Over 1,000 persons around the country, over the past year have benefitted from eight projects which were funded by the National Technical Working Group (NTWG) and the Forest Law Enforcement, Gover-nance and Trade (FLEGT) Facilitation Support Office (FFSO), according to Deonarine Ramsaroop, President of the Forest Products Association (FPA) of Guyana.
Ramsaroop made the disclosure on Friday while chairing a seminar organised by the FPA along with the FLEGT Secretariat of the Guyana Forestry Com-mission and the FFSO, where recipients of grants from the NTWG and FFSO were given the opportunity to share their experiences. The grant awardees, both individuals and organisations, had embarked on projects throughout the country to educate stakeholders in the sector about the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), which is being negotiated between the Government of Guyana and the European Union.
