Información sobre el proyecto/actividad

As a tropical timber producer country and a Member country of ITTO, Cameroon is committed to the sustainable management of its forest resources in order to achieve the ITTO Year 2000 Objective. The efforts deployed to reach this goal have given rise to political, legislative and institutional reforms and generated the appropriate tools and wherewithals designed to facilitate the sustainable menagement of natural forests. These include a Zoning Plan for Southern Cameroon (forest zone), National Guidelines for the Sustainable Management of Natural Forests; technical standards and guidelines applying to forest inventory work; and the development of management plans and mapping of forest areas.

These efforts should be evaluated and assessed in order to measure the shift and trends towards the sustainable management of natural forests. The need for such an assessment justifies that Criteria and Indicators be applied to these changes and new developments.

It should be noted therefore that this project will adapt the new ITTO general Criteria and Indicators to the Cameroonese context in order to obtain the appropriate tools for assessing sustainability.