CAFE "Consortium Africain des Fonds pour l’Environnement"

During the 1990s, there was a marked decline in financial flows supporting conservation efforts across Africa. The need to develop innovative financing mechanisms to address this situation became increasingly evident.

As a result, environmental conservation trust funds were established throughout the continent. Today, it is essential to improve the institutional effectiveness of these funds and enhance knowledge sharing among them. The creation of a network was seen as an effective means to achieve this goal.

Following a period of informal collaboration, a meeting was held in Dar es Salaam in September 2011, which officially established the Consortium of African Funds for the Environment (CAFE). The network was launched by twelve founding funds, in collaboration with several supporting partners, with the ambition of building a learning community of actors who share best practices and implement innovative financing mechanisms to promote conservation, environmental management, and sustainable development in Africa.