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Projet PAAR
Zone dintervention Mora / Mayo Sava
Projet Appui à lAutopromotion Rurale (PAAR)
Area of intervention Mayo Sava Northern Cameroon
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Short description of the zone

• Zone sudano-sahelian, annual rainfall is 550 mm,
  irregular,
• during 4 months
• Subsistence agriculture cotton is cashcrop
  extensive animal
• husbandry
• strong pression on natural resources
  (pasture-land, arable land,
• water, wood)
• human environment very complexe 12 differents
  ethnies,
• 3 differents religions very strong traditionels
  chiefs
• High population density high rural exodus
• permanent conflicts between farmers and herdsmen
  and between
• landed proprietors and tenant farmers

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POPULATION

• 9 /10 women illiterate 7 / 10 men illiterate
• High personal dependancy on traditional chief
  authority lack of personal freedom
• Traditional and modern government styles are
  strongly authoritarian
• Population is only used to traditional
  organisation for cultural occasions
• high concentration of political power in the
  hands of traditional chiefs and modern
  administration

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Regional Situations
Very low agricultural productivity food
security problems Drinking water
problems Over-exploitation of natural
resources Nearly no possibilities for income
generation, besides smuggling with
Nigeria Women have no consideration in public
life Very low level of organisation /local
structures No development initiatives from the
population No participation of the population in
decision making concerning their living
conditions
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Service Providers

• Semi private Cotton Society
• various christian mission stations
• Agricultural Advice service
• Projet PAAR
• All advice services are free of charge

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Project PAAR institutional frame

• German -Cameroonian Cooperation
• Official partner Ministère de lAgriculture
  (MINAGRI)
• permanent steering comitee with the Governor of
  the Far North Province in the chair

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EVOLUTION OF THE PROJET
1992 - 1995 Phase of orientation 1996 - 1999
approach oriented on technical and economic
solutions 1999 - 2003 approach strengthening
the capacities of the populations on
self-organization and coordination of their
own development
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PERSONNEL OF PAAR
Advisory staff 02 advisers GTZ 06 advisers
of MINAGRI 09 advisers of national private sector
(of them 07 women) All national technical staff
has the level of 3 years professional school
(agriculture, animal husbandry and specialists on
community development. Permanent qualification
process training in technical subjects and
participatory methods and tools self-advice by
collegues coaching by external advice experts
training in accompanying change processes
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Addressed social categories

• Farmers (men and women)
• Individuals and interest groups
• Traditional chiefs
• Local leaders
• Local professionals
• Young intellectuals

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FIELDS OF SUPPORT

• Transfer of technical knowledge
• Promotion of promising local initiatives
• Transfer of organizational capacities
• - reflexion, analyse and decision making
• - negociation and lobbying
• - integration de the gender aspect
• - planification, clarification of roles /
  definition of objectif
• - financial management
• - communication vertical and horizontal
• - conflit management
• Exercice of democratic behavior in local
  structures
• Accompaniment of the populations in social and
  organizational change processes (attitudes,
  behavior, village structures, relations,
  regulations, arrangements,)

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Methods and Instruments

• Make juridical, technical and organizational
  informations available
• use and valorization of local competency and
  initiatives
• initiation of structures of dialogue
• reflexion workshops
• promotion of experience exchange
• Recherche /reflexion - action
• Technical advice as entrance point to
  strengthening capacities on auto-organization

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Axis of intervention

• FOOD SECURITY
• INCOME GENERATION ACTIVITIES
• ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
• PROFESSIONALISATION OF LOCAL SERVICE PROVIDERS
• NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
• ALPHABETISATION
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT and SOCIAL PEACE
• SENSIBILISATION HIV/AIDS

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Description of differents ProcessesFrom
technical to social action
Soil fertility Forestry Animal Husbandry Seed
production Credit Infrastructure Project staff
development
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Soil fertility
Aim increase of productivity Measures
training for technical production aspects
(compost, manure, erosion defense). Blockades
relation proprietors-tenant farmers and
relation farmers herdsmen New measures
Mediation between different actors in conflict
contractualisation of land lease(3 years) /
exchange manure against
post-harvest pasture
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IMPACT

• Interest for change processes
• Consciousness of need of association of people
  with the same interest
• Local deciders integrate women in decision making
  processes
• Population makes their own regulations on natural
  resource management
• Young professionals experiment innovations
• Village people reflect together on situations
  that them concern
• Traditional chiefs found a new role in
  development processes

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SCALING UP

• Local agricultural service didnt adopt this
  participatory process accompaniement
• National level is not interested in creating a
  national strategie for community development
  based on participatory approaches
• NGO are very interested in learning about
  participatory approaches