Seminar summarize Jalapão Corridor Project results

 The project's team and its partners conducted a project conclusion seminar in Palmas to review and conclude the results of the technical cooperation and also to publicize the project outputs focusing in the continuity of the work.

During the morning of the first day representatives from each of the project's component made a presentation on the outputs resulted from the technical cooperation. In the afternoon the four municipal environmental councils and secretaries from Jalapao region presented their results with the support of the project and all the group made a SWOT analysis comparing what have changed after the Project.

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In the next and final day two groups were formed – the municipalities and the protected area management – for working group discussions. The municipalities' representatives discussed the activities performed and that will be concluded until the end of the year, resulting in the 2014 environmental plan. Technician's from Tocantins and Bahia State governments, ICMBio decided to create a provisory committee for the Jalapão Mosaic for nexts steps.

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After the event, a group of 25 municipalities' representatives, park rangers and JICA consultants followed to Alto Paraíso de Goiás for a exchange trip with the local environmental governance.