Democratic Republic of the Congo

Restoration Commitment
Restoration Commitment:
8 million hectares
Year Committed:
2016
Priority Interventions:
- Restoration of deforested and degraded ecosystems
- Improvement of economic activities
- Food security
- Resilience and adaptive capacity of population to climate change
- Landscape restoration in sustainable development projects, climate financing opportunities, as well as viable long term restoration projects
- National documents which integrate restoration of degraded landscape components
Alignment with domestic targets:
- International commitments on climate and sustainable development
- National programme on the environment, forests, water and biodiversity (PNEFEB-2) formulated in 2011 which forms the guiding strategic document on natural resource management.
- The Central Africa Forest Initiative (CAFI) under which it aims to reduce the loss of forest cover from the current 300,000 ha/year to 200,000 ha/year by 2020.
- Four programmes will focus on key needed reforms on land use planning and a related national land use scheme
- A tenure policy to better secure tenure in the rural sector
- Investments will enhance existing actions at the provincial and territorial level in high deforestation REDD+ areas (Oriental province and Sud Ubangui province) where local communities and territorial entities will be supported to sustainably manage and use resources
Requested assistance from AFR100:
- Publish results of ROAM assessment
- Analyze landscape change dynamics
- Project preparation
- Regional meeting on FLR successes
- Roundtable on financing
- The World Bank is a major donor