Coherency between different sectors in research strategy and the needs in the implementation of the Forest-Environment sector Programme are what experts began examining in Yaounde yesterday within the framework of the workshop on Research and Forest-Environment Sector Programme.

For three days running participants most of them drawn from the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife and the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, will brainstorm on the part research can play to enhance the programme considered by authorities of the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife as primordial in the fight against poverty and sustainable forest management. The Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Elvis Ngolle Ngolle in his opening speech at the Yaounde Hilton yesterday, underscored the role of the programme in concretising the resolutions of the 1999 Central African Heads of State Summit on forest ecosystem.

The workshop sets out to achieve six major things amongst which are: verifying that the project takes into account the preoccupations of research and the recommendations of the partnership agreement; diagnose the sector by sector strategy of each ministry, valorise research financing mechanism and the cost involved in all the gimmicks to be deployed; evaluate forestry research needs and validate the proposal on forest, wildlife and environment research.

During the three days of working session, participants will listen to presentations on topics such as: research perspective, strategic axes of action, institutions and research structure, action plan on research and valorisation of national research structures and their financing mechanism.