In November 2010, the Central Africa Forest Observatory (OFAC) became a specialized unit of the Executive Secretariat of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC), a regional organization comprising ten Member States, which aims to promote regional coordination and cooperation on forest governance, conservation, and sustainable use of natural resources. The move to institutionalize OFAC within COMIFAC has facilitated more exchanges between Member States, strengthened national coordinators’ capacities to gather data, and made OFAC’s data crucial for monitoring and evaluation systems.
