Support to the Congo Basin Forest Fund

The project aims to contribute to the Fund managed by the African Development Bank that has the twin goals of reducing poverty and addressing climate change through reducing slowing and eventually reversing the rate of deforestation in the Congo Basin region. Around 80 million inhabitants of the Congo Basin in particular vulnerable groups (women indigenous peoples groups) are the main beneficiaries of the Fund. Proposed projects selected through calls for proposals need to be aligned with the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) Action Plan and demonstrate how the proposed activities respond to poverty alleviation and ensure that people living in or close to forests can obtain increased and sustained benefits from a more valuable intact forest compared to a degraded or destroyed forest.

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: Congo Basin Governments and forest-dependent communities receive increased benefits from sustainably managed forest landscapes.