The 2008 EWC has been innovated by the change of the coordinating philosophy of the national organizers. Until recently, the member organizations of the coordinating group met once a year to adopt the Handbook for the Campaign, which contained guidelines for the yearly activities. Once these strategies were adopted, the concrete execution of the activities on the field was entrusted to CIPCRE which organized the activities on the national in scale and coordinated them through the eleven Orientation and Follow-up Committees dispatched all over Cameroon.

As from this year, the national organizers, on the request of CIPCRE, resolved to get more involved in field activities, according to the areas in which they are active (youth, women, catholic, Protestant or Moslem communities of faith, etc.) and places where they are present. This change was also made possible by the admission of three new organizations within the organizers last December, namely Forum Cameroon, the Association for the Fight Against Violence on Women ( ALVF) and the World Youth Dynamic ( DMJ), which came to join the CIPCRE, the Higher Islamic Council of Cameroon, the Conference of Protestant Churches of Cameroon, the National Justice and Peace Service of the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church and the Ecumenical Service for the Peace.

This evolution prompted a second coordination meeting after that of December during which the 2008 EWC Handbook was adopted. This second coordinating meeting was held in Yaoundé on January 16, 2008, and was aimed at establishing the working groups bringing various organizers according to the programmed activities. It was thus in an atmosphere of concentration atmosphere and opened discussion that participants analyzed activities planned for 2008 and identified which one of them were the most capable of making a commitment for their organization.

 

The task was enormous because not less than thirty medium to large-scale activities, split into five categories, namely the activities with the youth, lobbying and sensitization, advocacy, the listening and observatories centres, as well as coordination and the follow-up of activities of local implanting made by COS were programmed for this year.
This ambitious program, which will have inevitably extensions during the years to come, could not be realized without the contribution of all the national organizers who agree to up their time and their diversified skills for the Easter Week Campaign. It is the challenge which is made this year by the coordination within which each is aware that it cannot be won only by having in the spirit a common vision of social change for the advent of a world more oriented to peace, justice and environmental protection.