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Programa de Reduções de Emissões Mai-Ndombe na RD Congo (FCPF / Banco Mundial)

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1.º programa nacional REDD+ no Fundo de Carbono do FCPF (dez. 2016); 3,89 M tCO2e verificados em 2019–2020, gerando USD 19,48 M em jun. 2025. Receitas de carbono financiam água potável para mais de 218.000 pessoas na Província de Mai-Ndombe, RD Congo.

3.89M tCO2e

Reduções de emissões verificadas (2019–2020)

USD 19.48M

Pagamento obtido (June 2025)

218,000+

Pessoas com novo acesso a água potável

Details

Maturity: Scaling
Promoter: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (DRC) / Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (World Bank)
Period: 2016-present
Keywords: Tropical forest, carbon, community, watershed, REDD+

Context

O Programa de Reduções de Emissões de Mai-Ndombe, na República Democrática do Congo, foi o primeiro programa REDD+ nacional admitido no Fundo de Carbono do FCPF (dezembro de 2016).

Results

Verificou 3,89 milhões de tCO2e para 2019–2020, gerando para a RDC 19,48 milhões de USD (junho de 2025), com as receitas de carbono a financiar infraestruturas de água potável para mais de 218.000 pessoas na Província de Mai-Ndombe.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-21
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (DRC) / Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (World Bank) — accessed 2026-06-21
World Bank – DRC receives USD 19.47 M for reducing deforestation emissions (June 2025) — accessed 2026-06-21
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility – Mai-Ndombe Emission Reductions Programme updates — accessed 2026-06-21
PFBC-CBFP – Le projet REDD+ Maï-Ndombe : un exemple réussi de conservation en RDC — accessed 2026-06-21

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Quality score: 73/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Observational / pre–post

Top 4% in this catalogue (335 scored practices)

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Evaluation

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Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced3/3

3.89 M tCO2e emission reductions independently verified for 2019–2020 under FCPF Carbon Fund methodology; USD 19.48 M results-based payment received by DRC government June 6, 2025 — first verified sovereign REDD+ payment in the Congo Basin.

Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced2/3

Province-scale avoided deforestation in the Congo Basin protects critical habitat for bonobos, forest elephants and endemic species, but the ERP does not carry independent CCB certification at project level.

Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control3/3

Carbon revenues directly finance three solar-powered boreholes providing clean water to 218,000+ beneficiaries; the benefit-sharing portfolio reaches 856,000+ people; Oshwe's 43,000 km² territory water services explicitly quantified in World Bank reporting (June 2026).

Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced0/3

Humid tropical forest in Mai-Ndombe Province has low inherent wildfire risk; fire management is not part of the programme design or monitoring framework.

Governance, certification & transferability3/3

First FCPF Carbon Fund national programme (Dec 2016); verified results under World Bank FCPF Carbon Fund methodology; Ministry of Environment as official counterpart; ERPA published; first payment confirmed June 2025.

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Evidoria. Programa de Reduções de Emissões Mai-Ndombe na RD Congo (FCPF / Banco Mundial). Persistent ID: e7384f47-5967-47af-9305-28de499c1cc0.

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