- EDF-8 (Lomé IV bis) - 1995-2000
formerly
- EDF-7 (Lomé IV) - 1990-1995
- EDF-6 (Lomé III) - 1985-1990
Managed by DG Development (formerly managed by DGVIII).
In the 1970s, the financial protocol of the Lomeé
Convention, the European Development Fund (EDF),
provided the main source of funding to tropical
forestry. The first three Lomé Conventions provided multi-
annual financial allocations, on a five-year cycle. The
present Lomé Convention, Lomé IV, covers two
successive funding periods (Lomé IV and IV bis, each
of five years) of ten years' overall duration (1990-99).
Aid delivery through the mechanism of the EDF
involves two levels of action: the programming
exercise which defines the overall character and level
of funding of the various national indicative pro-
grammes (NIPs) and regional indicative programmes
(RIPs), and the project formulation which converts
each programme into a set of viable projects. Both of
these form part of a single process of EDF project cycle
management.
As other sources of funding have become
available to tropical forestry through the budget lines,
so the EDF's relative importance has diminished.
However, it still has important implications for tropical
forestry, both in terms of funds earmarked for activities
in key sectors of the national programmes of the partner
countries, and, more generally, in terms of the forestry
impacts of interventions in other sectors.
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