Ms Cécile NDJEBET

President & Founder, REFACOF

Cécile is one of the well-known leaders of CSO in Africa, an international women’s rights advocate and gender specialist. With 35 year of field experience, Cécile started her professional career as a Cameroonian Civil servant. In 1997, she joined the civil society Organizations. She has been devoted to women’s rights issues and for the past 15 years Cécile is very involved in the national, regional and international forestry, REDD+ and climate change processes. In 2009, to promote women’s direct and effective participation in natural resources management in Africa, Cécile, together with a group of African Women Rights advocates, founded the African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REFACOF); one of the rare Sub Saharan Africa women’s Platform on the forest sector, with 20 countries from West and Central Africa. In 2012, Cécile was elected Climate Change Champion of the Central African Commission on Forests (COMIFAC).