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  • 23:52 24 Nov 2009
  • |    Yaounde
  • 00:52 25 Nov 2009

The Challenge Fund 2009/2010

Innovative, small-scale high-impact projects from the grassroots

 

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Name

Project

Amount

Sector

1

Penelope Jane Fraser,

United Africa Association, UNAFAS

School Elections - Embedding Good Practice

To build democratic culture, values and behaviour in Cameroon society: promoting democratisation and free and fair elections - specifically to institutionalise democratic and good citizenship practice and principles in Cameroon schools.

£13,817

Human Rights & Democracy

2

Augustine B. Njamnshi,

Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme- Cameroon, BDCP-C

Intergrating Climate Change and Fish Smoking

While this project contributes to the fight against climate change, beneficiaries will be availed with a more efficient method for smoking fish which reduces deforestation of the mangrove and hence protecting it to serve the function of a sink for green house gases.

£11,500

Climate Change

3

Justice Mrs Grace Mabu,

Children's Reassurance Ministry, CREAM

Enhancing Social Re-insertion Placement for Minors Under Detention

To complete the CREAM resource infrastructure, in order to sustainably integrate minors under detention into mainstream Cameroonian society

£6,736

Human Rights & Democracy

4

Nduge AlfredEnang,

Cameroon English Language and Literature Teachers Association, CAMELTA

Climate Change Issues in the Language Classroom

To work with some key English language teachers in a series of workshops to produce supplementary Language Teaching Manuals for form 3 and 4e that will have Climate Change Issues as primary content.

£12,061

Climate Change

5

Rev. Sister Jacqueline Atabong, International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral Care, ICCPPC

Legal Aid to Prisoners at New Bell Prison and Training of Paralegals

To reduce overcrowding in the New Bell Prison and thus improve on the living conditions and the respect of the rights of prisoners and train prison care givers and paralegals to support other prisons in the country.

£15,033

Human Rights & Democracy

6

Hon. Awudu Cyprian Mbaya,

Pan-African Parliamentarians’ Network on Climate Change, PAPNCC

Pan African Parliamentary Conference on Climate Change

To engage African Parliamentarians to climate change dangers so that they can audit their governments and transfer climate change information and proposed solutions to their populations.

£2,330

Climate Change

7

BHC Political and Communications

UK’s Challenge for Excellent Journalism

This project aims to reward excellence in Cameroonian journalism as an incentive for Cameroonian journalists to practice their profession with the highest possible professional standards so as to contribute meaningfully to the country’s awareness on low carbon high growth (climate change) and wider development.

£10,000

Climate Change

   

Total:

£71,477

53,965,135 F CFA



 

 

 

 




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