From January 15 to 17, 2008, a group for coordination and follow-up of the advocacy against the traffic of children for sexual exploitation (TEFES), made of co-workers of CIPCRE and of resource persons met in Yaoundé to discuss the launching of a vast study on the subject, an indispensable prerequisite to the setting up of a campaign for a solid advocacy and better information.

The experience of the Easter Week Campaign in sensitization against the TEFES indeed showed that available data on the situation in Cameroon were still very incomplete and must be completed and clarified if we want to build an advocacy which is credible and relevant. The coordination and follow-up group met thus with Mrs Marie-Thérèse Mengue, teacher and researcher in social sciences at the Catholic University of Yaoundé, specialist in the questions related to the childhood, to define the outlines of this study. Detailed discussions allowed the loosening the main lines of a collaboration of type search-action to insure at the same time the high required scientific level and the orientation of the data towards the construction of a base sales brochure for the advocacy.

From these exchanges, the terms of reference of the research were elaborated. Mrs Marie-Thérèse Mengue, who already had her asset of the other studies of ground on similar subjects, will so take the head of researchers' team called to set to work immediately to organize an inquiry of ground in the months to come. The restoration of the study during a national and international press conference, which should also mark the public launch of the plea against the TEFES in Cameroon, is planned for the beginning of the school year of September 2008.