This is the result of a multi-phase process:

• A phase of exchange with municipal players;

• A community work phase;

• A phase of analysis and processing of the information collected;

• Presentation of the information collected in workshops, exchanges and integration into the IMET tool whenever consensus is reached;

• Restitution of results generated by IMET to stakeholders.

The forest is supposed to be managed by a joint community. As the two communes are political rivals, belonging to 2 different political persuasions (one run by the ruling party and the other by an opposition party), it is important to avoid holding all meetings and events in a single commune. Each commune must be able to organize and host the other in an alternative way. The strategy of alternating the holding of meetings in the two communes helped to encourage participation, with the support of the administrative and municipal authorities.

The choice of IMET Coach was a challenge, given that experts in this field are in short supply. Based on its management procedures, CEW followed a process ranging from the call for applications to the contracting of an IMET expert, a park curator in Northern Cameroon who braved the 700 km distance between his base and the implementation site several times. Thanks to his experience and ability to teach an adult audience, the workshop to fill in the IMET tool went off without a hitch. Organized in the deliberation room of the Ngog Mapubi town hall, the workshop was attended by some thirty people (sub-prefects, mayors, forestry and hunting station chiefs, municipal councillors, communal executives, population representatives, members of the peasant forestry committees, local guides and traditional chiefs from the two arrondissements). During the workshop, discussions were open, ambiguities and concerns were cleared up, and recommendations were collected.

Discussions with stakeholders to put the project into context and identify the role of each player in order to ensure more effective implementation. A field mission was carried out to meet with local authorities (sub-prefects and mayors), the local administration of the Ministry of Forests and Fauna (MINFOF), local elected representatives, traditional chiefs, local elites and guides.

The reforestation of degraded watersheds is seen as a means of raising awareness among local communities. It also helps to conserve local biodiversity, as reclaiming the forest is one way of combating soil erosion.

The project is based on awareness-raising activities. In fact, the creation of communication media is an excellent way of supporting awareness-raising activities:

- the environmental hut built on the animation site helped the activities proposed to the school public on the transmission of knowledge on the heritage species indicated on panels. Local languages were highlighted, in close collaboration with the Agence des Langues Kanak, with translation into French.

- photos were taken and given to the local communities taking part in the consultation meetings. Panels on heritage species and the cultural values of drinking water resources were produced.

- a documentary film to promote the project was produced by a member of the project team following video training organized by a professional service provider at the start of the project;

- to raise the project's profile, ecological t-shirts, caps and bags have been produced, bearing the logos of our funding partners.

The aim of organizing awareness-raising activities on biodiversity and water resources is to inform and raise public awareness of environmental issues, in particular local biodiversity and water resources. Three results have been defined:

- the organization of World Water Day, to raise public awareness, particularly among schoolchildren, of the issues and traditional know-how relating to water resources;

- the organization of a day of exchange and transmission on the services rendered by nature, in particular water resources;

- restitution in the tribes of the actions carried out during the implementation of the project, followed by the distribution of booklets and a photo taken during the consultation meeting.

The purpose of the booklet is to create a practical tool or guide for clan chiefs and customary people from all tribes in the Hienghène commune, on culture-based environmental management measures. The contents of this booklet include the methodology for organizing and conducting consultation meetings, and summaries of each consultation meeting. It also includes a table summarizing the summaries of all the remote tribes of the wilderness reserve. The same applies to the 5 tribes close to the reserve. As people have expressed themselves freely in their own languages, the Académie des Langues Kanak, a stakeholder in the project, verifies the texts in local languages. The final phase of the booklet consists of computer graphics and printing, carried out by the project's off-site service providers.

The building block emphasized the importance of using data for informed decision-making in conservation efforts. To facilitate this, the solution promoted the adoption of conservation technologies such as Survey 123, camera traps, and GIS software. The use of these technologies enabled more efficient and effective data collection and improved the planning of strategic patrols, while also incorporating intelligence data from community members. The adoption of GIS software and the Protected Areas Management System (PAMS) using the Survey 123 Mobile Data Collector provided tools to create hotspot maps, tables, and charts, making it easier to identify priority areas and plan targeted interventions. The use of data resulted in targeted conservation efforts, which improved the overall conservation strategy and highlighted the critical role of data in conservation efforts, and increased joint protection activities.

The solution trained 214 Village Game Scouts (VGS) from 19 adjacent villages to USNFR, including 32% women, on Human Rights, the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) handheld devices, and Participatory Management of the Nature Reserve. Additionally, the project provided patrol gear such as uniforms, gumboots, tents, GPS handheld devices, etc., to facilitate effective mobile camping patrol operations. The solution also supported joint foot anti-poaching patrol operations (which mentors local communities), mentoring local communities to conduct their own patrols in respective forest adjacent areas. The patrol teams consisted of TSF staff (22.3%), VGS formed from local communities (44.5%), and anti-poaching unit rangers (33.2%), with 10.4% women of all participants indicating increases in their participation. These efforts increased protection activities, reduced pressure from the forest, and ensured the sustained supply of goods and services that the forests offer. As a result, other villagers were willing to offer intelligent information on poaching incidents.