Experts’ Background Report on Illegal Exploitation and Trade in Natural Resources Benefitting Organized Criminal Groups and Recommendations on MONUSCO’s Role in Fostering Stability and Peace in Eastern DR Congo
Publisher: UNEP, MONUSCO, and OSESG
Date: 2015
Topics: Extractive Resources, Renewable Resources
Countries: Congo (DRC)
The report examines the role of transnational environmental crime as one of several key factors fuelling the protracted conflict cycle in eastern Democratic of Congo (DRC). It makes recommendations on how MONUSCO, in its forthcoming down-‐sizing phase, might wish to endeavour supporting the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (GoDRC) in addressing apparent segments of the Congolese political economy that are linked to transnational environmental crime. The report was reviewed at an experts’ meeting held in Goma, DRC, from 17-‐18 February 2015.