Ivan Trésor MBOCK, executive secretary of the Network of Civil Society Organizations of Cameroon (RENOSCAM), expresses the structure’s ambition to support citizen dynamics, strengthen the capacities of civil society organizations, and create a platform for dialogue with local authorities.
RENOSCAM was a technical and financial partner of this 7th edition. Why this commitment?
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RENOSCAM is a platform, born in 2025 and officially launched on April 11, 2026, in Douala Bépanda. From its creation, we chose to position ourselves as a structuring network of Cameroonian civil society. Our commitment as a technical and financial partner of this forum is explained by the natural alignment with our vision: to support citizen dynamics and strengthen the capacities of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). The 7th PLAFOSCIL Littoral Forum, led by PLAFOSCIL, constitutes a strategic framework to strengthen dialogue between CSOs and decentralized territorial communities (CTDs), especially in the Littoral region of Cameroon, a key to national development.
You organized a capacity-building workshop on the sidelines of the Forum. What were its objectives?
This workshop is directly part of our 2026 action plan, which places particular emphasis on the empowerment of CSOs, especially financially. The objective was to equip organizations with concrete tools to structure themselves, strengthen their skills, and develop income-generating activities. We therefore organized a workshop on community mobilization and fundraising. We recorded the participation of about thirty CSOs from several localities, including sometimes hard-to-reach areas, as well as the participation of our regional coordinators from the major basins, notably the Grand Centre and Grand Sud.
What are the prospects for collaboration with PLAFOSCIL after this Forum?
We want to make this partnership with PLAFOSCIL long-lasting. The idea is to co-construct structuring initiatives in the Littoral, in terms of capacity building, social innovation, and the development of economic activities for CSOs.
Since the Littoral is a nerve center of the country, we want to make it a pilot area to experiment with a stronger, more organized, and more impactful civil society.
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RENOSCAM has a national ambition. What is your roadmap for the coming months?
Indeed, our ambition is both national and open internationally. RENOSCAM currently brings together about 150 CSOs. In the long term, our priority is the consolidation of these achievements, and in the short term, our priority remains the structuring and operationalization of regional coordinations, the true foundation of our mobilization and territorial anchoring strategy.
In the coming weeks, we will launch a large campaign to mobilize CSOs, coupled with the progressive establishment of regional coordinations in the major basins (Grand Littoral, Grand Ouest, Grand Centre, Grand Nord, and diaspora), with a clear objective: to unite more than 500 CSOs.
At the same time, we intend to strengthen our partnerships with all stakeholders and wish to contribute to the emergence of an inclusive dialogue framework with public authorities and to the construction of a prouder, more prosperous, and more united Cameroon.
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