In 2017, the Interlaken Group—an informal network co-chaired by RRI and the International Finance Corporation working to expand private sector action to secure community land…
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Award recognizes RRI’s Cameroon Coalition’s work in land rights and reform process
In recent years, a growing mass of Cameroon’s civil society has joined efforts to promote community land rights over exclusionary conservation schemes and colonial models…
Cameroon reporters travel to local villages
Journalists, bloggers, TV reporters, and radio commentators were brought together for the first-ever RRI Coalition messaging session in Cameroon. This training workshop educated the journalists…
Coordinated mapping initiatives secure communities’ rights
As part of an effort to engage in community mapping in Adamawa and the North of Cameroon, local organizations shared information on the mapping initiative…
Forest management units in Cameroon reclassified
Access rights of local communities and Indigenous Peoples’ were taken into account during the reclassification process of five Forest Management Units (Unité Forestière d’Aménagment –…
Initial scoping of the international land and forest tenure facility
INDUFOR completed research in Cameroon, Indonesia and Colombia to identify and validate the need for an international Land and Forest Tenure Facility from the perspective…
Workshop brings together Cameroon’s Parliamentarians to explore consolidation of community land and resource rights
A workshop on the harmonization of sectoral policies, held on July 25-26 in Kribi, promoted the legal recognition of community rights and the need to…
Cameroonian government now reviewing proposed revision of Cameroon’s forest law by communities
At a high-level meeting in Yaound? on September 12, representatives of the Cameroonian Prime Minister informed participants that a proposed revision of the country?s forest…
Parliament-Government Dialogue in Yaound promotes strengthening land reform and governance in Cameroon
On June 11-12, the Network of Parliamentarians for the Sustainable Management of Central African Forest Ecosystems (REPAR) held a Parliament-Government Dialogue in Yaound? on the…
International dialogue generates discourse on impacts of land acquisitions in Africa
On March 5-7, RRI held the 13th Regional Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change for Central and West Africa in Yaound?, Cameroon. It was…
Journalists visit Cameroon to shed light on struggle for community land rights
On March 9-10, RRI?s Communications and Outreach team organized, in collaboration with Cameroon Ecology, a site visit to selected villages in Southern Cameroon for five…
Workshop explores use of VPA/FLEGT to advance pro-communities tenure reform
On 16-17 August, IUCN, CED and FPP co-organized a workshop in Yaound?, Cameroon, on CSOs and Legal Reforms in the context of FLEGT/VPA. Discussions aimed…
Workshop submits statement to EU highlighting recommendations for the new Cameroonian forestry law
On August 7, as a follow-up to the submission of RRI?s proposals to reform Cameroon’s 1994 Forestry Law earlier this year, Cameroon Ecology organized a…
New roadmap for RRI’s contribution to land reform in Cameroon
On July 5, the RRI Cameroon coalition met with the various ministries involved in land and forest tenure at a workshop organized by Cameroon Ecology…
Cameroon mandates RRI to propose sample text for new law on sustainable land management
On July 4, Cameroon Ecology workshop convened a workshop with civil society and seven ministries involved in land and forestry. The participants submitted three articles…
Workshop emphasizes secure community tenure in Cameroonian land reform
On May 28-29, Centre for Environment and Development (CED) organized a national multi- stakeholder workshop advocating for the centrality of secure community tenure to successful…
REFACOF identifies advocacy activities to emphasize women in forest tenure
The African Women?s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF) identified main advocacy activities geared towards forest tenure with an emphasis on women at a…
Workshop puts forth propositions for recognizing community forestry’s role in securing loans
On June 10, Coop?rative Agroforesti?re de la Trinationale?s workshop advocating for legislation favorable to small and medium community forest enterprises in Cameroon produced two major…
Workshop analyzes palm oil expansion to develop FPIC guidelines for Africa
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) partnersed with with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation to convene a workshop in Douala, Cameroon. The workshop included representatives from…
Cameroonian government to declassify land reserved for logging for community use
The Coalition in Cameroon, led by Cameroon Ecology, also succeeded in persuading the Government to declassify parts of two Unit?s Foresti?res d?Am?nagement (Forest Management Units)…
Collaborators in Cameroon present government with recommendations on revising Cameroon’s forestry law
RRI’s collaborators in Cameroon (Cameroon Ecology, CAFT, CED, ICRAF, IUCN and FPP) formally presented its recommendations to the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) for…
Cameroonian parliamentarians endorse position paper by local communities on natural resource management and reform
A position paper on the rights of local communities, women and Indigenous Peoples to natural resources was presented, validated and adopted by participants at a…
Cameroonian Ministires agree to incorporate tenure issues into their policies on land and forests
During a meeting with the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, the Ministry of Forests and Wildlife, and the Ministry of Domains and Land…
Forest agencies and communities agree to coordinate to enhance development of small/medium forest enterprises
At the national dialogue with decision-makers hosted by Coop?ration Agroforesti?re de la Trinationale (CAFT) in Cameroon, representatives of forest agencies and community leaders agreed to…
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