HIFOR Preparatory Grant
HIFOR - High Integrity Forests - closes the finance gap for high-integrity tropical forests by creating payments for environmental services to reward their stewards and safeguard climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods. WCS’s CAFI-funded prep project maps...
Assessing deforestation and forest degradation and direct drivers
The FAO Regional study funded by CAFI uniquely distinguishes between deforestation and degradation while applying national definitions of forests, and may be the only methodology using visual validation of results, piloting a new sample-based approach resulting in...
PRO-CONGO: Catalytic Private Sector Investment in Congo Basin Natural Capital
The Congo Basin holds the world’s second largest tropical rainforest but remains severely underfinanced for sustainable land use. Most businesses are small and seen as risky, while investors cite a lack of bankable deals and weak market infrastructure. To address...
Expansion of protected areas and sustainable agriculture
To support Gabon’s efforts in protecting its forests - by expanding its protected areas network, and optimizing land use for food crop production- this project sought to contribute to the country’s climate and biodiversity goals, balancing conservation and food...
Forest Ecosystem Research and Monitoring
Gabon's ability to monitor and understand trends in forest ecosystems, particularly in response to climate change, is important to inform decision-making on forest management and climate change mitigation strategies. The Forest Ecosystem Research and Monitoring...
Integrated Grand Mbam landscape
The Grand Mbam landscape reflects several of Cameroon’s national challenges: expanding subsistence farming, growing population, poorly coordinated land use, and a lack of sustainable development opportunities. Located at the edge of the Congo Basin in the...
PIREDD Equateur
The Equateur Province in the DRC has strong forest potential. The PIREDD Equateur aims to reduce deforestation and improve the livelihoods of local communities, targeting slash-and-burn agriculture, unsustainable wood-energy exploitation, and the lack of territorial...
PIREDD Sud Ubangui
The Programme Intégré REDD+ du Sud Ubangi (PIREDD Sud Ubangi) supported sustainable land use and forest protection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Sud-Ubangi province, an area with high agricultural potential but significant deforestation risk. The programme...
PIREDD Mongala
Mongala Province, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spans 2.5 percent of the country’s territory, with over two-thirds of its land covered by forest. However, deforestation has become an increasing concern, with forest loss accelerating sharply since...
Support to Family Planning
In November 2013, at the International Conference on Family Planning in Addis Ababa, the DRC joined the FP2020 initiative, committing to increase its modern contraceptive prevalence from 6.5% to at least 19% by 2020, targeting an additional 2.1 million women. In early...