Yaounde – 26 June 09

The British High Commission to Cameroon has awarded FCFA 54 million to some Cameroonian NGOs to fund seven projects in the areas of human rights and climate change. High Commissioner Syd Maddicott and leaders of six NGOs signed the terms of the funding contracts recently in Yaounde.
 
The accepted bids deal with the reduction of deforestation through the use of innovative fish smoking techniques, the provision of legal aid to prisoners, the social re-insertion of minor ex-convicts and the inclusion of a climate change register in the language lessons of secondary schools. Other approved bids devised an award for excellent climate change journalism in Cameroon, the promotion of democracy among secondary school students and a Pan African parliamentary conference on climate change held in Yaounde. 
 
While congratulating the project implementers on the success of their bids, HE Maddicott implored them to run watertight budgets, as the High Commission would be slightly more demanding on accounting to promote transparency and good practice.
 
“We want to see the lessons that your organisations could give, publicised more widely because we think they’re relevant to other organisations doing project work”, said the British diplomat.
 
More bids will be approved for funding in the course of the year to take up FCFA 90 million still available in the High Commission’s Challenge Fund which supports innovative, small-scale high impact projects in the areas of human rights, democracy and climate change.  Awards from this fund vary but are typically between FCFA 5 and 10million.

 

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