The Environment and Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF), is a local Civil Society Organization registered and licenced in Ethiopia (registration No. 0378), and focuses on developing strategies for sustainable use and conservation of the environment in general, and the coffee forests in particular, through thematic research on conservation planning, education and pilot implmentation of research findings. ECFF provides services including conservation planning, practical implmentation of scientifically proven concepts, environmental education and capacity building and climate change mitigation.
Since the beginning of its activities, ECFF has benefited from the financial contributions of various funding partners who value and share its vision the pervious and current partners includes; Volkswagen Foundation, the Bonn University, DFID, SCIP Fund, Uk, with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (UK), Darwin Initiative, with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Germany, Austrian Development Agency, Care Ethiopia, Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Germany, International Bureau (DLR), BMBF, Germany, NERC-ESPA/ElNino Program, UK, with NCRC Ghana, ICCO-Netherlands through the HoA-REC&N, CIDA Canada through ATA, The David and Lucile Pakard foundation and others.