Local Communities Placed at the Centre of Forest Management in the DRC
Stakeholders working to ensure the sustainable management of forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have resolved to put communities living in and around forest concessions at the heart of things. Since 2015, national and international actors alongside the government of the DRC have worked to put in place a national strategy on community forestry that will ensure that forest communities benefit from the management and use of their forests. This was in part motivated by publication of the community forestry law no. 011/2002 of 29 August 2002. The development of the strategy benefited from the contribution of Congolese CSOs, [...]