Forest grants
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has organised funding of euro 2.2 million (about US $2.37 million) over the next five years to manage tropical forests in Pakistan. The facility is extended by the European Commission (EC) and would disburse small grants to qualified organisations operating in the country's forestry sector.
These would include forest management bodies having experience in social mobilisation for natural resource management. The grants would range from euro 20,000 to 100,000 (about US $21,500 to US $107,000) per project. The organisations would have to find other means to fund 20 per cent of their scheme's total cost.
Pakistan is one of four countries where UNDP has launched this scheme with a total EC funding of about euro 15 million (about US$16.1 million). The other countries are Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.
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