From 18 to 22 April 2022, 15 third-projects’ representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cameroon were trained during a workshop organized by the Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable, a subsidiary body of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, and its consortium partners (Kongo University, EDEN Africa and Ingénieurs Sans Frontières – Cameroon) marking a new phase of the PDTIE project, financed by the ACP Innovation Fund.

Bringing together about fifty participants from the two countries at the Hotel Franco in Yaoundé, Cameroon, this workshop allowed the representatives of the 15 third-party projects of the Project for the Deployment of Environmental Technologies and Innovations for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction (PDTIE), to strengthen their capacities on the management of their projects, by training them in particular on the concept and methodology for the elaboration of the logical framework, in order to ensure a better monitoring of their activities and to promote the success of their initiatives.

Selected under the 3 calls for proposals, 15 organisations presented innovative projects in the Congo Basin, offering significant opportunities for synergies between them. Projects included Fab Labs and innovations for sustainable development in strategic, priority and high value-added sectors.

The PDTIE project is financed by the ACP Innovation Fund, one of the components of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States Research and Innovation Programme (OACPS Research & Innovation Programme), an EU-funded programme implemented by the OACPS.