On Friday, September 20, 2024, the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock, in collaboration with the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), launched the project “landscape restoration to increase resilience in urban and peri-urban areas of Bujumbura”, in collaboration with UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). The said project will be implemented in the provinces of Bujumbura in rural Isare and Kanyosha communes. In Bujumbura town hall, it is in the municipalities Mukaza and Ntahangwa.

In his opening speech, the permanent secretary at the Ministry in charge of the Environment, Emmanuel Ndorimana, said that Burundi is one of the countries most exposed to the effects of climate change with the consequences of an increase in the frequency but also in the magnitude of natural disasters that occur there. He said that in recent decades, natural risks induced by climate have become more frequent, leading in particular to an increase in floods, especially around Lake Tanganyika, landslides, erosion of river banks including the Ntahangwa River, the destruction of houses, roads, and other urban and peri-urban community infrastructure, destruction of houses, roads, and other urban and peri-urban community infrastructures, human mobility, in particular the case of the Gatumba zone, significant damage caused to soils such as crop field losses, a increased presence of pests and diseases that affect food crops and livestock.