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Yaoundé,
Cameroon, January 13, 2021 - The Central African Forest Commission (Comifac), a
joint body of the countries of the sub-region responsible for coordinating
actions for the conservation and sustainable management of forest ecosystems,
announces the accession of the Republic of Angola to the institution as its
eleventh member state. On October 20, President João Lourenço, after a vote in
the Angolan National Assembly, signed the letter of accession of his country.
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Bujumbura, Burundi, March 17, 2023 -
The opening of the ministerial segment of the eleventh COMIFAC Council
of Ministers was marked by the handover ceremony of the Chairmanship
between the Republic of Cameroon, outgoing Chair, and the Republic of
Burundi, incoming Chair, represented by Pr Sanctus NIRAGIRA, Minister of
the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock of the Republic of Burundi
in the presence of the Prime Minister, Head of Government Lieutenant
General Gervais NDIRAKOBUCA, Heads of Institutions, Ambassadors of
COMIFAC member countries, technical and financial partners, regional and
international organizations, and the business community.
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The meeting
between the two illustrious personalities was held on Monday, January 24, 2022,
at the Ministry of Forests and Wildlife of Cameroon and focused on:Decoding COP
26 - Next steps, MoP: a) COMIFAC's assumption of the co-chairmanship of the
MoP: MoP date, theme and structure; b) MoP invitation letter for COMIFAC
ministers by COMIFAC chair; c) MoP invitation letter by COMIFAC current chair
to ministers; Next CBFP facilitation. ..
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On Wednesday, March 8, at 3:00 p.m.
(Yaoundé time) on MS Team, in anticipation of the end of the German CBFP
Facilitation scheduled for July 2023, and with a view to preparing the
handover from the German Facilitation to the France-Gabon
Co-Facilitation, the Facilitator of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Honorable Dr. Christian Ruck, held a meeting with the members of the
Intergovernmental College and Multilateral Institutions of the CBFP.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 11:30 am
(Bangui time) the first coordination meeting of the year 2023 of the
partners Co-leaders of the Bloc Centre for the follow-up of the
implementation of the Declaration of N'Djaména on Transhumance, took
place on MS Team.
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On Wednesday, February 8 at 15.00 CET
(Berlin, Brussels, Kinshasa Time) on MS Team, the partners and
co-leaders of the Eastern Block of the follow-up of the implementation
of the N'Djaména Declaration on Transhumance held their first
coordination meeting of the year 2023. This meeting followed the meeting
of the Central block on Tuesday, January 31, 2023.
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N'Djamena from 27 February to 2 March – During this visit to Chad, the
CBFP Facilitator of the Federal Republic of Germany, Honorable Dr.
Christian Ruck was granted audiences by high-level political authorities
of the Republic of Chad and a regional organization...
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On 14 December 2021, H.E. Dr. Déo-Guide RUREMA,
Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock of Burundi, presided
over the official handover ceremony of COVID-19 control equipment to
Health Centres located in the vicinity of the national and transboundary
protected areas, to COMIFAC National Coordination of Burundi and to
civil society organisations.
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The European Union was about to get rid of its main tool in the fight
against illegal logging. However, civil society organizations from all
over the world have protested to change the situation. Few months ago,
the European Union (EU) seemed determined to abandon what constitutes
its most innovative and ambitious initiative in the fight against
illegal logging on a global scale.
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The "One Forest Youth Forum (OFYF)" was
held from 27 to 28 February 2023 in Libreville (Gabon) as a prelude to
the One Forest Summit. The event was organized spontaneously by the
youth, members of AGRIDIS and the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance
(PACJA Gabon) in collaboration with the National Youth Councils of
ECCAS, the Youth Network for Central African Forests (REJEFAC), and a
hundred NGOs and youth associations involved in the tackling of
environmental, climate and forestry issues.
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Bujumbura, Republic of Burundi, March
13-14, 2023 - The sub-regional workshop on the results of the 27th
Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended today.
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"Since March 1, 2023, the United
Kingdom has taken over the chairmanship of the Central African Forest
Initiative, CAFI, following Germany. The UK's new role in CAFI follows
on from the work done at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland, which
highlighted the importance of the Congo Basin.
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As the world races to mitigate global
warming, agricultural expansion generally characterized by the practice
of slash and burn has been identified as the topmost driver of
deforestation that leads to carbon emission in the world’s largest
carbon sink. In a new report titled Congo Basin Forests – State of the
Forests 2021 produced by the Central Africa Forest Observatory (OFAC),
experts say population growth puts fresh pressure on the forests of
Central Africa and consequently reduce carbon stock as thousands of
arrival of agrarian households into forest areas leads to clearing to
establish farmlands. The experts also listed logging, territorial
development, land use, governance and need for energy as other factors
driving deforestation.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have
signed an agreement with the Government of Lao People’s Democratic
Republic (PDR) for a USD 79.3 million project (USD 35.2 million in GCF
financing), to address a much-needed transition to the climate resilient
management of forests and landscapes at scale.
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GCF and the World Bank have signed an
instrumental legal agreement to rapidly begin implementing the second
phase of a renewable energy facility. It will support nine countries in
meeting their NDC commitments while increasing access to electricity for
the most vulnerable populations. The mitigation/adaptation
cross-cutting Facility aims to also increase the reliability of the grid
infrastructure, improving the country’s economic resilience, and the
resilience of vulnerable households to better adapt to the devastating
impacts of climate change.
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On 5 January 2023, during the ceremony
to present New Year’s greetings to the President of the Republic of
Congo, Denis Sassou N’Guesso reiterated the announcement he had made at
the 27th United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) in Egypt. In his
capacity as president of the Congo Basin Climate Commission, he
announced that the summit of the world’s three major forest basins would
be held in Brazzaville in June 2023. The Congo Basin in Central Africa,
the Amazon Basin in South America and the Borneo Mekong Basin in
Southeast Asia.
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Bujumbura, Republic of Burundi, March
17, 2023, under the high patronage of His Excellency Major Evariste
NDAYISHIMIYE, President of the Republic, Head of State of Burundi, the
eleventh ordinary session of the Council of Ministers of the Central
African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) was held on March 17, 2023 in
Bujumbura, Republic of Burundi.
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As part of an effort to operationalize
an integrated landscape approach in southern Zambia, the COLANDS
(Collaborating to operationalize landscape approaches for nature,
development, and sustainability) initiative has been developing and
applying new tools and techniques designed to understand and integrate
stakeholder visions for the Kalomo Hills Forest Reserve landscape.
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The General Secretariat for Land
Management has launched the study on the national forestry capital for
the preparation of the national scheme of land management of the
Democratic Republic of Congo. This study, which is expected to take1
year, aims at determining the ecological (conservation), economic and
social potentials of the forest massifs for the whole national
territory. The launching ceremony took place this Tuesday, March 14, in
Kinshasa.
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“Working on gender issues requires the
ability to understand questions such as ‘why’ and ‘how’,” said Stibniati
Atmadja, Ethiopia’s Country Lead for the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD)’s Women’s Land Rights Initiative (WLR).
“Qualitative data is key for this – but collecting and analyzing such
data is a major skill gap in many countries.”
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The third international conference of
parliamentarians on the sustainable management of Central African forest
ecosystems was held in Libreville, Gabon, from 27 to 28 February 2023.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board has
selected Mafalda Duarte as its new Executive Director. Following an
extensive global recruitment process, the Board made the selection
during its thirty-fifth meeting at the GCF headquarters in Songdo,
Incheon, Republic of Korea.
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Jean Christophe Bokika Ngawolo,
Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the NGO Mbou-Mon-Tour, was
among the few personalities to speak at the One Forest Summit in the
presence of various heads of state including Emmanuel Macron, Denis
Sassou Nguesso and Ali Bongo. His organization was created in 1997 by a
few university executives from the village of Nkala, in the territory of
Bolobo (Maï-Ndombe). This territory has one of the highest densities of
bonobos, an endemic species of the country and endangered according to
the IUCN Red List.
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The Central African Forest Commission
(COMIFAC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture
and Livestock of Burundi and with the financial support of the German
cooperation through the GIZ project to support COMIFAC are organizing
the eleventh ordinary session of its Council of Ministers from 14 to 17 March 2023 in Bujumbura, Republic of Burundi.
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In order to improve the efficiency of
the management of Protected Areas, the DRC, with the involvement of its
partners, had invested in the BIOPAMA project in order to contribute to
the development of the IMET tool "Integrated Management Effectiveness
Tool". The use of the IMET tool in 18 DRC Protected Areas, for an
overall frequency of 33 assessments, contributed to the diagnosis of
management problems and to generate structured information to guide
decision making for the change of the conservation status.
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For developing countries who are part
of the UN’s REDD+ scheme (to reduce emissions from deforestation and
forest degradation, and foster conservation, sustainable management of
forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks), establishing baseline
forest reference emission levels (FREL) is essential obligation to
track progress towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. FREL covers
emissions from deforestation and – in some countries – from forest
degradation and peat decomposition. In countries like Indonesia, Peru,
the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the Republic of Congo (RoC),
that have large amounts of standing forest – and which can contribute
significantly to a country’s emissions due to land-use change – these
reference levels are particularly critical.
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Ghana has become the second country in
Africa after Mozambique to receive payments from a World Bank trust fund
for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation,
commonly known as REDD+. The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership
Facility (FCPF) paid Ghana $4,862,280 for reducing 972,456 tons of
carbon emissions for the first monitoring period under the program (June
to December 2019).
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Douala, Republic of Cameroon, February
23, 2023- The Executive Secretary of COMIFAC, Mr. Hervé Martial MAIDOU,
today presided over the opening ceremony of the fourteenth workshop of
the Sub-Group on Protected Areas and Wildlife (SGTAPFS).
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Paris, 27 February 2023 – The One
Forest Summit will be held in Libreville, Gabon, on 01-02 March, with
the goal of making progress on climate action and protecting
biodiversity by promoting solidarity between the three major forest
basins of the world. Director General Audrey Azoulay will attend to
highlight UNESCO’s unique mandate to protect forest areas and numerous
conservation programs.
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Mungu Amurinde Jeanne d’Arc, a resident
of Rubavu District in the Western Province of Rwanda has expressed
special gratitude to the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame for the
positive impacts brought by the Sebeya Catchment conservation project.
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Baroness Scotland is head of the
Commonwealth Secretariat - the organisation's main intergovernmental
agency. Getty Image. The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Rt Hon Patricia
Scotland KC, will be in Gabon from Wednesday 1 March to highlight the
importance of protecting global biodiversity at the One Forest Summit in
Libreville on Thursday.
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The SOF 2021 four-part report
highlights facts and figures on the Congo basin forests recognized
worldwide for their essential role in carbon sequestration and the
conservation of biological diversity. It also provides considerations
that will guide decisions on forest management.
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Following an initial call for proposals
launched in March 2022, the RESSAC coordination committee is calling on
scientific and academic institutions from Central African and European
countries, as well as on forest and environmental resource managers from
Central Africa, to form a grouping and submit research proposals for
RESSAC funding. For this second call for proposals, the RESSAC programme
will favour research proposals relating to the social and/or economic
sciences. Proposals should be sent by 15 April 2023 at the latest.
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For decades, Lake Chad has remained a
mainstay for the Basin’s 45-50 million people, most of whom are
fishermen, farmers, herders, and petty traders who depend on the Lake
for their livelihoods and economic well-being. However, over the years,
the combined effects of the Lake’s shrinking and variability due to
climate change has resulted in the increasing loss of livelihood for the
region.
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Niamey is hosting a high-level
international conference on the Lake Chad Basin since 23 January 2023.
Co-organized by Germany, Norway, the United Nations System (OCHA, UNDP)
and Niger (host country), this two-day meeting brings together the
governments of the region (Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon) as well as
international donors and partners, multilateral and international
organizations.
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The commitment was made during the
High-Level Conference on the Lake Chad Region held in Niamey from 23 –
24 January 2023. The two-day Conference brought together over 30
countries, international organisations, and more than 100 civil society
organisations in the capital of Niger. The Conference aimed to ensure
that the people of this hard-hit region have humanitarian assistance and
protection and foster solutions for durable solutions, including the
voluntary return, reintegration, and resettlement of returnees and
displaced persons (refugees band internally displaced persons) in a
dignified manner.
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Should the international community pay
tropical forest countries for services to humanity? The countries
concerned frequently request such payments to compensate for their loss
of revenue as a result of being unable to convert forest areas to
farmland and mining operations. The authors of the latest IDDRI Issue
Brief are calling for "payments for environmental services" schemes to
be included in a broader co-investment for sustainable development
approach.
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The Adaptation Fund has launched a new
USD 10 million pilot small grants programme (Adaptation Fund Climate
Innovation Accelerator, AFCIA) to foster innovation in adaptation in
developing countries at the United Nations Climate Change Conference
(COP25) in Madrid. Two of the Adaptation Fund’s accredited Multilateral
Implementing Entities (MIEs), the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), have been
selected as implementing entities of the AFCIA.
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The first trainings of the actors of
the sector for the year 2022 took place in Gabon from January 12 to 28
with the full satisfaction of the beneficiaries and the government
authorities. The two training sessions aimed at providing forestry and
wood industry actors with the capacity to better understand the upcoming
forestry resource exploitation contexts ended in Gabon on January 28.
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ATIBT expresses its deepest condolences
to his family and friends. Franck Bisiaux did not need any other
diploma than his agricultural BTS to lead a brilliant career for more
than 20 years in West and Central Africa.
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Rwanda is set to host the regional
headquarters of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) following a
presidential order signed by President Paul Kagame and issued in the
national gazette. Founded in 1895, Wildlife Conservation Society is an
NGO with headquarters in New York with the aim to conserve the world's
largest wildlife and wild places in 14 priority regions home to more
than 50 percent of the world's biodiversity.
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A visit from World Forest ID to the
ATIBT gave us an insight into this interesting approach. Tackling global
deforestation and degradation requires that the actors involved in
global supply chains have the means to accurately verify the identity
and geographic source of both timber and deforestation-related
agricultural commodities.
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The year 2021 ended with excellent news for the Congo Basin PAFC project: the scheme is now recognized by the PEFC Council!
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In December 2021, the consortium formed
by Eticwood and Nature+, both members of ATIBT, was selected for the
Technical Coordination of the AFD EU FLEGT Program. Presentation of the
Program. This program focuses on eight priority countries (Cameroon,
Congo, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Liberia, Central African Republic and
Vietnam) and will last for a period of 4 years (2022-2025). The main
objective of the Program is to contribute to sustainable forest
management, with 3 sub-objectives: operationalization of the VPA,
capacity building of civil society organizations, and support to the
private sector in the implementation of the VPA.
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The Ocean is of vital importance to
current and future generations. There is only one Ocean. Every State,
every economic player, every community of people and every individual
has a responsibility to conserve it and to use it sustainably. We, Heads
of State and Government and the European Union, are deeply concerned
about the continued degradation of the Ocean from human activities
escalating the devastating effects of the climate change and
biodiversity crises.
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The year 2021 ended with excellent news for the Congo Basin PAFC project: the scheme is now recognized by the PEFC Council!
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For decades, Fern and partners have
campaigned to strengthen the rights of forest peoples and protect and
restore forests. There have been locust years, when things went
backwards, and harvest years, when plans come to fruition. Gratifyingly,
2021 was a year in which the forest movement achieved outstanding
successes and we enter 2022 energised and ready to defend and build on
them.
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She succeeds Olman Serrano, whose term
of office was coming to an end. On the same day, an extraordinary
general assembly allowed for certain modifications to be made to the
statutes of our association. The new statutes will soon be available on
the ATIBT website.
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UN Biodiversity Convention to host
series of webinars prior to the resumed sessions of its two subsidiary
bodies and working group on post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
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The year 2021 ended with excellent news for the Congo Basin PAFC project: the scheme is now recognized by the PEFC Council!
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Under the
supervision of the Congo basin impact monitoring coordinator, and in close
collaboration with the regional coordination team members and national teams,
the socioeconomic monitoring intern will focus on protocol development for data
collection, the monitoring of data collection processes, the compilation and
structuration of existing and new data, and the analyses and production of
technical reports. Deadline for receipt of applications: 22nd April 2023.
The main
objective of the consultancy is to document good practices, and lessons learnt
during the implementation of the Africa Youth Thematic Hub during the period
2018 – 2022 guided by the four areas of the project’s areas of strategic
engagement including advancing policy, capacity building, green
entrepreneurship and networking platforms. The assignment will also provide
recommendations for the future based on the lessons learnt from the project.
Proposals shall be submitted electronically through e-mail.
recruit-cam@wwfcam.org, latest April 16th 2023. With the subject
‘’Documentation Ltc- AYTH 2018 -2022’’.
Employees
in this job correct, process and reconcile a wide variety of accounting
documents such as invoices, programme billings, employee reimbursements, cash
receipts, vendor statements, and journal vouchers; review and code financial
information; prepare and process documents to disburse funds, make deposits and
prepare reports; prepare bank signatory updates, prepares consultant contracts
and grants, compile and review information for accuracy; and maintain records.
Work is performed by applying knowledge of accounting terminology and using
spreadsheets and the Oracle accounting system. Deadline for applications:
Monday 10th April 2023.
The incubation
and mentoring program called “Greenovations Africa - 2023” is part of the
Greenovations project´s strategy to build capacities of young and women African
innovators and entrepreneurs in the green sector with tailor-made support,
mentorship, as well as seed grant funding to bring their innovations to market
and scale in the green sector. Applicants may apply until 23rd April 2023.
The World Wide
Fund for Nature (WWF) is seeking a consultant to carry out feasibility studies
and workshops to strengthen the enabling conditions for co-management models in
Cameroon and support the development of a co-management system for Lobeke
National Park. Any proposal shall be submitted electronically to the following
address no later than April 15th 2023.
The consultant will work closely with WWFs Regional Forest
coordinator for Central Africa with guidance from WWF advisor
responsible forestry, as well as the relevant staff of IFO.
Communication with the WWF shall occur on a monthly basis at the least.
... Any proposal shall be submitted electronically to the following
address no later than March 15th 2023
Following
an initial call for proposals launched in March 2022, the RESSAC coordination
committee is calling on scientific and academic institutions from Central
African and European countries, as well as on forest and environmental resource
managers from Central Africa, to form a grouping and submit research proposals
for RESSAC funding. For this second call for proposals, the RESSAC programme
will favour research proposals relating to the social and/or economic sciences.
Proposals should be sent by 15 April 2023 at the latest.
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