Analysis criterion | Causes of incompatibility |
Stakeholder participation in policy-making | · Failure to involve all key public administrations in policy-making · Low involvement of the RLAs, local communities and NGOs · Weak leadership of the Cameroonian State · Strong influence of development partners · Sectoral policy-making context (structural adjustment, economic liberalisation) |
Definition of rules governing access to the resource | · Lack of inventory of agricultural land at country level and in the various ecological zones · Partial coverage of the resource inventory (forests, mines) · Weak control of sectoral land tenure, particularly in mining and agriculture · Highly centralised concession allocation in the agricultural and mining sectors · Lack of implementing instruments for the mining code |
Presence of sustainable management pillars | · Low contribution of mining to local development · Insufficient implementation of environmental management plans · Low efficiency of the mining tax collection and sharing mechanism |
Inter-sectoral coordination and arbitration mechanisms | · Failure to set up the earmarked coordination bodies · Lack of fairness in the arbitration procedure · Weak inter-sectoral coordination (administrations are competing) · Low effectiveness of the operational control system · Lack of a land-use planning tool that is binding on all sectors |
Provision of a monitoring and evaluation mechanism. | · Lack of policy monitoring in administrations · Monitoring and evaluation limited to the short term (ministerial roadmaps and projects) · No database to assess the strategic vision |