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Marcienne Emougou takes up new role leading Well Grounded’s strategic priorities in Congo Basin region

2024-03-04T11:54:32+00:00November 20th, 2023|

20 November, 2023 We are thrilled to share that our longstanding colleague Marcienne Emougou will be taking up a new position with Well Grounded as Regional Lead for our activities in the Congo Basin region. Marcienne has a background in urban planning and the environment, and joined Well Grounded in 2018. She has played a number of roles at Well Grounded spanning our core programmes: she has led organisation development support with CSO partners in Cameroon, as well as spearheading our skills and learning programme around asset based community development approaches. Over the last two years, she has [...]

New multi-stake holder collaborations to start in Cameroon

2022-03-11T13:45:15+00:00January 9th, 2019|

There were almost 25 participants at the three day workshop organized by Well Grounded in Yaoundé: associations of small- and medium-sized businesses, civil society organisations and community forest groups met and exchanged about their experiences of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). In 2010, Cameroon signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement with the European Union to develop legal wood trade and improve forest governance. Large exporting companies quickly benefited from the opportunities offered by the VPA. Civil society has played an important role in the negotiation and implementation of this agreement, advocating for the common good, particularly that of indigenous and neighbouring communities. [...]

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