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December 2009-quarterly update
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October 2009
RELUFA participated with other Civil Society groups from Niger, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Chad along with their international partners in a training workshop and reflection on the exploitation of uranium in these four countries. The event took place from 14-18 September 2009 in Bakara/ N’Djaména, Chad.
Read the workshop report and the declaration developed at the event. Both documents are in French.
September 2009 - quarterly update
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June 2009 - quarterly update
- RELUFA coordinator travels to Washington DC for activities related to resource revenue transparency initiatives
- RELUFA co-organizes a workshop on mining activities throughout Cameroon
- Fair Fruit hits the local market
- A Food Sovereignty update
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March 2009 - quarterly update
- RELUFA coordinator attends in Doha, Qatar, the 4th international conference of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- A church-wide lobby by RELUFA's partners of the PCUSA in support of new US transparency legislation
- Publish What You Pay-US coordinator interviewed by USA National Public Radio
- RELUFA sends a new shipment of Fair Fruit to Partners for Just Trade
- Voices of the people: video clip on Fair Fruit farmer
- Enterprising young woman starts meal delivery business with a CAP micro-loan
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February 2009
As Civil Society delegate for the Cameroonian Publish What You Pay Coalition, RELUFA network coordinator, Valery Nodem, traveled to Doha, Qatar for the fourth annual global EITI conference of 16-18 February 2009. His participation was particularly important in light of the upcoming completion of Cameroon's validitation process, anticipated for September 2009. Read his observations on the EITI Validitation process for Cameroon.
January 2009
With its initiative being applauded by the membership, RELUFA continues the production of its monthly Newsletter with an edition on Food Sovereignty.
Food Sovereignty Newsletter, January 2009
An introduction to the origin and philosophy of the term Food Sovereignty, and to RELUFA's communal grain bank program
December 2008
RELUFA starts monthly Newsletters
RELUFA has decided to post monthly Newsletters to keep its members, partners, friends as well as the general public tuned into its programs. Each month the Newsletter will be dedicated to a specific program.
CAP Newsletter, November 2008
The first edition of the CAP Newsletter, with an overview of the Credit Against Poverty program (CAP), two beneficiary success stories and a snapshot of CAP Holidays, is available for download here
Economic Justice Newsletter, December 2008
The first edition of the Economic Justice Newsletter, with an update on the Extractive Industries program, is available for download here.
Sept. 2008
World Bank throws in the towel on Oil Pipeline Project
On Monday 9 September, the Worldbank announced its withdrawal from this prestigious but failing "model" project. RELUFA and its allies respond.
Read:
"We
thought that, with the project, we were going to be well off until our
death. But it is death that you have brought to us."
-Villager on the project during a multi-party visit
with representatives from COTCO, the government and NGO's
Aug. 2008 A field mission along the pipeline
Four years after it first undertook a mission along the pipeline to monitor the impact of the pipeline construction works on the population and environment, and the status of the compensations, RELUFA worked with its member organization CED to send another team along the entire stretch of the pipeline. Despite three years of negotiations with the oilcompanies and the Cameroonian government, little has changed on the ground. Read the mission report
Aug. 2008 RELUFA coordinator follows up on Communal Grain banks
Two years after the launch of its Food Sovereignty program in eighteen participating communities, RELUFA has increased the number of village grain banks to 34. Network coordinator, Valery Nodem, made a visit this August to follow up on the developments. Read his status report
June 2008 RELUFA establishes a Fair Trade partnership in the U.S.
After the network's General Assembly embraced Trade Justice as a new program theme, RELUFA has successfully accomplished a first exploratory export of Fair Fruit to its US distributor Partners for Just Trade.
Various producers affiliated with different network member organizations have participated in the preparations to see the shipment off in June 2008. The 100% natural oven-dried pineapple, mango, papaya and banana are now available for online order.
June 2008 Two years into the program CAP continues to grow
After a second round of its CAP Holidays initiative, RELUFA has exceeded 200 loan disbursements.. An overview of this program....
May 2008 An Expert Assessment on Pipeline Water Points
Two experts visited a total of 73 water points constructed by COTCO
in 32 different villages. In a closed meeting, CED and RELUFA
jointly presented the expert report to COTCO's leadership, who are now preparing
their response.
Read the execitive summary of the expert report
Watch a video on one of the water points concerned
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Samuel Nguiffo of network member organization the Center for the Environment and Development (CED) spearheaded in 2007 an independent review of Cameroonian EITI reports made by PWYP Cameroon. Read the report in french..
On the same topic of Resource Transparency, the Revenue Watch Institute has published for Civil Society "Drilling Down"
"Drilling Down: The Civil Society Guide to Extractive Industry Revenues and the EITI. This milestone guide released in May 2008 provides step-by-step explanations of each phase of EITI implementation and a comprehensive review of extractive industries accounting for civil society readers. Using real-world examples and data from multiple countries, it illustrates the fundamental issues behind the EITI, including government accounting systems, types of extractive industry contracts, and the different fiscal regimes that control the flow of funds to and from governments. Drilling Down was produced by Revenue Watch and authored by transparency and extractives industry expert David Goldwyn. It was written specifically for readers new to the challenges of extractive revenue management." |
