Congo Basin Forest PartnershipFacilitation / on behalf of the European Union:

Liaison Management- Partnership/etwork management, coordination, animation– Political dialogue Facilitation – CBFP Members
monitoring (105 members including 30 Governments)- New partners: Many new members joined our ranks, 28 in all, bringing the
number of official partners to 104 in 2017. Mutualisation/Co-financing/Synergy Facility for project, program design and implementation
Workshops/Events - Conference/Congress Management/organizer: Coordination of the Organization of the CBFP Meetings of
Parties: 16th (500 participants), 17th (600 participants) ;; Informal consultation Meeting in Kinshasa, the 1st and, 2nd and 3rd CBFP Council
Meeting under the EU Facilitation, CBFP College Meetings, Streams and side meetings - The CBFP has experienced an intense surge in
interest as evidence of the explosive increase of inquiries for participation in CBFP Events and Meetings Participation in CBFP Meetings of
the Parties peaked at 850 participants.
Co-authors/designer-Contributors of(to) the: ToR/concept note/Program of the CBFP Transition Period from September 2015 to March
2016 (UE-US), Aide-mémoire on Autonomous (secure) Finance of COMIFAC, Aide memoire on state of art of the COMIFAC and ECCAS
relationship, Concept note on Congo Basin Participation to Forestry Congress Durbam (September 2015), to the Paris COP21 (December
2015), to the World Conservation congress Hawaii, to the COP 22 in Morocco (December 2016);; CBFP Facilitation Governance Reform
concept note – Facilitation Roadmap - Orientation document of the CBFP Meeting structure/organization - Medium term CBFP Priorities
2018-2022 – Designer (fund raising – proposal writing document) of the CBFP Facilitation Budget for the Transition Period (US including
Norway/Germany and UE) and Budget of the EU Facilitation and for the transition Period (UE and Next Facilitation) – Scenarios of the
next CBFP Facilitation – Concept note for Financial Contribution to the Next Facilitation: Canada, Germany and Norway - Concept note of
the Stream Climate Change (16 and 17th CBFP Meeting) - State of the NDC/REDD+ and Climate finance in Congo Basin
Fundraising - Program, Project design, management and monitoring – Contributors to GEF6 and 7;; CAFI;; PREREDD+, PPECF,
ECOFORAF, CBP, CAWHFI, ECOFAC VI ;; CBFF ;; CARPE Follow-up/Advocacy/Fund raising on for Congo Basin: (1) Climate finance
Mechanism: GCF, GEF, AF, FCPF, CIF… UN System (UNFF, UNFCCC, CBD, CCD, CMS)
COMIFAC: Raising the profile of COMIFAC at international events;; Monitoring COMIFAC Working Groups (Desertification,
Governance, Communication, Training, Climate) Coaching COMIFAC Executive Secretariat, platform of Partner of COMIFAC (PAC)
and follow-up of the Convergence Plan. Co-organization of two Ministerial Council Kinshasa and Kigali as well as Technical Expert
Segments - PAC (Contribution in designing) – Support to COMIFAC Presidency - COMIFAC Event Monitoring.
CEFDHAC, RECEIAC, REFACOF, PRACC and others Networks: Highlight and visibility -Development of Partners Framework of
RIFFEAC - Monitoring RIRFEAC, ACCBFP (US Konsortium for Research)
Close Collaboration with key Donors of the Congo Basin (Responding to request relevant to CBFP): EU;; Canada (Global Affairs),
Germany (BMZ/GIZ/KFW), US (Dept. of State, USFS, USAID, USFWS), UK (DFID), Norway (NORAD, NICFI, CAFI), France (MAEDD,
AFD), Japan (JICA) …Close Collaboration with key Technical Partners of the Congo Basin (WWF, AWF, IUCN, UN system,
ZSL,…Strategic Innovation/Counselling/Advising CBFP Partners in programming/project design/ Grants allocation…
CAFI Designed and Governance (Contributors) - Innovation/strategic Advisor to BFP Partners - Information system management – CBFP
Members Monitoring
Budget and Team Management - EU Facilitation budget design and management (contributors) -CBFP EU Facilitation transition phase –
Concept and project proposal – Scenarios for the Next CBFP Facilitation – CBFP Governance Structure
Contribution to the recruiting process: ToR - Innovation/Technical Advisor to CBFP Partners – EU Facilitation Team coordination(Cont.)
Ccommunications and Outreach: CBFP website data for 2016: Monthly: 112, 000 visitors, over 1.9 million clicks/hits. More than 140,000
documents were downloaded. Website’s News menu registered 1,082 articles published - the Events menu over 172 publications posted -
The Job offers menu registered 333 job offers. Publication of CBFP Flash News Letters: an exponential surge in newsletter subscriptions
from 2,400 to 4 172, a 74% rise from the days of the United States Facilitation. CBFP on the Web 2.0, CBFP-Facebook social networks:
Increasing engagement through social media, including rising numbers (nearly 1,000) of readers on the CBFP Facebook page. The
number of page “likes” grew 22% from 1,000 to 1,217 this year. The CBFP’s Tweeter page @CBFP_CBFP was created. The page has so
far garnered 508 tweets and 219 subscribers. Flickr and YouTube with a database of pictures are created.