West and Central Africa Portfolio

Our online portfolio provides an overview of each supported initiative, its surrounding challenges, and the solutions it offers. It can provide meaningful insights to entrepreneurs, investors, local communities, and other stakeholders in the land-use sector globally that, when successfully addressed, can be replicated elsewhere under similar circumstances.

Adum Banso Sustainable Oil Palm Pilot

Transforming the oil palm sector in Ghana: piloting a replicable production-protection model with communities in the Adum Banso landscape.

Africa Palm Oil Initiative

The vision of the Africa Palm Oil Initiative is a prosperous palm oil industry which brings jobs and wealth to local communities in a way that is environmentally and socially sustainable and protects the rich tropical forests of the region.

African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative

Strengthening the AFR100 agenda to accelerate forest landscape restoration in Africa.

Baka Forest NTFP and Cocoa Market

Strengthening NTFP market access for increased indigenous livelihood support and conservation outcomes in Mintom and Djoum, Cameroon.   

The Cocoa and Forests Initiative

Supporting the development of a joint framework of action to end deforestation and forest degradation related to global cocoa production.

Cocoa Landscape Investment Facility

Unlocking impact investment for sustainable cocoa landscape management in Ghana to deliver shared economic benefits.

Cocoa Landscapes Restoration Platform in Forest Hotspots

A collective action landscape-level governance and finance solution for restoring priority landscapes in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

Dja Multistakeholder Platform

Dja Multistakeholder Platform for Conservation and Commodity Markets.  

Equateur forest landscape platform

Facilitating the business environment for Equateur sustainable cocoa.

Financial Sustainability Mechanism: Cocoa Ecosystem Services

Financing deforestation-free cocoa and payments for ecosystem services in Cote D’Ivoire.

Forest Smart Agriculture: Protecting Forests and Empowering People

Developing a market for forest-friendly Gola cocoa in Liberia.

Ghana FACT Dialogue: Forests and Land Use NDCs

Supporting a government-to-government dialogue alongside wider multi-stakeholder consultations to strengthen collaborative actions. 

Landscape governance and Smallholders Enterprise: Olam Ghana

Providing additional support to scale social and environmental impact on the RA-Olam project.

Livelihood Support to BOPP Sustainable Smallholder Oil Palm

Strengthening landscape governance by supporting the communities and beneficiaries farmers with forest enterprises and market access.

Multi-stakeholder sustainable development concession platform

Creating an enabling environment to strengthen the existing Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Liberia.

Partnership for Livelihoods and Landscapes in Western Ghana

Setting up Landscape Management Boards for improved landscape governance, cocoa production and livelihoods with Rainforest Alliance-Olam.

Partnership for Productivity, Protection and Resilience in Cocoa Landscapes

Supporting Touton to achieve a deforestation-free cocoa landscape in the Juabeso and Bia Districts of Western Ghana.

Preserving forests by professionalising cooperatives: CEMOI

Strengthening smallholder cocoa farmers’ capacity for deforestation-free cocoa production through the professionalisation of cocoa cooperatives.

Scaling Touton deforestation-free cocoa passports

Scaling deforestation-free cocoa activities through landscape approaches in the Juabeso Bia Districts of Western Ghana, and scaling deforestation free cocoa passports in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.  

Support to Bia-Juabeso Landscape Management Platform

Working collaboratively with cocoa smallholders in the Bia-Juabeso landscape to secure and protect standing forests.

Sustainable Cocoa Landscape Finance Mechanism

Unlocking impact investment for sustainable zero-deforestation cocoa.

Sustainable forest landscape management in Ghana

Supporting Integrated Sustainable Landscape Management in and around the Tain II Forest Reserve via the development of an effective forest plantation model.

Tai Landscape Conservation and Restoration Collective Action Platform

Establishing a platform for collective action to preserve, conserve and restore forests in Côte d’Ivoire.

Yabo-Abbe and Bossemate Cocoa Landscape Platform

Designing a landscape collective action platform to reduce threats to forests in Côte d’Ivoire.