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| General Description |
| Title |
|
Formal Environmental Education Program |
| Status |
|
Ongoing |
| From |
|
01/02/1999 |
| To |
|
31/03/2005 |
| Country(ies) |
|
Guatemala |
| Region(s) |
|
Latin America and the Caribbean |
|
| Participating Organization(s) |
| Lead Organization(s) |
|
Departmental Division of Education Ministry |
| Type of Implementing Agency(ies) |
|
Governments |
| Other Collaborating Organizations |
|
National Council of Protected Areas –CONAP- (IGO)
Fundación para el ecodesarrollo y la conservación –FUNDAECO- (NGO),
Fundación para la conservación del medio ambiente y
recursos naturales Mario Dary –FUNDARY- (NGO),
AkTenamit (NGO)
Central Unit RECOSMO-CONAP Project |
| Main Target Groups or Audience |
|
|
|
| Contact Details |
| Contact Person |
|
Hector Rene Garcia |
| Job Title |
|
Director |
| Organization |
|
Department Division of Education Ministry |
| Address |
|
13th Street 6th av. Puerto Barrios, |
| City |
|
Izabal |
| Country |
|
Guatemala |
| E-mail Address |
|
infoizabal@itelgua.com |
|
| Funding |
| Source of Funding |
|
Multilateral |
| Funding Agency |
|
GEF, Royal Netherlands Govt., CONAP, Education Ministry (MINEDUC), UNDP |
|
| Goals and Objectives |
| Overall Goal |
|
To conserve the integrity of biological diversity natural systems on RECOSMO´s area (Izabal department), within human development context. |
| Specific Objectives |
|
General Objetive: to execute the formal environmental education programme on Izabal Department, to increase and improve the capability on the educational centers. To build new attitudes toward the conservation and sustainable development.
Specific Objetives: To strenght the tecnichal and administrative framework needed to coordinate and support the conservation and sustainable activities ensuring the long-term activities on Izabal department. |
|
| Scope and Activities |
| National Level Activities |
|
Strenghten the focal environmental Education at different educative level
Stablishment agreements between NGO´s and IGO
Donation at junior highschool level educational material as libraries, books, etc.
Publishment ecological and environmental scholarship agenda.
Training teacher, students and the all society. |
|
| Outcomes and Lessons Learned |
| Outcomes |
|
It has done the implementation of environmental curricula guides
It has been valuing a gender policy that embraces social participation and little girl education. |
| Lessons Learned |
|
It is necessary:
To wide environmental education cover outside the national protected areas.
To strenght the interinstitucional coordination process
To promote the execution of ecological scholarship projects
To let the access of environmental educative material |
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