MUNICH, GERMANY, August 18, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ --Ivo Mbongaya Arrey, Founder, Director of African Center for Community and Development, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in community services.

Founder and Director of African Centre for Community and Development, Mr Arrey specializes in project planning design and appraisal, project management, and sustainable development. Through the Centre, he offers strategic advice or consultations on interventions aimed at poverty reduction and the general improvement of wellbeing and access to assets in Cameroon and Africa.

Mr Arrey received a Master of Science (MSc) in Project Planning and Management from the University of Bradford (2007) and his Bachelor of Laws (LLb) from the University of Buea where he also minored in Political Sciences. He became involved in his profession after gaining experience in community radio as manager, producer and presenter of development and learning-based slots like Green Planet (about the environment), Cultural Panorama (about cultures, development and livelihoods), Books and People (Literary Reviews), Great Lives (autobiographical), Art Gallery (on arts and artists), 120 minutes Live (on societal issues) and many other interventions. These slots kept Mr Arrey closest to non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations and development stakeholders, the rural and urban masses as well as to policy makers. These endeavours also buttressed his unfettered inclination towards research for development manifest in his myriad publications (articles and videos) on sustainable development. So far he has interviewed hundreds of diverse stakeholders (http://youtube.com/user/AfricanCentreforCom ) as teaching, collaborative and learning devices to better interventions in Cameroon and Africa. Many of these articles and videos have been highlighted in the Eldis Community of over 8000 professionals from across the world.

Some of his work titles include:
• The Strategies of People
• Farmer Field Schools: An Unavoidable Path for Africa
• Why Village Poultry is a Necessary Route for Cameroon
• A Tortoise Cannot Encircle a Baobab With His Short Arms. Are Donor Conditionalities Ironies in Development Management?
• How the State of Coastal Livelihoods in the West Coast of Limbe Impacts on Forest Exploitation Around Mount Fako Region
• Can Drooping Saliva for Gnetum Africanum Match Growing Scarcity in Cameroon?
• Best Perspectives and Methods in Communicating with Communities. Useful Tools for Social and Development Actors
• Will Epasamoto Always Be There?
• Guidelines to Understanding and Designing Projects for Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Can Non Timber Forest Products, the Life Wire of Many Poor Livelihoods in Cameroon, Be Sustained?
• Food and Fertilizer Price Hypes in Sub-Saharan Africa. It Never Rains but it Pours, Cameroon A Caricature of the Broader Picture
• Why Wood Harvesting for Fuel is Hard to Contain in the South West of Cameroon
• Why Forest Conservation in the South West of Cameroon is a Problem
• Subjective Wellbeing: A Lucrative Jargon for Development Management
• Can Patrons, Sub Patrons and Mini Patrons be the Reason for Slow Market Entries in Sub Saharan Africa?
• Can Edible Frogs Help?
• Cane Rats can be a Viable Option to Bush Meat Harvesting

Mr Arrey believes in using modern technologies in collecting, analysing and disseminating knowledge for development and empowerment. His over one hundred videos on diverse topics and with diverse stakeholders can be accessed on the links below:

http://youtube.com/user/AfricanCentreforCom
http://community.eldis.org/falcazo

Recently, Mr Arrey was featured in the Recreation and Investment Properties Magazine to the Edmonton Journal where he outlined his ambition to domesticate the threatened plant vegetable "Eru" and to deter dependence on over-harvested forest animals in his country.

Mr Arrey is a member of the following networks and professional groups:
• Lean & Green
• Women's Vision Foundation
• Genesis Facility
• Health Care
• Creative Designers and Writers
• Rural Tourism Network
• Writers
• Land Development Professionals Network
• Organic Farming for Sustainable Livelihoods
• EurSAP - Global SAP Consultants Forum
• Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group
• Project Management Link (www.pmlink.org)
• Lift Kids
• Leadership Think Tank
• Bright Ideas & Entrepreneurs
• Consultants Network
• IDE - International Development Enterprises
• Green
• Media Professionals Worldwide
• Media & Entertainment Professionals
• Inclusive Development Professionals
• Friends of Cameroon
• Sustainable International Development (SID) - MojaLink
• Non Profit Network - MojaLink
• ICT Update
• Sustainable Development Africa
• Prosperity Connected
• 21st Century Network
• World Neighbors
• Global Sales, Marketing and Business Development Network
• Business Partners Cameroon
• Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD)
• Friends of ICFJ (The International Center for Journalists)

Mr Arrey's other development and professional groups on Eldis can be accessed on the following link:

http://community.eldis.org/falcazo/.59b7dd00/?txAllCommunitiesGallery

As part of his ever expanding engagements Mr Arrey organized in 2009 "Fighting Poverty and Engaging Conservation through Sounds" and "Outreaching to Orphans." He is also manager of the LinkedIn group, Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development.

For more information on African Centre for Community and Development visit:
http://www.africancentreforcommunity.com
http://youtube.com/user/AfricanCentreforCom
http://www.facebook.com/pages/African-Centre-for-Community-and-Development/103686769685856

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