Developing Countries: Forests
(asked on 5th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2020 to Question 1890 on Developing Countries: Environment Protection, if she will list the international forestry projects that have received grants from her Department in each year since 2016.
This question was answered on 12th March 2020
The international forestry projects receiving funding since 2016 are as follows:
- Nepal Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme
- Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (global programme with governance and timber legality focus)
- Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use (global programme with supply chains focus)
- International Forestry Knowledge programme (KnowFor)
- Forestry, Land-use and Governance in Indonesia
- Improving Livelihoods and Land Use in Congo Basin Forests
- Green Economic Growth for West Papua (Indonesia)
- Supporting a Sustainable Future for West Papua’s Forests (Indonesia)
In addition, DFID supports forestry projects through its grant contributions to two multilateral funds, the Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund.