African Data Revolution: Survey
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A selection of deforestation, pollution statistics (air and water pollution), as well as information on extractives activities, and their concessions/licences.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | Data is not available. |
| Downloadable | No | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | ||
| Digital data | No | |
| Print data | No | |
| location | href="https://portals.flexicadastre.com/Cameroon/fr/" https://portals.flexicadastre.com/Cameroon/fr/">rel="nofollow">https://portals.flexicadastre.com/Cameroon/fr/ - Concessions can be seen via the mining cadastre (see here) including award size, duration of concession, concession status, resource extracted, location of cadastre, company gaining award. | |
| Collected by government | Yes | Normally the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development is responsible for collecting this data. And also the National Institute of Statistics is in charge of managing data infrastructure in the country. |
| findable_steps | I have mainly used online research. I have also interviewed a staff of the EITI Cameroon on extractives activities. | |
| characteristics | Extractives activities | There is data on extractives activities published by the EITI Cameroon, but it is the financial side of extractives activities that is concerned. Data on environmental side is not found. |
| Controlled access | No | |
| Collector name | Le Ministère de l'Environnement, de la Protection de la Nature et du Développement Durable, Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau (ONEE) contracted services to Camerounaise des Eaux, National Institute of Statistics, Cameroon’s Sous Direction du Cadastre Minier (for mining extraction) | The official website of the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development is not working. The National Institute of Statistics has a data portal to publish diverse data. |
Water pollution has only been measured in one city as part of a pilot project Deforestation data is made available by WRI who “partners with the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) to develop the Interactive Forest Atlas of Cameroon, and to build the capacity of forest stakeholders in remote sensing, GIS, and forest information management. This partnership aims to strengthen forest management and land use planning by bringing all major land use categories onto the same platform.” Source: https://www.wri.org/our-work/project/congo-basin-forests/cameroon#project-tabs