The project will assist Indonesia and its neighboring countries in coordinating their regional efforts to mitigate the short-term impacts of forest fires. It aims to develop a national and regional strategy and adopt appropriate concrete measures to combat forest fires, including the establishment of an early warning system, building on existing capacities. More specifically, the project aims at providing the technical assistance required to extinguish the forest fires, with a view to enhancing the national and regional fire fighting capacities by coordinating all efforts to provide the available state-of-the-art technologies and techniques so as to mitigate against the irreversible and irretrievable loss of biodiversity and loss of carbon sinks.

Project Details

GEF Project ID
518
Country
Regional
Implementing Agencies
United Nations Environment Programme
Approval FY
1998
Status
Completed
Region
Regional
Executing Agencies
UNEP
GEF Period
GEF - 2
Project Type
Medium-size Project
Funding Source
GEF Trust Fund

Financials

USD
Co-financing Total
6,000,000
GEF Project Grant
750,000
GEF Agency Fees
0

Timeline

Received by GEF
20 Mar 1998
Concept Approved
10 Jul 1998
Project Approved for Implementation
09 Jul 1998
Project Closed
18 Aug 2005