Technical Assistance and Knowledge Exchange for Sustainable Management of Peatland Ecosystems in Malaysia

The overall goal of the programme is to provide technical assistance for the sustainable management of peatlands in Malaysia and facilitate sustainable peatland management knowledge exchange in Southeast Asia and with Africa through South-South and Triangular Cooperation.

The target group will consist of 1,000 direct beneficiary households (50 per cent women) in the five targeted peat landscapes of the GEF SMPEM programme, plus an additional 500 households that will directly benefit from the grant and 5,000 that will indirectly benefit through the GEF SMPEM programme’s scaling-up activities.