With whom we work

We are collaborating closely with the following partners:

COMIFAC

The Central African Forests Commission has the overall supervision on regional level and coordinates the project’s activities with other initiatives.

In March 1999, the Central African head of states expressed in the Yaoundé Declaration their wish to create a unique political and technical authority, the Central African Forests Commission, to orient, coordinate, harmonize and facilitate decision making in the Central African context of sustainable management and conservation of forest and savannah ecosystems.

COMIFAC’s Convergence Plan adopted in February 2005 by the head of states defines common strategies for the development intervention of states and partners in the framework of sustainable management and conservation of forest and savannah ecosystems.

As laid down in its Constitutive Treaty adopted in February 2005 in Brazzaville on the occasion of the 2^nd Summit of Head of States of Central Africa, the Central African Forests Commission consists of ten signatory member states, namely the Republic of Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chad.

Through different funds e.g. from the European Union or the German Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, FAO technically and financially supports COMIFAC in the effective fulfillment of its tasks in the frame of COMIFAC’s collaboration in the non-wood forest products sector.

During the Extraordinary Session of the Ministers Council on the 26^th and 27^th of October 2008 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, the ministers of the member states adopted the “Sub-regional Directives for a sustainable management of non-wood forest products of plant origin in Central Africa”, elaborated with the support of FAO through its projects “Enhancing food security through non-wood forest products in Central Africa”, GCP/RAF/398/GER (2005-2008), "Enhancing the contribution of NWFP to poverty alleviation and food security in Central African Countries" GCP/RAF/441/GER (2009-2012) and “Enhancing the contribution of NTFP to food security in Central African Countries” GCP/RAF/479/AFB (2013-2016). 

Ministries of Forestry in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Rwanda, Sao Tomé & Principe, Chad

• Ministry in charge of forests in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea
• Ministry in charge of forests in Burundi
• Ministry in charge of forests in Rwanda
• Ministry in charge of forests in Chad
• Ministry in charge of forests in Sao Tomé & Principe