A $10 million loan to help preserve water and other natural resources in priority protected areas
The Brazilian State of Bahia will make its environmental management system more efficient and effective, contributing to the conservation and sustainable use of water and other natural resources, with help from a US$10 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank.
The local government will provide $6.7 million in local counterpart funds. The program has two components. The first will strengthen planning and management capacity of the State of Bahia Environment Secretariat. The second aims to make conservation more effective in priority protected areas, reversing the degradation of water resources that supply Salvador's metropolitan region, and enhancing measures to preserve the state’s eastern watersheds.
Results expected from the four-year program include:
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