Country Initiatives Details
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$2,000,000 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $1,870,000 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $130,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Democratic Republic of Congo
Gabon
Guinea
Sao Tome and Principe
Funding Period: 2011 to 2012, 2012 to 2013
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Cross-cutting
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The Congo Basin in Central Africa is home to one-quarter of the world's tropical forests. This vast area is critical for regional and global ecological services as it acts as a carbon sink and catchment basin. As a complement to its investment in the Congo Basin Forest Fund, Canada provided an additional $2 million to support sustainable forest management projects and promote the conservation of Congo Basin forest resources.
Results/Expected Outcomes
As the facilitator of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) from 2010 to 2012, Canada provided $2 million to the CBFP over years two and three of the fast start period to support technical assistance to working groups on climate change, forestry governance, biodiversity, and desertification in the Congo basin region.With support from Canada's contribution, the CBFP Facilitation provided additional support for technical assistance to working groups on climate change, forestry governance, biodiversity, and desertification.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$780,000 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $780,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo
Gabon
Guinea
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Funding Period: 2012 to 2013
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Canada provided support to this initiative to improve understanding and enhance capacity on the selection, design and financing of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in 10 countries located in the Congo Basin Region.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Two separate activities were conducted through this project: (1) national workshops; and, (2) a nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) identification report in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The results of the workshop and the workshop material have been transformed into an online training tool with free world wide access (http://www.iisd.org/learning/course/index.php?categoryid=18). More importantly the project will lead to a NAMA proposal in the biofuel sector as the background document to finance the implementation of the NAMA in the DRC.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$970,000 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $180,000 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $500,000 CAD
- 2010 to 2011: $290,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Funding Period: 2010 to 2011, 2011 to 2012, 2012 to 2013
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The objective of this project is to promote the economic growth of the countries of the Congo Basin by contributing to the creation of an enabling environment in which socio-economic actors can ensure a fair and sustainable management of natural resources and their derived products. The project supports the implementation of the Central Africa Forests Commission (COMIFAC) Action plan.
The project specifically aims to support the facilitation of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), a non-binding partnership established in 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg today with today 70 organizations, including: the 10 States Member of COMIFAC, bilateral and multilateral organizations, non-governmental organizations, research institutions and private sector representatives.
The CBFP works closely with COMIFAC, the sub-regional institution responsible for the orientation and harmonization of forest and environmental policies in order to promote the conservation and sustainable management of the Congo Basin forest ecosystems. These natural resources are of paramount importance for the development and growth of national economies in the region and are also the main source of livelihood of nearly 30 million people.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2013) include: (i) The number of Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) members increased from 54 to 70 organizations, (ii) CBFP supported Central Africa Forests Commission (COMIFAC) in various international fora on climate change, (iii) five international conferences in four Central African countries on the conservation and sustainable management of forest ecosystems in the Congo Basin have been held gathering some 250 to 350 participants per event; (iv) COMIFAC consultation platforms in the areas of governance, biodiversity and desertification were supported technically (v) the CBFP website has been strengthened and updated regularly (vi) civil society groups, including women's groups, were supported to facilitate their participation in international fora on climate change and (vii) gender issues were integrated in the COMIFAC action plan.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$20,000,000 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $20,000,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Democratic Republic of Congo
Gabon
Guinea
Sao Tome and Principe
Funding Period: 2011 to 2012
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Cross-cutting
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
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.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved as of the end of the DFATD-supported portion of the project (March 2014) include: supporting 37 projects in all of the ten Commission des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale (COMIFAC) member countries, directly benefitting almost 88, 000 people. The Fund is operational until 2018.
Some highlights of results from these projects include: (1) over 48,000 individuals participated in the production, processing and/or selling of non-timber forest products; (2) over 52,000 people in the South Kwamouth area of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had improved access to markets and 369 farmers and unemployed people obtained temporary employment in the construction of temporary bridges and the rehabilitation of 20 kilometres of feeder roads; (3) approximately 3.3 million forest and agriculture saplings were produced and 16,500 hectares of land were planted with forestry or agroforestry tree species and agricultural crops; (4) the management plan for Central Africa’s 686,554 hectare Dzanga Sangha Protected Area was developed and validated; (5) 55 forestry and climate change related scholarships for post-graduate studies at regional and international universities were awarded, strengthening the capacity of 18 academic and technical institutions involved in training for the forestry sector and improving national experts' knowledge of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and climate change; (6) in 2013, 57 forest and environment-related studies were undertaken, including the first-ever edition of COMIFAC’s Scientific and Technical Review - Forest and Environment (Revue Scientifique et Technique - Forêt & Environment); (7) 190 households in the DRC received five hectares of land each for agroforestry plantations; (8) the participation of women and indigenous people in the REDD+ process for the Congo Basin region was supported by, for example, ensuring the participation of five women and indigenous people in Cameroon’s National REDD+ Coordination Committee for the planning of activities for 2013 and conducting awareness-raising and training sessions for almost 2,000 people on REDD+ (of whom 1,340 were women and 1,590 were indigenous people) in Cameroon, Central African Republic and the DRC.
All of these have contributed to ensuring that that Congo Basin governments and forest-dependent communities are able to benefit more from sustainably managed forest landscapes.