📋 Tender Overview
Bosques del Minam program began the call for this year, in order to ensure the protection of about 180 thousand hectares of forest spaces in Loreto, Pasco and Ucayali.Lima.- The Ministry of Environment (MINAM), through its National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation (Forest Program), began the process of affiliation of native and peasant communities of Loreto, Pasco and Ucayali that will receive economic incentives for the execution of conservation activities of their forests.
As indicated by the head of the Incentive Management Area of the Forest Program, Cecilia Cabello, this years goal is to affiliate communities that together ensure the conservation of approximately 180 thousand hectares of forests, a figure that will allow to continue increasing the surface of forests preserved in the country, thanks to the program.
In its 15 years of work, the forests program has contributed to conserve 4.8 million hectares of communal forests, thanks to the incentive mechanism called conditioned direct transfers, he said.
He explained that the communities that will be affiliated will sign a conservation agreement of up to five years. With the resources received, they will be able to develop sustainable productive activities and strengthen their monitoring and surveillance work of their territories to act in a timely manner in cases of forest loss.
For the affiliation process, 2025, there is an investment of S/ 1.2 million destined to the granting of conservation incentives. With this intervention it helps improve the quality of life of these populations.
CALL AND REGISTRATION
The registration period is until June 9 of this year. For this, the interested communities must have the following requirements: Title of communal property, current board of directors and registered in public records and not have fines for misuse of forest resources (if they have them, a compensation agreement must have signed).
The documents must be submitted through the Virtual Parts table of the Minam and also in the zonal offices of the forests program in Loreto, Ucayali and Pasco. In case of requiring it, communities may have support from the Zonal Technical Teams of the aforementioned program.
The communities that manage to register will have the accompaniment of the forests program to facilitate their incorporation into the TDC mechanism.
So far this year, 107 peasant and native communities of Amazonas, Cajamarca, Cusco, Junin, Loreto, Pasco, San Martin and Ucayali are carrying out conservation activities in two million hectares of Amazon forests; This, for the benefit of some 9500 families.
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