The evolution of official attitudes towards grassroots initiatives in Cameroon

Yenshu, Emmanuel

doi:10.1093/cdj/33.1.41

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“…Although the notion of community participation remains problematic, its potential in rallying existing communal resources to enhancing and sustaining community livelihoods in Cameroon cannot be disputed. Community participation as a development strategy has a very long and rich history in Africa in general and Cameroon in particular where formal community development is traceable to the expansion and growth of the credit union movement in Anglophone Provinces (Delancey, 1977), community education and the British colonial experience on community development (Kwo, 1984) and to government's shifting regional and community development plans (Yenshu, 1998). The problem of resource scarcity that remains nightmarish accentuates the need for innovative, costsaving and sustainable public service delivery strategies (Lammerink, 1998;Njoh, 2002).…”

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Expanding horizons: Women’s voices in community-driven development in the Cameroon grasslands

Fonchingong

2006

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Communities are increasingly becoming development spaces where members are dynamic actors in fashioning issues of common interest. This paper explores women's efforts at building social capital for communitarian ventures in selected rural localities of the Cameroon grasslands. It is argued that effective participation in raising livelihoods and infrastructure provisioning is facilitated through women's social networks (njangis). The paper situates the gender concerns in community participation, rekindled through village development associations (VDAs) -crucial in needs identification, prioritization and execution of identified projects. Based on focused field studies in selected localities, it is established that due to their low social status, workloads and tight schedule, women remain on the sidelines of the leadership in VDAs. However, women's in-cash or in-kind contribution remains crucial to the successful implementation of projects. Enhancing female participation hinges on efforts at erasing cultural stereotypes that project women as domestic workers, improving literacy, increased access to productive resources especially land, direct support to women's agricultural activity and improved rural infrastructure (roads, water supply, and electricity) that is compromising women's participation and empowerment drive.

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Expanding horizons: Women’s voices in community-driven development in the Cameroon grasslands

Fonchingong

2006

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“…405-406). The State Service of Community Development did continue to operate, albeit on a limited budget (Yenshu, 1998). Unsurprisingly, given that Community Development defined 'communities' as being 'of a reasonable size, not too isolated' (Interviews, Community Development delegates, 1998), there is no record of any projects with the Mbororo since independence.…”

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Transnational NGDOS and participatory forms of rights‐based development: converging with the local politics of citizenship in Cameroon

Hickey

2002

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The transmission of 'participatory development' by transnational non-governmental development organizations (NGDOs) to local 'partners' in developing countries is today widely criticized, often because of an apparent failure to attain the essentially political goal of 'empowerment'. This article argues that this problem relates closely to a failure amongst NGDOs to engage with the political context in which 'citizenship participation' is contested in developing countries. Case study material reveals how one participatory development intervention has converged with a particular moment in the trajectory of citizenship formation amongst the target group, and with the local politics of citizenship in Cameroon more broadly, in ways that have, at best, ambiguous implications for the 'empowerment' of the local participants. The paper concludes by discussing how 'rights-based' approaches might overcome these problems, and the challenge that this poses for the transnational development community. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Applying Participatory Rural Appraisal to Unlock Gender Group Differences in Some Communities in Rural Cameroon

Balgah¹

2016

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The evolution of official attitudes towards grassroots initiatives in Cameroon

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Expanding horizons: Women’s voices in community-driven development in the Cameroon grasslands

Expanding horizons: Women’s voices in community-driven development in the Cameroon grasslands

Transnational NGDOS and participatory forms of rights‐based development: converging with the local politics of citizenship in Cameroon

Applying Participatory Rural Appraisal to Unlock Gender Group Differences in Some Communities in Rural Cameroon

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