The Network of Forestry and Environmental Training Institutions in Central Africa (Riffeac) provides for the integration of the gender dimension into ongoing projects in order to achieve sustainable forest development results that meet the needs and aspirations of women, men, young people as well as indigenous populations.
This strategy, which is part of the Adéfac project (continuous training in the service of sustainable forest management) aims to contribute to improving its performance and the implementation of transversal axis 1 of the Plan de revised convergence of the Central African Forests Commission (Comifac) on training and capacity building of which it is the main operator.
To do this, the gender strategy of Comifac will serve as a reference for the development of the gender strategy of Riffeac. Indeed, the development of said strategy has been launched. The various actors of the Riffeac member institutions, as well as those of the Riffeac regional coordination, received questionnaires from the consultant for their participation in the gender audit.
As part of the implementation of this strategy, a certain number of women were targeted in each institution for specific interviews. This will make it possible to develop the Riffeac gender diagnosis, to identify and better define the issues in order to define the main axes of action and improvement. The results of this work will be shared within Riffeac after validation by the Technical Execution Team (Eet) of the Adéfac project, Riffeac and the International Technical Association of Tropical Timber (Atibt).
Riffeac is a group of twenty-three training institutions from the Central African sub-region. Its objective is to develop the skills and structures necessary for the joint and sustainable management of environmental and forest resources. Regarding the Adéfac project, it aims to set up a sustainable system of continuing training in the forest-wood sector in the Congo Basin.