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Paving the Way for Greater Success in AAFEBEN

2022-03-11T13:45:07+00:00December 7th, 2016|

Passion and commitment are two of the many qualities that drive the activities of most community based organisations. AAFEBEN (Appui à l'Auto Promotion de la Femme de Boumba et Ngoko), a community based organisation in Yokadouma in the Eastern region of Cameroon is one of such organisations. Its members and staff are dedicated and are working hard to promote better living conditions of people living in forest communities in the region. Since its creation in 2001, the organisation has engaged in activities aimed at promoting quality health, promoting access to education for underprivileged children and the creation of income generating activities [...]

Structures in organisations

2022-03-11T13:45:07+00:00November 7th, 2016|

One of the key standard questions an organisational development practitioner will ask any organisation s/he will engage with is to show their organigram. An organigram will show the functions in the organisation and how they are related to each other. Sometimes the diagram shows the names of the members in the organisation, but this is not always the case. The organigrams that we see are often very hierarchical and this raises the question how much thought is given to the structure and how it relates to the strategy of the organisation. In his influential book ‘Structure in fives’, Henry Mintzberg identified [...]

ICT for CSOs: simple solutions for faulty internet connections

2022-03-11T13:45:03+00:00October 6th, 2016|

CSOs, like any other organisation nowadays, manage a lot of data. When we think about them, we tend to imagine all the activities they implement on the field; unfortunately, they also have to spend a considerable amount of time writing e-mails, sending reports or managing their accountancy. But CSOs also meet a different challenge: their access to internet. What connection can we expect in the middle of the forest or in a remote village? How can they then manage spending their time, with a slow, rare and unstable internet connection, on their field activities rather than waiting for a page to [...]

Increasing community’s right to land through participatory mapping

2022-03-11T13:45:02+00:00September 16th, 2016|

The Congo Basin forest is the second largest tropical forest and the third largest forest in the world. This forest is considered as one of the most important ecological zones in the world with over 10,000 species of  plants, 1000 species of birds, 500 species of fishes and over 500 variety of mammals. Hence, it produces substantial financial resources for states in the region including Cameroon. In Cameroon, the government launched ‘Vision 2035’ which aims at bringing development to the country via the industrialization of Cameroon’s economy. Within this context, there exists a combination of several factors that place additional pressure [...]

Industrial forest exploitation: the main cause of deforestation

2022-03-11T13:45:02+00:00August 9th, 2016|

This is the result of a study carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) examining the causes of deforestation and forest degradation in central Africa. In Cameroon, over 44 762 hectares of forest are devastated annually by industrial exploitation in the TRIDOM (Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkébé). This is the finding of a study carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This situation is due to the surface of annual allowable cuts by the logging companies. However, as stated by the study, the surface of annual allowable cuts is only one of the indicators of the [...]

A Good Start for Well Grounded in 2016: Lessons from Practice!

2022-03-11T13:45:02+00:00July 22nd, 2016|

2016 started on a fast paced note for us at Well Grounded. Between January and June we carried out 27 interventions for 18 of our clients in three countries in the Congo Basin. Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW) works to protect the Kilum-Ijim forest in the North West region of Cameroon. Through our support in the first quarter of 2016, the team was able to define the organisation’s vision and mission. The organisation also developed its global and specific objectives it will work to achieve between 2016 and 2020. “This process was very useful to us. It has helped us [...]

Collaboration in a fracturing world

2022-03-11T13:45:01+00:00June 24th, 2016|

A great organisation development practitioner, Davine Thaw, often summarises what organisations are in three words: people, purpose and process. Today, a bleak day for all of us who believe in collective action, as more than half my fellow citizens have chosen to take the UK out of the European Union, I have been thinking a great deal about the “people” part of that. One of the issues Well Grounded and a lot of other organisations have been thinking and talking about is how organisations work together between countries. And in a recent conversation, a friend working for another UK-based NGO pointed [...]

Raising funds for small NGOs: meeting the challenge

2022-03-11T13:45:01+00:00June 8th, 2016|

By Camaleo Let's face it: competition for funds is high, and fundraising has converted into an uphill battle for all non profits. The situation is even more dire for smaller organisations, especially when they are based in the countries where they implement their programmes. Small organisations and their specificities The vast majority of charitable organisations in the world are rather small, and most are based in the global South. Much of the good work worldwide is done by these small non-profits. It is true that for these organisations, fundraising is difficult. But they know the local situation well, and new technologies, [...]

Should social media be part of your organisational strategy?

2022-03-11T13:45:01+00:00May 17th, 2016|

By Victor van Reijswoud Social media is useful for more than just social connectivity and entertainment. Social media opens new possibilities for organisations all around the world. It changes the way organisations communicate and engage with their clients and stakeholders. Social media expands the communication reach of organisations at a lower cost and these relations become more intimate and frequent. Social media opens up new horizons for civil society organisations (CSOs) and and many CSOs worldwide are making use of this cost effective opportunity. Although you may think that this is only the case in the developed world, Africa is following [...]

“Bee farmers are in tears”

2022-03-11T13:45:01+00:00April 22nd, 2016|

By CAMGEW (Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch) Just over a month ago, on February 21st, CAMGEW director Wirsiy Emmanuel Binyuy was alerted that a bushfire, allegedly started by a farmer in Bihkov, a small community in Jakiri sub-division in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, had gone out of control and was threatening to extend to the whole Kilum-Ijim forest, which covers over 20,000 hectares. The Kilum-Ijim Forest is an area of mountain rainforest, found on Mount Oku and the nearby Ijim Ridge in the Cameroon mountains. In spite of heavy community mobilization, it took people over seven days of hard work [...]

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