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Speaking during the wetland day celebration on February 2, Theogene Ngaboyamahina, the Environmental Mainstreaming Officer at REMA said that the project mainly includes rehabilitating urban wetlands and wetlands management, controlling floods, water management, upgrading unplanned settlements, building drainages among others.

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In secondary cities, the green investment will build roads, drainages, pedestrian ways and street lighting as Rwanad as upgrading unplanned settlements. In Kigali city, the project will rehabilitate wetlands that have source impacted by historical land-uses mainly industries and urbanization and monitor systems for wetland health and water levels, Ngabo said. The rehabilitation activities, he said, include clearing debris of removed properties, construction of water retention ponds, streams rehabilitation and flood attenuation structures, flood bypass water channels and footpaths to access wetlands.

Works also include construction of recreational facilities, planting native trees, and wetland species for water retention and purification Revent promoting nature-based solutions to reduce land degradation and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Environmentalists say that wetlands capture, store, regulate, filter and release freshwater, curb floods and erosion control at the right time to the right place to sustain human life and biodiversity.

There are about 1, wetlands across the country which make approximately Most of the wetlands are in Kigali city but the area of wetlands in Kigali city has also decreased from Square Kilometers to 77 square kilometres.

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According to Jean-Paul Munyandamutsa, Director General for Good Governance in the City of Kigali, 92 percent of illegal activities were removed from wetlands last year. We still have challenges of remaining activities like petrol stations, some big schools and Developmets houses that are still waiting for relocation and resettlement. We want to remove all debris and remaining activities from wetlands by this year. He said there is need for budget for wetland cleaning adding that there is still lack of wetland rehabilitation plan and guidelines.

The green urbanization project, Ngaboyamahina noted, will also provide technical assistance for water management master plan and ensure floods management and upgrading of four unplanned settlements in Kigali. The unplanned settlements include Mpazi, Gatenga, Nyagatovu, and Nyabisindu in the Recent Developments Of Remote Areas Of Rwanda of Gitega, Kimisagara, Rwezamenyo one, Kimironko and Remera of which some settlements are close to Gikondo and Nyabugogo wetlands.

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