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Anti-poaching and anti-depredation camps for conservation of Asian elephants in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India "The purpose of this project is to support the Forest Department of Assam in their efforts to conserve and protect Asian elephants and their habitats in Kaziranga National Park. This award will provide funding for the construction of three anti-poaching camps in the Park, these permanent camps will provide furnished lodging for frontline field staff and include running water and watchtowers. Construction of these anti-poaching outposts in the Park will improve the living conditions of frontline rangers and patrol staff of Kaziranga which will improve the protection of elephants, Indian rhinos, and other endangered species therein. ..This award period of performance will be one year; however the project is expected to extend over a two-year period. Pending receipt of financial and performance reports and availability of funds, the award may be extended for an additional year and the balance of the total request in the amount of $59,190.00 will be obligated at that time."
Institutionalizing a community-based model of managing human-elephant conflict in the North Kanara landscape of Karnataka, India through participation of the Forest Department and local self governanc to train farmers to protect their crops from wild elephants using the simple, cost-effective technique of Community-based Conflict Management (CBCM), a set of practical and self-sustaining solutions which empower farmers to protect crops using low-cost techniques with reduced dependence on outside agencies
Securing Asian elephant habitats and populations in Kerala, South India through a Government-endorsed, comprehensive, landscape-scale conservation plan Our long-term goal is to ensure that the state of Kerala in the Western Ghats of southern India is home to threat-free interconnected populations of the endangered Asian elephant. Towards this purpose, the objective of this proposed project is to obtain a comprehensive status assessment of the Asian elephant in multiple conservation landscapes in the state of Kerala, South India, and use this information to prioritize conservation efforts for the species.
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund Strengthen the protection measures by involving fringe villagers in Manas National Park for the conservation of Asian Elephants, Phase - VII.
Project Kazhiru (Elephant): Targeting to achieve zero mortality in human-elephant conflict areas, in partnership with the Tamil Nadu Forest department, India Project Kazhiru (Elephant): Targeting to achieve zero mortality in human-elephant conflict areas, in partnership with the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, India
Asian Elephants Contributed Funds The purpose of this project is to reduce retaliatory killing of elephants within the project area to around 50% of 2013 levels, and build public awareness for long term peaceful coexistence between man and elephant. Grantee will build capacity within human-elephant conflict (HEC) affected villages in Nepal and West Bengal by creating village protection committees and anti-depredation squads, enhance the capacity of these communities to address HEC, build bio-fences to keep out migrating elephants, conduct awareness campaigns on elephants, HEC and mitigation measures through meetings and banners/leaflets in local languages.
Asian Elephant Conserv-Species Conservation Grant Elephant corridors of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve: location, threats, and management
GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT FOR REPLENISHING HABITATS TO BOOST CONSERVATION OF RHINO AND TIGER IN MANAS NATIONAL PARK AND POBITORA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY IN ASSAM, INDIA THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CONSERVE AND RESTORE GRASSLAND HABITAT FOR THE SURVIVAL OF GRASSLAND DEPENDENT THREATENED SPECIES, SUCH AS THE GREATER ONE HORNED RHINO, HOG DEER, SWAMP DEER, HISPID HARE, PYGMY HOG, ASIATIC WATER BUFFALO, TIGER, ELEPHANT, BENGAL FLORICAN, SWAMP FRANCOLIN, AND ACT AS A MODEL FOR GRASSLAND RESTORATION ACROSS THE REGION. THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO (1) UNDERSTAND THE CURRENT STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION OF INVASIVE PLANTS SPECIES AND IDENTIFY THE PRIMARY DRIVERS OF THEIR INVASION IN POBITORA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (2) IMPLEMENT AND VALIDATE APPROPRIATE INVASIVE SPECIES CONTROL METHODS IN POBITORA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (3) CONTINUE THE MONITORING OF INVASIVE SPECIES IN THE GRASSLAND ECOSYSTEM OF MANAS NATIONAL PARK (MNP) AND RESTORE 20 SQ KM OF INVADED GRASSLAND (4) BUILD CAPACITY OF FRONTLINE STAFF IN RHINO BEARING AREAS ON GRASSLAND HABITAT MANAGEMENT (5) PROMOTE USES OF INVASIVE SPECIES FOR ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOOD THROUGH COORDINATION WITH AND SUPPORT FOR SELF HELP GROUPS IN EASTERN MANAS AND (6) REDUCE GRASSLAND DEGRADATION AND INCURSION IN MNP THROUGH THE PILOTING AND PROMOTION OF ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS AND IMPROVEMENT IN LIVESTOCK HUSBANDRY PRACTICES AND LIVESTOCK VACCINATION, IN COORDINATION WITH THE ECO DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES IN CENTRAL MANAS.
Forest Department-Community Partnership to Improve Protection of Western Hoolock Gibbons Hoolock Hoolock in Jeypore RF, India - Phase-VII , (1) Continue the operations of the three roving gibbon and wildlife patrol units comprising of 3 community members in each group and headed by a forest guard in each group, and, (2) Implement SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) patrolling protocols, i.e., systematically record patrol details and produce monthly reports and plan future patrols using these reports..
Rhino & Tiger Conservation Fund The purpose of this proposal is to establish local capacity within governmental and non-governmental sectors to effectively monitor and conserve tiger and prey populations. This will be done by: 1) training and empowering local forest department personnel in rigorous monitoring of tigers through camera trap based capture-recapture sampling and monitoring of prey through line transect based Distance sampling in Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary; 2) collaborating with other organizations with similar conservation agendas active in Kerala to build local capacity through intensive training in field survey activities, workshops and awareness programs; and 3) proactively involving members of the civil society in tiger prey estimation and monitoring activities.
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund Ensuring cotinued functionality of the critical Kanchanjuri-Amguri wildlife corridor in Kaziranga Karbi Anglong Landscape, Assam, India through generating community support
Marine Turtle Conservation Fund Integrate Stakeholders and Strengthen Community Involvement in Sea Turtle Conservation-.Nellore, India
Facilitating tiger population recovery through threat mitigation in Telangana, India The purpose of this project is to, (1) Aid habitat consolidation through facilitating voluntary resettlement of local communities from tiger reserves of Telangana, (2) Mitigate threats to tiger survival through supporting anti-poaching activities of the government within reserves and community-based measures in corridors, and, (3) Continue scientific and conservation support to Telangana Forest department as an outside expert.
Asian Elephant Conserv-Species Conservation Grant Mitigating human elephant conflict through enhancing community interface in Golaghat district, Assam.
Community-based management of human-elephant conflict in the North Kanara Landscape and transfer of Community-Based Conflict Management Technology to Forest Departments of other states in India Community-based management of human-elephant conflict in the North Karnara Landscape and transfer of Community-Based Conflict Management technology to Forest Departments of other states in India
Strengthening Law Enforcement and Improving Awareness for Conservation of Pangolins, Star Tortoises, and Other Lesser Known Species in Illegal Wildlife Trade in Peninsular India (1) data gathering on the prevalence of poaching of lesser known species, including using seizure records to map poaching hotspots, trafficking networks, routes, and major hubs; (2) strengthening law enforcement through interagency training and exchange among key governmental partners in India including the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Enforcement Directorate, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, and state Forest Departments; (3) training workshops for the judiciary to increase conviction rates in wildlife trafficking cases; and (4) developing a constituency for conservation through awareness raising activities among policymakers and local communities.
BACK ON TRACK: PREVENTING TRAIN-ELEPHANT COLLISIONS IN ASSAM, INDIA The goal of this project is to minimize train-elephant collisions in Assam, India and foster the development of Indian Railways systems that prevent train-elephant collisions. Project objectives are to: (1) assess the vulnerabilities of four sections (162 km) of track that account for 75% of prior train-elephant collisions in Assam; (2) provide data-driven recommendations for minimizing the risk of train-elephant collisions in high-risk sections of track; and (3) support the implementation of recommendations to minimize train-elephant collisions. Project activities are to: (1) examine high-risk sections of track via joint surveys with officials from the Railways and Forest Departments; (2) better understand Indian Railways traffic control systems through interviews of railway personnel and direct observations of train control room operations; (3) use video camera traps to monitor elephant crossing points on railroad tracks; (4) make, evaluate, and finalize recommendations to reduce elephant-train collisions via multistakeholder engagements and field visits; (5) revise and finalize recommendations and secure necessary institutional commitment through multi-level stakeholder engagement; (6) conduct workshops with stakeholders to raise awareness of recommendations and implementation plans; and (7) collaborate with key officials as per due process of the Indian Railways and Forest Departments to implement, develop, and test novel interventions.
Ensuring Protection of Tiger Occupied Landscapes and Prioritizing Conservation Landscapes for Recovery of a Low-Density Metapopulation of Tigers in Telangana, India, , (1) assess and mitigate threats to tigers and their prey in Tiger Reserves; (2) documenting the distribution, dispersal landscapes and potential corridors of tiger in the state for their identification and protection as well as identify factors that drive occupancy; and, (3) build the capacity of Forest Department personnel in law enforcement and rigorous techniques for monitoring tigers and their prey in the entire landscape. The specific goal of this project is to ensure protection of tigers and their habitat in Amrabad and Kawal, and document the current status and distribution of tigers in the entire landscape of Telangana, so as to identify areas for intensifying management efforts.
Rhino & Tiger Conservation Fund "This project will monitor the recovery of the tiger and its prey base in Manas National Park. This would be done by a) estimating tiger population densities in the Park using photographic captures and recaptures, b) estimating the densities of key large mammal herbivores that constitute prey species of the tiger in the Park using line transect sampling, and c) sustaining the monitoring and research program on vegetation dynamics in the Park to inform habitat management...Specifically, the Recipient will: (1) carry out camera trapping in six blocks of the Park over three camera trapping sessions (1.5 to 2.0 months per session) using 30-40 camera trap locations per block; (2) construct capture histories for each adult tiger and analyze these histories using CAPTURE to estimate abundance; (3) carry out line transect sampling to estimate tiger prey densities using 2 km long transects in all three ranges located in areas where camera traps are located; (4) analyze the count and distance data obtained from the transect sampling using the program DISTANCE; (5) install over 120 permanent vegetation quadrats of 30 m X 30 m size each spread across the entire landscape of the park and assess these plots for woody plant species; (6) conduct a one-time soil sampling in each plant quadrat and assess soil physical and chemical parameters; and (7) utilize the vegetation data to (a) develop a supervised land cover classification using high resolution satellite imagery, (b) characterize the distribution of plant species and diversity across the MNP landscape, and (c) develop a spatially explicit model of the environmental determinants of vegetation type and vegetation change in a GIS framework.
Marine Turtles ConservationFund-Species Conservation Grant Expand And Strengthen Community Involvement In Sea Turtle Conservation Program-Nellore, India.
Federal Trade Commission: Office of International Affairs Technical Assistance to Kuwait / Middle East on Consumer Protection
ISAAC Emergency Response Project During the night of the 24th and 15th of August 2012, Haiti was struck by Tropical Storm ISSAC which hit the coastline of the country slightly to the west of the town of Jacmel on the south coast. When ISAAC struck, winds of up to 100km per hour caused the felling of trees, the stripping off of households roofs, and the destruction of already weakened structures still standing after the earthquake of 2010. Severe rains caused assive flooding throughout the town and the rural environs and took the lives of many of the livestock held by agriculturally dependant communities. Gardens and larger-scale agriculture was completely destroyed along with landslides due to the sudden onset heavy rains.  As a result of the storm there was widespread damage and destruction to a huge number of commmunity and family livelohoods in the area, as well as damage to homes, and loss of shelter for those fmailies still living in tents. 

The Department for Civil Protection (DPC) in the South Department has declared that 2169 famlieshave been affected; 6 people hvae died; 15 injured; 228 houses deatroyed; 1682 houses damaged; 259 houses flooded. In addition to this, smaller parishes around the town have reported a huge loss in agricultural and animal livelihoods. 4000 people are reported to have taken refuge in 26 centres of refuge. 

A total of 27 parishes have been directly impacted by the storm among which 10 have been chosen by Caritas Jacmel in which to intervene. Selection of these areas has been made based on damage and vulnerability criteria. The response will combine both immediate suport to affected fmailies as well as supporting the recovery of livelihoods and the return to live as normal. caritas Jacmel will owrk directly with comunities and also in partnership with the parishes to ensure appropriate and efficient cover and response.
School Emergency and Disaster Preparedness in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas School children were amongst one of the group most affected by the earthquake that hit Haiti on 12th January 2010. 85% of schools in Port-au-Prince areas have been severely damaged or destroyed and a lot of children died in the catastrophe. In April 2010, the Haitian government reopened the schools but the situation remains critical as most of them are located in high risk areas and the conditions in which they are operating are even worse than before the earthquake.
The goal of the project is to reduce school children vulnerability to natural disasters by contributing towards the implementation of a disaster risk reduction programme in the most affected areas of Port-au-Prince. The purpose is to make schools in those areas safer, enabling them to act as a locus for disaster risk reduction, institutionalizing the implementation of emergency and disaster preparedness strategy within the Haitian education system.
The project will work in selected schools managed by the diocesan office for education (BDE) and the Education Support Centre (CAP). An effective methodology will be developed by CAP that can be replicated in other schools, influencing national level policy and practice in ways that can be easily replicated in other areas. A distinctive approach, adapting participatory vulnerability analysis for use in schools will be a defining feature of the project, helping to build the awareness and analysis of children, parents, teachers, ministry of education.
The primary beneficiaries will be 55 schools in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas with over 28,000 pupils (and their parents) and over 385 teachers (and school management committee members / directors). 
This project will then increase the level of awareness of risk in schools, building knowledge among teachers, parents and children. Information on hazards, mitigation measures, hygiene, first aid and preparedness plans will be shared, both in the classroom and out through the parent committees.  Overall children, teachers, parents will be trained on how to protect themselves against natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, landslides, etc.
WASH in Urban Communities - Phase II Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Haiti will implement the WASH in Urban Communities Phase II (WUC-II) Project in five areas of Port-au-Prince so that families may live in a clean and safe environment with reduced vulnerability to public health hazards. WUC-II will be implemented under CRS’s broader Community Resettlement and Recovery Program (CRRP) that was developed as an early recovery strategy since June 2010. CRRP, a program that will continue through 2014, supports the resettlement of 25,000 earthquake affected families in communities of origin through integrated shelter, water and sanitation, protection, community infrastructure, and livelihoods solutions.  WUC-II is one of the key parts of CRRP, and will focus on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) activities and synergize with other CRRP activities in areas such as livelihoods, shelter, education, and protection.
Supporting Haitian Health Facilities to Combat Cholera CRS is building upon its current cholera programming with a six month project, “Supporting Haitian Health Facilities to Combat Cholera.” The project fills a critical gap in CRS’s cholera programming and in Haiti’s overall national response strategy to cholera by providing the necessary infrastructure at existing health facilities’ CTUs/CTCs so they may better control the spread of cholera and provide care to patients. The project also will support the capacity of health facilities in hygiene promotion in the communities they serve by providing training and materials to CTU/CTC staff and CHWs so that partner health facilities will be able to continue to prevent cholera at the community level as well.
Contribution to Caritas Haiti Hurricane Matthew Rapid Response Hurricane Matthew formed on September 29, 2016 in the Atlantic Ocean. On the night of 3 to 4 October 2016 and during the October 4, he hit the southern coast of Grand Anse, Nippes, South East, West, Artibonite and Northwest with a speed of 220 km/h and was ranked a level 4 Hurricane. 05 Oct 2016, the red alert was lifted because Matthew has left Haiti's ratings headed for the Bahamas. The information thus collected are beginning to highlight the intensity of damage. There would also 108 dead according to official data at this time.

This Rapid Response is to support 2,700 families (13,500 people) affected by Hurricane Matthew in the following areas: a) Acquisition and distribution of 2,700 food kits 2) awareness of the spread of infectious diseases and 3) distribution of 2,700 kits hygiene.
Community Resettlement and Recovery Program CRS immediately responded to the January 12 earthquake with live-saving food, shelter, water and sanitation measures.  In June 2010, CRS started development of the next phase in the response and initiated the transition from providing assistance in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps to supporting individuals’ resettlement in neighborhoods of origin. CRS has designed a 30-month, US$ 26,310,506 Community Resettlement and Recovery Program (CRRP) to help at least 25,000 families resettle in communities with integrated shelter, water and sanitation, protection, community infrastructure, and livelihoods solutions. Starting with cash for work and transitional shelter construction in June 2010, other programmatic activities gradually became fully integrated since March 2011 and are already under implementation . The multifaceted CRRP contributes to significantly improve quality of life in five of the worst affected communities of post-earthquake Port au Prince.
Emergency support to cholera affected population of Port-au-Prince This grant is a contribution towards a project implemented by our partner Caritas Port-au-Prince in response to the recent outbreak of cholera spreading in Port-au-Prince. Since the earthquake, Caritas Port-au-Prince has been implementing health activities in some camps and parishes of the diocese.  However with the recent outbreak of cholera, the need for a public awareness campaign to support more communities is necessary in order to halt the disease. Furthermore, Caritas Port-au-Prince will provide hygiene kits including soap and chlorine tablets for the purification of water.
Caritas Haiti - Institutional Strengthening This is a capacity building project aims to support Caritas Haiti in developing and implementing its new strategic plan, which will reinforce the national and the diocese offices, and enable them to fulfil their role more effectively.
This will be achieved through strengthening the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit and the sub-section on Disaster Risk Reduction which resulted from the new Institutional and Organisational Development Strategy (DIRO) for 2011-2015. This strategy aims to improve the measurement of the impact of activities implemented by the network and enhance its response in future emergencies. 
The project includes the recruitment of staff, training, field visits and provision to create simple monitoring tools and a database for the management of projects.
Support to the purchase of Caritas Port-au-Prince office and equipment On January 12th 2010, Haiti was rocked by its strongest earthquake in more than 200 years, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale. The earthquake struck the West, Southwest and Nippes department with the epicentre some 17 kms southwest of Haiti’s capitale, Port-au-Prince. The Port-au-Prince metropolitan area (including the towns of Port-au-Prince, Carrefour, Pétionville, Delmas, Tabarre, Cité-Soleil and Kenscoff) suffered a substantial amount of damage.

The destruction of infrastructure is colossal. About 105,000 homes were totally destroyed and over
208,000 were damaged. More than 1,300 educational institutions and more than 50 hospitals and health centres have collapsed or are unusable. The Presidential Palace, Parliament, law courts, and most ministerial and public administration buildings have been destroyed.

The Caritas Port-au-Prince office, located near the national Palace, was totally destroyed together with the archbishop house and the historical cathedral of Port-au-Prince. Since the catastrophe, the office of Caritas Port-au-Prince was located in two rooms made available by Caritas Haiti. 

This grant is a contribution to Caritas Port-au-Prince for the purchase of a new office in order to improve their capacity to respond to the emergency and recovery operation in Haiti.