Internship - Central African Forest Initiative
Vor 4 Tagen
**LOCATION**:
Geneva, SWITZERLAND
**TYPE OF CONTRACT**:
Internship
**STARTING DATE**:
06-Dec-2024
**APPLICATION DEADLINE**:
05-Nov-24 (Midnight New York, USA)
**POST LEVEL**:
Intern
**DURATION OF INITIAL CONTRACT**:
6 months
**TIME LEFT**:
9d 14h 53m
**LANGUAGES REQUIRED**:
English French
**EXPECTED DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT**:
6 months
**Background**:
The Central African region is home to the second largest tropical rainforest in the world, is sucking out about 1.5 billion tons of CO2 of the atmosphere or 4% of the world’s emissions every year and provides a habitat to more than 10,000 plant and animal species. Forest loss is accelerating despite ongoing efforts, as government action alone has not been enough to establish an effective balance between the interests of the forest and of economic development. On this basis, a coalition of donors - which now includes Belgium, the European Union, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, the UK and the US - together with Central African partner countries - Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of Congo - have decided to enter into a collaborative partnership to establish the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI).
CAFI’s objective is to recognize and preserve the value of the forests in the region to mitigate climate change, reduce poverty, and contribute to sustainable development. This objective will be attained through the implementation of country-led, national scale REDD+ and Low Emissions Development (LED) investment frameworks that include policy reforms and measures to address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and promote sustainable development. The CAFI Trust Fund is the principal means to implement the Central African Forest Initiative. It is administered by the MPTF-O, that also provides the Secretariat services.
To reverse this trend and increase the prospects for the long-term conservation of forests in Central Africa we must use the alternatives to current practices (slash-and-burn agriculture, unsustainable charcoal). These have been successfully adopted by farmers in the context of CAFI projects since 2015 and they include agroforestry, development of deforestation-free crops, forest plantation and regeneration following sustainable land use planning. These projects have shown that if we provide direct incentives at scale, people can engage in an alternative development pathway that will spare forests.
CAFI’s payment for environmental services programme (PES) is a standardized mechanism to deliver direct performance-based payments in Central Africa: it creates common rules, eligibility requirements, quality criteria, monitoring, transparent reporting and verification procedures as well as digital payment solutions for a set of activities.
CAFI has developed a comprehensive PES approach over the past 8 years that it is now ready to deploy at scale. Through its integrated rural development programs, CAFI has identified and tested six activities that address the drivers of forest loss and thus contribute to the maintenance of the forest’s ecosystem services and that can be easily incentivized by PES:
- Agroforestry,
- Reforestation,
- Zero-deforestation perennial crops,
- Regeneration,
- Sustainable forest management, and
- Forest conservation (or collective management).
In addition to testing approaches and different incentive systems, CAFI’s rural development programs also contributed to establishing essential enabling conditions based on which the PES can be deployed at a massive scale. These include zoning and land use planning on 10 million hectares or community forest concessions established with recognized title over 600 000 hectares of land. CAFI has developed a network of over 20 international and more than 60 national organizations that have become familiar with many aspects of PES and can thus support local actors.
CAFI’s PES is implemented through a centralized information management system using the most cost-effective technology such as mobile data collection, web-based remote sensing services and mobile payments. This system enables a very transparent, results-based and efficient PES scheme, but also aims to reduce the role and costs of intermediaries while empowering local actors on the ground.
MDC has a number of benefits:
- Speeds up data collection in the field;
- Reduces errors in data collection (built-in quality constraints) & transcription (i.e. bypassing the lengthy and error-prone encoding step from a paper form to soft format);
- Strengthens the reliability & quality of M&E/ surveys, by enabling easy consolidation of “rich data” (GPS coordinates, geotagged photos, etc);
- Speeds up data transmission to the office (real-time or whenever mobile internet network or Wi-Fi become available) and data analysis (i.e. on-site in the device or by receiving quick feedback from office while
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