Yaouba is currently working for the Netherland Development Organisation (SNV) as the deputy Director of SNV Cameroon. Prior to that, he was the coordinator of the tropical rain forest program in the same organisation. This program is fucussing on the sutainable management of the Cameroonian part of the Congo bassin tropical rain forest. It aims on building capacity of local organisations and and on the institutional development of the forest sector.
Prior to this position, he has been leading a biodiversity conservation project in the Northern Cameroon (GEF biodiversity project)
Before this, he was the technical adviser in the same project, responsable for the participatory management approaches and the co-management plans of the hunting zones in collaboration with local communities and the conservation services. He has also supported some local development committees to elaborate their participatory local development plans including land use plans.
He is involved in many associations working on the Environment/Development sector in Cameroon and in West and central Africa (Community Forestry Network, Impact Alliance, ).
