MINE, FOREST AND GENDER IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CURSE OF RESOURCES IN EAST CAMEROON: THE CASE OF BAKA AND BAGYELI WOMEN
MINE, FOREST AND GENDER IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CURSE OF RESOURCES IN EAST CAMEROON: THE CASE OF BAKA AND BAGYELI WOMEN

Summary/Abstract: This article intends to be an instrument which challenges not only the international community, the public authorities but also the actors of the civil society on the subject of the secular discriminations which the gender undergoes in the context of the socio-environmental changes, the multiple stigmatizations and the marginalization on the issue of the redistribution of natural resources in East Cameroon. Indeed, despite the advent of the Rio de Janeiro summit held in 2000 in Brazil where women made history by claiming inalienable rights, Cameroonian women in general but especially those of Baka and Bagyéli in particular did not been on the side lines of this holistic mutation. In addition to the rich potential in natural resources that abounds in the East Cameroon region, the alarming observation is rather deplorable, to see that even the challenges of the National Program for Participatory Development (PNDP) fail to integrate the initiatives of support for indigenous women as key players in public decentralization policies with a view to eradicating poverty in rural areas. Because neither the forest nor the mines, exploited at artisanal, semi-industrial, and even local scales do not help to restore the right to well-being in favour of the real engine of development that is women. Based on an interdisciplinary methodology, a theory focused on liberal neo-institutionalism. It is under this prism that the interest of this research is based, which is accompanied by a rich documentation of both archival and oral sources, field surveys, reports, photos, decrees and even laws.

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