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ReSI-NoC Newsletter (January-March 2024)

Published on 29 Apr 2024
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ReSI-NoC Newsletter
January–March 2024
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Dear Innovation Community,

It’s with great joy that we share this first update of ReSI-NoC activities with you. As most of you may know, we are in our final year, and we thought it might be a good idea to share a roundup of our activities with you. Our main objective via this newsletter is to keep you up to date with ongoing activities and key outputs obtained to date.

Our hope is that each update will give you more insight into our support for communities in the North Region of Cameroon and our impact so far.

Through these newsletters we will give you a quarterly aperçu of our activities. We are confident that they will delight you.

Should you wish to share any activity related to ReSI-NoC, please do not hesitate to contact our communications officer at m.gilda@cifor-icraf.org. Also, if you think our newsletter might be useful to others, please feel free to share this link with them.

As I conclude, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has been with us since the adventure began, to those who joined along the way, and to all newcomers. Your presence, assistance and contributions have been nothing but peerless.

Enjoy these few lines.
Ann Degrande
ReSI-NoC Project Coordinator
What we’ve been up to!
Support to key stakeholders in innovation niches
One of our primary missions is to provide practical support to innovation niches identified in the region. Since the start of its activities, the project has identified more than sixty innovation niches in the North Region of Cameroon and is supporting eight of them through coaching and training. Workshops were organized in December 2023 with a view to empowering stakeholders to contribute to innovations within their communities. Following these workshops, in February 2024, our team carried out field visits to assess the progress of stakeholders’ activities with local communities in the co-managed protected area in Tcholliré; land tenure security in Lagdo; climate-smart agriculture in Poli/Pintchoumba; environmental education in Poli/Béka (Tchamba); the watershed approach in Ngong; transhumance in Lagdo; climate-smart agriculture in Touroua; and the shea butter value chain Mbé/Ngahan innovation niches. Stakeholders voiced their satisfaction with the training courses, particularly the module on organizational capacity.
Planning for 2024
Also in February 2024, as is traditional for our project, a planning meeting was held. This brought several stakeholders involved in the project together to:
  • Present results achieved after three years of activities;
  • Plan activities for implementation during the project’s final year.
RRCs in the spotlight!
March opened with visits by the Minister for Forests and Fauna, H.E. Jules Doret Ndongo, to all of Cameroon’s national parks. The visits provided an opportunity to present all activities carried out in and around the national parks. In the North Region, conservators of Faro and Benoue National Parks proudly mentioned the activities undertaken by the Rural Resource Centres (RRCs) set up on their outskirts.

These RRCs were presented, among other things, as effective ways to keep people busy with other income-generating activities in order to reduce poaching; as assets for the reforestation of wildlife corridors (particularly the RRC in Bawan); and as effective platforms for communication between local populations and park authorities.
A course for innovation facilitators
From 4–8 March 2024, ReSI-NoC researchers, alongside those from the INNOVACC, CaSeVe and FO-RI projects, attended a facilitation training course organized by DeSIRA Lift.

The main aim of the course was to strengthen their skills as facilitators.

A total of 16 learners were trained.
Some knowledge outputs
  1. Rural Ressource Centres
  2. More about the planning workshop
Upcoming events and activities
May 2024
ReSI-NoC will be holding a strategic workshop early in the month with the theme:

Promoting agrosilvopastoral innovation in Northern Cameroon: What contributions from the ReSI-NoC project?

The main aim of the workshop is to share the results of actions carried out within the eight innovation niches supported by ReSI-NoC with a view to sustaining what the project has achieved.

More specifically, the workshop will aim to:

  • Encourage exchanges and experience sharing between stakeholders in the innovation niches;
  • Share the results of innovation systems in the North Region of Cameroon with stakeholders;
  • Bring innovation niches together with those suppling innovation support services;
  • Gather information on ways to sustain innovations within the innovation niches.
ReSI-NoC Project
The ReSI-NoC project aims to strengthen economically profitable, ecologically sustainable, and socially equitable agro-sylvo-pastoral innovation systems in the North Region of Cameroon. The project is funded by the European Union and implemented by CIFOR-ICRAF, CIRAD and IRAD.
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