Project Report and Results Was Presented to CARPE and Other Stakeholders in a Validation Workshop
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CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT (CCORUD NGO Founded on the 6th of December 2006. Registration Number: 001357 / RDA / J06 / BAPP Organisation Non Gouvernementale Non Governmental Organization B.P :2626 Messa Yaoundé P.O. BOX :2626 Messa Yaounde Tél : (237) 99415041 Phone : (237) 99415041 Ou: (237) 77869723 Or : (237) 77869723 Participants at launching ceremony MONITORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FORESTRY CONTROL POSTS IN IMPLEMENTING THE 1994 WILDLIFE LAW FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN CAMEROON. FINAL REPORT By: SUNJO Emmanuel N. (Project Manager) And Philip BAWE (Coordinator - CCORUD) Project sponsored by the Central African Regional Program for Environment (CARPE / IUCN) June 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS PROJECT TEAM AND COLLABORATORS ......................................................................................................... 3 COLLABORATORS AT CCORUD .............................................................................................................. 3 ENUMERATORS ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 NATIONAL NGO ............................................................................................................................................. 3 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS AND LOCAL CONSULTANTS ................................................................. 3 CARPE ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 COLLABORATORS FROM MINFOF AT THE WORKSHOP / LAUNCHING ................................... 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .......................................................................................................................................... 5 PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT .................................................................................................................... 6 1) PROJECT TITLE: MONITORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FORESTRY CONTROL POSTS IN IMPLEMENTING THE WILDLIFE LAW FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN CAMEROON. ...................................... 6 2) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT ........................................................................................ 6 3) BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROJECT................................................................ 7 4) GLOBAL OBJECTIVE ................................................................................................................................ 8 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................................................... 8 5) THE PROJECT FOCUS .................................................................................................................................... 9 6) METHODOLOGY FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT .................................................................... 10 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT ACTIVITIES .............................................................................................. 13 RESULTS OBTAINED ............................................................................................................................................. 14 A. RESULTS FROM FCPS .................................................................................................................................. 15 B. RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE CIVIL SOCEITY TOOLKIT .................................................................. 32 DEMOGRAPHICS ............................................................................................................................................. 32 MAJOR FINDINGS .................................................................................................................................................. 37 DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED ......................................................................................................................... 41 RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 42 CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................................................................... 44 ANNEXES .................................................................................................................................................................. 45 QUESTIONNAIRE ...................................................................................................................................................... 45 MID TERM REPORT .......................................................................................................................................... 51 SOME CORRESPONDENCES ........................................................................................................................... 59 LOGICAL FRAMEWORK ................................................................................................................................. 62 PHOTOS OF SOME PROJECT ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................. 69 2 PROJECT TEAM AND COLLABORATORS Project Director – SUNJO Emmanuel N. Project Manager CCORUD Collaborators At CCORUD - Philip Bawe - Joseph Maximilien Oumol - Chebe Irene Lum - Wuyika Mildred Kewan Enumerators - Mvele Edouard - Ngono Maguy Velda - Mponanga Melinga Hervè - Mpord Rosine Flore - Njongui Ruth - Adama Djehel - Ndukong Amos Ngwan - Bika Marie Ann - Nana Charles Nguidip - Hemle Bilong Pieerre Rodrique - Eboumeyeng Jean Fulbert - Carol Kechilla Research Assistants for Bush meat Survey in Restaurants in Yaoundé - Essola Marie Ann - Wakai Esther - Shey Wilson - Sunjo Gladys - Maximilien Oumol - Mbatu Alex - Fuchi Gilbert - Mbomngong Emmanuel - Chebe Irene Lum - Wango Simon National NGO - Driori Offrir (LAGA) - Vincent Mfonfu International Collaborators and Local Consultants - Shannon Randolph (PhD Stanford University USA) - Chia Linus (Forestry Expert) - Zanga Jean Pierre Hewe (Wildlife Expert) - Tina Anne Marie (Statistician)s 3 CARPE o Antoine Eyebe o Stanislas Bila o Pascaline Batupe o Guy Patrice Dkamela COLLABORATORS FROM MINFOF AT THE WORKSHOP / LAUNCHING o Nyansi Didier (SCCP / BN) o Tabi Rapheal (DFAF) o Walter Ashu Egbe (DFAF) o Tchuisseu Oscar (Chef Serv. Regional Faune / Aires prot. Est) o Mbah Festus (CPFC Okola) o Mkoinca Alexis (C / PCFC Y’de Gare) o Ngoba Bayembelaise (C / PCFC Nkometou) 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This publication is a result of the combined efforts of a team of staff and consultants from CCORUD, CARPE, LAGA and MINFOF. The project draft was proposed by CCORUD with inputs from CARPE and LAGA. Sunjo Emmanuel (Project Manager) undertook research for development of the Toolkit and was responsible for finalizing and editing the content and for the publication of the toolkit in its present form. Acknowledgement is also due to many other individuals / institutions that contributed to the development and the refinement of the different sections of the toolkit. Ofrir Driori of the Last great Ape organization LAGA, Philip Bawe – coordinator CCORUD, Mr MFonfu Vincent (LAGA), Atoine Ayebe of CARPE, Mr. Philip Tabi, Director of Wildlife at the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, and the Honorable Minister of Forestry and Wildlife Prof Elvis Ngolle Ngolle who permitted and provided approvals for this project to be carried out at all the FCPs. Special thanks to all CCORUD office staff and the Enumerators and research assistants in Yaounde and other localities who did a wonderful job in making this project dream to come true. 5 PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT 1) PROJECT TITLE: MONITORING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FORESTRY CONTROL POSTS IN IMPLEMENTING THE WILDLIFE LAW FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN CAMEROON. 2) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT Since the early 1990s, the issue of transparency has assumed prominence in improving governance, primarily through the increased attention given to increasing citizen participation, enhancing civil society engagement in the public arena, fostering closer accountability, as well as in combating corruption. Transparency has been recognized as a means of ensuring an informed citizenry and for pursuing a collective vision. It exposes public space thus allowing every stakeholder to remain informed and aware of achievements and setbacks of the government. It motivates collective engagement and builds community identity by enabling every member to identify with processes, results, and outcomes. Indeed through transparency the boundaries of responsibility and actions are rendered visible thus easily determining the locus of accountability. In addition, transparency limits corruption, which tends to thrive in closed systems that are ridden with ambiguity and discretionary behavior. The Centre for Communication in Rural Development “CCORUD”, believes therefore that Transparency is thus a central pillar of good governance. In the past decade and a half the focus of transparency, both as an aspect of improving governance and combating corruption, has been at the national level, mainly associated to the global trend of democratization, pluralism and improved corporate governance. In some sense, this is understandable because corruption- the most conspicuous consequence of lack of transparency – is often most visible at the national level, and because national level institutions such as the executive,