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Published purpose

The Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) works in close relationship with the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) to promote the conservation and sustainable management of the forest ecosystems of the Congo Basin. This includes protecting the region’s biodiversity, promoting sustainable forest governance and improving the population’s living standards. The CBFP is a non-binding partnership established in 2002 at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg today with 70 organizations, including the ten Member States of the COMIFAC, bilateral and multilateral organizations, non-governmental organizations, research institutions and private sector representatives. This project seeks to support the CBFP to provide additional support for technical assistance on climate change to civil society organizations, COMIFAC working groups on climate change, forestry governance, biodiversity and desertification, and to academics from the COMIFAC countries. These actions are consistent with COMIFAC’s Convergence Plan and CBFP priorities of supporting the region to implement key recommendations related to forestry emerging from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations.