The Forest Sector in the Congo Basin countries: 20 years of AFD intervention AFD w Ex post Evaluation
More recently, AFD incorporated new areas of intervention: • comprehensive support to the industrial development of the timber sector (Congo project); • economic sector observatories; • plantations; • reactivating the PDRSO project, which falls under the social component of FMPs; • sub-regional support (TA SE COMIFAC), specifically for governance (resumption of sub-regional TA/ FLEGT/MAE). AFD’s intervention in these new fields was facilitated by the establishment, in countries like Gabon and Cameroon, of the C2D instrument that pumped massive top-up flows and thus, diversified interventions (consistent with requests from governments). These new thrusts, in keeping with France’s policies, seemingly lack clear-cut guidelines and thereby, undermine consistency and efficiency. Table 3. AFD/PROPARCO interventions for 1990-2010 (in Euros) Pledges
Pledges in % Disbursements Cancellations
PROPARCO projects
23,237,000
24%
10,579,000
12,658,000
AFD loans and credit lines for large FMPs
26,158,000
27%
11,143,000
15,015,000
AFD support projects to small/medium-scale concessionaires
22,545,000
23%
10,687,000
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AFD / CAR, a peculiar case (excluding PARPAF)
5,900,000
6%
1,900,000
4,000,000
New thrusts (fiscal support, climate, FLEGT…)
20,750,000
21%
14,000,000
1,750,000
TOTAL
98,590,000
100%
48,309,000
33,423,000
Source: AFD database, SIOP.
© AFD / May 2012
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