Fighting Environmental Degradation Around a National Park: The Case of Kahuzi Biega National Park in
DRC
South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
Promoting entity
MKAAJI MPYA asbl
Period
June 2021 - January 2022
Type of experience:
Mobilization and sensitization of the citizens for the protection of the environment of the National
Park
Objective of the experience
The general objective is to allow people to be themselves actors of the protection of biodiversity,
animal or vegetable, through income generating activities.
Our experience on the integration of the Park's residents in the community and their resilience is a
gain that MKAAJI MPYA can say it has achieved in the 6 months of implementation. Our fight is to make
communities and peoples resilient to certain situations such as climate change, the integration of an
agriculture adapted to the three pillars of sustainable development, we advocate the adaptation of
farmers to modern farming in rural areas.
This experience also puts a focus on the life of rural communities considered as people without
resources, without intelligence to produce capital for themselves. Our experience has made a
decolonization of this mentality which plants social imbalances in the communities and compromises their
blooming, this has normally passed by the creation of 5 agricultural cooperatives which have been well
registered at the level of the chiefdom of Buhavu in the territory of Kalehe and the chiefdom of Nindja
in the territory of Kabare which have created opportunities for restructuring and commercialization of
the products of the fields produced by the local farmers
