KFW delegation granted audience

• Date de Publication : 2025-03-12

On Monday March 10, 2025, Mr. Jules Doret NDONGO, Minister of Forestry and Wildlife has granted audience to a KfW delegation led by BIANCA SCHLEGEL, KfW Portfolio Manager.

In Cameroon from March 10 to 12, 2025, the KfW team expressed, by correspondence, its wish to discuss with the Minister the planning of future projects in the Mbam area, particularly with regard integrated landscape management project financed by the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) via KfW. To this end, a validation workshop will be organized by MINEPAT in collaboration with MINFOF, CAFI, KfW and all the sectorial ministries concerned.

On this occasion, the Minister did not hesitate to raise the problem of the Human-Wildlife conflict and to bring a concrete solution to it. For the record, human-wildlife conflict is the result of the reduction in watering and feeding sources for animals, not to mention the reduced space shared between humans and animals, the corridors occupied by populations, and the permanent migrations of animals that are disorientated.

But with a permanent water supply system in Waza National Park for instance, the migrations will be considerably reduced.

A study financed by the German Cooperation and which led to 2 proposals, namely: the construction of a borehole and the creation of a water supply system from Lake Maga to WAZA, which would benefit local populations. The study was handed over by the Minister and to the German partners, while specifying that, from a procedural point of view, it falls within the remit of MINEPAT, which is the interface, Minfof's role is to help maintain stability while reducing the pressure on territorial action and defense forces, by providing appropriate solutions to the problems that arise.

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