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The WEEECAM project handling electrical and electronic equipment waste featured in Le Monde
Le Monde has just published an article on the “ecological time bomb” that waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) represents in Cameroon. The article described the WEEECAM project - supp...
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PRCM Forum: signature of the Resilao project for the protection of the West African coastal regions
On 28 March 2022, in a side event at the 10th edition of the Regional Coast and Marine Forum, the FFEM signed a financing agreement with the Regional Partnership for the Conservation of the Coastal an...
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The FFEM is at the PRCM Forum in Senegal
The 10th edition of the Regional Coastal and Marine Forum (PRCM) opens today at Saly, in Senegal, bringing together the sector’s key players and decision-makers. This edition is dedicated to "The heal...
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World Water Forum: the WaSAf project publishes its guide to freshwater ecosystems
The 9th World Water Forum has just opened in Dakar, in Senegal. The international water and water treatment community will be gathered there until 26 March. It’s an opportunity for the French Facility...
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Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury and Jean-Louis Doucet: “The Central African forests aren’t all the same”
Today, forestry management faces multiple challenges in terms of adapting to climate change, biodiversity preservation and sustainable forestry exploitation. If the development plan is the primary ans...
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The FFEM at the One Ocean Summit 9 - 11 February
The FFEM will be participating alongside its partners in a number of events at the Summit.
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“The Plast’ile project aims to have a global impact for ecosystems and populations alike”: interview with Sylv...
Supported by the SMILO NGO and signed-off by the FFEM during the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in September 2021, the goal of the Plast’ile project is to put in place sustainable management of pl...
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New documentary on the Cogito project
The WWF has just released a documentary titled “Blue Future” highlighting the strong potential for sustainable blue jobs in the Mediterranean. The documentary was produced as part of the Cogito projec...
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‘Underpinning action and efficiency to put impetus behind current and future projects’
In creating a position dedicated to capitalisation in September 2020, the FFEM has strengthened capitalisation as a strategic direction for the coming years. Clémentine Dardy, who holds the position,...
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Record level of financial commitments in 2021
By the end of 2021, the FFEM had achieved record-level financial commitments of €30m across 16 projects.
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Event to showcase the FFEM’s expertise
On 16 November 2021, the FFEM presented the challenges and perspectives from its Evaluation and Capitalisation strategy using evaluations of 3 capitalisation approaches from previous projects. After o...
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ACT-DDP side event at COP26
Stéphanie Bouziges-Eschmann spoke at this ACT-DDP side-event at COP26. The event presented the first lessons learned from this project led by Ademe and IDDRI, concerning the low-carbon transition of c...
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FFEM-supported project to combat coastal erosion in Senegal cited in Jeune Afrique
This issue of the pan-African weekly news magazine looked at solutions to combat coastal erosion in Senegal, including fencing made from typha reeds, as used in an FFEM-supported project.
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The Cocoa of Excellence project on RFI
The FFEM-supported “Cocoa of Excellence” project in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador was featured on the Spanish language programme “Escala en París” on Radio France Internationale (RFI).
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Sealing a public-private partnership for sustainable excellent cocoa and zero deforestation
On 12 October 2021, the FFEM appeared alongside the French Secretary of State for the Ecological Transition, the company Kaoka and its partners at a press conference to formalise their partnership aim...
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Guiana's Amazonian Park Cooperation Project: publication of new thematic overviews
Within the framework of the RENFORESAP project, coordinated by the Amazonian Park in partnership with Suriname and Guyana, whose innovative approach was supported by the FFEM, thematic overviews focus...
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Signing of the Plast’ile project to combat plastic pollution in the Mediterranean
On 9 September 2021, as part of the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress, the FFEM has signed a financing agreement with the NGO SMILO to support the island pilot site of Kerkennah in Tunisia in impleme...
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Signing of an agreement between WCS and CIB-OLAM for the conservation of biodiversity in the northern Congo
On 8 August 2021, the Government of the Republic of Congo, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB), a subsidiary of OLAM International, signed a trilater...
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The FFEM publishes a new capitalisation on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
This publication is the first component of a new FFEM series on capitalisation and looks back at 40 projects financed and supported by the FFEM in MPAs over the last 25 years, with a view to learning...
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Intersecting capitalisation of the Small-scale Initiatives Programmes (Programme Petites Initiatives - PPIs) A...
Since 2006, the Small-scale Initiatives Programmes (PPIs) have supported African civil society in conserving nature and improving local living conditions. Launched by the FFEM in 2006 and supervised b...
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