📋 Tender Overview
The agreement will allow executing joint actions in technical training and promotion of green businesses for the sustainable use of forest resources and wildlife.In order to support the most vulnerable populations against the climatic crisis, the National Forest and Wildlife Service (Serfor) of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) and the Practical Action organization, signed an inter -institutional cooperation framework agreement, which seeks to strengthen the sustainable use of forest resources and wildlife, with emphasis on conservation and protection.
This alliance puts people and their territories in the center of the action, through a sustainable use approach, which will allow technical assistance to rural and native communities, and agricultural producers, and agricultural producers promoting forest management, agroforestal systems, the provision of forest products other than wood, among another, which allows adaptation to climate change and promote concrete actions to mitigate their impacts.
This agreement reinforces our commitment to an inclusive and sustainable forest management. When working with the communities, we not only protect the ecosystems, but we strengthen their abilities so that they can develop autonomously and resiliently, said Erasmus Otarola, executive director of the SERFOR, during the signing of the agreement.
For its part, Pamela Girano, National Director of Practical Action in Peru, said that this alliance will allow you to add efforts to enhance the technical capabilities of the population in vulnerable territories. Also work with it to find practical and inclusive actions that consider an integral look of the problems they face and thus promote the conservation of their resources and sustainable development, he noted.
An alliance for climate action
As a first step, both institutions will prepare a joint work plan that includes green investment initiatives, which are articulated with public policies to ensure sustainable impacts over time.
During the two years that the agreement will last, technical and knowledge exchange will also be promoted, and projects aimed at a more just, equitable and effective environmental management will be formulated from the territories.
