Securing crucial biodiversity, carbon and water stores in the Congo Basin Peatlands by enabling evidence based decision making and good governance.
The Lac Télé/Lac Tumba landscape is a unique ecosystem shared between both Kongos. The landscape stores enormous amounts of carbon and harbors important populations of endemic species. The project supports the governments and stakeholders to mitigate climate and development impacts on biodiversity, water and carbon. The project contributes to a biodiversity-friendly development pathway through effective integrated land-use plans, improved sustainable livelihood approaches, methods, data and tools, addressing peatland and water monitoring, the National Investment Plans, and cross-sectoral coordination. This ultimately supports the conservation and sustainable management of the peatlands. Countries benefit of South-South cooperation to chart a new pathway to the sustainable management of their peatlands, for the benefit of people, and conserving its ecosystem services. The current undeveloped status of the region offers a critical opportunity to promote evidence based land use planning and improve natural resource management.
- Countries
- The Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo
- IKI funding
- 15,000,000.00 €
- Included preparation phase
- 214,552.00 €
- Duration
- 01/2022 till 12/2027
- Status
- open
- Implementing organisation
- United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) - Kenya
- Political Partner
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- Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development - DR Congo
- Ministry of Tourism and Environment - Republic Congo
- Implementing Partner
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Online
State of implementation/results
- Both countries benefit of South-South cooperation to chart a new pathway to the sustainable management of their peatlands, for the benefit of people, and conserving its ecosystem services. The current undeveloped status of the region offers a critical opportunity to promote evidence based land use planning and improve natural resource governance.
- A data collection campaign was conducted from 22 January – 5 March 2024, along with related capacity building activities. As a result, four new field sites were surveyed, and peatland-related data were collected. Also, five students from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and six students from the Republic of the Congo were trained by experts on peatlands data collection.
- From October 5 to 14, 2023, FAO and UNEP-DHI conducted consultative missions in order to identify key players in the water and climate sectors, assess data availability and identify gaps regarding the development of the monitoring system and the planning of project activities.
- The first Steering Committee meeting was held virtually on the 14th December 2023.
- A learning workshop was organized in Brazzaville; Republic of Congo from 12 to 14 March 2024. The meeting provided an opportunity and space for implementing partners, governments and donor representatives to take stock of the project's level of implementation, thus strengthening synergies between partners and gaining an insight into the contribution of the project's policies and strategies to peatland conservation in the Congo Basin.
- The second steering committee meeting was held virtually and in person the 15 March 2024 in Brazzaville.
Latest Update:
09/2024
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