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REGIONAL ADVISORS
Our regional advisory boards bring together local and regional leaders whose on-the-ground presence helps us identify groups that are working effectively on key local challenges and have the potential to make a significant impact.
Regional boards tend to vary in their focus and approach, depending on key issues, local needs and the makeup of the board. The Brazil Advisory Board, for instance, tends to select rural grantees that demonstrate a strong commitment to working collaboratively over large geographic areas. Board members have identified several large water projects, such as the Hidrov’a, which will have a profound effect on the people and ecology of the Pantanal, and the board works to link rural communities that want to have a voice in decisions about these projects.
The Russia Advisory Board, though also focused on strengthening networks, tends to make very small grants designed to empower communities to fill the gap in environmental enforcement that plagues areas like southern Siberia. Because government agencies lack the resources to protect local forests and rivers, students and citizens across the region are mobilizing watchdog groups that can have a tremendous local impact. This new movement actually builds on a tradition of citizen engagement that began during the Soviet era and may now give people the tools to ward off the depredations of unfettered capitalism.
Though the focus of these regional boards will shift and evolve over time (and with new members), their ongoing value to Greengrants Fund and its supporters is that they allow us to be intimately engaged in supporting locally designed strategies. We help support these strategies but we do not interfere in their formulation.
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