Support for a provincial legal framework to recognize and secure local communities’ and IPs’ land rights in South Kivu Province which will reduce land-related conflict in South Kivu by integrating women’s rights into the Forest Code and the new national forest policy, and ensuring that local communities’ and IPs’ tenure rights are considered when the moratorium on logging concessions is lifted - Rights + Resources - Supporting Forest Tenure, Policy, and Market Reforms

Country:

DRC

Date:

2017

Implementor:

Innovation et Formation pour le Développement et la Paix (IFDP)

Funding Amount:

45,022

Details:

A unified advocacy strategy document of Congolese CSOs to influence the drafting of the new forest policy, the revision of the Forest Code, and the lifting of the moratorium on the issuance of new logging concessions is made available and validated;
3 technical position papers produced and validated by CSOs nationally as CSOs’ contributions to the three processes mentioned above. These position papers contribute to the integration of women’s rights as well as local communities’ and Indigenous Peoples’ tenure rights into the Forest Code and the new national forest policy, while providing recommendations regarding the completion of the geographic planning (zoning process) prior to the lifting of the moratorium on the issuance of new logging concessions. The position papers have been officially discussed with and submitted to the national Parliament, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, and the DRC National Fund for REDD+ (FONAREDD) – which are, at different levels, involved in and in charge of the three targeted processes. The contributions are received and accepted by the three bodies, and a monitoring effort by CSOs is being conducted now to ensure that the contributions are well taken into consideration and integrated.