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CARPE was initiated as a regional program because the Congo Basin forest is not contained within a single country, but instead represents a contiguous area of tropical forest that acts as the catchment basin for the Congo River.
The forest spans Central Africa and working to promote its
sustainable management involves engaging and supporting cooperation and
collaboration between numerous countries.
CARPE is currently working within the following African countries;
Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Sao
Tome & Principe. The governments of these countries have
established their willingness to create a meaningful regional forest
dialogue by becoming members of the Central African Forest Commission
(COMIFAC).
CARPE’s engagement in each of these countries differs according to
their needs and CARPE priorities. CARPE’s strategic objective addresses
building natural resource management capacity at the local, national,
and regional scale. In many of CARPE’s partner countries the capacity
to sustainably manage natural resources is being improved locally
through CARPE’s Landscape Programs. At the country scale, CARPE
supports many programs to institutionalize natural resource monitoring
and strengthen natural resource governance.
