Assuring that Guyana’s forest protection deal with the Kingdom of Norway is intact, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced that government yesterday received approval for US$14,792,277 to be used for a sustainable land development and management project.
He also said that three Norway-funded Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) projects were approved for 2017 to the tune of US$18,530,752 and this will see seven GRIF projects in implementation and two completed, all worth a total of approximately US$67.1M.
“Mr. Speaker, the approval of three GRIF projects in a year would be the first under the framework,” Harmon told the National Assembly.
