NFP Facility News 2012

Participants
Attented by more than 100 participants from the financial sector, national and local government, NGOs, development partners, indigenous communities, farmers associations and other key forest stakeholders.

Presentations
Banks (Banco FIE y Banco de Desarrollo Productivo) presented to the wood and Brazilian nuts stakeholders credit opportunities, which will be available soon, most probably in March 2012. As next step BDP and FIE will promote the diffusion of the new credits to the forest stakeholders in other regions of Bolivia and will help them to present credit requests.

Working groups
Participants were split in three working groups: Wood, Brazilian nuts and how to establish the Forest Financing Unit in the local government of Pando. The working groups identified concrete actions to allow the forest stakeholders to access the credits.  

Outcome
The results of the discussions and working groups are a good input for further work of the Facility and Tropenbos on forest financing in Pando. FAO/Facility has supported all the process, the development of these credit opportunities and the regional forest financing strategy.