The world in which we live is a world of communication. But with what aim and for which vision are so many sophisticated techniques, so many communication experts, so many programs and public relations concepts set in motion? With the small scale of her field work, CIPCRE has understood that modern means of communication are meaningless if they are not put at the service of a great deal, enough to give a meaning to things and life. It is above all a way of creating awareness of society’s problems, in order to share them, face them and find common solutions.
 ECOVOX
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Published three to four times a year with a print run of about 2000, Ecovox is undoubtedly the most important publication specialized in ecology and sustainable development in French-speaking Africa. It replaced, in 1995, "A l’Affût – Magazine” which also replaced “Lettre du CIPCRE that launched in 1992. Accommodating prestigious by lines such as Edgar Morin, Susan George, Aminata Traoré or Jean Ziegler, Ecovox brings an alternative glance atimportant subjects such as water, the civil society, North-South co-operation or pollution. Its 650 subscribers, as well as those who read ECOVOX on Internet, always welcome it with pleasure. Enthusiastic reactions follow the publication of each issue.
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SOS-Environment
The presence of CIPCRE in the media, results amongst other things in the production and annual broadcast of 45 radio programmes on Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) in Bafoussam. The topics developed can vary from the manufacture of the pesticides from plants to domestic management, through wildlife, the community forests, the therapeutic virtues of certain plants, the climatic change, the economy of water, etc. In 2002, SOS-Environment took part in the Swiss contest "Radio du Sud” and won the first price of broadcast and recording equipment worth 4000 Swiss francs.
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Faith and Action
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The major concerns of the new Faith and Action Collection are to enable Churches as well as the general public to reflect on true challenges of the Christian faith in the contemporary society, as well as to provide them with action designs to change life and models in order to build up a new society. It was launched in 2002 with six titles at the beginning: The Gospel in Action, the Message on HIV-AIDS in Africa, Being a Christian in Africa Today, to overcome with the publication also had the prestigious by lines of Pastors Ype Schaaf, Jean Blaise KENMOGNE and Reto Gmünder; Rév. Dr. Kä Mana and an abbot from Ivory Coast Jean Claude Djereke.
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Resource centres
With the two national seats in Bafoussam (Cameroon) and in Porto-Novo (Benin), the public has the possibility of benefiting from important resource centres with several thousand volumes (monographs, study reports, books, slides, audio cassettes and video) concerning all CIPCRE areas of interest. It is mostly teachers, students and the pupils who regularly consult these important documentary resources for sustainable development, gender and development, justice and peace, and environmental education. Updated data bases make research easy. |
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WAGNE
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Aware of the dominating role that the Internet can play as a development lever, and seeing the need to reduce inequalities in access to information and thus increasing the chances for a greater number of Africans, CIPCRE in 1991 initiated the creation of WAGNE (Wagon Africain de Gestion des Nouvelles Electroniques) (African Coach for Electronic News Management). The main objective is "to facilitate access and participation in the information society through the promotion of Information and Communication Technologies, in order to fight against environmental pollution, poverty and for justice". WAGNE is based in Yaounde, Republic of Cameroon |
Lobbying
In the surging debate on the identity and the mission of the Cameroonian civil society, CIPCRE tries to make her voice heard: it believes that the civil society could neither be an arm of government nor of the opposition party; it could not be set up as a super NGO with a hierarchical structure and actions that any given NGO can realize on the field. It is more of a movement than a structure, a network than a conventional organization. It is oriented towards common interests of the actors than towards the satisfaction of self interests of the organizations which make it up. It is in this direction that CIPCRE engages on building sites of the civil society such as the follow-up of HIPC initiatives and the practical application of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). |
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