Rwanda, 2023-2024
Client/Donor: World Bank
Partner: International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) aka World Agroforestry
Goal
A consultant team composed of staff from ICRAF and EUCORD, supported the World Bank task team in delivering the PROGREEN-financed technical assistance for improving landscape management in the Congo-Nile Ridge region in Rwanda. The overall scope of the consultant assignment was to improve the World Bank’s knowledge of what is required for its support to improve landscape management in the Congo-Nile Ridge and to enhance local readiness for improved practices. This included activities in:
- Tree improvement including identifying potential improvements in the productivity (i.e., addressing, among others, low stocking of existing forests and poor quality of genetic material) of current privately and publicly owned forests.
- Management planning in state-owned forests to map these forests, assess their ecological status and develop a management plan with identification of priority actions.
- Development planning in the islands of the Lake Kivu and selected high-priority areas.
- Developing stakeholders’ incentives and appropriate financing mechanisms.
What we did
Working as a subcontractor to ICRAF, EUCORD focused on task 4) Incentive mechanisms and products. Specifically, EUCORD accomplished the following:
- Reviewed existing international – particularly African – experience and good practices on incentives, financial tools and instruments for sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation.
- Supported consultations with relevant stakeholders to identify priority interventions for regional development that can be supported by development partners (incl. potential follow-up financing by PROGREEN).
- Prepared a roadmap for identifying, designing, and evaluating policy and financial instruments for improved landscape management and adoption of nature-based solutions.
- EUCORD also provided field staff support to ICRAF to support Task 3) Development planning in high-priority areas.
Accomplishments
- EUCORD's above contributions led to the validation by the Client of the following report : Study to support the identification and design of incentive mechanisms and the development of technical readiness for improved landscape management, biodiversity conservation, nature-based solutions, and livelihood development in the Congo-Nile Ridge (CNR) Landscape of Rwanda.