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YIF provided technical assistance to COTCO

Terry Wiles — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:41:49 +0000

The Chad–Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project is a controversial project to develop the production capacity of oilfields near Doba in southern Chad, and to create a 1,070-kilometre (660 mi) pipeline to transport the oil to a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO), anchored off the coast of Cameroon, near the city of Kribi. It is operated by ExxonMobil (40%) and also sponsored by partners forming the consortium, Petronas (35%) andChevron (25%). The governments of Chad and Cameroon also have a combined 3% stake in the project. The project was launched on October 18, 2000, and completed in June 2003 (the official inauguration took place in October of the same year).

Staff absences due to malaria, and the associated productivity problems, led to YIF being asked to provide an analysis of the mosquito problems and to recommend control measures to the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO), together with providing training of staff at pumping stations, other installations and villages along the pipeline. YIF is a registered supplier of technical services to Exon Mobil.

The picture shows Indoor Residual Spraying, which is a key technology in malaria control.

YIF Directors meet Cameroon Deputy High Commissioner

Terry Wiles — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:42:30 +0000

The Cameroon Deputy High Commissioner, Mr Denis Nyuydzewira, joined YIF Directors, Terry Wiles, Graham Matthews and Hans Dobson for a lunchtime meeting at the Farmer’s Club in Whitehall Court on Wednesday 9 November 2011. We have always enjoyed good relations with the High Commission staff, but this was the first opportunity to talk in detail about technical and development issues in Cameroon. Mr Nyuydzewira was briefed on the Libamba development project, blackfly control work, and malaria mosquito management. He expressed interest in finding ways to develop coffee and livestock production in Cameroon. We agreed to keep him informed on YIF activities, and to try to schedule visits to Cameroon for the next time he returns home on leave. The mutual agreement was that we should seek ways to build on the productive Cameroonian/British collaboration over the past 8 years in order to expand the developmental impact even further in Cameroon and beyond.

Agricultural Show at Ebolowa

Terry Wiles — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:03:51 +0000

Staff from the Yaounde Initiative Foundation and MINADER ran the CleanFarms Cameroon stand at the Agricultural Show at Ebolowa during the week of 17 January 2011. This was a large and vibrant event with participation from public, private and NGO sectors, and the CleanFarms stand generated a lot of interest with some hundreds of copies of the project information materials distributed. As such, it made a huge and very cost effective contribution to the current outreach campaign encouraging holders of obsolete stocks to declare them to the project for later safeguarding and disposal free of charge.

YIF signs convention with MINSANTE

Terry Wiles — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:27:26 +0000

The Yaounde Initiative Foundation has signed a ‘Convention’ with the Ministry of Public Health to carry out vector control operations on its behalf in Cameroon. As part of this convention, YIF has also been designated as the organisation to test new public health pesticides in the country, and to carry out epidemiological, entomological and ecotoxicological evaluations.