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WELCOME TO THE IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS

WELCOME TO THE IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS. DEAR MEMBERS DEAR PARTICIPANTS WELCOME TO THIS WORKSHOP. CASE STUDY OF CAMEROON THE I NVOL VE MENT OF PYGM IES IN THE ANNUAL FOREST ROYALTIES AND PROCESSING

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WELCOME TO THE IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS

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  1. WELCOME TO THE IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS

  2. DEAR MEMBERS DEAR PARTICIPANTS WELCOME TO THIS WORKSHOP

  3. CASE STUDY OF CAMEROON THE INVOLVEMENT OF PYGMIES IN THE ANNUAL FOREST ROYALTIES AND PROCESSING TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE RIGHTS, THE STRATEGIC CONCERNS AND SPECIFIC NEEDS OF THE WOMEN IN THE REVIEW PROCESS OF THE FOREST LAW OF CAMEROON

  4. CONTEXT • Ngambe Tikar with - 7200 km2 and - 18,000 inhabitants - third largest forest area of the country • still has significant forest resources and wildlife • Vulnerable to intensive and vulnerable exploitation by: local and external groups; legal and illegal timber industry • Increasing activity despite regulations in the sector and numerous actions taken by civil society organizations. • The grassroots people do not always benefit. Among these grassroots are: pygmies and women

  5. CAFER mission: education and training for women and rural people • "integrated management of the forest fee” project: accompanying integration of grassroots people into the Annual Forest Fee (RFA) process • reviewing of the forest regulation, as General Secretary of the network REFADD

  6. Who are these pygmies? • Forest people, depending on hunting and gathering, agriculture and fishing • system of kinship and age, culture of sharing, and live mainly from immediate consumption of forest products • In Ngambe Tikar: the Bedzang indigenous group has about 604 people

  7. Womendependheavily on forestresources for theirtraditional productive (marketing), reproductive roles (harvesting) and community relations (food security). • Therefore: greaterinvolvement of women in forest management canimprove the condition and sustainabilityof forests and is key to the fightagainstclimate change. • However: the roleof womenis notexplicitly mentioned in the forestpolicies orlaws • And as a result: livelihoods are less secure, participation in the forest management isnot effective, that led sometime to conflict.

  8. Problems with the RFA process at first: • gender equity in forest management not identified • no guarantee of the inclusion of women's needs in gender usage rights Caused problems for women: • Leaves women dependent on customary law which is often rigid regarding womens rights Especially impacted on pygmies: • exploited by other people, • right to enjoy forest products very restricted/forbidden • destruction of sacred sites, disappearance of medicinal herbs, reduction of the food resources

  9. Response of womens groups: • Proposal to MINFOFfor improving the contribution of women in sustainable management of forest resources taking into consideration fight against climate change, and hence the fight against poverty; • Resulted in a Memorandumpresented to MINFOF under the theme "Taking into account the rights, strategic concerns and needs of women in the review process of the forest law in Cameroon in the context of REDD+”

  10. LESSONS TO SHARE: TWO POINTS • THE INVOLVEMENT OF PYGMIES IN THE ANNUAL FOREST ROYALTIES AND PROCESSING Even whenpygmiesjoin modern society, they are linked to the forest and have fundamental needs to be satisfied: • right to use sacred sites • the right to be involved in management of timber royalties • Opportunity to be involved in local committee against illegal logging

  11. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT RIGHTS, STRATEGIC CONCERNS AND SPECIFIC NEEDS OF THE WOMEN IN THE MANAGEMENT OF FORETS • Women’s triple role in forest management means their rights must betakenintoaccount in the development of REDD • This requires education and capacity building • Customary law alone is not an adequate basis for this recognition because it excludes womenfrom ownership, therefore the forest law should protect women’s rights

  12. CONCLUSION • REDD can be beneficial if the rights of the most vulnerable are taken into account • REDD needs to address: - The rights of beneficiaries from carbon trade - The right to gender equality- The right of ownership of the trees and land- Equitable sharing of revenue from forest management • REDD should: - give decision-making power to FDCs - develop projects related on REDD, IPs - Involve IPs and FDCs in strategy development

  13. CONCLUSION • no REDD initiative can function without the confidence of the local and indigenous people, mainly women. • After identifying the drivers of deforestation, REDD should ensure the rights of women and vulnerable groups • the national REDD strategy involves the active participation of indigenous organizations in accordance with their internal structures and giving them some extend of rights over their own territories

  14. To end.. I sincerely hope that, before we leave, we identify together what rights need to be recognised, so that REDD can proceed, and what rights need to be clarified for livelihoods to be more secure in order to reduce future conflicts between REDD and people.

  15. THANKS FOR YOUR GREAT ATTENTION

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