The development of joint marketing campaigns and cross-border conservation and tourism initiatives has been recognised as a key pillar of the US-backed Regional Economic Integration Framework REIF signed as part of the peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda on December 4.
The REIF states that both countries intend to cooperate in strengthening cross-border conservation and park management activities, focused on Rwandas Volcanoes National Park and the DRCs Virunga National Park.
The participants commit to position the Greater Virunga Landscape as a unified, world-class ecotourism destination by leveraging shared assets and coordinated governance, the REIF highlights.
