TRI NATIONAL SANGHA – CMR

Brief description of land use:

·       01 Community Zone within the Park (33,283 ha); and outside the park; 10 Logging concessions (626,165 ha); 4 Safari Hunting Zones (449; 827 ha); 03 Community Hunting Zones (267,668 ha); 12 Community Forest for IPLC (61221 ha) with 02 specifically for Baka IP (9952 ha).

Restoration priorities 

·       Engage community forests managers and cocoa cooperatives to develop restoration opportunities;

·       Capitalize on all existing information; WWF-Forest Forward, INFORBIO,
FTNS-MINEPDED-GEF 7/8 projects.

·       Engage with Mouloundou and Salapoumbe communal forests and evaluate
restoration opportunities working with local stakeholders;

·   Perform an inventory of potential restoration participants; multi-stakeholder platforms,
existing groups, Cocoa growers’ cooperatives, REGEFOC (Women’s Network);
sensitize and build technical capacity on FLR; develop restoration intervention
plans.

·     Tailor trainingand other capacity building to local organizational needs and build
relationships with local Sustainable Tree Crops (Cocoa, NTFPs) development and
marketing initiatives; identify gaps and develop relevant action plans;

·       Support the multi-stakeholder Mambele Convention and lobby for FLR goals and milestones on
the platform’s priorities; addressing shared needs of private sector, councils,
communities and Indigenous Peoples;

·       Explore Sustainable Funding Mechanisms for FLR within the TNS, such as through
Ecosystems Services markets;

·       Ensure FLR is on the agenda in meetings with sectorial partners in Boumba and Ngoko Division
(MINFOF, MINEPDED).