Relationships with Local Communities

Abstract

In addition to their relationships with the authorities, Cameroonian environmental NGOs usually find it necessary to develop satisfactory working relationships with the communities where they operate. Most Cameroonian-based environmental NGOs are strongly oriented toward work at the local level, and many are small and work in only one or a few communities. Only a handful are multiregional in scope, and even these usually have offices in only a limited number of communities. The international NGOs have a broader scope and work more frequently and extensively with the national government, but they, too, do most of their day-to-day work in local communities, albeit sometimes a fairly large number of them.