Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative: 2024 Update

As we look ahead to an exciting year of programmatic work to support the conservation and sustainable management of the forests of the Congo Basin, we invite you to read our Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative 2024 update. The update  focuses on our programme highlights up to the end of 2024 for the UNEP-led Congo Basin Integrated Programme funded by GEF.  

We look forward to your feedback and comments. Please send them to  unep-ecosystems-congoforests@un.org

Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative officially launched

On 31st May – 2 June 2022, in Kinshasa, DRC the UNEP-led and GEF-funded Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative was officially launched, convening all key partners and stakeholders involved in delivering the Program’s objectives.

The workshop was a platform to ensure common understanding of the Program delivery structure and the roles and responsibilities of each partner in the child projects (Implementing Agency, Executing Agency, Component Leads, and Delivery Partners), as well as to establish linkages and synergies across all of the Program’s constitutive projects.

Workshop to advance Transboundary Cooperation between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea for the Conservation of the Campo Ma’an and Rio Campo landscape

A core focus of the UNEP-led Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative is to advance cooperation between countries in the Congo Basin to enable and strengthen mechanisms for the effective management of transboundary landscapes.

UNEP representatives attend GEF expert workshop on the critical forest biomes to establish a framework for learning and knowledge sharing

UNEP’s Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative (CBLI) is leading the GEF-7 Congo Basin Impact Programme and the upcoming GEF-8 Congo Critical Forest Biomes Integrated Programme (CFB IP) in six central Africa countries.