Representatives of the Ministry of Water, Environment, Land and Urban Planning, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Lake Tanganyika Authority, local environmental NGOs and some environmental development partners (UNDP, Global Environment Facility –GEF and UNOPS) validated, after some amendments, the document of National Action Plan (NAP) for Lake Tanganyika natural resources management. According to Gaspard Ntakimazi, Consultant and University Professor, the document is about a National Action Plan for implementing the Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for protecting the Lake Tanganyika biodiversity that was adopted in Kigoma (Tanzania) last February by the 5 th Lake Tanganyika Authority Conference of Ministers, (Burundi, DRC, Tanzania and Zambia).