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A new hope for Cameroon’s Ebony tree through a successful Public-Private-Partnership between local communities and a thriving guitar business
Strengthening the ability of local communities to sustainably manage the forests they call home is a main focus of the GEF-funded Congo Forests Integrated Programme led by UNEP under UNEP’s Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative. The Initiative is doing this by supporting local communities to develop and build partnerships between the private sector and local communities to catalyze and scale private sector investment.
Study produces first oil palm map for Central Africa, maps forest loss within great ape ranges and establishes forest loss owing to oil palm
As part of the GEF-funded Congo Forest Integrated Programme (IP), and together with partners, the UNEP-led Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative is tackling the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation by working with local communities to develop integrated transboundary land use management plans that are designed to support biodiversity and conserve forest cover, while ensuring livelihoods remain sustainable and economic opportunities increase for forest dwellers.
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
COP29 side event highlights the need to emphasize research and mapping of the peatlands to facilitate sustainable management planning
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As part of the UNEP-led and IKI-funded project "Securing critical reserves of biodiversity, carbon
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.