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Officials
of Transparency International, TI
Cameroon, have stressed on the importance for transparent and account-able
management of funds by members of the national coordination team and other
stakeholders involved in the Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, REDD+ process in
Cameroon.
The
authorities of the international non-governmental organization made the call
last Thursday, August 14,in Bastos-Yaounde, during a workshop that grouped
together stakeholders of the REDD+ national coordination.
According
to the Cameroon programme coordinator of REDD+ governance and integrity for
Africa,
Nyaciss
Lucien Tchakunte, there is a risk that the appropriate outcome of the +Prevention
of the negative effects of climate change may not achieved because the
programme is being implanted in countries that are highly plagued by
corruption. And since huge sums of money from foreign donors are involved in the
environment protection campaign, Nyaccis added that it was very necessary for
TI Cameroon to step in and put sanity in the milieu.
Going
by TI Cameroon sources. Cameroon ranked 144TH out of 175 countries
in the 2013 corruption perception index by Transparency International, scoring
an average of 25/100. The global corruption barometer for 2013 equally
indicates that 50of interviewees held that the government was very inefficient
in the fight against corruption in the country, despite the existence of the disciplinary. Commission of the supreme state audit and the
national anti-corruption commission.
In another specific study carried out by the
non-governmental organization, Forêt et Développement Rural(FODER), it was
revealed that the rate of corruption in the forestry sector in Cameroon stands
at 6.44/10, placing the sector amongst the most corrupt in the country.
It
is against this backdrop that TI Cameroon anti-corruption activists are
advocating for the national REDD+ systems to function effectively so as to have
the ability to receive, manage and redistribute performance payments in a
transparent, equitable and accountable manner.
Thursday’s
sensitization seminar which was aimed at enabling Cameroon attain her
sustainable development objective was attended by officials from: the French
embassy in Cameroon, the ministry of forestry and nature protection, CONAC, the
supreme state audit, non-governmental organization, environment and
communication experts among others.
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