Direct Actors

Roles and Responsibilities

Administration

Centrale administration (MINFOF)

· Approves survey devices;

· Approves inventories;

· Approves management plans;

· Prepares and signs the development/operating agreement;

· Prepares and approves the technical standards for exploitation and inventory;

· Approves the annual quota;

· Issues the annual operating permit;

· Controls the exploitation activities unannounced and annually;

· Ensures the payment of taxes related to the exploitation;

· Ensures the traceability of bark and derived products;

· Ensures that all stakeholders are involved in the management and that they receive the shares as defined in the specifications;

· Issues the operating and transport documents;

· Takes sanctions.

Regional Delegation of MINFOF for the Adamawa

· Controls the execution of delimitation and inventory work in the field;

· Approves the inventory and delimitation results;

· Issues certificates of conformity of inventory and delimitation work;

· Ensures the regular control and monitoring of exploitation activities;

· Reports to the Minister in charge of forests on the evolution of exploitation activities;

· Technically supports the operator and the populations through advice;

· Ensures the traceability of bark and derived products;

· Ensures routine control and quarterly exploitation activities;

· Facilitates collaboration between the operator, the populations and the communes of Banyo (Mayo Banyo) and Kontcha (Faro and Déo);

· Raises awareness of the economic and scientific importance of P. africana.

Divisional Delegations of MINFOF for Mayo Banyo and Faro and Déo

· Initial consignment notes and site books;

· Ensure the involvement of all stakeholders in the development and sharing of the benefits of the operation;

· Play an arbitration role between stakeholders;

· Provide technical support and advice to stakeholders;

· Periodically monitor operating activities;

· Ensure the traceability of bark and derived products.

Economic operators

· Carry out inventory and demarcation work;

· Harvest bark according to the techniques in force;

· Ensure the proper maintenance of transport and exploitation documents;

· Ensure the traceability of bark and derived products;

· Pay the taxes due to the State and the royalties to the populations and the Communes as defined in the specifications;

· Support the communes and the populations in the regeneration of Prunus and the realisation of basic infrastructures;

· Finance research activities;

· Involve local populations in exploitation activities.

Councils (Banyo, Tignère, Kontcha)

· Facilitate collaboration between the operator and local populations;

· Maintain the road and socio-economic infrastructures with the support of the operator;

· Participate in the regeneration of P.africana through the supply of seedlings to the populations;

· Receive a share from the exploitation activities.

Local populations

· Enjoy their user’s rights on the resource or in the PAUs;

· Participate in exploitation activities (inventory, delimitation and harvesting of bark etc.);

· Participate in regeneration activities;

· Receive a share from exploitation activities;

· Facilitate harvesting activities.

NGOs and Civil Society Organisations: Forêts et Développement Rural (FODER) and Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network (TRAFFIC)

· Intervene in the framework of the COGESPA project (project to support the conservation and participatory management of the Tchabal Mbabo forest massif);

· Build the capacity of communities on Prunus exploitation methods.

ANAFOR

· Conducts research activities in collaboration with the economic operator to define parameters such as bark recovery rate, survival rate;

· Supports the populations and the communes in the establishment of P. africana plantations by providing quality seeds and training on the establishment of nurseries.