On the basis that slowing down the loss of forests and trees in Central Africa can only be attained through substantially scaled-up international support to transformational reforms and ambitious investments on the ground, CAFI was established in 2015 at the margins of the United Nations General Assembly has a partnership initiative that gathers (more information here):
- A coalition of donors: Belgium, The European Union, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom (current chair) and the United States.
- Six partner countries: the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of Gabon.
- Implementing organisations
- South South partners
CAFI 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.
CAFI focuses on:
- accompanying the development and implementing National Investment Frameworks (NIFs) endorsed at the highest level by national institutions with cross sectoral mandates
- providing funding based on the NIFs and on the achievement of policy and programmatic milestones that are spelled out in Letters of Intent
- encouraging donor coordination and alignment of bilateral assistance to partner countries based on NIFs
- promoting inclusive participation of stakeholders.