Sixteen Rupununi villages in forest monitoring project

Some of the participants at the Bina Hill meeting. (GINA photo)

A community forest Moni-toring, Reporting and Verifi-cation (C-MRV) project involving 16 villages of the North Rupununi, was launch-ed on Saturday in Annai, Region Nine.

Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) is a key component of Guyana’s Readiness Preparation Pro-posal to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility 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, the Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA) reported.

GINA said that the C-MRV caters for development of a community-based system to monitor the forest, land use, ecosystem services and wellbeing of the residents; providing support to the