Ghana is to receive an amount of$28.4 million in a grant from the Global Environmental Facility, the Extractive Global Programmatic Support, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable and Resilient Landscapes (PROGREEN) multi-donor Trust Funds for reverse degradation.
Also, the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), is adding credit of $75 million to the grant for about three million hectares of degraded landscapes and strengthens the country’s integrated natural resource management.
This joint project aligns with the World Bank’s Forest-Smart Mining Initiative and will promote forest-smart interventions in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector and strengthen regulatory compliance and sustainable mining practices,” said Mr. Zubin Bamji, World Bank Acting Practice Manager, Energy, and Extractives Global Practice.
Mr. Zubin Bamji said the project would be working with communities of the northern savannah zone and the cocoa forest landscape.
The Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small-Scale Mining project will focus on land-use planning for integrated landscape management and promote sustainable mining by helping formalize artisanal and small-scale mining, with over 250,000 people as direct beneficiaries.
Source: mybrytfmonline.com/ Kofi Atakora
