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. |