This intervention aimed to enhance coherent cross-sectorial actions towards informing coherent policy implementation pathways for food and livelihood security and buttress the realization of different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Accordingly,

#Cameroon has set forth ambitious targets to reduce emissions by 35% by 2030, relative to the 2010 baseline. This is only eight years away & urgency for transformative but accessible investments that can be applied by ordinary citizens of the informal sector that forms up to 90% of the working population is critical. Accordingly, one of the sectors targeted by the country is waste - where the country aims to establish composting units in 10 regions, enhance methane capture from landfills etc., where composting pits will reduce the amount of organic waste that ends up in landfills to cause methane emissions. Accordingly, through Innovative Volunteerism, skilled young people & young at heart have been engaged to retool their skills & engage in compost production. They have worked with local communities, trained them in waste categorization, clustered them into groups of cooperatives for traceability. They engage in collecting organic waste & supplying it to compost sites for processing. The resultant compost manure is marketed to generate income & also applied to farms to enhance yields. Through this Innovative Volunteerism approach, the community is investing at their level in helping Cameroon actualize its climate commitments, even as they create enterprise opportunities for themselves. This is how we provide 90% of economic players opportunities to invest in climate action from an enterprise dimension that has market longevity. Congratulations boma Mohammed chi Chinelum Dilivio Boma You show that when a structured approach is leveraged and guidance provided, transformational #climateaction can be driven for the collective benefit of the communities. This is the power of #EBAFOSA #innovativevolunteerism Matthias NAAB United Nations Youth Association of Cameroon (UNYA-Cameroon)

Innovatively financing climate action: work has aimed at guiding cooperatives to tap into asset financing along the agro-value chain – especially clean energy solutions e.g. solar driers, solar irrigation among key ones - as a business expansion strategy. And such clean energy systems being capital assets are themselves collateral as they can be repossessed in case of default.

Policy Level: at policy level, EBAFOSA is supporting countries establish inter-ministerial policy task forces. Example of policy impacts;

Why EBAFOSA: achieving the UN Environment aim of scaling climate actions that enhance socioeconomic wellbeing needs stakeholders from diverse sectors – government, private sector, development partners, individual citizens – working towards the same end-goal. And to achieve this, a common and inclusive framework is needed to convene all these actors for partnerships. So EBAFOSA stands at the crossroad of multiple global change challenges - land degradation, desertification and recurrent drought and Climate Change that are the root causes of food insecurity in Africa.

Cameroon: Operational level mutual partnerships between farmer cooperatives, independent decentralized clean energy power producers, local councils and academia is resulting in the development of 10 pilot sites into integrated EBA-driven agriculture clean energy powered agro-industrial zone with efficient ICT enabled linkages to markets and supply chains. The aim is to enhance food security, offset carbon, protect ecosystems while creating income & job opportunities.

EBAFOSA Cameroon Launch

Cameroon EBAFOSA National Day of Resilience and Food Security (JNRSA)

Commemoration of the Cameroon EBAFOSA National Day of Resilience and Food Security (JNRSA), organized by the EBAFOSA Cameroon stakeholders was launched on 1^st August by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development.

On April 7th, 2017 EBAFOSA Cameroon convened all the bureau members and country focal points from all over the country to take stock of how they are implementing the EBAFOSA Cameroon Action Plan. 

Reshaping Africa’s food security and climate resilience through leveraging Ecosystem based Adaptation Assembly Policy Framework Offshoots from the Cameroon National Branch Launch

UN Environment Ecosystems Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly – EBAFOSA

Logic and Operational Modalities of EBAFOSA and how it is helping to implement UN Environment work.

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