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Bulletin Fifth Round of applications to the Sustainable Development Fund By the closing date of the fifth round of applications on 7 September 2007, the SDF Secretariat received 32 applications applying for total grants exceeding $36 million. Of these applications, 7 were from schools or academic institutions, 13 from non-government organizations or community groups, 6 from individuals, 4 from private organizations and 2 from green groups. For this round of applications, the following priority areas suggested by EPSC should receive particular consideration: (a) Publicity that is consistent with the SDF objectives and includes a strong element of community involvement This may include projects that can significantly raise public awareness of the three pillars of SD, (ie. Economic development, social harmony and protection of the natural environment) and that involves wide community involvement. (b) Making a measurable impact on SD in Hong Kong and creating a legacy for sustainable practices within the community This may include projects that establish best practice or model cases to demonstrate reproducible steps that can be taken in the wider community or within a segment of the community towards more sustainable mode of development. (c) Capacity building and collaboration across various sectors to raise SD awareness and promote public knowledge of and capacity to practise SD principles. This may include projects that significantly strengthen the role and build capacity of different sectors of Hong Kong society to contribute towards SD. These "sectors" may include but are not limited to women organizations; children and youth organizations; local authorities; NGOs; workers and trade unions; business and industry; science and technology communities. For (a), (b) and (c) above, issues drawn from Agenda 21 including but not limited to the following areas can be considered:
(d) Variations on sustainability reporting covering a wide spectrum of issues and perspectives (such as sectoral or thematic reporting), and do not confine to territory-wide or district-based reporting. A territory-wide and district-based sustainability reporting project was supported under the third round of the SDF applications. For this round of the SDF applications, applicants may want to focus on sectoral or thematic reporting rather than broad territorial reporting to avoid duplication with the on-going project. The objective is to develop a sustainability reporting tool to help illustrate progress of sustainable practice and raise public awareness of related issues in themes/sectors/areas such as production and consumption, community services, tourism, building and construction etc. Notwithstanding the above suggestions, applications that are generally consistent with the overall SDF objectives would be welcome. In addition, initiatives adopting the models of previously approved projects for implementation in other districts and the second phase of previously approved SDF projects which aim at furthering and deepening the successful elements of the original projects are also welcome. Eight projects were approved under the fifth round of SDF applications, with a total grant of $7.28 million. These eight approved projects are -
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