This Wednesday 24/5/2023, the director of ERAIFT Prof Baudouin Michel accompanied by the fundraising director, participated in a working session at the Swedish Embassy. On this occasion, they met 3 Swedish experts, Lotte Samuelson (SIWI), Hana Hastek (Sokgsstyrelsen) and Peter Blomback (LoCoForest), who came specially from Stockholm to Kinshasa to present the LoCoForest (Locally Controlled Forest Restoration) project. After a round table, Director B. Michel made a brief presentation of ERAIFT which was followed by a detailed presentation of the LoCoForest project. This is an online training program of the Swedish International Development Agency on large-scale restoration of degraded natural forests. At the conclusion of this fruitful meeting, several areas of synergistic cooperation between the institutions present were identified and will be concretized as soon as possible.

ERAIFT would like to thank the Swedish Embassy for organizing this highly relevant meeting