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

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