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HOW CAN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY GET THE WORLD BANK TO ADHERE TO ITS PRINCIPLES IN THE DRC?
CARVING UP THE CONGO 75 It is time for the World Bank to lay aside the industrial logging model of development and support an alternative vision. Today, the intact rainforest of the DRC needs to be valued and conserved in the interests of both the Congolese people and the global environment. These interests are incompatible with industrial logging: logging brings roads that open up – and thereby degrade – intact forest, a destruction to which anyone with access to Google Earth can bear witness. Preserving the rainforest means ensuring that enforcement measures are brought to bear against those companies and individuals who undermine the rule of law in the DRC. International aid to the DRC must be conditional on the meeting of a range of good governance principles to ensure the money is spent well – one such precondition being the rigorous implementation of the legal review of existing logging titles. Those logging companies that flout the law in the DRC must not be allowed to profit. The World Bank strategy of using the logging sector to help kick-start development in the DRC by raising state revenues may seem logical on paper. However, the flaw in its logic is the misguided belief that, given the level of corruption in the country and with basic law enforcement crippled by a total lack of institutional capacity, logging money will nonetheless be efficiently channelled towards rebuilding the nation, alleviating poverty and promoting environmental responsibility. ‘From the international community’s viewpoint, the return of peace in the DRC can be perceived as a unique opportunity to take a fresh look at the second-largest block of rainforest in the world, to avoid the replication of unsuccessful models, and to develop new models that give more emphasis to the environment and to forest dwellers. From the Government’s viewpoint, forests present an opportunity to restore the country’s international image by protecting the global environment, and to improve local livelihoods and consolidate peace. These two viewpoints seem to be compatible and to a large extent converging. However, acting on them will require breaking new ground in policy making and financial systems, and will involve a large set of political and economic actors … A high-level international debate is needed to bring this vision into reality. Available options needs to be put squarely on the table, and new ones developed.’ 459 World Bank et al As this report shows, the key measures proposed by the World Bank reform – the moratorium, the legal review and the land use planning foreseen in the Forestry Code – are either not being enforced or have not even been implemented. This means that these measures have been unable to stop loggers colluding with and reinforcing the corrupt practices that have characterised governance of the sector to date; consequently, they have failed to protect the rainforest and support genuine development. 458 ©Mauthe/Greenpeace
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HOW CAN THE INTERNATIONAL<br />
COMMUNITY GET THE WORLD<br />
BANK TO ADHERE TO ITS<br />
PRINCIPLES IN THE DRC?
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