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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.
Building links between the private sector and forest communities in southern Cameroon
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Enabling effective Public-Private-Partnerships is essent
Strengthening transboundary networks to deal with wildlife crime across the Congo Basin
Developing land use management plans that integrate and support livelihoods of local communities while conserving biodiversity is a key activity of the UNEP led and GEF-funded Congo Forest Integrated Programme, which is part of UNEP's Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative (CBLI).
GEF Congo Basin Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program: Inception Workshop Report
The Congo Basin Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (Congo IP) comprises one regional and six national projects. The Program aims to catalyse transformational change in conservation and sustainable management of key landscapes in the Congo Basin through landscape approaches that empower local communities and forest-dependent people, and through partnerships with the private sector.
Congo Basin Landscapes Initiative Releases Report on Apes and Agriculture
Non-human great apes are threatened by agricultural expansion particularly from rice, cacao, cassava and oil palm cultivation. Though the impact of agriculture on great apes is well-recognised, there is still a need for more understanding of specific contexts and associated effects on habitats and populations.