GDA KRIBI 2026: Stock taking and fine tunning for future actions

Much more than she has been doing for over a decade and more now, the green development advocates is resolute in fine-tuning its avowed goals to promote environmental sanity in the Congo Basin.

From this year on, the emphasis is on ensuring the self reliance of indigenous populations and local communities (IPLCs) in its area of operation - which for the time being is circumscribed around the forest regions of Cameroon.

The  Kribi annual retreat from January 11 to 18 was to explore the grounds covered since 2011, and to re-calibrate her goals running along four main areas of intervention, with greater emphasis laid on promoting self reliance amongst indigenous and local populations as a tool for social and economic empowerment.

The inclusion of IPLCs in the decision making process of the natural resource management of their localities is another battle cry to get prior attention, alongside other issues on environmental protection like forest conservation, regeneration and reafforestation.

GDA is fully convinced that environmental degradation observed in current climate changes and global warming is a resultant of a number of known human factors amongst which is the abandonment of traditional and ancient practices of which it is supposed indigenous populations still possess the knowledge and capacities to transmit and help save our world.