DRC natural resource review press of Thursday, May 9, 2013

The daily le Potentiel announces that "stakeholders in REDD + process in DRC validated after integration of relevant notices and comments, the concept note of the integrated program of emission reduction (ER-PIN) to submit to the Fund Forest Carbon Partnership World Bank (XPF) for districts Plateaux and Mai-Ndombe of Bandundu province, which will form the future province of Mai-Ndombe DRC".The tabloid reports that it was during a workshop Wednesday, May 8 in the Ark room Ngaliema Clinic in Kinshasa by the Ministry of Environment, with support from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to through its REDD project for people and nature (R-PAN), funded by the Norwegian Cooperation (Norad).For its part the daily l'Avenir reports the "proofreading contracts the emergency plan Regideso in the center of a workshop". Newspaper wrote that" these meetings will allow all parties to these contracts to conduct a review comprehensive and detailed contractual provisions to ensure that the parties have a common understanding of their respective obligations. This work will also lead to the development of a draft concession contract public service with a specification to be signed between the State and the Regideso ".The workshop for reviewing contracts of the emergency plan Regideso, the newspaper said, originally scheduled for 23 and 24 April 2013 will finally be held from May 13 to 14, 2013 in Events Center-Romeo Golf Kinshasa. This meeting will bring together experts from the Water sector and those of the Government to review the objectives of the contracts including performance contract with the Government in February 2012, and the service contract with the group SDE / Finagestion in December of the same year.