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Please find below recently (starting in February 2008) published reports or presentations delivered in the context of the partnership's activities. We have chosen this somehow eclectic presentation, structured only by the date of publication on our website, in order to be able to keep in track with number of incoming reports and presentations without having to reshuffle categories every other month.

However, a number of documents considered as key documents for the partnership (treaties, international conventions and framework papers) have been posted in a special section mentioned in the header. If you still cannot find the document you are looking for, please try the search function on top of the page or have a look on the PEFAC site, which offers a real digital library with a number os search functions.

Full documentation of the technical and financial support Programme of the United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification (GM/CCD) to member countries of the COMIFAC and of the CEEAC

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A series of relevant documents are available on CBFP website to enable a better understanding of progress in the Congo Basin in relation to the Convention on the fight against Desertification via the Technical and Financial Support Programme of the United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification (GM/CCD) to member countries of the COMIFAC and of the CEEAC

Here are the links to a series of relevant documents to enable a better understanding of progress in the Congo Basin in relation to the Convention on the fight against Desertification:

♦ The sub-regional Action Plan is available at http://www.unccd.int/ActionProgrammes/casrap-fre2007.pdf. National reports are available at http://www.unccd.int/en/regional-access/Africa/Pages/africa.aspx, the NAP/CCD of Cameroun, for instance, are available at http://www.unccd.int/ActionProgrammes/cameroon-fre2006.pdf.

♦ More documents can be found on the following link: Full documentation of the technical and financial support programme of the global mechanism at COMIFAC and CEEAC.

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Proceedings and documentation of 12th CBFP Meeting of Partners, Douala, Cameroon

Download all the presentations, official statements and general documents related to the 12th CBFP Meeting of Partners

Proceedings and presentation of the CBFP Thematic Day in Douala on Gender Mainstreaming within COMIFAC - A gender strategy at the center of COMIFAC action plan

Participants at the Douala meeting enjoyed once again the great number of high-quality presentations allowing for better mutual understanding and informed discussions. Please mind that all the presentations and info notes have been edited in French. Please do not hesitate to contact the Facilitation, if you have any questions

Acknowledgement of your participation in Gender Equality Day and the 12th Meeting of Partners (MoP) of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP)

Please, visit CBFP website for the major Conclusions of both meetings

Full documentation of the technical and financial support Programme of the United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification (GM/CCD) to member countries of the COMIFAC and of the CEEAC

Here are the links to a series of relevant documents to enable a better understanding of progress in the Congo Basin in relation to the Convention on the fight against Desertification

Proceedings of the Congo Basin REDD/Nagoya Day (Bujumbura 25 May 2011)

The 9th CBFP Regional Advisory Committee meeting revives interest in COMIFAC, CBFP and CEFDHAC - For a better coordination of REDD+ and APA initiatives in the Congo Basin – CBFP partners outline strong recommendations in Bujumbura - Press coffee: the media involved in the promotion of Cancun and Nagoya recommendations in Bujumbura

Documentation: Visit of CBFP Facilitators to Yaoundé: Brief but Fruitful

A meeting on "Forest Research and Adaptation to Climate Change” was organised by the CBFP members in Yaoundé on 14 September 2011

Rwanda Forest and Landscape Restoration: Stakeholder Consultative Meeting Outcomes Kigali, Rwanda 18th to 21st July

This document provides the main outcomes of the consultative meeting held to initiate discussions around a national programme on Forest & Landscape Restoration (FL&R) in Rwanda. The outcomes described here are intended as an initial set of issues and recommended strategies which will be further analyzed and defined during an in-depth programme planning process

Proceedings and documentation of “State of Forest” (EDF) validation workshop, Douala (29-30 March 2011)

The COMIFAC workshop with the technical support of the Observatory for the Forests of Central Africa (OFAC) was a full success! “Rich” presentations with much more detailed inform on the technical issues of State of the forest 2010 preparedness in the Congo Basin

Proceedings of the COMIFAC international Workshop on “forest governance and sustainable standards”, Kinshasa, RDC

The workshop under the patronage of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) met the needs to promote dialogue and sharing experiences and knowledge in a multi-stakeholder-setting. It explored synergies between forest relevant regulatory processes and market based voluntary standard initiatives in the Central African Region. This workshop was organized with the technical and financial support of GIZ on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Please find below the presentations for download.

Proceedings and documentation of CCR 8 Kinshasa

Download all the presentations, official statements and general documents related to the 8th meeting of the CBFP Regional Consultative Committee in Kinshasa (27-28 September 2010)

The turning point ... 2009 CIFOR Annual Report

The CIFOR annual report is now available here online

Documentation of the Support Program of the Global Mechanism of the United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification (GM/CCD) to member countries of the COMIFAC and of the CEEAC

After the adoption of the Sub-Regional Action Program (SRAP) » as the key operational tools to combat desertification (CD), the Global Mechanism signed a cooperation agreement on Support Program to the COMIFAC and CEEAC for resource mobilization and the implementation of the (SRAP) /(CD) in central Africa. This is to address the nexus between land and natural resource degradation, rural development and poverty reduction. Please find here the complete proceedings and presentations of the Global Mechanism Support Program for central Africa.

Proceedings of the COMIFAC Workshop on “FLEGT - Policy instrument and technical implications”

The workshop presided by the CBFP Facilitation and COMIFAC met the needs to build up capacities of political and private actors on the various aspects of FLEGT. Please find below the presentations for download.

COMIFAC workshop's documentation on REDD (Brazzaville, 2-4 February 2010)

The COMIFAC workshop with the support of OFAC, OSFAC, UN FAO, WRI, WWF, START and JRC was a full success! “Rich” presentations with much more detailed inform on the technical issues of REDD preparedness in the Congo Basin

Proceedings of the 6th CBFP plenary meeting (Yaounde, 11-12 november 2009)

You will find a large part of the presentations and speeches issued during the plenary meeting on this site. Please bear with us that we could not tranlate them into English. Should you request any specific document that is not (yet) available on this site, please do not hesitate to contact the Facilitation.

Proceedings and documentation of CCR 7 Douala

Please find below the English proceedings as well as the link to the French documentation

Democratic Republic of Congo workshop on the post-conversion process of forest titles, (Kinshasa, 4-6th of March 2009)

In addition to the final communiqué published by the PFBC Facilitation and participant's recommendations published also as workshop communiqué, below, what we propose to you is the complete documentation (mostly available in french) of this workshop marked by the input from various stakeholders groups, and also a selection of essential documents aims to provide a basis for refining our understanding of the discussions in progress (decrees and articles, results of the Inter-ministerial Commission and the final report of the Independent observer)

Background documents Congo Basin REDD Donor Dialogue (23 october 2008)

Please find below all background documents circulated prior to the meeting, presentations given by the participants and additional materials compiled as “annexes” to the meeting's summary

Proceedings and presentation of the 6th CCR meeting in Brazzaville

Participants at the Brazzaville meeting enjoyed once again the great number of high-quality presentations allowing for better mutual understanding and informed discussions. Please mind that all the presentations and info notes have been edited in French.

Research papers concerning sustainable financing of the Congo Basin forests

Please find below two research documents published by UNEP and by the British DFID , discussing sustainable financing and possible governance structures for the Congo Basin Forest Fund

Presentations delivered at the COMIFAC side event during COP9 CBD in Bonn (May 28, 2008)

Please find below the presentations for download

Proceedings of the IFIA Workshop for Dialogue (Libreville 22 mai 2008)

The Libreville workshop brought together Asian and other economic operators in the Central African region. Please find below the complete proceedings and presentations of the workshop

COMIFAC Workshop on REDD (Paris, 10-14 March 2008)

The workshop, financed by the German and the French Cooperation and organised by the French Development Agency AFD in Paris, met Central African countries' need to build up capacities in order to continue their efforts in reducing emissions by deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in a future climate regime.

Proceedings of the 5th CBFP -CCR meeting, Bangui (March 2008)

Highly placed on the agenda of this 5th meeting of the Regional Advisory Committee (CCR, Conseil Consultatif Régional), the first one organised by the new German facilitation: the presentation of the road map 2008-2009 and the launch of a discussion concerning stronger thematic synergies within the partnership

Tunis Declaration, African Development Bank, Feburary 2008

Adopted during the conference on Financing Mechanisms for the Sustainable Management of the Congo Basin Forest Ecosystems (Tunis, 21. - 22.02.2008)

Partners and initiatives in the subregion

Reports and presentations

Full documentation of the technical and financial support Programme of the United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification (GM/CCD) to member countries of the COMIFAC and of the CEEAC