Situation analysis
SWOT analysis
Strengths
- Water availability
- moderate topography
- valuable natural environment (high biodiversity, dense vegetation cover)
- availability of land
- mineral ressources
- Mefou dam for water supply
- A traditional socio‐political system designed to stimulate rural development
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Weaknesses
- Flooding
- Diseases (Malaria, bilharziose, river blindness)
- deforestation
- alien invader species
- poor agricultural techniques
- insufficient waste management
- lack of adequate infrastructure (transport, electricity)
- Lack of collaboration and communication
- little participation of locals
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Threats
- Limited education and and lack of education infrastructure
- Deforestation
- Soil erosion
- increasing urbanization
- growing insecuritiy
- land disputes
- rural exodus
- water-borne diseases, increasing amout of mosquitoes and black flies arround the reservoir
- selfishness
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Opportunities
- New employment opportunities (Yaoundé-Doula highway, rehabilitation of the water treatment plant at Nkolbisson)
- Aquaculture
- Animal husbandry (chicken, cattle)
- Artisanal hunting
- Charcoal production
- Non-timber forest products
- Tourism (Biodiversity, lake view, endmic species, hiking)
- Hydroelectric energy
- Handicrafts
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