Action
Year
2021 – 2023
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 to promote coordinated regional planning.
The objective of the EU REDD Facility is to make available to the Ministry of Land-use Planning, Infrastructures and Road Maintenance (MATIER) a methodology for departmental land-use planning scheme, 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 land-use planning scheme already drawn up on a pilot basis is 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 Republic of the Congo
Implemented by Initiative Développement, the approach involves the following steps: