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Viewing cable 08KINSHASA299, USAID ADMINISTRATOR AND U.S. DFA HENRIETTA FORE'S VISIT TO

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08KINSHASA299 2008-03-27 10:45 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
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RR RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
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ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 271045Z MAR 08
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7731
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
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RUZEJAA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 KINSHASA 000299 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR F, OES, DRL, EEB, AF, 
AID FOR AFR/SD, AFR/DP, AFR/EA, AFR/AA, GH, DCHA, OFDA, EGAT, AID/A 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID PGOV PREL CG
SUBJECT: USAID ADMINISTRATOR AND U.S. DFA HENRIETTA FORE'S VISIT TO 
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 
 
REF: A. KINSHASA 297 B. KINSHASA 279  C. KINSHASA  284 
 
1. (U) Summary:  USAID Administrator and U.S. Director of Foreign 
Assistance Henrietta Fore's March 15-17 visit to the Democratic 
Republic of Congo focused on Peace and Security, Democracy and 
Governance, the Environment, and Economic Growth.  She met with 
Congolese leaders including President Joseph Kabila, Prime Minister 
Gizenga, USAID implementing partners, private sector partners and 
other bilateral donors, visiting Goma in North Kivu province, Epulu 
in Ituri District, and Kinshasa.  She was accompanied by USAID 
Assistant Administrator for Africa Katherine Almquist, the 
Ambassador, Mission Director Stephen Haykin and Special Assistant 
Wesley Wilson.  End summary. 
 
Goma 
---- 
 
2. (U) Administrator Fore began her March 15-17 visit to the DRC in 
the North Kivu provincial capital Goma, where her meetings March 15 
focused on the Goma peace process and sexual and gender-based 
violence.  She urged Governor Julien Paluku to support the Goma 
process and work to end sexual and gender-based violence in the 
region (ref A).  Paluku stressed the importance of developing roads 
as a means of stimulating economic activity and reinforcing peace 
and stability.  He thanked Administrator Fore for USAID's support 
for the provincial government and governor's office.  The United 
States has assisted the North Kivu government and provincial 
assembly with technical expertise, logistics and commodity support 
to ensure that new officials possess the necessary tools to improve 
public service and promote good governance. 
 
3. (U) Administrator Fore received a briefing later that day at 
MONUC led by Head of Office Alpha Sow and Eastern Division Commander 
General Bikram Singh.  Military briefers observed that 
professionalization of the Congolese National Army (FARDC) will be a 
long-term process, requiring international commitment to training 
programs over the next ten years.  Civilian personnel provided an 
overview of a 12-month stabilization program for eastern Congo being 
implemented by MONUC and other UN agencies.  The plan includes four 
major components:  1) security; 2) political; 3) extending state 
authority and 4) assisting return and reintegration of refugees, 
internally-displaced persons and ex-combatants.  The U.S. and other 
donors are coordinating assistance to the region with the program. 
Administrator Fore expressed the United States' commitment to 
partnership with MONUC and UN agencies in North Kivu as well as to 
the Goma peace process and implementation of the Nairobi communique. 
 
 
4. (U) At Goma's Heal Africa Hospital, Administrator Fore witnessed 
the devastating effects of sexual and gender-based violence on women 
and girls in the region and visited the fistula repair facilities 
supported by USAID.  U.S. support for fistula repair at Heal Africa 
provides critical surgery for girls and women.  Many have been 
forced to marry young and lack access to even the most basic 
maternal and reproductive health services, including labor and 
delivery at a medical facility in the presence of a skilled birth 
attendant. 
 
5. (U) Heal Africa staff underscored the acute and widespread 
problem of rape and sexual violence in North Kivu and other 
provinces.  The subject remains a cultural taboo in the DRC, and 
women who have been raped, and babies born of rape, are often 
rejected by their own families.  Heal Africa has established a 
significant program to provide medical, psychological and 
socio-economic support to survivors of gender-based violence called 
"Heal My People" that is funded by UNICEF and other donors. 
 
6. (U) At every opportunity, including a meeting with the local 
press, Administrator Fore stressed the United States' commitment to 
the peace process and called for the respect of the rights of women 
and children.  She also highlighted U.S. assistance to North Kivu, 
including funding for food aid, health, education, democracy and 
governance, conflict mitigation, social protection, environmental 
protection, and humanitarian assistance.  The United States provided 
more than $35 million of assistance to North Kivu and more than $163 
million in total assistance to Eastern Congo in FY 2006 and FY 2007. 
 In FY 2007, USAID also devoted a $15 million supplemental grant to 
supporting peace and security in the region. 
 
Epulu 
----- 
 
KINSHASA 00000299  002 OF 003 
 
 
 
7. (U) Administrator Fore focused on environmental issues on the 
second day of her visit.  On March 16 she traveled north to Epulu in 
Ituri District, where she visited the Ituri-Aru landscape at the 
headquarters of the Okapi reserve there.  She observed how the 
landscape management process initiated by the Central Africa 
Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) has proven to be an 
effective model for integrating conservation and development goals, 
e.g. linking forestry and biodiversity with local livelihood, health 
and education. 
 
8. (U) CARPE's public-private partnership approach, working with 
companies in extractive industries such as logging and mining, 
creates both market and social incentives to support conservation 
objectives.  CARPE's landscape program is creating a framework to 
effectively deal with markets for environmental services such as 
"deforestation avoided" or REDD (reducing emissions from 
deforestation and ecosystem degradation).  In the context of global 
climate change, REDD -- and potentially, hydrologic services (i.e. 
watershed protection resulting from forest conservation) and nature 
tourism -- are developing into mechanisms for sustainable financing 
of programs linking conservation and poverty alleviation or economic 
growth. 
 
9. (U) Administrator Fore commented that USAID should look at the 
success of CARPE's Congo Basin Forest Partnership in linking 
community needs and conservation objectives as a potential model for 
other CARPE programs.  She also expressed concern for the welfare of 
indigenous populations such as Pygmies, telling the Ambassador that 
she plans to create a new position of Advisor on Indigenous 
Populations. 
 
Kinshasa 
-------- 
 
10. (U) On Day 3 of her visit, Administrator Fore held several 
high-level meetings in Kinshasa focused on the peace process, the 
DRC's development agenda and the United States' efforts to involve 
the private sector in economic growth and development.  She 
discussed the future of MONUC and UN support for the Goma peace 
process at a breakfast hosted by the Ambassador with SRSG Alan Doss, 
UNICEF Director Anthony Bloomberg and Lise Grand, Chief of Staff to 
the Deputy SRSG.  At a press conference following the meeting, 
Administrator Fore highlighted the United States' support for the 
Nairobi and Goma processes.  She announced an increase to more than 
$100 million in U.S. bilateral non-emergency foreign assistance in 
FY 2008.  She also called for respect for the rights of women, and 
the importance of responsible natural resource management and 
public-private partnerships as engines of economic growth. 
 
11. (U) Administrator Fore expressed U.S. readiness to aid Congolese 
development efforts in her meeting with Prime Minister Antoine 
Gizenga later than morning (ref B).  Gizenga stressed that the DRC 
lacked viable infrastructure 48 years after independence.  He said 
it would benefit from U.S. assistance in the construction, 
agriculture and industrial sectors.  Administrator Fore noted that 
public works would create additional economic benefits in the form 
of jobs.  She also highlighted the need for educational, health, and 
economic assistance for women and children, not only in the east but 
throughout the country.  Gizenga expressed appreciation for U.S. 
support for and involvement in the Goma peace process. 
 
12. (U) At a lunch at the Ambassador's residence, Administrator Fore 
exchanged views with Fr. Apollinaire Muhongulu Malumalu, of North 
Kivu, who chaired the January 2008 Kivu Conference on Peace, 
Security, and Development and is now National Coordinator of the 
"Amani" follow-up program.  She emphasized a clear message of U.S. 
support for the peace process, continued diplomatic engagement, 
increased funding for stabilization and humanitarian activities in 
eastern Congo, and technical and financial support to the structures 
put in place to implement recommendations of the conference. 
 
13. (U) During her meeting with President Joseph Kabila, 
Administrator Fore reaffirmed U.S. support for development 
assistance to the DRC and for the Kivus peace process and Nairobi 
communiqu (ref C).  She also emphasized the need for the Congolese 
people to see tangible benefits of peace in their daily lives. 
Kabila highlighted his "five priorities" platform, which encompasses 
infrastructure (including roads), employment, health, 
water/electricity and education, and expressed interest in 
revitalizing rural areas.  The Ambassador and Mission Director 
 
KINSHASA 00000299  003 OF 003 
 
 
Haykin agreed to follow up on governance and development issues with 
Kabila's designated point of contact, Chief of Staff (and former 
USAID employee) Raymond Tshibanda.  Administrator Fore cited the 
importance of land conservation practices to rural development and 
highlighted private-sector development as a potentially stabilizing 
influence. 
 
14. (U) Meeting with key private sector representatives, including 
existing and potential new USAID Global Development Alliance 
partners, Administrator Fore focused on enhancing their 
understanding of and commitment to public-private partnerships with 
the United States to achieve shared development goals.  In that 
regard, she announced development of the African Entrepreneurs' 
Facility to support investments in small and medium enterprises and 
solicited business leaders' opinions on areas where USAID could work 
together with the business sector in the DRC.  Business leaders 
responded with specific ideas including technical training and 
governance activities. 
 
15. (SBU) Mission Director Haykin announced the development of a 
Memorandum of Understanding for a new public-private partnership to 
support development activities in Katanga, bringing together USAID, 
Katanga Provincial Government, Anvil Mining, First Quantum Mining, 
Metorex Mining, and the UK Department for International Development 
(DFID).  USAID continues to work with U.S. mining company Freeport 
McMoRan to bring this important company into the partnership, 
although they have expressed some hesitancy to take part in an 
initiative that involves other mining companies. 
 
16. (U) Administrator Fore also met with key bilateral donor 
representatives and USAID implementing partners to reinforce strong 
exiting relationships with the United States and to encourage them 
to strengthen ties with the private sector. 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
17. (U) This was a highly successful visit.  As the first senior 
U.S. official to visit the DRC since the Goma conference, 
Administrator Fore reinforced the United States' commitment to the 
peace process and support for the rights of women.  Her meetings 
with the president and the prime minister signaled Mission 
commitment to work closely at the highest levels to advance our 
common development objectives.  The visit provided an intensive 
overview of the DRC's complex peace, security and governance issues. 
 It also demonstrated the global significance of USAID's support for 
the Congo Basin Forest Partnership. 
 
Action items 
------------ 
 
18. Significant actions resulting from the visit of Administrator 
Fore will include: 
 
a) Prompt consultation with the Office of the President on 
strengthening dialogue on development issues including governance 
(ref C); 
b) Raising the level of dialogue on Global Climate Change and 
markets for environmental services (e.g. carbon credits) through 
greater consultation between CARPE staff and State and USAID 
personnel in Washington; 
c) Integrating programs to train public officials throughout foreign 
assistance activities; 
d) Seeking TDY support for conceptualizing and developing new Global 
Development Alliances; 
e) Reviewing government and donor programs on improving transport 
infrastructure to ensure that priority needs are being met; and 
f) Supporting junior officers through mentoring and training 
opportunities. 
 
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