Guyana and Norway are expected to ink an agreement shortly to enable a second tranche of money to be disbursed to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) outside of the agreed mechanism under their forests partnership.
This was confirmed by head of Conservation Inter-national’s (CI) local office Dr David Singh, who briefly noted that it was a joint decision of both governments which CI has facilitated. Stabroek News had previously reported that Guyana last year, received US$470 000 outside of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) and this year asked for more money to pay contractors involved in preparing reports for the partnership. The first tranche was channelled through CI through an existing framework.
The sum for this second tranche has not been revealed and head of the Office of Climate Change Shyam Nokta was