A consultant for the mapping of Financial Flows to Central Africa

CIFOR leads a consortium of technical and scientific institutions in the implementation of the Renforcement et Institutionnalisation de l’Observatoire des Forêts d’Afrique Centrale (RIOFAC) 2 project. The RIOFAC 2 project is funded by the European Union and is designed to provide support to the Central Africa Forest Observatory (OFAC). The geographical scope of RIOFAC 2 extends to all Central African Forests Commission (COMIFAC) member countries, including Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Chad, Burundi, Rwanda and São Tomé and Principe. The general objective of the project is to strengthen the actions of OFAC for better management of forest ecosystems in Central Africa through the provision of credible information for use in decision making. One of the project outputs is the drafting and publication of a minimum of four policy analysis papers on priorities/emerging themes in connection with COMIFAC thematic groups with the involvement of both subregional and international expertise. During the first phase of RIOFAC a publication on the mapping of international funding flows to support the forest and environment sector in Central Africa was published with success. Its data covered the period from 2008 to 2017. Since then there have been calls from RIOFAC publication users to update the statistics. In addition, there seems to be renewed interest from donors to fund the Central Africa forestry sector. The proposed consultancy assignment is to update the publication by including statistics for 2018 to 2022 where available.