Overview of CBFP members

The partnership brings together the 10 member states of the COMIFAC, donor agencies, international organisations, NGOs, scientific institutions and private sector representatives. It counts over 40 members who share the commitment to enhance communication and coordination among them and to create synergies between their respective projects, programs and policies, in support of the COMIFAC convergence Plan.

The following countries are members of the CBFP: all COMIFAC countries committed to the Convergence Plan are considered members of the CBFP: Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tomé and Principe,  and the Chad. The other member governments comprise: Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the European Commission.

The following intergovernmental organisations are members of the CBFP: the Commission for the Forests of Central Africa (COMIFAC), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Mechanism established unter the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO), the World Bank, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the African Development Bank (ADB), the Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS).

The non-governmental partners include the Jane Goodall Institute, Conservation International (CI), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the World Resources Institute (WRI), Forest Trends, the Society of American Foresters (SAF), the American Forest & Paper Association (AFPA), the International Technical Tropical Timber Association (ITTTA), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the African Wildlife Foundation, the Interafrican Association of Forest Industries (IFIA), Precious Woods. 

How to become member of the CBFP?

Basically, the Congo Basin Forest Partnership is open to any organisation (governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental), association or company who would like to become active as a member. In order to submit a formal request, interested parties are asked to send a message in due form to the Facilitator in charge, expressing their committment to respect the Cooperation Framework established by CBFP's members in 2005. 

Download the Cooperation Framework