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 the Voluntary Partnership Agreement. Project Details...

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. Project Details...

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. Project Details...

Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) consensually adopted the Paris Climate Agreement. Project Details...

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. Project Details...

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. Project Details...

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. Project Details...

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 climate risks and vulnerability in adaptation, recalibrating the way forward. Project Details...

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). Project Details...

This project aimed at providing technical support to the AGN working on REDD+ 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+ mechanism under the UNFCCC. Project Details...

The course, ran by the Viikki Tropical Resources Institute (VITRI), brought together university students from all over the world for a one month intensive training on tropical forestry. Project Details...

The project aimed at demonstrating the multiple developmental and environmental wins that result from a high value biocarbon approach (BIODEV project) to climate change and variability in large landscapes. Project Details...

The GEF-World Bank funded PREREDD projects is building the capacities of Congo basin countries to effectively implement REDD+ and manage their forests sustainably. Project Details...

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. Project Details...