Reverse the Red - African NGOs on the frontline to reverse African biodiversity loss

For more than 15 years, the PPI (the small grant initiative of the FFEM) has been supporting civil society organisations in Western and Central Africa to preserve the threatened biodiversity. During the five first phases of the PPI (2005-2021), 251 projects have been implemented by 190 organisations in not less than 28 countries. This means the same number of local organisations active on the ground on concrete conservation activities. To reach sustainable results, the PPI uses two main tools: grants and day-to-day capacity building. An overview of this program and its approach will be made. Then, one PPI grantee from Cape Verde, Associação Projeto Biodiversidad, and one from Cameroun, Ebo Forest Research Project, will testimony how they develop solutions to stop and reverse the drop of African biodiversity.