GDA

COMPLETED PROJECTS

2017 - 2025

The year 2017 had dawned with a resolved determination to engage the Green Development Advocates into environmental advocacy focused on ensuring an enabling environment for local and indigenous peoples (IPLC) living within their ancestral lands in a bid to encourage good environmental governance and the sustainable use of their natural resources.

It is no secret to reveal that indigenous and local populations remain the most vulnerable victims of environmental degradation and natural resource spoliation resulting from the unpopular decisions taken by their governments. Most of these decisions are largely in the interest of predatory economic activities of capitalist multinational holdings focused on extracting as much of the resources but leaving behind telling ecological devastation and socio-economic hazards. These hazards are lived by the communities, both in the immediate as well as in the long term and in the glare of everyone,  with little or no remedy at all.

Up to December 2025, GDA has had to engage into numerous program support activities by way of mass campaigns, capacity building initiatives and material assistance which have had a profound impact on the livelihoods of the several IPLC’s affected by extractive industries and forest conversion in the South, Centre, East, Littoral and Southwest regions of Cameroon.

These actions have been quite effective thanks to funding from partners and donor agencies concerned with promoting the avowed goals of the organization.

Noteworthy is the fact that GDA has had to adjust her operational dynamics in the course of the years from a core projects implementation perspective to a core programs dispensation. In this light project elaboration and implementation fall within the framework of a holistic operational core programs support approach anchored  on its four main axis which are:

• - Securing and recognizing land and forest rights as well as the traditional governance systems of indigenous peoples and local communities
• - Promoting forest governance and the sustainable management of other natural resources
• - Contribute in efforts to mitigate the effects of Climate change and encourage the promotion of low carbon emission economy

-   Capacity building, communication and resource mobilization.

Prior to this innovation a number of core projects were elaborated and implemented. Some are still in process and eventually integrated into the GDA operational platform while some and have ended and with remarkable success.