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Community members support legal position paper by Camerooninan parliament on land and forest tenure.
In Cameroon, key stakeholders validated a legal position paper produced by the members of parliament on land/forest rights and tenure of local communities and indigenous…
Workshop builds capacity and road maps for effective community rights advocacy
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Recommendations for forestry law reform in favor of community rights
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Training on forest enterprise enhances business models in Cameroon
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Cameroonina ministries develop blueprint to include tenure rights in their workplans
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Local communities present strategies to Cameroonian Govt. for enhancing women’s land and forest rights
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At MegaFlorestais, global forest agency leaders share best practices in forest tenure reform
MegaFlorestais 2010 took place September 20-23 in Wuyishan, Fujian Province, China. Forest agency leaders from Indonesia, China, DRC, Canada, USA, Cameroon, Brazil and Mexico shared…
Local communities work with Cameroonian officials to ensure community concerns determine how policies related to REDD and climate change are shaped and implemented
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) organized a meeting between Cameroonian government officials and members of civil society to…
Civil society organizations develop more inclusive strategies to leverage their position with governments in REDD initiatives
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REDD trainings help indigenous Bagyeli and Baka communities leverage their positions in REDD initiatives
The Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and the Center for Environment and Development (CED) trained the indigenous Bagyeli and Baka communities of Cameroon on REDD, rights…
RRI partners FPP and collaborator CED provide a supplementary report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Cameroon’s failure to uphold international law
The Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) provide a supplementary report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of…
Key forest stakeholders develop a shared advocacy strategy to support community tenure rights in Cameroon
In Cameroon, key parliamentarians, government officials from Cameroon’s Ministery of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF), opinion leaders, traditional chiefs, NGOs, and RRI developed an advocacy strategy…
ITTO presents key analysis and and recommendations for community forest governance
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Cameroon’s indigenous Bagyeli people map land use areas to ensure their rights are protected
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and the Centre for Economic Development (CED) worked with the indigenous Bagyeli people in Cameroon to map the community’s use of…
Women leaders from across Africa create the Africa Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests
During RRI’s conference on Tenure, Governance, and Enterprise in Yaound?, Cameroon, a network for women leaders across Africa was created. This new network, the African…
RRI produces several new briefts on Alternative Tenure Enterprise Models in Ghana, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, British Columbia, the Gambia, and Liberia
In preparation for the Yaound? tenure conference, RRI partners and collaborators prepared several briefs on Alternative Tenure Enterprise Models (ATEMs) in Ghana, Cameroon, Burkina Faso,…
The International Conference on Forest Governance, Tenure and Enterprise: New opportunities in Central and West Africa
The International Conference on Forest Governance, Tenure and Enterprise: New opportunities in Central and West Africatook place in May in Yaound?, Cameroon, catalyzing new and…
Cameroonian communities provide strategies on supporting customary land in industrial concession policies in Cameroon
In meetings held in Kribi and Edea, Cameroon, local communities met with local government leaders and the Cameroonian Ministry of Flora and Wildlife to provide…
Cameroonian community and government leaders provide strategies on recognizing the rights of communities who live within state forest reserves in Cameroon
During a workshop in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, Cameroonian community and government leaders provide strategies for recognizing the rights of communities who live within state forest reserves….
Cameroonian community and government leaders issue recommendations for recognizing customary rights of communities living in and near protected areas in Cameroon
In Cameroon, community leaders and local government representatives and NGOs generated recommendations for how to recognize the customary rights of communities living in and near…
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