In its desire to ensure the sustainable and participatory management of all its natural resources, the Government of Cameroon has requested technical and financial assistance from FAO in order to specify the guidelines of its policy, the strategies and priority measures to be implemented in order to manage in a sustainable manner, in the interests of Cameroonian society in general and of local populations in particular, in the interests of Cameroonian society in general and of local populations in particular, the biological and non-biological resources of which these mangrove ecosystems abound. For these purposes, the two parties jointly conducted the project 'participatory management and conservation of mangrove biological diversity' TCP/CMR/2908. This policy and strategy document is the result.