{"id":5002,"date":"2017-06-19T03:47:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T03:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/three-students-win-gef-sgf-environmental-competition\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T03:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T03:47:52","slug":"three-students-win-gef-sgf-environmental-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/three-students-win-gef-sgf-environmental-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Three students win GEF-SGF environmental competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_341077\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"41\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017.jpg?resize=1280%2C721&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-640x361.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-974x549.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-600x338.jpg 600w\" class=\"size-full wp-image-341077 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-341077 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017.jpg?resize=1280%2C721&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-640x361.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-974x549.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GEF-SGP National Coordinator, Mrs. Ibironke Olubamise (left), Art and Essay Competition coordinator, Dr. Andrew Iloh; Winner of the Arts category for Secondary Schools, Mofax Ashley of Belling College, Akoka, Lagos and Chairman of the House Committee on Environment and Habitat Obinna Chidoka during the presentation of gifts to the Art and Essay Competition organised recently by Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP) in Abuja.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nigerian youngsters let their creative flair shine as part of this year\u2019s forum to address global environment issues, facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices.<\/p>\n<p>The young lads from Lagos and Kwara States were the winners of the maiden Art and Essay Competition at the National Knowledge Fair and Exhibition organised by the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP) being implemented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation of prizes for the winners formed the high point of the maiden Knowledge fair and exhibition. About 1,000 entries were received from various schools before the winners emerged.<\/p>\n<p>The lucky winners are Mofax Ashley, Belling College, Akoka (Arts- Secondary School category) and Caleb Nnamani of Eletu Odibo Secondary High School (Essay category-Secondary School) both from Lagos while Funmilayo Adeagbo from University of Ilorin won the university undergraduate category in Essay competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Knowledge Fair enabled SGP grantees and other Civil Society Organisation (CSO) stakeholders to share and showcase best practices, innovative technologies and lessons learned from the civil society.<\/p>\n<p>The fair agenda included an exposition of SGP projects, where grantees displayed local products, conducted workshops on ecological souvenirs and amulets from dried flowers, offered some locally produced honey, herbal tea, solar cook stoves.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an exclusive dinners after the exhibition, the GEF-SGP National Coordinator, Mrs. Ibironke Olubamise, said the programme promotes the replication and scaling up the results for greater policy influence and transformational change; as well as to promote sustainability and mobilization of additional resources for community-based sustainable development initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Olubamise who called for partnership between NGOs, communities and private sector, said that 400,000 poor rural dwellers and 50 per cent of communities have benefitted directly from the projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSGP has supported projects in several States to address erosion, loss of farmlands to boost food production and capacity for modern farming techniques as well as tree planting and establishment of skills acquisition centre to train beneficiaries, especially women, widows and youth on alternative livelihoods,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that partnership will deliver mechanism for donors empowerment, income generation and environmental-based projects as well as build beneficiaries capacity to complement other livelihood activities that SGP supports. \u201cIt will also assist partners to maximize and deliver sustainable corporate social responsibility on environmental issues; help government to meet obligations under international conventions,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/three-students-win-gef-sgf-environmental-competition\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEF-SGP National Coordinator, Mrs. Ibironke Olubamise (left), Art and Essay Competition coordinator, Dr. Andrew Iloh; Winner &hellip; <a title=\"Three students win GEF-SGF environmental competition\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/three-students-win-gef-sgf-environmental-competition\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three students win GEF-SGF environmental competition<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1399,684,522,41],"class_list":["post-5002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-development","tag-lagos","tag-nigeria","tag-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/GEF-19-06-2017.jpg?fit=1280%2C721&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4741,"url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/ncf-seeks-clean-energy-awareness-for-secondary-school-students\/","url_meta":{"origin":5002,"position":0},"title":"NCF seeks clean energy awareness for secondary school students\u00a0","author":"Amazing Property","date":"May 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"NCF Director General, Adeniyi Karunwi made the submission at the 2017 Grand finale of energy week organised by the Foundation in partnership with Skangix Development Limited for 31 private and public schools within the Lagos State Education Board District III. 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