GDA MID-YEAR EVALUATION

Journeying together as a team with efficiency and professionalism

Six months after the launching of her new Strategic MasterPlan, the Green Development Advocates retreated in the seaside resort of Kribi, Cameroon, July 7 – 11, to revisit the 2026 / 2030 plan of action in view of integrating the new developments that have had to emerge recently.

With partners demonstrating renewed confidence in the organization’s drive to intensify environmental sanity in the Congo Basin, so also is renewed emphasis by the team in promoting forest conservation by assisting indigenous peoples and local communities to assert themselves in self reliance initiatives geared towards improving their well being and forestalling attempts by corporate bodies and other capitalist groups to freely plunder the natural resources within their communities.

Staff members reviewed their annual plans endorsing the activities already carried out in the domains of forest conservation, forest conversion, climate resilience, communication, and capacity building.

The emphasis was laid and agreed by the entire group for the need to journey together as a team with efficiency and professionalism.

The Kribi retreat was holding within a backdrop of intense advocacy initiatives engage on by the consortium of civil societies, IFI Monitoring Group engaged in the defence of IPLC rights in Cameroon. The Group had just released a statement condemning the illegal exploitation of timber in the classified domains of the state: the Ngoyla Forest Reserve and the Djoku Community Forest reserved for the spiritual and cultural use of the Baka indigenous people.

The release would serve as an opportunity for GDA to reiterate its commitment to intensify her advocacy for the protection of the rights of indigenous People and local communities to enjoy and live peacefully in their ancestral lands like any other citizens of the state.