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•   Prioritization and identification of national
  priorities under the RAF the experience of
  Cameroon 
  
• By Justin NANTCHOU NGOKO
• GEF Operational Focal Point
• Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection
• Republic of Cameroon

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• PLAN OF PRESENTATION
• A/ Background WHY AND HOW CAMEROON DECIDED TO
  PUT IN PLACE A PROCESS TO PRIORITIZE AND IDENTIFY
  GEF PROJECTS
  
• B/ PROCESS UNDERTAKEN IN PUTTING IN PLACE THE
  PRIORITIZATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF GEF
  PROJECTS
  
• C/ ROLE OF CAMEROONS COORDINATION MECHANISM IN
  PRIORITISATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF GEF
  PROJECTS
  
• D/ Key Lessons learnt

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• A/ BACKGROUNG WHY AND HOW CAMEROON DECIDED TO
  PUT IN PLACE A PROCESS TO PRIORITIZE AND IDENTIFY
  GEF PROJECTS
  
• Reforms undertaken within GEF with the
  institution of the RAF whose principle is
  essentially to henceforth make allocations
  according to results obtained on the field
• These reforms enabled Cameroon to be aware of the
  need to be more organized on the field in order
  to obtain better results, get more impacts and
  avoid wasting time and resources put at their
  disposal by the GEF

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• A/ BACKGROUNG (continued)
• 3. The Dakar Subregional consultation on the RAF
  which enabled GEF Focal Points and other
  stakeholders to be acqainted with the RAF
  process April 2006
• 4. The Country Support Program (CSP) is a
  framework which offer to countries an opportunity
  to be more active on the fields
  
• 5. The national information and training workshop
  on GEF mechanismsApril 2006
  
• Partcipants all national stakeholders (Public
  and Private sector, NGOs, the Civil society,
  local associations and groups
  
• Objectives training on priorities and strategies
  of GEF, explanation on the new system of resource
  allocation (RAF), relationship between GEF focal
  areas and environmental national priorities

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• B/ PROCESS UNDERTAKEN IN PUTTING IN PLACE THE
  PRIORITIZATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF GEF
  PROJECTS
  
• 1. Identification of keys stakeholders
• 1.1 Principles of choice
• - Environment is a vaste and diversified area
  water, forest, land, energy, transport, health,
  etc. the group must thus be heterogeneous
  

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• The need to make the group as participatory as
  possible and to stimulate it towards obtaining
  results geared towards initiating project ideas
  
• 1.2 Criteria for choosing key stakeholders
• - level of involvement and expertise in
• environmental issues (Ministries)

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• - field visits to know number of projects or
  initiatives being carried out on the field, level
  of structural organization, activities carried
  out with respect to the various environmental
  areas and the fight against poverty (private
  sector and the civil society)

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• Prospects of mobilisation of cofinancing (NGOs
  and the private sector)
  
• Relationship with the GEF system (Implementing
  and executing Agencies)

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• 1.3 Role of key stakeholders
• Public sector
• - includes Ministry of Environment and Nature
  Protection, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife,
  Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Agriculture and
  Rural Development, Ministry of State Property and
  Land Tenure, Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and
  Animal Breeding, Ministry of Energy and Water
  Resources, Ministry of Plan and Regional
  Development, Ministry of the Economy and Finance,
  Ministry of Transport, Institute for Agricultural
  Research and Development, Universities and other
  research Institutions, Conventions Focal Points
  (biodiversity, climate change, desertification,
  POPs, NEPAD, etc.)

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• Their role
• Ministry of Environment and Conventions Focal
  Points Coordinate the process, check conformity
  of projects ideas with the environmental policy
  and initiate projects
• Ministry of Finance mobilise national
  counterpart funding
  
• Other technical Ministries Provide technical
  support and initiate project ideas
  
• Universities and Research Institutions Provide
  expertise and initiate project ideas

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• Private sector and civil society
• - include SNV, 2 logging companies, WWF, ICRAF,
  IUCN, CARPE, CWCS, 6 national NGOs and local
  organisations
  
• - Their role initiate projects in collaboration
  with local communities, provide support to
  mobilisation of cofinancing and support to the
  development and implementation of projects
• Regional organisation COMIFAC

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• Executing and Implementing Agencies
• - Include UNDP, UNEP and the World Bank
• - Their role Provide technical expertise,
  provide support to the drawing up of projects
  with respect to GEF priorities and strategies,
  provide support to the mobilisation of
  cofinancing

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• 2. The first phases of consultation with
  stakeholders
  
• 2.1. Collection of project ideas letter of the
  Minister with outlines of concept paper to
  stakeholders
  
• 2.2. Meeting with members of the private sector
  and the civil society
  

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• 2.3. Meeting with GEF Executing Agencies and
  regional organisation
  
• Meeting with UNEP on 18 May 2006
• Audience with UNDP at the beginning of June
• Meeting with COMIFAC, a sub regional
  organization
  

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• C/ ROLE OF CAMEROONS COORDINATION MECHANISM IN
  PRIORITIZATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF GEF
  PROJECTS
  
• 1. The GEF National consultative Committee
  composition and functioning
  
• 2. Essential role Provide technical and
  financial advice on projects identified and
  validate those that meet the GEF priorities and
  strategies, and which are in conformity with
  national priorities, in order to enable GEF Focal
  Point to endorse them

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• 3. 14 September 2006 Technical workshop to
  validate the list of Cameroons environmental
  priorities to be submitted for GEF funding
  
• Participants Members of the GEF National
  consultative Committee and other identified
  stakeholders in the process
  
• Objectives
• a/ examination of technical eligibility
• GEF priorities and strategies
• National priorities relationship with the fight
  against poverty, sustainable development
  strategy, protected areas, conservation of
  endangered species,etc.

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• Timing of projects with respect to the RAF
  process
  
• After two years Mid-Term Assessment
• For the first two years Priority should be
  given to projects with respect to their capacity
  to absorb half of the funds allocated to Cameroon
  for four years
• Cofinancing Piority should be given to projects
  for which cofinancing is guaranteed
  
• Projects would be more eligible if they meet
  these specific criteria

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• b/ Look for project ideas which have a common
  global objective in order to ensure synergy
  between the project initiators at the level of
  the development and implementation of this global
  objective

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• Provisional list of project ideas before
  validation by the GEF National Committee and with
  respect to their relationship with sustainable
  development

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• 4. This is just the first list and this list has
  to be validated on 14 september 2006 according to
  the deadline given by GEF

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• D/ KEY LESSONS LEARNT
• 1. The consultation process very difficult and
  complex we need to go and meet people who are
  reticent to understand you and follow you for
  various reasons we need to compel people to be
  available

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• D/ Key lessons learnt (continued)
• 2. Difficulties to understand the RAF SGP-RAF
  regional/global projects-RAF etc.
  
• 3. The needs for more capacity building on how to
  built projects It is important to put in place a
  simplified method or guidelines on how to built
  projects on RAF focal areas
• 4. Thus, the consultative process is a permanent
  process
  

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• D/ Key lessons learnt (continued)
• 5. It is an compulsory process for, it is where
  the real issues are raised and where sometimes
  unexpected solutions crop up ideas are
  confronted and discussed
• 6. It is also compulsory because the consultative
  process is one of the means which will enable
  stakeholders to embrace and take hold of
  initiatives in the later phases

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• Thank you for your kind attention