Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) | < Sub-Saharan Africa

See also:
- SECID Awarded a €1 Million Food Security Project Funded by the EU
- Emergency Response to the Outbreak of the Cassava Mosaic Disease
   Phase II
- Agricultural Economic Grants
- Developing Community Driven Value Chain for Agricultural Products
- Commodity Chain Analysis for Coffee and Cacao
- Rehabilitation of the Lokutu Oil Palm Plantation
- Emergency Response to the Outbreak of the Cassava Mosaic Disease
- Applied Agricultural Economics & Outreach Project II (RAV II)
- Applied Agricultural Research and Outreach Project I


Reintegration, Conservation and Community Recovery Project (RE-COMMIT)
Funding source: Public Private Partnership between USAID & Société
Commerciale et Agro-Industrielle Longele Nouvelle sprl

The overall goal of this project is to extend improved agricultura
technology utilizing community-based approaches under the Mission's
Strategic Objective 9 – Reintegration.


Objective
Develop and implement an economic reintegration, biodiversity conservation
and community recovery scheme in Southern Equateur Province biospheres
among receptor communities, displaced persons, returnees and disadvantaged
persons, in partnership with several private-sector entities.


Strategy
The transition to economic, social and civic recovery in the designated
biosphere(s) will start with the recovery and expansion of micro and small
enterprises; the recovery of food crop production and marketing (followed
by export crops); the normative reintegration of internally displaced persons
(IDPs) returnees, and disadvantaged persons within their communities and civic
institutions; and the delineation of parameters for the conservation of biodiversity.


In order to realize this strategy, project staff are undertaking the following
activities: Rehabilitation of micro and small enterprises and their marketing
channels (i.e. production chains) for both traditional food crops and exports
within an environmentally protective schema; revitalization of traditional
commercial-grade agricultural production, marketing and transport capabilities
for both food and export crops along the Tshuapa, Lulonga and Maringa rivers
and their tributaries; development and creation of IDP and returnee
labor-absorptive micro and small enterprises that are gender sensitive and
disability /disadvantaged friendly; the development of (or coordination with)
appropriate river commerce-based HIV/AIDS awareness and treatment
programs; the mapping and delineation of natural resources in corridors
linking biosphere(s); and the development, adoption and implementation
of community-based biodiversity conservation, education and
management programs.   

This project will work in the Tshuapa, Lulonga, and Maringa River Biosphere Reserves.