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ACCO Association des Chauffeurs du Congo/ Congo Drivers Association

ADARWA Association des exploitants de bois du Rwanda/Association of Logging Companies in Rwanda

AEFOSKI Association des Exploitants et Etudes Forestières au Sud-Kivu/South Kivu Association of Forestry Research and Logging Companies (DRC)

AFABKA Association de Fabricants de Braise á Kasindi/Kasindi Charcoal Manufacturers Association (in DRC)

AFD Agence française de développement (ex-CFD)/French government development agency

AFLEG African Forest Law Enforcement and Governance

AMEKI Association des Menuiseries de Kihumba/Kihumba Carpentry Association (DRC)

ANR Agence Nationale des Resignements/National Information Office

APENB Association Professionelle des Exploitants et Négociants de Bois/Professional Association of Timber Operators and Traders (DRC)

APJ Agent de police judiciare/ Junior Criminal Investigation Officer

ASBL Association sans But Lucratif/Not-for-Profit Association

ATIBT Association Technique Internationale des Bois Tropicaux/timber trade association

B

BCC Banque Commerciale du Congo/Congo Commercial Bank

BCDC Banque Commerciale du Congo/ Congo Commercial Bank

BIC Banque International du COngo/Congo International Bank

BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung/German government development agency

Bureau II Bureau Militaire/ Military Office(DRC)

C

CDC Commonwealth Development Corporation

CED Centre pour l'Environnement et Développement/NGO in Cameroon

CEFDHAC Conference on the Dense and Humid Forest Ecosystems of Central Africa (Conférence sur les Ecosystèmes de Forêts Denses et Humides d'Afrique Centrale)/The Brazzaville Process. An African ministerial level initiative to facilitate co-operation for the conservation and sustainable use of the forests in the region.

CENADEP Centre National d'Appui au Développement et à l'Education Populaire/ The People's National Education and Development Support Centre

CENEM Comité des Exploitants et Négociants du Bois en territoire de Mangina/The Mangina Territory Committee of Wood Traders and Logging Companies (DRC)

CFA Arican Financial Community franc, widely used unit of currency in region, including Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Linked to the value of the Euro.

CFC Comagnie Forestiere du Cameroun

CIALE Comité Inter-Associations de Jeunesse pour l'Environnement/NGO in Gabon

CIAT Comité International d'Aide à la Transition/International Committee to Support Transition (DRC)

CIEFE Centre International d'Etudes Forestières et Environnementales/NGO in Cameroon

CIF Cost, Insurance, Freight. If a price is quoted CIF, it means it includes cost of goods, the freight or transport costs and also the cost of insurance. An international commerce term

CIFOR Centre for International Forestry Research

CILSS Interstate Committee to Fight Drought in the Sahel

CITES Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species

COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

COMIFAC Central African Forest Commission

COODES Coopérative pour le Développement Economique et Social/Economic and Social Development Cooperative (DRC)

COVEB Comptoir d'achat et de Vente du Bois à l'Exportation/Export Timber Purchasing and Sale Office (DRC)

CPA Comprehensive Peace Agreement

CPGL Communauté des Pays des Grand Lacs/ Community of the Great Lakes Countries

CREF Network Network for the Conservation et la Réhabilitation des Ecosystèmes Forestieres/Conservation and Rehabilitation of Forest Ecosystems

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DEG Deutsche Investitions - und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH/part of BMZ, it invests in private development projects

DEMIAP Direction Militaire des Anti-Patrie/Military Detection of Antipatriotic Activities (DRC)

DFID Department for InternationalDevelopment/UK government development agency

DFO District Forestry Office (Uganda)

DGC Direction Générale des Contributions/The Congo Inland Revenue

DGI Direction Générale des Impôts/The Tax Office (DRC)

DGM Direction Générale des Migration/The Congo Migration Office (DRC)

DGRAD Direction Générale des Recettes Administrative and State Revenues (DRC)

DRC Democratic Repubic of Congo

E

EAC East African Community

EAD/DAE Entité Administrative Décentralisée/Decentralised Administrative Entity (in DRC)

ECCAS Economic Community for Central African States

ECNEF Environnement, Conservation de la Nature, Eaux et Fêts/Conservation of Nature, Water, Forests and the Environment (DRC)

ECOFAC The regional prgramme of the European Union for the conservation and rational use of forest ecosystems in Central Africa

ECOWAS Conference of the Ministers of Central African States

ENA FLEG Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance

ENRA The Enzymes & Raffineries Company

EPB Exploitation du port de Bujumbura/ Bujumbura Port Authority

EU European Union

F

Faggot/Fagot A bundle of sticks or branches, usually meant for use as firewood

FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

FARDC Forces armées de la RDC/The DRC Armed Forces

FDLR Front démocratique pour la libération de Rwanda/Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda

FEC Fédération des Enterprises du Congo/ Federation of Congo Businesses

FID Forestry Inspection Division (in Uganda)

FIF Forum Intergovernemental sur les Forêts

FLEG Forest Law Enforcement and Governance

FLEGT Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade

FM Forests Monitor

FMP Forests Management Plan

FOB Free On Board, used in timber pricing

FOPRADI Foyer pour la Promotion Paysanne et la Redynamisation des Actions pour le Développement Intégral/Club for the Promotion of Farming and the Restimulation of Integral Development Actions (DRC)

FRCF Service Fonds de Reconstruction du Capital Forestier/Fund for the Reconstitution of Forestry Capital (DRC)

FRPI Front des Résistances Patriotiques

FSC Forest Stewardship Council/independent accreditation organisation for timber certification

G

GAGarantie d'Approvisionnement/ Guarantee of Supply

GDP Gross Domestic Product - the total output from all the resources located in a country, wherever the owners of the resources live

GLHRP Great Lakes Human Rights Program

GNP Gross National Product - the total output from resources owned by the residents of a country, wherever these resources are located. GNP=GDP+net property income from abroad

GNU Government of National Unity (Sudan)

GOSS Government of South Sudan

GPS Global Positioning system

GTZ Deutsche Gesellshaft Für Technishe Zusammenarbeit/technical arm of the German Development Agency

H

HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries/debt relief initiative of the World Bank and IMF

I

ICCN Institut Congolais de la Conservation de la Nature/The Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation

ICCO Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation

IDEC Institut de développement économique/ Institute for Economic Development (Burundi)

IECCC Information, Education et Communication environnementale pour le Changement de Comportement des communautés/ Environmental Information, Education and Communication to Instigate Change in Community Behaviour

IMF International Monetary Fund

IM-FLEG Independent Monitoring of Forest Law Enforcement and Governance

INICA Initiative for Central Africa

IPMEA Industries, Petites et Moyennes Entreprises Artisanales/Ministry of Industry and Artisanal, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (DRC)

ITTO International Tropical Timber Organisation

IUCN World Conservation Union (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)/An international environmental NGO

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LRA Lord's Resistance Army

M

MARP Méthode Accélérée de Recherche Participative/Accelerated Participatory Research Method

MDG Millenium Development Goal

MINAGRI Ministère del'Agriculture

MINEF Ministère de l'Environnement et des Forêts

MINITERE Ministry of Lands, Environment, Forestry, Water, and Natural Resources (Rwanda)

MINFOF Ministry of Forests and Fauna, based on Cameroon

MLC Mouvement de Libération du Congo (DRC)

MONUC Mission des Nations Unies au Congo (DRC)

N

NEPAD National Economic Plan for African Development

NFA National Forest Authority (in Uganda)

NGO Non-Governmental Organisation

NRM National Resistance Movement

NTFP Non Timber Forest Products

O

OCC Office Congolais de Contrôle/Congo Office of Law Enforcement

OCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitation Affairs

ODA Official Development Assistance, development aid given by members of the Development Assistance Committee

OGEFREM Office de Gestion et Fret Maritime/ Office for the Management of Maritime Feight

OIBT Organisation Internationale des Bois Tropicaux/ International Timber Trade Organisation

OFIDA Office des Douanes et Accises/DRC Customes & Excise (DRC)

OGPOffice of Global Programs

ONG Organisation Non Governmentale

OPJ Officier de police judiciare/Senior Criminal Investigation Detective

P

Pit Saw A process of sawing logs in which a pit is used as the platform. This system usually takes at least two men to operate, one standing in the pit and the other above, using a long straight serated blade with a handle at either end.

PFNL Produits Forestiers Non Ligneux

Pygmy Academic term referring to the groups of hunter-gatherers living in and around Central African forests

PIR Police d'intervention rapide/ Rapid Intervention Police or Force (DRC)

PROFOR Program on Forests (based at World Bank)

PROFORNAT Projet de Conservation des Forêts Naturelles

PRSPs Poverty reduction Strategy Programs

PSR Police speciale de roulage/ Special Haulage Police

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RCA République Centrafricaine

RCD-ML Congolese Rally for Democracy - Liberation Movement

RDC Resident District Commissioner

RRA Rwanda Revenue Authority

RRN Réseau Ressources Naturelles/ Natural Resources Network

RWE Round Wood Equivalent

S

SADC Southern African Development Community

SDN Sustainable Development Network (based at World Bank)

SFM Sustainable Forest Management

SGS Société Générale de Surveillance/Swiss-based privatemonitoring company

SNEL Société Nationale d'Eléctricité/ National Electricity Board (DRC)

SOOCODEFI Société des Coopératives pour le Développement de Fizi/Society of Cooperatives for the Development of Fizi (DRC)

SPLA Sudan People's Liberation Army

SPLM Sudan People's Liberation Movement

SPLM/A Sudan People's Liberation Movement/ Army

SPRL Société Privée à Responsabilité Limitée, equivalent to a private limited liability company

T

TCB Terminal Container of Béni (DRC)

TRANSCOM Transport & Communication (DRC)

TUC Timber Utilization Contract

U

UCD Union des Commissionaires en Douane/ Union of Customs Clearing Agents and Brokers

UDEAC Central African customs and economic union

UFA Unité Forestière d'Aménagement/a forest management unit, usually known as a concession

UNDP United Nations Development Progamme

UNESCO United Nations for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

UPDF Uganda People's Defense Force

URA Uganda Revenue Authority

V

VAT Value Added Tax

VPA Voluntary Partnership Agreements

W

WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Centre

WCS Wildlife Conservation Society

WNBF West Nile Bank Front

WWF Worldwide Fund for Nature/An international environmental NGO

WWF-PEVi World Wide Fund for Nature - Programme Education Virunga

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