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Sixteen North Rupununi villages have signed up to help the country’s push to
A section of the gathering at the launch of the Community Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Project at Annai, Region Nine
receive monies for preserving its state forests.
Over the weekend, at Annai, the Community Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (C-MRV) Project was launched in that Region Nine area.
Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) is a key component of Guyana’s Readiness Preparation Proposal (RPP) to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) and it was done so that Government could have presented to the international community the information that showed Guyana stuck to its commitment of being among the leading countries that promote sustainable development.
Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud, while addressing residents of Annai and several surrounding communities at the Bina Hill Institute expressed gratitude to the many local and international stakeholders who have been and, continue to support the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), and Guyana as the leading pioneer in sustainable forest initiatives.
The C-MRV, according to a government release yesterday, caters for the development of a community-based system to monitor the forest, land use, ecosystem services and wellbeing of the residents; providing support to the country’s national MRV system; creating a methodology to monitor impacts of future benefits to communities and Guyana and, working with other groups in the Amazon to develop a standardized system for rest of the world.
Minister Persaud said that the LCDS is a vehicle for moving Guyana forward, and the continual support from the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB) in this regard is surely a step in the right direction for Guyana to implement the Strategy.
He also reminded residents about the agreement that was signed with the Norwegian Government that will see Guyana receiving over US$250M for ecological services.
In order to receive the payments, he said several requirements and ‘bench marks’ had to be fulfilled, and saw the launch of a National MRV system at cost of over US$1M.
This C-MRV initiative, Persaud said, is timely since it will support the national system at the community level and for this reason Government was eager and supportive to have this project launched so that it can contribute to the good of the community and the country at large.
“This project will bring social and economic benefits to the 16 communities involved, since over US $60M will be expended to implement and carry out the mandate of this project,” Minister Persaud explained.
International pioneer in forestry conservation and Executive Director of the Global Canopy Programmes, Dr. Andrew Mitchell, was also present at the launch of C-MRV, and lauded Guyana for implementing the LCDS.
“I have been working in tropical forests for over 40 years and in 2007, I learnt about Guyana’s challenge to the world, urging the international community to come up with a new way of looking at the forest…something Guyana must be commended for,” Dr. Mitchell said.
Guyana, he said, has been a long standing pioneer in forestry conservation and “the first full scientific expedition to explore the canopy came from Oxford University in 1929 to British Guiana.”
The C-MRV project which was launched under the theme “Think Globally, Act Locally” will see communities working with several local and international partners, including the Global Canopy Programme, Iwokrama, the NRDDB, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).
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