HIFOR Preparatory Grant
This preparatory grant assesses opportunities to implement the High Integrity Forest Investment Initiative (HIFOR) in Central Africa. It maps largely undegraded forests, identifies potentially eligible landscapes and examines how payments for ecosystem services could...
reVive Central Africa
Agriculture and forestry drive both livelihoods and deforestation in Central Africa but few businesses are ready for private investment and local finance tools are limited. reVive Central Africa is an IDH-led CAFI preparatory grant to design an Investment Development...
Intersectoral and Multilevel Coordination Project
The Intersectoral and Multilevel Coordination Project in Cameroon aims to strengthen governance and planning to reduce deforestation and promote a green economy. It focuses on improving coordination between national and local administrations, integrating...
Capacity Building for Land-Use Planning Project
The Capacity Building for Land-Use Planning Project in Cameroon, funded by CAFI, aims to strengthen the country’s ability to plan land use sustainably and reduce deforestation. It focuses on improving legal frameworks, planning instruments, and institutional...
Canopy Trust
The Canopy Trust Project, implemented by the Catalytic Finance Foundation, is a blended finance initiative designed to mobilize large-scale private investment for deforestation-free value chains in the Congo Basin. Launched in 2025, the project aims to attract at...
Zero-Deforestation Smallholder Agriculture in Kongo Central
One Acre Fund is piloting a zero-deforestation agriculture model for smallholders in Kongo Central. The programme equips farmers with inputs, knowledge, services and incentives to shift from cyclical slash-and-burn cultivation in forest areas to sedentary, sustainably...
Kwango-Nioki Agroforestry Project: Producing More While Protecting Forests
The Kwango-Nioki Agroforestry Project forms part of PROBAK, the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Payments for Environmental Services programme for Kinshasa's supply basin. The project is implemented by the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), with...
Bangui and Surrounding Areas PES Project
The "Bangui and Surrounding Areas PES Project" deploys Payments for Environmental Services to support landscape restoration and sustainable land management around the country's capital. The project seeks to establish the legal, institutional, social and land-tenure...
Safeguarding and Expanding Gabon’s Protected Area Network
Gabon’s 13 national parks are increasingly threatened by human activities, particularly along border areas. To strengthen the management of these protected areas, the project, now closed, supported protection of Gabon’s 13 national parks against poaching, illegal...
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...
Savannahs & Degraded Forests
The “Support Program for the Sustainable Development of Savannah and Degraded Forest Areas” (PSFD) is a 5-year initiative funded by CAFI through FONAREDD and implemented by AFD in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Livestock (MAPE). With a...
Sustainable Management of Forests
In the DRC, timber production is estimated at 3 to 4 millions of cubic meters (m3) per year, far below wood harvesting for energy (estimated at 80 millions m3). 85% of timber is extracted to meet local demand. This demand will continue to grow in the coming decades...