Environmental Management:FCFA 200 Million PNDP Project For SW

The mangrove area was under scanner last weekend by experts who validated a research to begin a sustainable scheme

Reducing emissions from deforestation and its consequent degradation, carbon sequestration, sustainable conservation and management are the key targets of a budding pilot project whose research findings were validated last 16-17 March, 2017 in Limbe, in the South West Region.
Experts from the National Community-driven Development Programme (PNDP), the Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), the local governments (Councils) of Tiko and Limbe III, and the various sponsors met at the Limbe seashore hotel to ponder over the project. If the points of reservations raised on the findings are cleared the project may hopefully kick off before the year runs out.
By the project descriptive document, the Tiko and Limbe III coastal Councils would benefit a sponsoring of some FCFA 200 million. The Mayors of the beneficiary Councils expressed optimism about the project during the validation workshop. Under the chairmanship of Fako’s First Deputy Senior Divisional Officer, Lokombe Nafongo Vincent, the validation exercise saw participants seeking clarifications on the factuality of the research. In the end, the Mayor of Tiko, Daniel Moukondo Ngande, told the press the researchers inevitably involved the councils closely on their field work as the indigenes master their terrain better.
Many truths revealed in the research pointed to the facts that over 85 per cent of the inhabitants of the mangrove area live by fishing and so cut, in rapid succession, the wood to dry their fish. This leaves the zone in degradation and necessitates reforestation and a sustainable management drive.

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Socio-environmental Specialist with PNDP

“Since 2014, thanks to the funding of the French Cooperation, we had to implement six pilot projects at the national level. We have two in the North Region at Pitoa and Lagdo and another one in Meiganga, one project here in the South West Region namely Tiko and Limbe III, We also have one project at Yoko in the Centre Region and the other one will be in the West Region jointly belonging to “Groupement” Bana, Bangangte and Bangou.  We have to validate the report to allow implementation on the field by June this year (2017). It took one year to prepare this study which has some national and international standards to follow.”

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