Meetings of AFF members

The meetings of the Members’ Forum of the African Forest Forum are held once every five years as provided for in the AFF Constitution, Article 4 Section 4 (a) 4. However, the Members’ Forum may hold extraordinary meetings at the request of any member, provided that such a request is supported by at least one-third of the members. The Members’ Forum of AFF is constituted by the entire membership of AFF.

Meetings of the Members’ Forum usually consider and determine any matter which the Governing Council may refer to it, and generally provide broad guidance to the Governing Council in the discharge of its functions, among other functions as provided under the Constitution.

The first meeting of the Members’ Forum was held electronically on 15-20 February 2012. It was during this meeting that members elected the Chair (Prof. Fredrick Owino of the Republic of Kenya) and Vice Chair (Dr. Abdelazim Mirghan Ibrahim of the Republic of Sudan) of Members’ Forum; ratified the AFF Constitution, guidelines for administrative and financial operations and several Governing Council (GC) decisions.

The second meeting of the Members’ Forum held virtually on 27 February – 3 March 2017 provided an opportunity for members to appreciate the achievements made on implementation of AFF’s two flagship projects. Namely: (i) Strengthening sustainable forest management in Africa funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and (ii) African forests, people and climate change funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) . Further, review the institution’s programmatic approach to its work, which was found to be robust and crucial in addressing forestry issues high on the development agenda. Prof. Demel Teketay of the Republic of Ethiopia and Ibro Adamou (Republic of Niger) were elected as Chair and Vice-Chair respectively.

On 28-30 June 2022, the third meeting of the Members’ Forum was held virtually via Zoom. Members were made aware of the recommendations from the previous meeting that had been incorporated in AFF’s work. In this way, they were able to ratify the major decisions made by Governing Council during convenings held from 2017-2022. In addition, recognize the efforts of the AFF Secretariat  in delivering on its mandate despite the COVID-19 crisis and other global challenges. Prof Suzana Augustino (Republic of Tanzania) and Mr. Paul Bourobou (Gabon) were elected as the Chair and Vice Chair
of the Members’ Forum respectively. They are to hold office for five years, that is 2022- 2027.

To download the meeting reports of the Members’ Forum and background documents, click on the links below:

2012

  1. Report on the First Meeting of the Members’ Forum of the African Forest Forum (English)
  2. Report on the First Meeting of the Members’ Forum of the African Forest Forum (French)

2017

  1. Report on the Second Meeting of the Members’ Forum of the African Forest Forum (English)
  2. Report on the Second Meeting of the Members’ Forum of the African Forest Forum (French) 
  3. Overview of Achievements of African Forests, People and Climate Change Project (English)
  4. Overview of Achievements of African Forests, People and Climate Change Project (French)
  5. Overview of Achievements of  Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management in Africa Project (English)
  6. Overview of Achievements of  Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management in Africa Project (French)
  7. Report on dissemination of information through website and engagement with the media (English)
  8. Report on dissemination of information through website and engagement with the media (French)
  9. Administrative and management issues (English)
  10. Administrative and management issues (French)

2022

  1. Report on the Third Meeting of the Members’ Forum of the African Forest Forum (English)
  2. Report on the Third Meeting of the Members’ Forum of the African Forest Forum (French) 
  3. 2021 Annual Project Report (Sida)
  4. 2021 Annual Project Report (SDC)
  5. 2020 Annual Project Report (Sida)
  6. 2020 Annual Project Report (SDC)
  7. 2019 Final Annual Project Report (Sida)
  8. 2018 End of Phase 2 Project Report (SDC

Photo: Quiver tree, Kokerboom, Northern Cape, South Africa