The African great lakes region (including Rwanda, Burundi, DR.Congo), has been crossing a very long period of armed conflicts ending to strong Natural resources mismanagement. Especially, collective natural resources underwent the deteriorations and depredations and, and the inefficiency of public institutions in charge of the natural resources. In fact all these institutions have been weakened so that they don’t assume their roles anymore.
Two non -governmental organizations, namely ADISCO (of Burundi) and DIOBASS (from DR. Congo), with financial support from International Development Research Center ( IDRC) have been working on a joint collaborative project involving relevant academic and research institutions in the South-Kivu province and Burundi as well, with a strong focus on sound environmental governance linked to collective natural resources. In this context, a conference is being organized aimed at providing opportunities to professionals, scientists, local communities, and policy makers, to talk together around concrete themes of rural poverty alleviation with a liaison on collective natural resources conservation.
The conference will permit to develop participatory approaches for setting-up guidelines and principles of Good environmental governance, especially in fragile Ecosystems.
Topic of the Conference
The main topic is defined as follows: “Governance of collective natural resources in post-conflict context: challenges and opportunities”
Involvement
The Conference will be organized in a set of Workshops shared through different thematic axis, including oral presentation, posters, and exhibitions.
Local and abroad key-speakers and facilitators will be selected from available specialists and resource-persons dealing with developed themes in the conference.
Fees and Participation
Participation fees for the Conference are fixed as follows:
– Nationals of the Region (Rwanda, Burundi, DR. Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya): 200 USD
– Others: 450 USD
Students and Young scientists and researchers from the Region can benefit from a small grant covering the participation costs to the Conference. However the number of purses being limited alone the candidates who will submit a summary of presentation appreciated by the scientific Committee in time; will be able to benefit from this support.
Place and Date
The Conference will take place in the city of Bukavu (Eastern DRCongo) from Monday 6th to Wednesday 8th in February 2012.
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