Gervais Muderhwa

Gervais Muderhwa is the Project Officer of the NGO MKAAJI MPYA asbl in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He is also the Director of the Environment, Conservation and Climate Change Department within the organisation. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree (Bac+5) in Environment and Sustainable Development. Passionate and very committed to biodiversity conservation, he leads to date and has participated in the implementation of several conservation projects by the organisations to which he belongs, including the SOS Biodiversity Project of Aquatic Environments in the DRC, the Rural Conservation Clubs Programme, the Project Saving the littorals of Lake Kivu and Lake Tanganyika frequented by migratory birds and which he initiated.

It is worth noting that it is pioneering several programmes and projects about indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) in DRC following its successful participation in COP15 of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal in 2022. He represented the Democratic Republic of Congo and Central Africa in the Charles R Wall Young African Policy Fellows Programme implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), through which he supported the African Negotiators Group (AGN) before and during COP15.