Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) Call for Expressions of Interest for Regional Private Sector Facility

Call for Expressions of Interest to all relevant implementing organisations interested in investing in private sector companies in our partner countries (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Gabonese Republic, the Republic of Cameroon, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and the Central African Republic) to address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the following sectors:

Charcoal value chains and clean cooking solutions

Agriculture (including palm oil, maize, rubber, cocoa, coffee, and timber)

Forestry

Ecotourism and other innovative approaches to Forest Conservation

The CAFI private sector facility will make 100 million USD available to implementing organisations in the form of:

Project development grants to support early development of projects including to pilot new technology and approaches, and to remove the risks and information gaps to investment;

Investment grants to deploy a blended finance approach: to share risks or provide below market interest rate loans and/or other concessional terms such as longer tenors and grace periods;

Performance-based grants to price-in the externality by providing an explicit value on forest…