Congo Basin Transboundary Landscapes: Forest Management Practices That – Truly - Transform Lives

Rainforest Alliance in late 2024 and early 2025 held two workshops in Mintom, Dja and Lobo Division of Cameroon’s South Region. The workshops were organized under the “Transformational Change in Sustainable Forest Management in Transboundary Landscapes of the Congo Basin” project. Located in the Trinationale Dja-Odzala-Minkébé (TRIDOM) transboundary landscape.

Alliances For Transforming Lives
Rainforest Alliance is therefore building alliances to protect forests, improve the livelihoods of farmers and forest communities. As well as to promote their human rights and help them mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. The first workshop in November 2024 was a two-day Training of Trainers, TOT event. The topic was “Introduction to integrated landscape management and stakeholder mapping and analysis.” 

Stakeholder Governance 
The second workshop – still in Mintom – from January 23-24, 2025, had as topic, “Landscape partnerships: Cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder governance.” This time, the objective was to support national child projects of the Global Environment Facility, GEF 7 Congo Basin Sustainable Landscape, CBSL Impact Programme. Which aims at setting up inclusive landscape partnerships, designing a landscape partnership for governance, and improving understanding of the roles and responsibilities of members of a landscape partnership. It also seeks to improve awareness of the functions of a landscape partnership and the organizational configuration of a landscape partnership.

Expected Of Participants 
The expected outcomes of the workshop were to improve participants’ understanding of the key issues and opportunities for integrated management of the Mintom micro-landscape. The integrated landscape management entry points of the Mintom micro-landscape partnership. Partnership and landscape partnership; governance and integrated landscape management. Others were designing landscape partnership for governance; the roles and responsibilities of members of a landscape partnership; the functions of a landscape partnership. And the organizational configuration of a landscape partnership. 

Training Activities 
Participants shared personal testimonies, experiences, life stories, listened to presentations, future scenarios and watched diagrams. And were involved in group and individual work and plenary sharing, role play, and questions and answers. 

Workshop Participation
Participating in the workshop were representatives of World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF; the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development, MINEPDED, the Conservator of UTO Ngoyla-Mintom. And the Mayors of Mintom, Djoum, Ngoyla and charities such as SAPED, APIFED, TFRD, AAFEBEN, UCLA-CBI / CGIAR, CIFOR-ICRAF, GIZ, ZSL, AWF, NITIDAE, EFI, PADI DJA, ONACC, ZERCA Y LEJOS, and the Sub-Delegate for Agriculture for Mintom...

Partnership With UN Environment 
Meanwhile, Rainforest Alliance, in partnership with UN-Environment, is implementing the five-year Regional child Project (RP), “Transformational Change in Sustai...