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    • Program: Creation of the Research Centre for Rural Health in the Huron-Perth-Grey-Bruce Region (Ontario)
    • Grantee: Health Kick Huron/Huron Business Development Corporation
    • Date: April 2008
    • Commitment: 5 years
    • Sector: Health
    • Region: North America

    The primary goal of this program is to create the Research Centre for Rural Health, a centre dedicated to clinical research on health issues affecting an under-serviced rural region in South Western Ontario. The centre will allow local health care workers to engage in clinical research that is relevant to their rural communities. Initial research projects will ascertain cardiovascular health status of rural residents, especially those who do not have a regular doctor (approximately 60,000 people). The hope is that the centre will produce vital information to implement rural-friendly health policies that will benefit the entire community. To our knowledge, this is the first community-initiated research centre for rural health in Canada.

    • Program: Leading Campaigns in Canada to protect the Inland Temperate Rainforest of British Columbia and the Boreal Forest
    • Grantee: ForestEthics
    • Date: September 2007
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Environment
    • Region: North America

    With MMF Financial support, the NGO ForestEthics is leading two campaigns in Canada: one focused on the Inland Temperate Rainforest of British Columbia and the other on Canada's Great Boreal Forest. Both these critically threatened regions are globally significant for their Endangered Forests and species habitat and both play a critical role in absorbing global warming pollution and filtering air and water.
    The goal of this program is to increase the legal protection of currently unprotected areas of these two forests by the Government.

    • Program: Supporting Europe’s Commitment to Climate Change Action
    • Grantee: European Climate Foundation
    • Date: April 2008
    • Commitment: 5 years
    • Sector: Environment
    • Region: Europe

    The European Climate Foundation was created in November 2007 in the Netherlands. Its objective is to promote climate and energy policies that would greatly reduce Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and helps Europe play an even stronger international leadership role in mitigating climate change. 

     

     

    • Program: New Graduate Student Centre
    • Grantee: Wadham College, Oxford University
    • Date: August 2008
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Education
    • Region: Europe

    This grant will enable Wadham College in the University of Oxford to fund studies and planning permission relating to the construction of a potential new graduate student centre.

    • Program: Research and Advocacy in West Africa
    • Grantee: Human Rights Watch
    • Date: May 2008
    • Commitment: 5 years
    • Sector: Other
    • Region: West Africa

    Human Rights Watch is committed to expose wrongdoing, pursue justice and ensure that basic rights of ordinary people in West Africa are protected. With this grant, Human Rights Watch will continue to work towards strengthening the Rule of Law in West Africa be documenting human rights abuses related to conflict and corruption, publicizing findings in the regional and international media and pressing decision-makers to halt the violations uncovered.

    • Program: Liberian Law Fellows
    • Grantee: Center for Global Development
    • Date: December 2007
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Other
    • Region: Liberia

    The goal of this grant is to support the reconstruction of the judicial system and build legal capacity in Liberia by funding three Lawyers through ‘Liberian Law fellowships’ to provide training and pro-bono support work for the Ministry of Justice in Liberia.  This is a joint grant with Humanity United, with the logistic and administrative support of the Center for Global Development.

    • Program: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Liberia
    • Grantee: Conservation International
    • Date: October 2007
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Environment
    • Region: Liberia

    Liberia is situated within the tropical rainforest belt on the West Coast of Africa: forests cover 45% of Liberia. In this context, it is important that the Liberian Government adopts appropriate policy that balances forest conservation with other national priorities such as economic development. The NGO Conservation International worked with the Liberian Government to prepare a national plan for reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in Liberia. This REDD plan was presented at the UNFCCC Conference in Bali in December 2007.

    Conservation International also works with the Liberian authorities to protect and preserve the country’s forests while pioneering innovative solutions for increasing community employment and government revenue generation through carbon financing.

    • Program: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Liberia
    • Grantee: Forest Trends
    • Date: October 2007
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Environment
    • Region: Liberia

    With MMM support, Forest Trends assists the Liberian Government’s newly created Carbon Working Group (CWG) to develop pilot projects to promote community economic development based on natural resource management and payments for carbon sequestration credits in Eastern Liberia.

    The primary goal of these pilot projects is to help create additional income and jobs for local communities and to provide them with vested interests in conserving their natural resources. These pilot projects also form part of CWG’s strategy to create Reduced Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) credits at the national level.

    • Program: Zwedru Midwifery School, Grand Gedeh
    • Grantee: Merlin
    • Date: August 2008
    • Commitment: 2 years
    • Sector: Education
    • Region: Liberia

    The lack of skilled health workers is a key challenge in Liberia, mainly in rural areas. The international NGO Merlin will restart Zwedru Midwifery School in the south of the country, in collaboration with the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and with the financial support of MMF. First students are expected to start the training in January 2009; the school will train 40 students from the South-East region per year.

    • Program: School Buses in Monrovia
    • Grantee: Liberian Education Trust
    • Date: July 2008
    • Commitment: 1 year
    • Sector: Education
    • Region: Liberia

    Going to school can be an issue in urban areas for young students as public transport are almost non-existent in the country. MMF provided funding to the Monrovia Transport Authorities (MTA) to fix 11 buses and purchased 10 new ones in order to establish an efficient bus system in Monrovia, that will benefit both students and the local population. This grant was made with the administrative support of the Liberian Education Trust.