The Rainforests of Cameroon - PROFOR

54 The Rainforests of Cameroonto enter into collaborative agreements to obtain services provided by theprivate sector, communes, local communities, and NGOs. Reorganizationof the National Office of Forest Development (Office National de Développementdes Forêts, ONADEF) typified the broad need to align forestinstitutions and their functions with the new policies. ONADEF hadbeen created before the first ministry in charge of forestry (which wasMINEF, in 1992) was established and before adoption of the 1994 ForestLaw. A parastatal in charge of industrial reforestation and promotingtimber use, ONADEF had a monopoly on forest inventories and managementplans, a status that ran counter to the development of consultingservices in the private sector and fueled the conviction that corruptionand clientelism dominated its workings. Resistance predictably delayedthe process, but ONADEF had no place in the new institutional settingand was eventually dissolved in 2002. A review of forest institutions in2002 strongly influenced preparation of the National Forest and EnvironmentSector Program (FESP), which helped to speed institutional change(including budgetary change; see the next section). ONADEF was succeededby the Agence Nationale d’Appui au Développement Forestier(ANAFOR), whose mandate is to promote financially and environmentallyviable plantations established, owned, and financed by individualfarmers, communities, and the private sector. 7Aligning Sector Expenditures with Policy ObjectivesUntil the FESP began in 2004, national budget allocations to the ForestAdministration were quite modest and did not reflect its changedfunctions. Funding for the core functions of planning, control, and lawenforcement remained largely limited to wages. Any major innovationswere funded either from extrabudgetary, ad hoc resources provided bythe Ministry of Finance or donors. ONADEF—despite its clear irrelevancein the context of the reforms—absorbed half of forest sector fundsuntil its demise (I&D 2002). The cash pumped into ONADEF’s reforestationprograms and manufacturing activities created immense opportunitiesto sustain the patronage system.In 2004, with the implementation of the FESP and support from theinternational community, a major effort began to align the budget to forestpolicy for the first Delivered time (box by The 3.7). World Budgetary Bank e-library planning to: directly reflectsThe World Bankthe objectives specified in the IP 2005 : 192.86.100.34 Forest and Environment Sector PolicyLetter (appendix 6). A Medium-term Mon, 09 Nov 2009 Expenditure 17:06:18 Framework has beenadopted in which the headings and corresponding expenditures are clearlyrelated to those in the policy letter. Although financial resources are now(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank