Briefs

Forest management and monitoring project
A conference on sustainable forest management and monitoring will hold in Yaounde on Monday 27 October 2014. Jointly organized by the ministry of forestry and wildlife, MINFOF and the French Development Agency, the project advocates sustainable management of production forests, development of the wood processing sector, curb deforestation and soil degradation, all with the view to reduce emission of green-house gases. Funded by the Debt Relief and Development Initiates C2D, the conference will be co-chaired by the minister of forestry and wildlife, Ngole Philip Ngwese and the French Ambassador to Cameroon.


National commission on private education meets
The national commission on private education will meet in its 32nd ordinary session on Tuesday 28 October 2014 in Yaounde. To be chaired by the minister of secondary education, Louis Bapes Bapes, the meeting will have as theme: Legal framework and contractualisation of schools. The commission’s members will during the meeting seek ways and means of implementing the legal framework of the public-private partnership on education.