Congo Basin Fund Launch Meeting (DFID, Lancaster House)
DFID will host and organise the Congo Basin Fund (CBF) launch meeting at Lancaster House, UK.
The Congo Basin Forest Fund is a multi donor fund set up to take early action to protect the forests in the Congo Basin region. The Fund will be launched on 17 June and organisations will be invited to submit proposals for transformative and innovatice initiatives to slow down deforestation and fight poverty in the region. This includes helping local communities find livelihoods that are consistent with forest conservation and developing innovative and transformative approaches to sustainable forest management.
The Fund will support activities which complement particular aspects of the COMIFAC (Central Africa Forests Commission) Convergence Plan. The Fund is initially being financed by a grant of £ 50 million from the British Government but more funding announcements are expected at the launch.
For more information see http://www.cbf-fund.org/
Upcoming Events
This calendar is based on information provided by COMIFAC and the Franco-German support office is considered a complementary event schedule to the official calendar posted on COMIFAC's website. (http://www.comifac.org/events). It offers a broad overview of international and regional events that are directly linked to CBFP's objectives: major conferences and meetings, workshops and training sessions and other activities scheduled by CBFP Facilitation and its member organisations.
Our choice is by no means exhaustive and depends largely on our partners' notice. Every partner organisation is thus welcome to contribute to a rich variety of posted events and to share its schedule with CBFP's Facilitation and the other members! We may also, upon request, forward your input to the COMIFAC webmaster.