The project development objective is to reduce poverty and promote sustainable rural development in Cameroon by strengthening local governance and empowering communities in rural areas, including marginalized groups. The blended project activities will contribute to ensuring the productivity of the natural resource base and to preserving the country’s globally significant biodiversity. The project’s global environmental objective is to contribute to maintaining and restoring fragile agro-pastoral ecosystems, reducing soil erosion, stabilizing sediment storage and release in critical water bodies, increasing vegetative cover and carbon sequestration, and enhancing agro-biodiversity through the promotion of sustainable land management policies, practices, and investments.

Project Details

GEF Project ID
2549
Country
Cameroon
Implementing Agencies
The World Bank
Approval FY
2006
Status
Completed
Region
Africa
Executing Agencies
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Programming and Regional Development (GoC)
GEF Period
GEF - 3
Project Type
Full-size Project
Focal Areas
Funding Source
GEF Trust Fund

Financials

USD
Co-financing Total
92,000,000
GEF Project Grant
6,000,000
GEF Agency Fees
571,500

Timeline

Received by GEF
08 Feb 2005
Concept Approved
01 Nov 2005
Project Approved for Implementation
25 Apr 2006
Project Closed
21 May 2013