Ongoing
From: 21/08/2023
To: 20/08/2028
Partners: Network for the Conservation and Rehabilitation of Forest Ecosystems (Réseau CREF)
Associates: The project will be implemented with the CREF network members: SODECO, FOCODER, PAL, PREPPYG, CADIMR and GLHRP, and local management committees of 3 local community forest concessions: OKA, Banyangala-Kikingi and Batiri Nyabayu Uchi. The project will also collaborate with the management of the Maiko National Park.
Stakeholders: The project will support approximately 10 communities in North Kivu representing 7,000 households
Through this project, six member organisations of Réseau CREF assist 10 Indigenous and Bantu communities (representing 7,000 households) in Walikale, Beni, and Lubero in North Kivu to create local community forest concessions (CFCLs) spanning 380,000 hectares of forest and to obtain official recognition of these CFCLs by the provincial government. They also accompany communities with 80,000 hectares in existing CFCLs to strengthen their management capacity and become eligible for direct financing of activities in their simple management plans. The project area forms part of an ecological corridor linking the Maiko and Kahuzi-Biega National Parks, the Itombwe and Tayna Nature Reserves, and the Kisimba-Ikobo Primate Reserve. Réseau CREF seeks to resolve conflicts and promote collaboration between the communities and these protected areas, especially the Maiko National Park. Réseau CREF members actively engage with local management committees of three CFCLs. The project seeks to collaborate with the management of the Maiko National Park to actively support community conservation in the park’s new 10-year management plan.
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