Action
Year
2021 – 2022
The Congolese state’s spatial planning strategy is still very centralised and is organised around ministries which have some difficulty in coordinating their reciprocal interventions.
In addition, there is a certain disparity in planning tools, the scope of application and linkages of which have not yet been clarified. There is therefore a need to bring together and decompartmentalise approaches in order to promote coordinated regional planning.
The objective of the EU REDD Facility is to make available to the MATIER a methodology for departmental land-use scheme (SDAT), tested and validated at departmental level, with the involvement of all relevant stakeholders (line ministries, technical and financial partners, research institutes, private sector, civil society, etc.) and with support of the Land-Use Planner tool.
Several regulatory texts have been adopted to move towards a better planning, starting with the 2003 Law on the Organisation and Functioning of Local Authorities and the Orientation Law for the Development and Planning of the Territory adopted in 2014, but their application is still only very partial. The Pool is thus the only department in Congo to benefit from a Departmental Development Plan, developed by Initiative Développement in line with the 2003 Law, while the first Departmental Spatial Planning Scheme (SDAT in French) already drawn up on a pilot basis are considered to be very perfectible by the General Directorate of Land Use Planning.
Therefore, the challenge is to support the MATIER involved in the co-design of the upcoming Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) programme on land-use planning through the inclusive development of a local land-use planning methodology, tested and validated at departmental level.
Local consultations in the Pool department, Republic of the Congo
Implemented by Initiative Développement, the approach involves the following steps:
Note: the project has recently started and is currently ongoing, further information in the upcoming months.