The NCEA advised on priorities for a Post Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) for reconstruction of the mining sector in Katanga.
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The United Nation Environmental Programme, more specifically its Post-conflict and Disaster Management Branch has decided to assist the DRC in its post conflict reconstruction planning and sustainable development by providing a Post Conflict (environmental and social) Impact Assessment (PCIA). UNEP has decided that this assessment will address four aspects related to post conflict reconstruction:
• rebels in the national parks
• resettlement of refugees
• the environmental problems of Kinshasa and its surroundings
• reconstruction of the mining sector (base elements) in Katanga.
The present advisory report relates to the fourth component of the PCIA: the Assessment of the Katanga mining sector.
The specific objective of this component is to define the conditions and modalities in which the development of the mining sector in Katanga can contribute to poverty reduction and to political and civil stability. An important additional objective is to identify approaches that can be useful for the development of the mining sector in RDC as a whole. Primary focus of the assessment is on industrial mines of the base metals: copper, cobalt, zinc, while small scale mining will also get attention. The study will be mainly geared towards assessing the development perspectives for the sector, the conditions for management of the sector so that it contributes to sustainable development, to improvement of environmental governance, to poverty reduction and to peace.