Afromontane

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