The Republic of Congo has received € 45 million from the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) to support its land use planning and natural resource conservation strategies.

As part of the finalization of the appraisal of a sustainable land use program in Congo, CAFI is releasing a financial envelope of 45 million euros. It is a question of accompanying and supporting the various milestones of the memorandum of intent that President Congo, Denis Sassou N'Guesso, signed with French President Emmanuel Macron in October 2019, according to the director of the French Development Agency (AFD) in Congo, Lionel Cafferini, who made the announcement to Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Congolese Minister of Tourism and Environment.

This financial support covers two phases of the land use programme. A first where the CAFI Fund has delegated resources to AFD for an amount of USD 15 million and where AFD, on behalf of the French State, will mobilize €7 million in additional financing. During the investigation, the second phase should mobilize 15 to 25 million USD from the CAFI initiative to which will be added 8 million euros of donation resources from the French State via AFD.