Democratic Republic of the Congo
Coalition Toboyi Molili
The Toboyi Molili Coalition (CTM), a platform of 14 civil society organisations in the DRC which works for a decentralised electrification system, and to defend the rights of communities in the face of energy projects planned primarily for economic purposes – the sale of electricity abroad.
ConservCongo
ConservCongo works to prosecute environmental criminals by reporting, investigating, and prosecuting wildlife crimes in the DRC and the broader Central African region.
CPAKI
CPAKI is an Indigenous Batwa organisation, created in 1998. CPAKI intervenes in the protection and promotion of human rights and rights of Indigenous Peoples through activities related to their community development and advocacy for the recognition of their rights.
Monde d’Espoir RDC (MERDC)
Monde d’Espoir DRC (MERDC) is an NGO created in 2017 by pioneers of the Congolese civil society movement and legally registered in 2020. It works for access to social and environmental justice for vulnerable communities, through support for human rights and the entrepreneurship of women and young people living around protected areas in the DRC.
Cameroon
TF-RD
Tropical Forest and Rural Development (TR-FD) works to reduce poverty and protect ecosystems and threatened species through the valorisation of non-timber forest products, agroforestry, environmental education, and research–action–development processes for the benefit of local communities living around protected areas in Cameroon.
ERuDeF
Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) is a conservation organisation established in 1999. ERuDeF contributes towards restoring fragile ecosystem, regeneration of forest through plantation and agroforestry, conservation of biodiversity through wildlife habitat protection and protected area management, promoting environmental education, as well as empowering rural communities through innovative economic and livelihood development programmes.
NOE-Cameroun
1) Save endangered species
2) Protect natural areas
3) Restore ordinary biodiversity
4) Reconnect man [the human being] to nature
5) Reinvent a biodiversity-friendly society
Gabon
PROGRAM
The association Protectrice des Grands Singes de la Moukalaba (PROGRAM) was created in 2004 for the protection of great apes and biodiversity in general near Moukalaba Park, working in close collaboration with the communities around the Park.
ERuDeF
OELO, created in 2010 is protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services for future generations, fosters environmental awareness in local communities, inspires the next generation to become environmental stewards, and helps the residents of the Bas Ogooué lake region to generate income through the sustainable use of resources. OELO is leading programmes in ecotourism, environmental education, sustainable fishing, reducing illegal bushmeat commerce and facilitating biodiversity research in the Bas Ogooué lake region of Gabon.
Regional
AGSAC
l’Alliance pour la Conservation des Grands Singes en Afrique Centrale, (AGSAC) is a sub-regional network bringing together local NGOs working in the conservation of great apes in Central Africa.
The network aims to strengthen the overall capacities of Congo Basin CSOs working on the conservation of great apes and their habitats, while contributing significantly to the local development of local communities living in and around these habitats in the sub-region. All the NGOs belonging to our network have been actively working on the ground with local communities in priority landscapes for several years now.
AGSAC wants to raise the voices of local communities and the African NGOs who collaborate with them into the conservation sphere at the sub-regional and international levels.
Liberia
NUCFMB
The NUCFMB was established in Liberia in 2015 with membership from Authorised Forest Communities (AFC). NUCFMB’s overall vision is to promote effective engagement, advocacy, transparency and accountability in community forest governance through increased citizen participation.
The NUCFMB plays a key role in Liberia’s efforts to place ownership and management of forest lands into community hands. They have an existing large (and growing) membership of AFCs.