Cameroon

Overloaded lorries and poorly maintained logging roads lead to accidents.

FLEGT in Cameroon

The process to conclude the Cameroon-EU VPA lasted 5 years from 2005–09. The informal pre-negotiation phase (2005–06), mainly involved a Cameroonian assessment of the VPA’s ability to increase timber product exports to Europe and help reinforce ongoing governance reforms. This included several multi-stakeholder consultations on issues such as how to define legality, traceability and control systems. This phase was followed by formal political and technical negotiation sessions (2007–09) that concluded with the signing of the agreement in December 2009.

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Documents

22/12/2011 French Cameroon, Civil society publications, Consultation / Participation

Part of series of presentations given in civil society workshop in Duala, Cameroon. September 2011.

03/12/2011 French Cameroon, Civil society publications, REDD

 The REDD process was launched June 2011, RPP to be submitted to the FCPF in March 2012; has taken longer than expected due to recruitment problems. Civil society was not organised at the time of the launch of the REDD process. Government took the initiative to organise civil society, with the help of IUCN, in a platform called “REDD and Climate change”. The platform does not work, has a program, which is not good or consistent.

03/12/2011 French Cameroon, FLEGT

L’APV entre le Cameroun et l’Union européenne a été signé le 06 Octobre 2010 et ratifié le 09 Août 2011. L’étape suivante relève de l’application des dispositions de l’article 31 pour déclencher <

18/08/2011 English Cameroon, Consultation / Participation, LoggingOff publications (including VPA Counterbriefs)

Cameroon counterbrief in Spanish

 

El 6 de mayo de 2010, el Gobierno de Camerún y la Unión Europea (UE) firmaron un Acuerdo Voluntario de Asociación (AVA) que tiene como objetivo resolver el problema generalizado de la tala ilegal en el país y la mala gestión asociada. El acuerdo tiene como objetivo desarrollar medidas para garantizar que el sector maderero en Camerún es legal y sostenible.

05/05/2011 English Cameroon, Civil society publications

Report by Liz Alden Wily that sets out to identify the current legal status of customary land interests in Cameroon. This report analyses what the law says concerning customary land rights, focuses on the forestry legislation in force and compares the situation in Cameroon to that in other African States. The report also suggests ways forward by describing what an optimal legal status of customary land rights would look like and what possible avenues can be found in the existing law.