This project aims to improve the knowledge of informal entrepreneurship in Africa in order to offer public policy-makers options for building upon the economic and employment potential of informal enterprises.
Research on climate change and its impact on the vulnerable is fairly well developed in Southern Africa. The transfer of knowledge from scientists to policymakers, however, remains weak.
Women's right to land in Anglophone Cameroon is subject to two conflicting regimes, customary and statutory.
The forests of the Congo basin provide ecosystem services to over 80% of the population living in or near them.
Cameroon, like most other sub-Saharan African countries, has adopted laws devolving various responsibilities to local administrations.
This project seeks to reduce the vulnerability of poor populations in sub-Saharan Africa to climate change by mobilizing scientists and all the other actors concerned to inform political decision-making.
In spite of an abundance of natural resources, including oil and minerals, poverty is increasing in Central Africa. About 40% of the people in Cameroon live below the poverty threshold, 55% in Chad, 50% in Congo and 43% in Gabon.