6 January 2017 | Cameroon, Gabon, Projects, Republic of Congo, SDG #12, SDG #13, SDG #15, SDG #17, SDG #9
The 3 year project supports: (i) the improvement of ecologically-based land use planning of national and regional policy and regulatory frameworks and (ii) the establishment and implementation of best practice models for environmental safeguards and mitigation with...
6 November 2016 | European Union, Projects, Rwanda, SDG #13, SDG #15, SDG #17, SDG #2
On 21-25 November 2016 the Parties of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, for their 16th meeting. The meeting was organised around 5 thematic streams, namely: Forest management policies and land use planning; Conservation and...
6 October 2016 | Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, COMIFAC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Projects, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, SDG #13, SDG #17
The ten member states of COMIFAC: Burundi, Cameroon, DRC, Rep of Congo, Gabon, Central Africa Rep, Rwanda, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Soa Tome and Principe participated actively during the UNFCCC COP22. FOKABS helped these countries to effectively articulate and...
6 August 2016 | Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, CIDT, Projects, SDG #10, SDG #13, SDG #15, SDG #16
The VPA-FLEGT Championing Forest Peoples’ Rights and Participation (CFPR) Project funded by the EU and DFID promotes the rights and participation of forest and indigenous communities in the implementation of political and legal reforms in the forestry sector linked to...
6 July 2016 | ECOWAS, Nigeria, Projects, SDG #11, SDG #13, SDG #7, SDG #9
The project aims at determining the feasibility for the use of a solar PV as an energy source to residential buildings in Lagos State as a stand-alone system or back-up for grid energy. Experts from FOKABS, together with other experts will generate new knowledge for...
6 April 2016 | Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, COMIFAC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Projects, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, SDG #13, SDG #15, SDG #17
Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) consensually adopted the Paris Climate Agreement. While Central Africa as a regional bloc successfully negotiated and integrated most of their positions especially on forest and REDD+ into...
