{"id":44953,"date":"2021-12-09T07:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T07:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-sweden-sign-grant-agreement-worth-rwf8-9-to-boost-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T08:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T08:02:51","slug":"rwanda-sweden-sign-grant-agreement-worth-rwf8-9-to-boost-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-sweden-sign-grant-agreement-worth-rwf8-9-to-boost-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Sweden sign grant agreement worth Rwf8.9 billion to boost climate change resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement was signed on Wednesday 8th December 2021 between the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana and the Ambassador of Sweden in Rwanda, Johanna Teague on behalf of both countries.<\/p>\n<p>It will support a project aimed at reducing vulnerability to climate change through community-based biodiversity restoration and conservation.<\/p>\n<p>The project, known as COMBIO, is a joint effort led by the Ministry of Environment with implementation support from the Rwanda Forestry Authority, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Enabel, the Belgian Development Agency, institutions that implement the Transforming Eastern Province Through Adaptation (TREPA) Project to build synergy impact.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the development, Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Environment, Jeanne d\u2019Arc Mujawamariya highlighted that the country can only achieve its Vision 2050 goal of being carbon neutral and climate resilient if communities have the knowledge, skills and tools to adapt to a changing climate. <\/p>\n<p>She revealed that this new initiative will not only restore and promote biodiversity in Rwanda\u2019s Eastern Province, but also provide incentives for farmers to be part of the solution by harnessing the power of nature. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are grateful for the support of Swedish government and other partners, and look forward to working with communities in areas of intervention impacted by climate change such as droughts, to make the project a success,\u201d Dr. Mujawamariya said.  <\/p>\n<p>The project aims to restore and sustain the biodiversity in protected natural forests and establish new biodiversity sanctuaries. <\/p>\n<p>It will also integrate diverse native species into productive crop lands and forests to enhance ecosystem\u2019s biodiversity. <\/p>\n<p>The project is also expected to support farmer\u2019s to develop viable nature-based value chains and enterprises, and establish community-based payment for ecosystem services to reward farmers for promoting biodiversity and native species on their lands. <\/p>\n<p>The unique and innovative initiative will also mainstream biodiversity conservation in institutional and community development strategies, programmes and action plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis collaboration has high potential with its focus on biodiversity and climate change. I am pleased to enter unchartered terrain with key partners, not least to explore long term financing solutions for biodiversity and strengthening of livelihoods of local communities together. The initiative builds on a local knowledge base and aims to benefit people living in the Eastern Province, and set standards on national level,\u201d said the Ambassador of Sweden to Rwanda, Johanna Teague<\/p>\n<p>The 8,723,277.90 Euros project include 10.8% of co-finance by the implementing partner. <\/p>\n<p>The project will be implemented in the districts of Kayonza, Nyagatare, Gatsibo, Kirehe, Ngoma, Bugesera and Rwamagana of whole Eastern Province. The project will be implemented for six years from December 2021 to December 2027.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40327 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/muja.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Environment, Jeanne d\u2019Arc Mujawamariya said that equipping communities with the knowledge, skills and tools to adapt to climate change will help the country achieve its Vision 2050 goal of being carbon neutral and climate change resilient.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40326 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/swamba.jpg\" alt=\"The Ambassador of Sweden to Rwanda, Johanna Teague has said that both countries are committed to protect biodiversity.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40325 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uszziel.jpg\" alt=\"The grant agreement worth Rwf8.9 billion was signed on Wednesday 8th December 2021.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Government of Rwanda and Sweden have signed a grant agreement worth Rwf8.9 billion to build climate change resilience among communities living in Rwanda\u2019s Eastern Province.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[3007],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-kanamugire-emmanuel"],"bylines":[{"id":3007,"name":"Kanamugire Emmanuel","slug":"kanamugire-emmanuel","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":3007,"name":"Kanamugire Emmanuel","slug":"kanamugire-emmanuel","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44953"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44953"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}