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Thank you for your interest in participating in the Eco-Index! Please fill out a separate questionnaire for each of your projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Instructions: Answer each question, then click "Send" to forward your questionnaire to the Eco-Index staff.

1. Name of project:

2. Country(ies) where project is active (please include countries outside Latin America and the Caribbean):

3. Date this survey was completed:

4. Organization(s) responsible for the project (please write complete names and acronyms):

Please Note: If this is a regional project comprised of smaller, component projects, please indicate the name of each component and any available contact information below. We will send each project's director(s) a questionnaire so that each component is featured on the Eco-Index.

If this project is part of a larger regional project, please fill out the project's name and contact information below so that we can send the project director(s) a questionnaire.

5. Name(s) of project director(s):

Mailing address:

City: State: Country:

Tel: Fax: Email:

Web site address:

6. Project summary:

7. Principal project objectives:

8. Date project began (month/year):

Approximate date you expect this project to conclude (month, year):

Or, is this project permanent? (with luck):

If your project has concluded, please indicate month and year of completion:

9. Principal funder(s): (Please provide the complete name of each funder, listing the 7 most important funders first.)

Current annual project budget, in U.S. dollars, and if available, in local currency. (If the project is concluded, please indicate the average annual budget):

10. Principal accomplishments to date:

11. Anticipated accomplishments for the next year. (If the project has concluded, this question may not be applicable)

12. Please describe your project's monitoring and evaluation methodology:

13. Lessons learned from at least one year's work on this project: (advice you would offer to colleagues interested in starting a similar initiative)

14. Project conclusions or final thoughts:

15. Web sites that have further information about this project. (Please provide the site's URL, a brief summary, and if the site is in English, Spanish and/or Portuguese)

Do you have reports and studies related to this project that you can email to interested colleagues upon request? (Please include title, date of publication, how it can be obtained, a brief description, and whether the report is available in English, Spanish and/or Portuguese).

Please note: You can send your studies and reports to us via email at eco-index@ra.org, or by mailing them (on diskette or CD) to: Rainforest Alliance, 665 Broadway Suite 500, New York, NY 10012. We will upload them onto the Eco-Index in PDF format, creating an efficient way to disseminate information about your project.

16. From the list below, please select four categories that best describe this project's main focus.

Agriculture and farming
Agroforestry
Air pollution
Aquaculture and shrimp
Arthropods
Biopiracy
Birds
Botany
Buffer zone management
Captive breeding
Carbon bonds and joint implementation
Certification, organics and ecolabels
Climate and climate change
Coastal resources management
Communications
Community-based conservation (ICDPs)
Conservation easements
Coral reefs
Corridors
Dams
Debt
Ecosystem restoration
Ecotourism
Energy
Environmental education
Environmental services payments
Fire prevention
Firewood
Fish, fishing and fisheries
Floods
Forest resources (non-timber)
Forestry
Geographic information systems
Grants or fellowships
Habitat conservation and management
Hunting and poaching
Indigenous people
Introduced and invasive species
Lakes
Land tenure
Land use
Legal issues
Livestock, grazing and pastures
Mammals
Mangroves
Medicinal plants and ethnobotany
Microenterprises
Migratory species
Mining
Monitoring and evaluation
Oceans
Oil production
Parks and protected areas
Pesticides and agrochemicals
Policy
Population (human)
Reforestation and tree farms
Reptiles and amphibians
Reserves, private
Rivers and streams
Roads
Soil conservation and erosion
Threat reduction assessment
Trade
Training
Waste management
Water conservation
Water pollution
Watersheds
Web sites
Wetlands
Wildlife management
Wildlife research
Wildlife trade
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