Trinidad
and Tobago has received approval for a Global Environment Facility (GEF)
project entitled “BIOREACH: Biodiversity Conservation and Agroecological Land
Restoration in Productive Landscapes of Trinidad and Tobago”. Under this
project Trinidad and Tobago would have access to US$4.27 million grant funding
from the GEF to implement the project over four (4) years. The Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the GEF Implementation
Agency that has been selected to assist Trinidad and Tobago with the Project.
In order to
access this funding, a detailed project document will have to be developed
within the next eighteen months and submitted by the FAO to the GEF Secretariat
for approval. The deadline for submission of this detailed project document is
December 2020. The preparation of the project document is being guided by a
multi-stakeholder steering committee consisting of representatives from the
Environmental Management Authority, Ministry of Planning and Development
(Environmental Policy and Planning Division; Town and Country Planning
Division), Tobago House of Assembly (Division of Food Production, Forestry and
Fisheries; Division of Infrastructure, Quarries and the Environment), Ministry
of Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries (Forestry Division; Agriculture Planning
Division), Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, Cocoa Development Co.
of Trinidad and Tobago, Green Market Santa Cruz, Environment Tobago and FAO.
The
inaugural meeting of the Committee was held on July 24, 2019 at the Ministry of
Planning and Development.
Further details on the project can be found in the
Project Identification Form (PIF) document that is available for download here.
Discussions during the Inaugural Steering Committee of the BIOREACH Project
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