Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF) is an award-winning non-profit Cameroonian conservation organization established in 1999. ERuDeF has been working for over two decades across Cameroon and has significantly contributed towards restoring fragile Eco-system, regeneration of forest through plantation and agroforestry, conservation of biodiversity through wildlife habitat protection and protected area management, promoting environmental education, as well as empowering rural communities through innovative economic and livelihood development programmes.

ERuDeF’s main objectives are:

• To develop priorities and strategies for addressing relevant rural and environmental issues
• To provide local communities with the means to efficiently manage their natural resources and to alleviate poverty.
• To develop successful and/or potentially successful strategies for mobilizing communities and people to conserve their natural resources.
• To promote women’s role in conservation and development through training and support of women programs
• To combat deforestation, land degradation and desertification
• To promote alternative sustainable development strategies in rural areas including development of alternative models of rural financing.
• To promote advocacy, education, training and information programmes that increase people’s awareness of environmental problems as well as human issues affecting environmental management and their remedies.

 

CONTACT:

Address: Civil Society Building, Co-Cathedral Road Buea, SW Region, Cameroon

Telephone:  +237-672181816

Email: hq@erudef.org