📋 Tender Overview
The Amazon Without Fire Ecuador Program (PASF) with the support of the European Union and together with several institutions, rcarried out the “< /span> in Ibarra province of lmbabura. I International Course for the Generation of Interinstitutional Technical Plans for the Management of Forest Fires and Comprehensive Fire Management (PIIF)"
The event, which took place from December 4 to 7, in which 40 people representing technical and decision-making teams from Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and Peru participated, was taught with the objective of defining strategic and measurable actions in all phases. of the fire season.
During the meeting, María Rosario Notarangeli, from the Amazonía + Program Secretariat, expressed: “The collaboration between the Amazonía sin Fuego Program, the Amazonía + Program with the exchange approach of good practices, gives us more strength and perspective of everything we are doing and we are going to develop for the next four years at the regional level.”
“I applaud these inter-institutional initiatives, but we must reach the communities. In many, there are no services, there is a social gap that affects the communities. We tell them not to burn, and they question themselves. They indicate, yes we always burn in August! We must, as institutions, provide them with that information, that knowledge. The communities are the ones that support it”, Sairi de la Torre, Ibarra Fire Department.
At the end of the course, the participants from the different entities: Ministry of the Environment, Water and Ecological Transition of Ecuador, Fire Departments, park rangers of the National System of Protected Areas - SNAP Ecuador, Decentralized Autonomous Governments (provincial and cantonal), Local Advisory Council of Environmental Education of Imbabura - CCLEA, officials and decision makers linked to the management of forest fires in the Amazon basin, will be able to apply the methodological process for the development of “Interinstitutional Technical Plans for the Management of Forest Fires and the Comprehensive Fire Management (PIFF)” in their territories.
The course was organized by various entities united by Fire management: The Amazon Without Fire Program PASF / Ministry of the Environment, Water and Ecological Transition of Ecuador - MAATE, Italo-Ecuadorian Fund for Sustainable Development -FIEDS, the Sustainable Environmental Investment Fund - FIAS, Amazon+ Program Financed by the European Union, AICS-Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, FIIAP- International and Ibero-American Foundation for Administration and Public Policies, EF- Expertise France.
