South Andros, Bahamas - The Awareness and Capacity Building and Information Exchange workshop held January 7th and 8th in South Andros was coordinated by the South Andros Chamber of Commerce in collaboration and with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grant Programme (SGP) who provided the grant, The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Bahamas National Trust (BNT) and The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce. 

The workshop focused on sharpening fundamental skills used in preparing grant applications through the project concept process to the project proposal.  In addition, participants were informed about grants available from the GEF Small Grants Programme and how funding can be accessed.  The facilitator for the workshop, National Coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...