Domain 5
Environmental and resilience infrastructure
Protect the natural capital on which production depends and make the territory's infrastructure resistant to climate hazards.
How to read this page
The concern the domain addresses, the figures that measure it in Cameroon, then the services, the jobs created and the support of the other XP-NOVA divisions.
- The SDGs and PACTE pillars served by the domain.
- A detailed sheet for each service.
- ODT remains the contracting authority's single point of contact.
The concern
« Our soils are becoming exhausted; our infrastructure suffers from erosion and flooding. »
SDGs addressed
PACTE pillars served
The challenge in Cameroon
What the figures say
Climate hazards hit a population that relies heavily on agriculture. Protecting soils, water and infrastructure is a condition for the territory's economic survival, particularly in the northern regions.
Services in this domain
4 coded services
Reforestation and soil restoration
Degraded soils, falling yields, abandoned land.
Stormwater management
Flooding of villages, subdivision headquarters and periodic markets; roads cut off; gullied structures.
Protection of sensitive areas
Wetlands, riverbanks, mangroves and springheads degraded by expanding cultivation.
Erosion-control infrastructure
Gullying of cultivated slopes and silting of lowlands.
Job pools
The jobs this domain creates
Direct jobs
- Nursery workers
- Reforestation and erosion-control teams
- Wardens for sensitive areas
Indirect jobs
- Production and transport of seedlings and materials
- Maintenance of drainage structures
- Field monitoring
Induced jobs
- Non-timber forest products and beekeeping
- Environmental monitoring and carbon projects
- Ecotourism
Job numbers are estimated project by project, from the sizing of the facilities, then monitored during operation.
With the other divisions
Support mobilised in this domain
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