Central African Republic

FLEGT in the Central African Republic

In October 2009, the Central African Republic (CAR) and the EU launched VPA negotiations with the aim of signing an agreement within 12 months. As improvements in forest governance largely depend on how local civil society is engaged in the process, negotiations aim to provide the space for participation. Unfortunately, the ambitious speed of the negotiations has made local civil society worry about the quality of their inputs and so of the agreement.

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Documents

25/08/2010 English Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo, Ecuador, FLEGT, Gabon, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Liberia, Malaysia, Vietnam

PDF version of the slideshow which appears on the FLEGT page

04/05/2010 English Central African Republic, FLEGT, Legality Assurance System (LAS)

REM, as part of a 3-year project of capacity building in the Congo Basin funded by through the EC Tropical Forests budget line and DfID, has initiated contact with stakeholders in-country in preparation for a feasibility study on the possibilities for independent monitoring of the forest sector in CAR.

06/03/2009 English Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo, FLEGT, Gabon, Independent monitoring

Forests Monitor, in collaboration with Resource Extraction Monitoring (REM), FERN, and the Centre for the Environment and Development (CED) held a regional workshop in Brazzaville in March 2009. The workshop facilitated regional exchange on forest governance issues and strengthened the technical capacity of 22 civil society representatives from Gabon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, and Democratic Republic of Congo in independent monitoring of forest law enforcement and governance.