Guyana’s indigenous communities feel that enough is not being done to take on board their recommendations in relation to the crafting of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) for forest management between Guyana and the European Union.
This is according to two reports published yesterday by the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA). The reports present the results of 12 community workshops held by the APA in Regions 1 and 2 between June 2014 and January 2015 as well as a legality seminar for a wider cross section of stakeholders. Included in this cross section were government representatives, civil society, indigenous communities and legal experts.
The workshops which were designed to “enable the participation of indigenous communities in the Forestry Law Governance and Trade (FLEGT)
