Organisations grouped into ‘one Nile, one family’ under the patronage with Nile Basin Discourse Forum, seek to build capacity of Civil society Organizations on climate change adaptation.
They also sought to provide adequate information by producing and disseminating awareness materials on climate change adaptation, and documenting and disseminate best practices of climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction are carrying out the findings on the possible ways that can bring about better ways on tree planting and maintenance.
This was announced to the residents of Nyarurama cell, Gatenga sector in Kicukiro district over the last weekend during the planting of approximately 2000 trees by the range of partner associations in environmental conservation sector.
Dancilla Mukakamari, National Coordinator of Association Rwandaise des Ecologistes (ARECO-Rwanda Nziza) and Campaign Organizer of both ARECO-Rwanda Nziza and Rwanda Environment Conservation Organization (RECOR) told igihe.com that, “we are inquiring why the trees planted don’t grow.” “We shall release the study before the end of this week,” she added.
Mukakamari also said that all efforts are being made to implement government’s policy making the forestry industry one of the pillars of national economy while playing a role in supporting africulture, tourism, environmental sustainability, and energy among others.
The government of Rwanda set an objective to achieving 30% of forestry coverage of the national territory by the year 2020.
It’s in this regard that the government through ministry of Natural Resources recently embarked on planting over 67million trees before the end of the year as dedicated to forests.
This year also was dedicated to forests by the United Nations under the theme ‘Forests for people’ which the government of Rwanda translated to ‘forest for sustainability development’.
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