Implementation Framework

The Convergence Plan sub-regional provides strategic direction in favor of the conservation and the sustainable management of forest ecosystems in central Africa. In order to ensure the coordination of the implementation of these actions, the COMIFAC is equipped with a body of execution, the Executive Secretariat which has the mandate to ensure the coordination of the implementation of the activities of the COMIFAC and apply the decisions of the Council of Ministers.

In order to ensure the effective implementation of the Convergence Plan 2 at the national level as well as the sub-regional level, a number of stakeholders have been identified. It is particularly of the Member States of the COMIFAC represented by the administrations in charge of forests and/or of the environment, the COMIFAC, ECCAS, the organizations of the civil society, the private sector operators, organizations of the Treaty of the COMIFAC, sub-regional, regional and international organizations, etc. with the support of technical and financial partners. Similarly, of the sources of financing of the Convergence Plan have been indicated.

In addition, to promote a better anchoring of the COMIFAC and allow an appropriation of the priorities of the Plan of convergence at the national level, gateways have been established through the implementation of the National Coordinations. In effect, the Ordinary Council of Ministers of the COMIFAC gathered in Malabo in Equatorial Guinea in September 2006, had invited member countries to provide in the organizational chart of the Ministry in charge of forests, a National Coordinator of the COMIFAC (CNC), to appoint a National Coordinator placed in a hierarchical level allowing him to easily access to the Minister and to put at the disposal a budget for its operation.