After last year’s consultation workshop held at Hill View Hotel, Rubavu in Rwanda, on the development of the 10 years Greater Virunga Landscape Transboundary Strategic Plan 2024-2034, the consultants from Kilimanyika Group developed the draft of that Transboundary Strategic Plan following the guidelines and views which were formulated during the above-mentioned consultations.

In this respect,  under the leadership of GVTC Executive Secretariat and WWF, the Technical Working Group meeting is taking place in Kampala, Protea Skyz Hotel in Naguru, from 20th to 23rd February 2024 to review that draft Transboundary Strategic Plan.

Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation ( ICCN= Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature,  Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) are represented in this meeting as the main players.

There is a hope that this Transboundary Strategic Plan shall make a difference given that communities living around the Greater Virunga Landscape Protected Areas network and other stakeholders involved in conserving the Greater Virunga Landscape were consulted.

All interested stakeholders, including conservation communities and donors, should support this initiative to conserve for generations as this is to support GVTC mandate given that GVTC is seen as the only transboundary organisation which was given that mandate by the Partner States of DRC-Rwanda and Uganda to coordinate all the actors willing to contribute to the Greater Virunga Landscape conservation.