🌿 Nature-Based Tourism

We promote the conservation of natural resources by encouraging tourism practices that protect biodiversity, forests, rivers, and wildlife habitats.

We involve local communities directly in tourism projects, ensuring job creation, local ownership, and reduce environmental and social impacts.

🤝 Community-Based Tourism

OCOTONAP collaborates with cultural heritage sites such as the Mankon, Bafut, and Bambili Kingdom to conserve and promote Cameroon’s rich cultural heritage.

🏛️ Heritage -Based Tourism

OCOTONAP’s work in safeguarding cultural heritage is built on seven interconnected pillars that ensure traditions, histories, and cultural identities are not only preserved, but strengthened for future generations.

These core activities form a complete cycle; from understanding the risks communities face to protecting heritage sites, empowering local actors, raising public awareness, and fostering meaningful partnerships.

Through this holistic approach, OCOTONAP strives to protect what is culturally valuable, revive what is at risk of disappearing, and support the people who keep heritage alive.

The following seven pillars represent the foundation of our mission and the driving force behind our commitment to cultural preservation.

1. Risk and Needs Assessment

OCOTONAP conducts detailed assessments of heritage sites vulnerable to natural or human threats. These evaluations help design effective protection and management strategies that safeguard cultural and natural resources.

We empower custodians, traditional leaders, and youth through training in conservation, indigenous skills, community tourism, and resource mobilization, ensuring long-term cultural management.

4. Documentation and Digitisation

5. Advocacy and Awareness

We raise awareness and advocate for heritage conservation policies that strengthen protection, promote sustainable tourism, and encourage community participation.

OCOTONAP supports communities in organizing cost-effective cultural festivals, arts and crafts fairs, and culinary exhibitions to promote local traditions and cultural tourism.

7. Partnerships and Collaboration

We build partnerships with local, national, and international organisations to develop and implement joint programs that protect heritage and promote sustainable tourism.

3. Capacity Building for Heritage Stakeholders

We implement community-based projects to restore, preserve, and promote heritage assets. These initiatives revitalise endangered properties and ensure their sustainability for future generations.Write your text here...

2. Heritage Protection, Preservation and Restoration

6. Supporting Cultural and Traditional Events

OCOTONAP documents and digitizes both tangible and intangible heritage, including museum collections, making them accessible for education and preservation purposes.

5. Advocacy and Awareness

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Heritage Conservation

Protecting cultural and historical resources, including buildings, landscapes, artefacts and objects, for future generations

Promoting cultural heritage and community pride by opening doors to local touristic destinations

Preserving biodiversity, maintaining essential ecosystem services and mitigating climate change

Tourism

Nature Protection

Mr. Richard Fru Ntomnifor is a dedicated cultural heritage protection specialist and development practitioner with extensive experience working across Cameroon, especially in rural and marginalised communities. As Executive Director of the Organisation for Community Tourism and Nature Protection (OCOTONAP), he has led major cultural emergency response projects supported by renowned international partners such as the Prince Claus Fund, Cultural Emergency Response, ALIPH Foundation and UNESCO.

With over a decade of work in heritage preservation, he has built strong expertise in community mobilisation, heritage risk assessment, documentation, museum stabilisation and the protection of endangered cultural sites in crisis contexts. His leadership has strengthened local museum capacities, empowered communities, promoted indigenous knowledge and positioned OCOTONAP as a trusted national and international partner committed to safeguarding cultural and natural heritage for future generations.