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On 24 March 2017, Nature+ASBL
officially joined the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). Nature+
ASBL has submitted the required documents and adheres to the principles
of the CBFP members’ cooperation framework to promote the conservation
and sustainable management of forest ecosystems in Central Africa. It
undertakes to respect and apply the principles in its interventions, and
to engage actively on various fronts in the CBFP’s operations.
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The COMIFAC Executive Secretariat has recently set up an online platform
for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the Convergence
Plan and other sub-regional initiatives. The platform dubbed “SUIVI
CONVERGENCE” will serve as one in a range of tools that make up
COMIFAC’s monitoring and evaluation mechanism.
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Oyo (400 km north Brazzaville, Republic of Congo) - 9 March 2017:
Ministers of Environment and of Foreign affairs of twelve States
launched a “Blue Fund” for the Congo Basin following a ceremony chaired
by their Excellencies Sassou Nguesso, assisted by his Togolese peer,
Faure Gnassingbé. Former Heads of State, Olusegun Obasandjo of Nigeria,
and Alpha Omar Konaré of Mali also attended this event.
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28.02.2017 The FFEM and the ATIBT have signed a 2 million EUR financing
agreement for the implementation of the P3FCC project , a
public-private partnership for the sustainable management of Central
Africa’s forests.
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Peatlands are carbon-rich ecosystems that cover just three percent of
Earth’s land surface1, but store one-third of soil carbon2. Peat soils
are formed by the build-up of partially decomposed organic matter under
waterlogged anoxic conditions...
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The primary objective of the workshop was to review the implementation
of the Paris Agreement and bolster the capacities of key actors in the
COMIFAC countries to attract international financing earmarked for the
fight against climate change.
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27 January 2017, Kinshasa - An investment of USD 10 million to help
implement the DRC’s national forest surveillance system as part of
efforts to combat climate change was presented to stakeholders Thursday
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Dakar (Senegal), 22 March 2017 - Aflatoxins have significant impacts on
health, agriculture and trade in Africa. They are one of the vectors
responsible for liver cancer in thousands of victims every year around
the world, with Africa bearing the brunt with a rate of 30%, especially
in groundnut, corn and rice producing countries among others.
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20 March 2017. This week, progress on research efforts geared towards
the improvement of the genetic potential and productivity of two most
cultivated yam species in Africa will be the focus of the deliberations
of scientists convening for the annual meeting of the AfricaYam project
at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan. |
| Bonn, Germany (March 16, 2017) — The
annual passing of the gavel at the 29th Adaptation Fund Board meeting
took place this morning when Michael Kracht, of Germany, officially
became the new Chair as the March 16-17 meeting got underway here in
Bonn. |
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6-10 March 2017 | Bonn, Germany IPBES-5 convened for its final day in
Bonn, Germany. After a brief stocktaking plenary in the morning, the
contact groups reconvened to resume their deliberations. |
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Brazzaville, 23 August 2016: the
Ministry of the Forest Economy, Sustainable Development and the
Environment, in partnership with the Central African Forest Commission
(COMIFAC), held a workshop to popularize Convergence Plan 2.
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measures arising from its deliberations to be presented at the seventh
meeting of the Treaty’s Governing Body (GB 7), including: progress
towards developing a draft revised Standard Material Transfer... |
| Washington, D.C. (February 24, 2017) — Following a highly productive and
successful showing at the COP22 international climate conference in
Morocco, the Adaptation Fund will enter its 29th Board meeting in March
with rising momentum. |
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On Thursday, 16 February 2017, the
preparatory meeting for The Ocean Conference: Our Oceans, Our Future:
Partnering for the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14
(Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development) continued with the discussion on the call for
action, which is to be the intergovernmentally-agreed outcome of the
Conference.
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The briefing reflects on progress after a decade of implementation
including looking at multi stakeholder participation, increased
transparency and reduced illegal deforestation. It suggests concrete
ways to address challenges and step up current efforts including
increased enforcement of just laws, enhanced policy coherence, and
inclusive decision making. |
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At the fourteenth meeting, the GCF Board requested the Secretariat to
develop a request for proposals (RFP) for REDD+ results-based payments
(RBP), including guidance consistent with the Warsaw Framework for REDD+
and other REDD+ decisions under the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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Forests are nature’s powerhouse! They are the largest source of
renewable energy in the world, providing people with wood fuel to heat
homes, cook meals and boil water. But they also energize people in other
ways – for example by providing forest foods like berries and mushrooms
– or even recharging people’s spirits by providing a place for
recreation, peace and inspiration.
Read more …
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Globally, the vast majority of all the wastewater from our homes,
cities, industry and agriculture flows back to nature without being
treated or reused – polluting the environment, and losing valuable
nutrients and other recoverable materials. Read more …
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The present study focuses on forest incomes of households around forest
concessions in Cameroon. The contributions of forest income to the
economy and well-being of households were measured and the explanatory
factors for heterogeneity determined. We used the Gini index to evaluate
the distribution of household forest incomes and their influence on
well-being and income inequality amongst forest-dependent households.
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22 March 2017: Statement by H.E. Mr Peter Thomson, President of the 71st
Session of the General Assembly, at the Dialogue to discuss improving
the integration and coordination of the work of the United Nations on
the water-related goals and targets under its sustainable development
pillar, with a particular emphasis on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
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Beijing, 15 Mar 2017. The Green Climate
Fund has achieved a major milestone in its relationship with China by
signing its first Accreditation Master Agreement (AMA) with a Chinese
entity.
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25 March 2017. On 21 March, IITA-Bénin hosted Honorable Ruth Oniang’o,
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Sasakawa Africa Association
(SAA), accompanied by Deola Naibakelao, Managing Director, Sasakawa
Africa Fund for Extension (SAFE), Mercy Akeredolu...
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The GEF has released a new publication titled “The Art of Knowledge
Exchange: A Results-Focused Planning Guide for the GEF Partnership.”
This publication, which builds on an earlier publication by the World
Bank Group, serves as both a guidebook and a toolkit for enhancing
knowledge exchange at the national....
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The guide which received financial backing from the Program for the
Promotion of the Certified Forest Exploitation (PPECF) and the French
Development Agency (AFD), is part of the ATIBT’s marketing program: it
is a tool that promotes certified African species in Europe. |
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We reviewed the surveys on the status of hippopotamus, hereafter hippo,
in the c. 1.3 million ha protected area complex of Faro – Bénoué, North
Cameroon. Initiated in 1976, counts were conducted in the second part of
the dry season, when the Bénoué and Faro rivers were the parks’ ...
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The United Nations General Assembly unanimously declared the decade
2014‑2024 as the Decade of Sustainable Energy for All, underscoring the
importance of energy issues for sustainable development and for the
elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda. |
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This publication was prepared by Jinke van Dam in collaboration with
Janske van Eijck and Jolien Schure, under the overall coordination and
technical guidance of Zuzhang Xia, FAO Forestry Officer (Wood Energy).
The senior management team of the Forestry Policy and Resources
Division, FAO Forestry Department, provided general parameters for the
publication’s content and supervised its development. |
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The guide which received financial backing from the Program for the
Promotion of the Certified Forest Exploitation (PPECF) and the French
Development Agency (AFD), is part of the ATIBT’s marketing program: it
is a tool that promotes certified African species in Europe. |
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Fern has
opened a tender for individuals and organisations to produce a briefing paper
on strengthing forest governance in African Nationally Determined Contributions
to the Paris Agreement. 20 days of full time work carried out over a 6 week
period. The draft report will be available by July 2017. The final report will
be published in September 2017.
The
Programme Officer will assist in the screening of applications for eligibility,
matching individual applications to expert reviewers, collating and presenting
the results of the external review for use and further review by the SOS
Technical Advisory Group. Working in collaboration with the SOS Coordinator the
Programme Officer will review a selection of submitted reports according to a
predefined checklist and against the objectives, results and milestones
described in the project proposal.
The
bushmeat specialist will serve as the technical lead to the WCS urban bushmeat
team, leading the design of research with partners, supervising field research,
co-designing and tracking the program’s monitoring and evaluation work,
providing advice to country programs on bushmeat related issues, and reporting
and writing up program results for scientific and lay audiences.
World
Resources Institute's Africa Forest Team seeks a GIS RS technical advisor to
support its efforts to lead multi-sectoral, data-driven, and inclusive land use
planning processes and management of natural resources in the Congo Basin,
especially focusing in the DRC. WRI's approach focuses on developing
information and decision-support tools as a basis for informing land use
planning and allocation of rights to natural resources, as well as supporting
multi-stakeholder processes to put in place the necessary legal and
institutional framework for land use planning and allocation of natural
resources.
The subject
should read Application for position of Regional Coordinator for GWP Central
Africa’. Deadline for applications: APRIL 9th, 2017. This call is open to
any individual in the Central Africa region, with a nationality of one of the
GWP Central Africa region countries (Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic,
Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tome & Principe).
As part of
the Green Climate Fund’s support to the National Climate Council,
in its capacity as the National Designated Authority, a call for tender
to recruit an international expert has been launched by the Caisse des
Dépôts et Consignations.
Please send
a Letter of Interest, two writing samples and your CV to the USFS' Country
Coordinator with “USFS Central Africa Comms Specialist” in the subject line.
Finalists will be contacted...
The French
Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) has launched a fifth phase of the
Small-Scale Initiatives Program (PPI 5) for the 2016-2019 period. The call for
proposals is open until 1st of May, 2017 and concerns NGOs which have so far
never received support from the PPI.
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