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Centre for Indigenous Resources Management and Development - Cirmad

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Cameroun
Bamenda
Centre for Indigenous Resources Management and Development - Cirmad

CIRMAD is an NPO and
apolitical organisation Cameroon, interested and
involved in natural resource
management/development; and civil society actions. W.

Founded in 2003 and registered in 2010 the Centre for Indigenous Resources Management and Development (CIRMAD) is a not-for-profit and apolitical group interested and involved in natural resource management and development, and civil society work. Its activities are governed by Cameroonian Law No. 90/053 of 19/12/90 as amended/supplemented by Law No. 99/0011 of 20/07/99. It is based in Bamenda, ca

pital town of the North West Region of Cameroon, with a branch office in Balikumbat-Ngoketunjia. Some of our related work and achievements in CIRMAD are in two stages:

Before registration in 2010

2003 –2004:
Resource person for 2 refresher training courses for ecoguards of Korup National Park
Resource person for basic training of tourist guides of the Korup Rainforest Ecotourism Organisation (KREO) on Wildlife Identification and Interpretation.

2008:
Developed 2 specific game ranger training modules: Ambush as an Anti-poaching Techniques, and Intelligence Gathering and Management for Anti-poaching. Trained 206 park rangers of the Cross River National Park, Nigeria, on park security operations for 6 weeks in staggered order, under a WCS-Nigeria consultancy. Liaised with WCS-TMLP as MINFOF representative on community education and the creation of 8 Village Forest Management Committees for the Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary.

2010: Trained 14 ecoguards of Mbe Mountains Conservation Area and Afi Mountains Wildlife Sanctuary, Nigeria, under a WCS-Nigeria consultancy. After registration from 2010

Under the Sustainable Medicinal Wildlife Initiative as a a programme of CIRMAD, we initiated and carried out field surveys on the use and means of acquisition of medicinal wildlife products for natural medicine in Cameroon’s North West Region in 2010. (Vide http://www.rufford.org/files/9895-2DetailedFinalReport.pdf)
Produced a historic poster of identified medicinal wildlife species of Northwest Cameroon and organized the historic symposium on the sustainable use of medicinal wildlife in 2010; organised the first ever training of tradi-practitioners on sustainable medicinal wildlife use in 2012. (Vide http://www.ruffordsmallgrants.org/rsg/projects/emmanuel_liyong_sama)
Initiated and produced the 1st ever anti-poaching action movie: MEDICINAL WILDLIFE PALAVER, for medicinal wildlife conservation education in 2010; as at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1Z0SQYKzQ. Besides the ground breaking surveys, the Initiative educated and trained user communities, and mobilised stakeholders for the protection and sustainable use of vulnerable medicinal wildlife resources in Northwest Cameroon. As partner NGO to BAPESU in the Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary Beekeeping and Conservation Pilot Project (2012); CIRMAD trained beneficiaries on small business and marketing Skills. (Vide http://www.cirmad.net/kagwene-gorilla-sanctuary/)
Chimpanzee conservation work in Tubah Upland Forest with local community and local MINFOF involvement, with equipment support of IDEA WILD (2012-2013) (Vide http://wordpress.cirmad.net/wp-ontent/uploads/2014/08/TRIP_TO_CHIMP_HABITAT.pdf)
Implantation of REDD+ and Climate Change platforms in municipalities of N.W Region (2013) as a member organization of the REDD+ and CC Regional platform of N. Region. (Vide http://www.cirmad.net/cirmad-in-the-redd-and-climate-change/)

Our current projects:
Produced 1st ever conservation education poster of the endangered Pan troglodytes ellioti in 2014 for the ongoing Conservation Education project on the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee in the North West Region of Cameroon. The multi-site project has been successively supported with funding by the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium's PPG Conservation Fund, Sacramento Zoo, International Primatologists Society, and currently by the Chester Zoo for work around Kom-Wum Forest Reserve. (Vide https://cirmad.net/chimpanzee_conservation)

28/11/2025

CIRMAD HOLDS VALIDATION WORKSHOP ON ENDANGERED SPECIES OF KIMBI-FUNGOM NATIONAL PARK

The Centre for Indigenous Resources Management and Development (CIRMAD) organized a successful validation workshop on 26/11/2025 at Hotel Pessi in Bafoussam. The session focused on reviewing and validating the comprehensive study report on the conservation status of the seven most endangered or endemic flora and fauna species of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park, as well as their proposed conservation plans.

This study was conducted within the framework of the ACREGIR Project, which aims to enhance biodiversity protection and strengthen community-based conservation initiatives.

The event gathered a diverse group of experts and stakeholders, including officials from the MINEPDED and MINFOF central services, regional delegates, university professors, naturalists, and conservation practitioners. Their insights and recommendations contributed significantly to enriching the final report and ensuring that the proposed conservation strategies are practical, evidence-based, and locally relevant.

CIRMAD extends its appreciation to all participants for their commitment to environmental preservation and for supporting ongoing efforts to protect the invaluable biodiversity of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park.

17/11/2025

Sure ECoDAs-Cameroon, same with CIRMAD for the Kimbi-Fungom National Park with the ACREGIR Project.

29/08/2025

CIRMAD, represented by its Coordinator, took active part in the "Capacity building workshop for ACREGIR stakeholders on Transformative Approach and Gender Responsive Budgeting", as organized by the ACREGIR Project in Mbalmayo from 21-23 August, 2025.
The CIRMAD delegation of 6 included delegates of the Fonfuka and Zhoa Councils, Women Empowerment/Family-Menchum, the MBOSCUDA and CAEPA CSOs, all as local project stakeholders.
We thank MINEPDED, and especially the Gender & Communication Officer of ACREGIR for aptly organizing and facilitating the training and the Technical Coordinator who supervised it.

29/08/2025

A training workshop titled, "Capacity building workshop for Community Volunteers on Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Transformative Approaches in project activities on the outskirts of Kimbi-Fungom National Park" was organized by the ACREGIR Project in Mbalmayo from 13-14 August, 2025, specifically for CIRMAD staff and field collaborators.
The CIRMAD team of 15 included 13 community volunteers from the frontline villages of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park peripheral zone.
We thank MINEPDED, and especially the Gender & Communication Officer of ACREGIR for aptly organizing and facilitating the training and the Technical Coordinator who supervised it.
It our fervent hope that the Gender Mainstreaming and GTA lessons received by our field collaborators will not only strengthen the gender sensitive approach in the implementation of activities but result also in some gender positive behaviour change in the KFNP peripheral zone communities.

29/08/2025

CIRMAD took active part in the "Workshop for developing capitalization products on ACREGIR innovations and best practices" organized by the ACREGIR Project in Mbalmayo from 7-10 August, 2025. The CIRMAD team of 4 included 2 community volunteers from 2 villages of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park peripheral zone.
During the workshop, the CIRMAD-ACREGIR activity chosen for capitalization and lessons learning was our ongoing creation of the Kimbi-Mungong Community Forest in Bum Sub-Division.
We thank MINEPDED, and especially the Gender & Communication Officer of ACREGIR for aptly organizing and facilitating the workshop and the Technical Coordinator who supervised it.

23/07/2025

Back home after the Agroforestry training workshop organized in Bamenda last June by CIRMAD under the auspices of the ACREGIR project for youths of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park area, Attia Siana Sih and Geh Gilbert Kai who came from Munkep village in Fungom Sub-Division, accompanied by other members of the Esu-Gayama Basin" group organized some community sensitisation. This was to propagate the practice of agroforestry as one of the ACREGIR project measures to build community resilience to climate change.
According to Siana, "The inhabitants of Munkep community were very excited about it and they promised to go into the planting of trees like bush mango, for which they depended only on the ones in the forest. The Chief of Munkep community said he was going to establish a plantation of white wood and he ended by thanking the participants for creating such an awareness in his community."
Note the T-shirts they adorn, self-financed and further propagating the ideals of ACREGIR and CIRMAD.

14/07/2025

In sequential progression of the creation of the Kimbi-Mungong Community Forest in the support zones of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park, which is part of the ACREGIR Project, CIRMAD facilitated the holding of the Consultation Meeting in the Bum Sub-Division on Saturday, 28/06/2025.
Presided over by the Divisional Officer, and technically supervised by the local MINFOF officer, the meeting brought together delegates of the Kimbi and Mungong villages as well as their neighbours to agree on some forest blocks set aside for a community forest.
The objective of the ACREGIR project for this activity is to improve natural resources management in the Kimbi-Fungom National Park and its outskirts in order to increase the resilience to climate change of the vulnerable populations, contributing to emissions reduction.

07/07/2025

Under the auspices of the ACREGIR project, CIRMAD organized a capacity building workshop for youths drawn from villages of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park peripheral zone, on Agroforestry. During the workshop of 24-26/06/2025, presided over by the Regional Delegate of MINEPDED, the 42 youths from the target 14 villages were given both theoretical and hands-on training on the entire process of agroforestry as part of sustainable forest management practices. At the end of the training, each participant received a cutlass, a spade, a watering can and seeds with which to go and start back in the village. The goal of the activity is to build climate resilience in the adjacent communities of the national park. 🌳💚🌲👍

22/06/2025

Happy Rainforest Day!!!
Let's commit to and protect forests thro sustainable practices.

05/06/2025

CIRMAD recently organized a workshop in Wum for the pre-validation of the report of a study by CIRMAD on the most endangered and endemic flora and fauna species of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park, as part of the ACREGIR project.

The participants to the workshop, which included naturalists, hunters, farmers, students, climate activists and conservationists were drawn mainly from target villages of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park peripheral zone, Bamenda and Wum itself. It was facilitated by a botanist and a wildlife management specialist of the CIRMAD team.

The workshop participants also discussed and made inputs to the draft of climate conservation plans for the most endangered and endemic species Kimbi-Fungom National Park, the only national park in the Bamenda Highlands.
Another key point of the workshop, though improvised, was a proposed Problem Animal Control/Management (PAC/PAM) plan generated to address the case of chimpanzees attacking and even killing denizens in the Esu area of Menchum Division.

The final report, reviewed with inputs from the Wum workshop will be validated in a later workshop.

02/05/2025

On Tuesday, 29/04/2025, an Information and Awareness meeting was organized as part of the process for the creation of a "Kimbi-Mungong Community Forest", which is being facilitated by CIRMAD for the ACREGIR Project.
The ACREGIR objective for this activity is to improve natural resources management in the Kimbi-Fungom National Park and its outskirts in order to increase the resilience to climate change of vulnerable populations contributing to emissions reduction.
The people of Kimbi and Mungong villages on the peripheral zone of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park are united in the initiative to create a community forest for climate adaptation.

14/04/2025

From the 8th to 10th April our community liaisons drawn from the target villages of the Kimbi-Fungom National Park periphery converged at the Pastoral Centre, Up-Station - Bamenda for an orientation and planning workshop for the implementation of the ACREGIR project in the Kimbi-Fungom park sector.
Chaired by the Regional Delegate of MINEPDED, it was a very interactive workshop for familiarisation, orientation and exchange of ideas, especially on which of the gender inclusive activities to be carried in what locality and when.

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Opp. Fokou Supply/Nkwen, Abdou Razak Street
Bamenda
1029

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