In the domain of health Lelewal and her partner communities decided to valorize traditional medicine and healing systems. This medicine is from the ancestors and highly effective and less expensive. In the case of the Baka peoples traditional medicine and healing systems has remained an option to the modern medicine which is too expensive and less accessible at the communities’ level. There is a Platform that sees the valorization, […]

Lelewal has actively participated in the domain of scientific and fact-finding research in producing documentation on indigenous people’s situation in Cameroon in the following domains indigenous people’s traditional knowledge and innovations; Climate Change and Climate Finance; Indigenous People Land Tenure and Land Use systems; Traditional Healing and Medicines etc. Through these research programs Lelewal is able to orientate the advocacy and lobbying decisions of the […]

Lelewal has a gender and indigenous women program which has always been led by a coordinator who is a woman who understand issues affecting women in general and indigenous women in particular. This program is designed to respect the gender parity and social inclusion of women in all projects carried out by the organization giving women […]

Lelewal has been involve in a multitude of programs that are geared towards building strong leadership within indigenous peoples communities and the strengthening of the recognition of indigenous peoples rights as stipulated by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) which are special rights and are inherent  to the Universal Declaration of fundamental […]

Lelewal has been actively supporting her communities in the domain of livelihoods and Alternative Skills development in other domains like Tailoring, income generating activities and the valorization of Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP). Indigenous peoples in Cameroon are around ninety nine percent nature dependent mainly hunter-gatherer and traditional livestock grazing. The advent of climate change phenomenon has devastated their livelihoods and consequently well-being. The […]

Due to the unfettered forces of globalization, the world is today facing an unprecedented rate of climatic changes. The climatic and ecological devastations brought about by the unsustainable development practices of rapidly developing and industrialized countries have differential impacts on indigenous peoples. The two Lelewal pilot areas in recent times witnessed increase in the degradation of land and natural resources- Forest by […]