Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI)

Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) was established in 2015 at the margins of the UN General Assembly by a coalition of donors and partner countries to reduce deforestation and forest degradation. The Initiative is both a Trust Fund that supports direct investments on the ground and a political negotiation platform that aims to drive high-level policy dialogue. Through enabling & reform programmes and large-scale field programmes combined with high-level policy dialogue, CAFI helps its 6 partner countries - Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of Congo - to implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, fight poverty and develop sustainability, and fulfill the post-2020 biodiversity framework.