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 60 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, Norway, the United States of America and the European Commission. Find out more...

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), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.Find out more...

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 Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) and TRAFFIC, the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), African Model Forest Network, VSO, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Jane Goodall Institute (JGI). Find out more...

Partners from the private sector are the Society of American Foresters (SAF), the American Forest & Paper Association (AFPA),  the Interafrican Association of Forest Industries (IFIA), the International Technical Tropical Timber Association (ITTTA), Precious Woods Holding and Alpi Group, The Forest Trust (TFT). Find out more...