Discussion on integrated land-use planning tools. AJESH, RFUK, PRESS II, FODER.
AJESH and Rainforest Foundation Uk accompanied by PRESS II and FODER at MINEPAT to discuss integrated land-use planning tools: CSO experience and strategies for integration into decision-making documents in the era of decentralization. AJESH et Rainforest Foundation Uk accompagnés de PRESS II et FODER au MINEPAT pour échanger sur les outils intégrés d’aménagement du Territoire : L’expérience des OSCs et les stratégies d’intégration dans les documents de prise de décision à l’heure de la décentralisation.
National workshop on Desertification 2022 in Cameroon.
In the current context of climate change, land and vegetation cover degradation accentuate the problem of ecological balance and food security in Sub-Saharan African countries. The actions of each actor in favor of the restoration of losses on the vegetation cover are made according to the endogenous knowledge and legal provisions that exist. However, beyond that, the specificities of the ecological environment require practices that are likely to contribute to a sustainable development of resource use. It is around this discussion that SAILD, AJESH and CARI held this March 29 at SAILD a workshop for the sharing of experiences of civil society in agro-ecology in Cameroon. The participants: CSOs, Research, MINADER have exchanged on the experiences and the position of the legislation in agro-ecology. It emerged that agro-ecological practices have an impact on food security, the socio-economic conditions of the populations as well as on the sustainable management of resources. These conditions are accentuated by the insecurity of land tenure/access to land on the one hand, but also by the absence of information and awareness on the concept in the rural environment with sound agricultural techniques. The androgenic agricultural techniques are to be congratulated, but they should be in line with the objectives of sustainable development in the different agro-ecological zones. The elaboration of agroforestry policies with sustainable financing is necessary. Such is the plea of the Civil Society gathered in Yaoundé in prelude to the Cop 15 on the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. Atelier National sur la désertification 2022 au Cameroun. Dans le contexte actuel des changements climatiques, la dégradation des terres et du couvert végétal accentuent le problème de l’équilibre écologique et de sécurité alimentaire dans les pays de l’Afrique Subsaharienne. Les actions de chaque acteur en faveurs de la restauration des pertes écoulées sur le couvert végétal sont faites en fonction des connaissances endogène et des dispositions légales qui existent. Toutefois, au-delà, les spécificités du milieu écologique exigent des pratiques susceptibles de contribuer à un développement durable de l’utilisation des ressources. C’est autour de cette discussion que le SAILD, AJESH et le CARI ont tenu ce 29 Mars au SAILD un atelier pour la mise en commun des expériences de la société civiles dans l’agro-écologie au Cameroun. Les participants : OSC, Recherche, MINADER ont échangé sur les expériences et la position de la législation dans l’agro-écologie. Il en ressort que des pratiques antis agro écologiques impactent sur la sécurité alimentaire, les conditions socio-économiques des populations ainsi que sur la gestion durable des ressources. Ces conditions sont accentuées par l’insécurité foncière/ accès à la terre d’une part mais aussi d’autres part par l’absence de l’information et de la sensibilisation sur le concept dans le milieu rural avec des techniques agricoles saines. Les techniques agricoles endogènes sont à féliciter, mais il faudrait que ces derniers cadrent avec les objectifs du développement durables dans les différentes zones agro-écologiques. L’élaboration des politiques agroforestières à financement durable est nécessaire. Tel est le plaidoyer de la Société Civile réuni à Yaoundé en prélude à la Cop 15 sur la Convention des Nation Unies pour la Lutte Contre le Désertification.
Training pupils on how to avoid Cholera.
AJESH staff and volunteers training students on how to avoid Cholera. Government Primary School Moliwe Mile 4 Limbe, South west Cameroon.
Fight against Cholera.
AJESH staff and volunteers on road to carry out cholera campaign in Limbe, South west region – Cameroon.
Pilot Ecological restoration
Land use planning management committees (LUPMCs) pilot ecological restoration (natural regeneration) on an area of 3.6ha degraded lands in Ndocktoun (2.3ha) and Ndogmem-Nord (2.5ha) in the Yabassi Key Biodiversity area that includes the Ebo Forest massif. A project led by AJESH.
AJESH 2022-2025 Strategic Plan
AJESH staff retreats to strategically Plan 2022-2025 with technical Expertise from technicians from the Pan African Institute For Development West Africa Cameroon. The 3-day retreat focus on: evaluate the 2017-2021 strategic plan, brain storm on the 2022-2025 Strategic Plan, validate 2022 operational plan and budget, review of communication and socio-economic strategies, and strategise on the New Deal for Nature-based Solutions (NbS), Monitoring Plan, donor identification and strategies to approach them, emerging issues in finance and People and culture updates including Performance Development Journey finalization and compiled key actions and recommendations that will finetune the attainment of strategic targeted objectives for Financial Year 2022.
Masterclass on communicating conservation impacts.
Two AJESH staff graduate from a Masterclass on Communicating Conservation Impacts, organised in Douala – Cameroon by the Tropical Biology Association (TBA) and Resource Centre for Environment & Sustainable Development (RCESD) with funding from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).
The preservation of the cultural values of the people of the Ebo Forest massif within the Yabassi key biodiversity area.
The preservation of the cultural values of the people of the Ebo Forest massif within the Yabassi key biodiversity area has become a necessity. It is the tangible and intangible heritage that a people must transmit from generation to generation. Gathered around the Ebo Forest Chiefs Association on February 23, 2022, the village chiefs retained that, the cultural values present on their land tenures are those that link them to their ancestors. Cultural sites (sacred forest, sacred tree), ancient buildings, monuments, tombstones, artifacts, cemeteries, … affirm their identity as a people because it creates a comprehensive framework for the preservation of cultural heritage. Beliefs and values help guide preferences for forest landscapes and forest benefits such as diversity and identity, justice, education, freedom and spirituality and condition a people’s way of life. For the chieves, these cultural values must be identified, spatialized and rehabilitated. The best way to preserve it, whatever it may be, is to share it with others. Today, AJESH, one of their technical coaches, has already helped document the cultural values in nearly 29 villages out of the 42 in the landscape. This aim of integrating cultural governance into the national natural resource management policy for sustainable development of the Ebo Forest Landscape villages. La préservation des valeurs culturelles des populations du paysage d’Ebo Forest massif area est devenue une nécessité. Il est le patrimoine matériel et immatériel qu’un peuple doit transmettre de génération en génération. Réunis autour de l’Association des Chefs Riverain de la Foret d’Ebo ce 23 février 2022, les chefs du village ont retenu que les valeurs culturelles présentes sur leurs tenures foncières sont celles qui leur lient à leurs ancêtres. Les sites culturels (forêt sacrée, arbre sacré), les bâtiments anciens, les monuments, les pierres tombale, les artefacts, les cimetières, … affirment leur identité en tant que peuple car il crée un cadre global pour la préservation du patrimoine culturel. Les croyances et les valeurs contribuent à orienter les préférences pour les paysages forestiers et avantages forestiers tels que la diversité et l’identité, la justice, l’éducation, la liberté et la spiritualité et conditionne le mode de vie d’un peuple. Ces valeurs culturels doivent être identifié, spatialisée et réhabiliter. La meilleure façon de le préserver, quel qu’il soit, est de le partager avec les autres A nos jours AJESH, l’un de leurs accompagnateur technique a déjà aidé à documenter les usages culturelles dans près de 29 villages sur les 42 que compte le paysage. Ceci est dans le but d’intégrer la gouvernance culturelle dans la politique nationale de gestion des ressources naturelles pour un développement durable des terroirs du paysage d’Ebo forest.
Perception of women towards resource management in the Ebo forest landscape.
The Ebo forest, with an area of 2000 km², proposed to be erected as a protected area by the State of Cameroon in collaboration with WWF in 1985 has not been classified despite petitions and letters of encouragement from communities’ residents, elites and defenders of the environment. This forest is teeming with a population of endangered great apes, elephants and other small animals. There is also the arrival of agro-industries such as Azur (Green Field), CREFAT, palm oil producing companies with plantations of more than 123,000 hectares on a site where the carbon sequestration rate is estimated there. to more than 35 million tons. This forest landscape, which until then had no legal status, is now suffering from ever-increasing deforestation and poaching, a source of the rise in illegal logging. Faced with this, the local populations have no way out for their development. While the latter were finally waiting for this forest landscape to be erected in a legal framework more conducive to their local aspirations, it was then that the Government decided to segment it into 02 UFAs in June 2020. Part of this UFA was classified in August 2020 by decree and was already planned for operation on the site planned for the park. Faced with this situation, a lot of ink has flowed both among the local populations and on the side of civil society, politicians and even international opinion in order to put pressure on the State to change the classification decision. For the state, he believes that the UFA will help achieve national development goals. And for the opposing camp, the UFAs that have always existed in the northern part of the landscape have only served operators without any visible contribution to the communities. Since the same causes can produce the same effects, they think they have a say in the management of resources in their territory. This made it possible to engage in numerous dialogue sessions with the State, having at the center the Banen, local populations who were removed from the landscape so that the site could be set up as a Conservation Park. Their indignation which was supported beyond the national territory had brought the State to order and the project of creation of UFA was abandoned. A victory that will allow an in-depth analysis of the uses of the local populations so that in any future process. Thus, in the face of all these debates, the Banen men were at the front to claim their right to their cultural and ancestral heritage. The rights of women have not been explicitly elucidated, yet they are the first direct victim of the uncoordinated actions of the State on their ancestral lands. They were not heard in the debates that were organized around the status of the forest, yet they are at the heart of food security in the Ebo landscape. In order for the voice of women in the Ebo landscape to be heard in this debate, for a contribution to the sustainable management of resources, AJESH with the support of GGF wanted to pave the way for understanding the place of the uses made by women for development of a future sustainable management plan for the forest. The voice of women in the sustainable management of the Ebo forest landscape Uses of women in the Ebo landscape Women, on whom nearly 75% of the family burden rests in the villages of the Ebo landscape, practice 90% of agriculture. Among other things, it is also the collection of NWFPs, group fishing and small trade. Recently, with logging, PNFLs (wild mango, moabi, black pepper, djancent, hazelnut, leaf for packaging, etc.) are disappearing exponentially. They are more and more distant from the center of the villages. These precious cessâmes formerly collected behind the huts today require more energy expenditure for women because they sometimes have to go more than 10km from the village. For agriculture, it is their main activity. They are not accompanied despite the problems related to land allocations which they encounter. The desire of the State to classify the lands on which they derive their source of subsistence, without a support plan, is a brake on their development. And the women of the landscape protest against the actions of the State against their use, a source of family fulfilment. Thus, AJESH organized in-depth discussions with women in the landscape and resulted in the development of participatory maps on the uses of women in the villages of Nsake, Dooundack and Dibeng. These maps, drawn up for each village and merged into one, show the spatial distribution of women’s uses as well as some of the conflicts encountered. But these conflicts do not emanate from state land allocations but from the shrinking of women’s areas of activity with the growth of forest allocations to forestry companies and land to agro-industries. This map shows, in fact, the current mode of resource management by women in the Ebo landscape despite this small sample, there is a need to involve all women in the landscape. Figure 1 : Forest usage by women in Dibeng-Nsake © October AJESH, 2020. In the mapped villages, the source of water supply by the household is from the surrounding rivers. Most of the latter are polluted due to illegal logging, thus increasing the level of vulnerability to diseases among those who have neither a health center for the minimum service nor a road for the evacuation of agricultural products. Even polluted waters do not allow the survival of the poisons that women collect during known seasons. NTFPs are quite far from villages and suffer the effects of logging. Agricultural activities are reduced around the villages. Concerns about the shrinking spaces in which women use is made to be addressed in the decisions of classification of forest areas on the Ebo landscape. The result of the latter is the shrinking of agricultural areas. The concentration of agricultural activities along communication routes for agricultural activities generates many disputes to which women are more vulnerable.
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