The Small Grants Program, a component of the Global Environment Facility, promoted by the United Nations, has approved for Honduras a total of 500,000 dollars to carry out 21 environmental and social development projects in poor communities. Hugo Galeano, the program's coordinator in Honduras, told Tierramérica that the funds will go to grassroots groups in extremely poor communities, and that one of the areas targeted this year is the Mosquitia jungle community on the Atlantic coast to support environmental conservation and ecotourism efforts, and aid for Indian divers who have been injured in their work.

The programs aim to protect biodiversity, mitigate and adapt to climate change, fight persistent organic pollutants, and reduce soil degradation, based on proposals by each community, Galeano said.