This project establishes a demand-driven, action-oriented environmental information database for the tropical forest region of central Africa to support decision-making and to build up national capacity for environmental monitoring, land-use planning, and conservation priority setting. Strong emphasis will be put on capacity building in the public and private sectors to use such data, on creating an integrated, standardized regional information network for data sharing, on connecting data suppliers and users to the electronic highway, and on defining and developing specific products desired by end users.

Project Details

GEF Project ID
47
Country
Regional
Implementing Agencies
The World Bank
Approval FY
1997
Status
Completed
Region
Regional
Executing Agencies
Ministries of Environment, Forests, Agriculture, Water, Research and Tourism in the participating countries; IUCN
GEF Period
GEF - 1
Project Type
Full-size Project
Focal Areas
Funding Source
GEF Trust Fund

Financials

USD
Co-financing Total
15,850,000
GEF Project Grant
4,077,000

Timeline

Concept Approved
01 May 1997
Project Approved for Implementation
03 Nov 1997
Project Closed
03 Sep 2004