Capitalization of REDD+ initiatives in the national REDD+ strategy
Since 2014, one of the components of the National Community Driven Development Programme (PNDP) aims at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in view of contributing to the development and implementation of Cameroon’s national REDD+...
GCF Country Program
As a Party to the UNFCCC, CAR has submitted a project to assist in the GCF readiness process and the resources obtained in this process will be used to increase the capacity of the GCF National Designated Authority (NDA) and to launch a process of strategic engagement...
UNFCCC Negotiations – SB48 / COP24
The ten member States of COMIFAC actively participate in the UNFCCC negotiations. Experts from Fokabs will be supporting the ten States during UNFCCC 48th subsidiary body meeting and also prepare them prior to COP24 in Poland. Key areas to be covered include but are...
National REDD+ Strategy Sudan
The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) is supporting Sudan to prepare a National REDD+ Strategy that include strategic options for addressing the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation. Fokabs is playing a key role in this process and...
GCF Country Programme The Gambia
FOKABS is supporting the development of the Gambia’s country programme / strategic framework for engaging with GCF. The country programme will build on existing climate policies, plans and strategies. This is part of a broader Readiness Support Project that the...
REDD+ Feasibility & Project Design Document
The goal of this assignment is to support the development of pilot REDD+ projects in the South West Region of Cameroon. Specifically, full REDD+ feasibility studies for 4 different administrative councils (Bangem, Mundemba, Nguti & Toko) will be conducted and...
Strengthening the Capacity of NDA to Access GCF
The main objective of this project is to enable the NDA and national stakeholders to have a good knowledge of climate finance and the development of bankable projects. The training should enable these actors to have all the necessary elements to carry out adaptation...
Vulnerability of WASH Services and Resilience Measures
The overall objective of this project is to assess the vulnerability of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in the Mayo Tsanaga sub-basin and to identify the resilience measures practiced by communities . FOKABS is responsible for: Analysing the...
Private sector implication in the Green Climate Fund
This project aims to mobilize and involve the private sector to invest in the financing of climate actions in the Republic of Congo and to play its role of stimulating sustainable development. Specifically, the project defines the role of the private sector within the...
UNFCCC Negotiations, Project Development and Climate Finance Support
The objective of the World Bank-managed Central African Forestry Commission’s (COMIFAC) Regional REDD+ project (PREREDD) is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Congo Basin countries on REDD+ for the sustainable management of their forests. It is in this...
Congo Basin Forest Monitoring Project (CV4C)
This 4-year project aims to strengthen the capacity, influence the long-term viability of over 500 civil society organisation (CS), Indigenous Peoples (IP) and community organisations, to perform essential watchdog functions effectively across the Congo Basin region....
Evaluation of Congo Basin Green Economy project
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...
Support to 16th CBFP Meeting of Parties
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...
Support during UNFCCC COP22 Climate Negotiations
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...
Evaluation of EU VPA-FLEGT Project
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...
Feasibility study of photovoltaic system to residential buildings
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...
Readiness for Paris Agreement & INDC implementation
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...
Study on Food-Fuel-Fibre Production in the Context of Climate Change
The African Forest Forum within its “African Forests, People and Climate Change” project, is undertaking in-depth studies of policies and strategies on the food-fuel- fibre (3Fs) nexus in the context of climate change in Africa. The generated information would in turn...
Study on REDD+, CDM, AFOLU and INDC
The African Forest Forum within its “African Forests, People and Climate Change” project, is undertaking in-depth studies on implementation and progress made on REDD+, CDM, AFOLU INDC and voluntary carbon market-oriented activities covering various forest types. The...
Support to COMIFAC during UNFCCC COP21 Climate Negotiations
The ten member states of COMIFAC: Burundi, Cameroon, DRC, Rep of Congo, Gabon, Central Africa Rep, Rwanda, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe participated actively during the UNFCCC COP21. Our contribution was to conduct research and provide technical...
Support to Hwange-Sanyati Biodiversity Corridor (HSBC) project
The Government of Zimbabwe, with support from GEF and World Bank, is developing land use and resource management capacity of managers and communities in the Hwange-Sanyati Biodiversity Corridor. This project will support improved land, forest, wildlife and protected...
Support in the elaboration of INDC
Prior to UNFCCC COP 21 in Paris, the African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) of the United Nations supported many African countries financially and technically in the development of their intended nationally determined contributions (INDC). Experts from FOKABS, together...
Stock taking of Africa’s contribution to the UNFCCC negotiations
The African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) of the United Nations supports the Africa Group of Negotiators in taking stock of a two-decade journey in the UNFCCC global negotiations in how much gains made or losses incurred in a pursuit of its priorities in reducing...
Support to the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) in the UNFCCC
This project aimed at providing technical support to the AGN REDD+ working group to enable the group to provide a technical proposal on how non-carbon benefits (NCB) can be measured, reported, verified, incentivized and compensated or supported as part of the REDD+...
Support to Congo Basin regional REDD+ project
The objective of this project was to guide the process of developing a national guideline for Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) that can be used during consultations in the different phases of the REDD+ process in Cameroon. Under the coordination of the REDD+...
Development of National FPIC Guidelines for REDD+
The objective of this project was to guide the process of developing a national guideline for Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) that can be used during consultations in the different phases of the REDD+ process in Cameroon. Under the coordination of the REDD+...