UNEP and the European Commission are promoting improved ecosystems management for disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) to achieve sustainable and disaster-resilient development. From 2012-2015, field-based demonstration projects are being implemented in four countries: Sudan, Afghanistan, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

WORKING THROUGH ECO-DRR PROJECT FACT SHEET PARTNERSHIPS democratic republic UNEP works through its local and of the congo national partners to implement the Eco-DRR Project in the DR Congo.

Key partners include:

National Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo:

• Water Resources Directorate of the Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism • Ministry of Social and Humanitarian Affairs • Ministry of Interior • Public water utility under the Ministry of Energy (REGIDESO)

Mbankana Centre for Integrated Development (CADIM)

Lukaya River Basin Users River Partners: Association Managing watersheds for flood risk reduction and water quality Local and traditional authorities Agence Nationale de Météorologie Rich with natural resources, Soil erosion increases sedimenta- et Télédétection par Satellite the Democratic Republic of the tion and reduces water quality, Congo holds half of Africa’s fresh- impacting local fisheries, aggra- University of water sources. However, severe vating flooding, and increasing erosion and flooding are creating the cost of water purification. University of Liège water-related hazards that impact Our Eco-DRR strategy Kinshasa and surrounding areas. applies Integrated Water Resource International Commission for the These hazards are exacerbated Management (IWRM) to harness Congo-Oubangui-Sangha Basin by heavy rainfall and human benefits for disaster risk reduc- activities, such as slash and burn tion and improved water quality United Nations Development agriculture, deforestation, char- in the Lukaya River basin. It con- Programme (UNDP) coal making, uncontrolled hous- nects upstream and downstream ing construction near the Lukaya communities and facilitates River, one of the main sources of dialogue amongst water users drinking water for Kinshasa. of the Lukaya River. Planned our TARGETS interventions

Develop an integrated peri- IWRM and river basin manage- Four agro-forestry and bee- urban river basin management ment recognized as an approach keeping workshops delivered to plan for the Lukaya River Basin for reducing disaster risk in support the 20 families involved that integrates an Eco-DRR national government policies and in managing agro-forestry approach, including river water engagements in the post-2015 activities and to optimize quality monitoring, rainfall and global framework on DRR income opportunities flood monitoring, and baseline mapping 3D map of the Lukaya River Basin 700 fruit trees planted as wind created through a participatory breakers around homes, provid- Strengthen local capacities mapping exercise identifying key ing extra sources of income for river basin management environmental issues planning that integrates Eco- Trainings on bush fire risk DRR, through the Ministry of Tree nurseries including 3,800 management conducted Environment and the Lukaya seedlings established and River Users Association maintained by local communities Early warning system established through the Lukaya River Users Conduct ecosystem rehabilita- 10 hectares of land under Association to reduce vulnerabil- tion activities, including reforestation and tree planting ities to water-related hazards reforestation, agro-forestry, carried out to support home slope and river bank consumption and river bank Green buffer zone totalling stabilization through vetiver stabilization, and to reduce 42,000 vetiver grasses planted grass planting sedimentation on river banks around REGIDESO water treatement plant and in National Training on Eco-DRR to Community agroforestry system residential areas to prevent raise national and public aware- established over 10 hectares to gully erosion ness of the potential role of river improve local livelihoods basin management for disaster risk reduction in the DR gauging and meteorologi- cal stations installed to inform Support recognition of river land use and flood management basin management as part of national disaster risk reduction strategies as well as National Government’s engagement  in the post-2015 global ecosystems in focus framework on DRR River basin contacts High rainfall savanna with gallery forests Maps by FreeVectorMaps.com Maps by https://freevectormaps.com/ UNEP DR Congo Maps.com Vector © Free Copyright Programme Manager [email protected]  main hazards targeted  Location UNEP DR Congo Field Project Coordinator Floods Lukaya River Basin outside of [email protected] Soil / gully erosion Kinshasa, Bas Congo Province Poor water quality (associated Target: 1,400 inhabitants in 10 UNEP Disaster Risk Reduction with sedimentation) villages (Ntampa, Kasangulu, Programme Coordinator Strong winds Kimwenza and Mafumba zones [email protected] of the Lukaya watershed)