Congo Basin Forest Partnership
The following information has been adapted from the FY03 OPIN Year-End Report:
Status of Presidential Initiatives FY 2003. [pdf]
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Announced in August 2002, the Congo Basin Forest Partnership promotes economic development, poverty alleviation, improved governance, and natural resource conservation. It does this through support of a network of national parks and protected areas, well-managed forestry concessions, and assistance to communities who depend upon the conservation of the outstanding forest and wildlife resources of 11 key landscapes in six Central African countries. |
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The partnership builds on work carried out by the Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE). With the new mandate from President Bush, the partnership has shifted its management program management from Washington, D.C., to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo—a country that encompasses about 55 percent of the dense, tropical forest ecosystem that CARPE is designed to help conserve. This will facilitate regional travel; the supervision of existing CARPE-funded African staff in Cameroon, Gabon, and the Democratic Republic of Congo; and the administration of the small grants program in the region. It will also permit effective coordination and rapport with African regional initiatives |
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Because this project is in its initial phases, it did not report any outputs or results for 2003.
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