Local government representatives took part in a training workshop on forest landscape restoration on September 03 and 04, 2024 in Bertoua in the East region.
The Support Service for Local Development Initiatives (SAILD) intends to restore degraded forest areas in the Deng Deng National Park (PNDD) landscape with the help of some key players. To this end, the NGO organized a training workshop on forest landscape restoration.
Some twenty participants took part. Among them: administrative authorities, DTC (decentralized territorial collectivities),PNDD conservation department staff. As well as a number of administrative representatives (Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife; Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development; Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries). The aim was to prepare them for decision-making on restoration options for the Deng Deng National Park landscape.
What emerged from these two days of work was a better understanding of the issues and principles involved in restoration, and a real grasp of its environmental and socio-economic benefits. Stakeholders expressed their satisfaction with the knowledge they had acquired.
Significant commitments by participants
They also expressed their determination to contribute effectively, each according to his or her area of competence, to the community restoration of degraded forest areas in the PNDD landscape. “ From now on, we are going to protect the integrity of the PNDD and sensitize communities to sustainable practices that respect the environment in the context of actions to be carried out outside the Park ”, these are the commitments formulated by the park’s conservation service. Similarly, a representative of MINADER has promised to “ raise awareness of environmentally-friendly techniques, such as agroecology, among active farmers ”.
Using the Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool (IMET), a study carried out in 2017 revealed the main cause of significant degradation within the PNDD, notably certain agricultural activities practiced by riparian communities.
This workshop is therefore part of the Participatory Restoration of the PNDD Forest Landscape project of the IKI Small Grants program implemented by SAILD. The project is funded by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
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