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Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Cameroon : Challenges and issues

2022-03-11T13:45:09+00:00October 31st, 2017|

This article is the first of two pieces about indigenous peoples in Cameroon, written by a staff member of Okani, one of our client organisations. In Cameroon, when speaking about forest indigenous peoples, we refer to four different groups: Baka people live mostly in the Eastern and Southern regions of Cameroon. Bakola and Bagyeli people live in an area of about 12 000 square km in the South of the country, including the districts of Akom II, Bipindi, Kribi and Lolodorf. Lastly, the Bedzang people live in the Central regions, in the North-West of Mbam in the area of Ngambè Tikar. [...]

The fate of the Congo Basin forests must lie with its people

2022-03-11T13:45:09+00:00October 4th, 2017|

A light breeze of democratisation is blowing through the Congo Basin – and it is being driven by civil society. In the Central African Republic (CAR), civil society is playing a key role in rebuilding a nation torn apart by civil war. In Cameroon, it is pushing for democratic reforms in the face of often fierce government pressure. In the Republic of Congo (Congo), civil society is alerting to human rights abuses against indigenous communities and dissenting voices. And in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it’s playing a vital role in providing humanitarian assistance in conflict prone regions, and supporting [...]

What is community forestry?

2022-03-11T13:45:08+00:00September 14th, 2017|

We frequently hear about community forestry, but how does it really work, and what are its advantages for the populations? This month, Carmel Kifukieto, programme officer at the Centre d’Appui à la Gestion Durable des Forêts Tropicales (CAGDFT), one of the organisations we support in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tells us about the different aspects of this practice. What is community forestry? Community forestry is a set of practices, techniques and methods to manage the forest and its natural resources. It is regulated by a specific legal framework that organizes local communities’ participation. This is illustrated by this sentence: «a [...]

Bringing legislators and communities face to face – how one Congolese organisation has changed how laws are written

2022-03-11T13:45:08+00:00April 19th, 2017|

Well Grounded is publishing a series of blog posts that tells the stories of people and organisations who have spoken out, who have found new ways to solve old problems and who have stuck at it in impossible circumstances in the pursuit of social and environmental justice. Be inspired! Civil society organisations can influence legislation in all sorts of ways: lobbying, campaigning, researching, making proposals and so forth. One effective approach is to work directly with the people who develop laws and to support them in developing the very text that becomes legislation. An organisation that has done this really successfully [...]

Local Communities Placed at the Centre of Forest Management in the DRC

2022-03-11T13:45:08+00:00March 27th, 2017|

Stakeholders working to ensure the sustainable management of forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have resolved to put communities living in and around forest concessions at the heart of things. Since 2015, national and international actors alongside the government of the DRC have worked to put in place a national strategy on community forestry that will ensure that forest communities benefit from the management and use of their forests. This was in part motivated by publication of the community forestry law no. 011/2002 of 29 August 2002. The development of the strategy benefited from the contribution of Congolese CSOs, [...]

People, organisations and positive change: an occasional blog series

2022-03-11T13:45:08+00:00February 27th, 2017|

Well Grounded is publishing a series of blog posts that tells the stories of people and organisations who have spoken out, who have found new ways to solve old problems and who have stuck at it in impossible circumstances in the pursuit of social and environmental justice. Be inspired! In the United States at the moment, a leader is sat in the White House signing executive orders that close the doors of the world’s richest country to refugees on the basis of nationality and religion and that deny services to women all over the world. The president has not divested himself [...]

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