The implementation of the project was entrusted to the Foundation for the Environment and Development in Cameroon (FEDEC) which had to carry out micro-projects in agriculture, education, healthcare, housing, and citizenship. As part of its mission supervising activities linked to the Chad-Cameroon project, the Pipeline Steering and Monitoring Committee (CPSP) decided to hand over the follow-up of the implementation of the PPAV project to a Cameroonian consultancy firm, Ere Development, and the firm presented its evaluation report at a seminar organized by CPSP in Kribi on 22 and 23 June. Since the PPAV programme went operational in 2003, in addition to social amenities like piped water, schools, and health centres provided during the construction phase of the project, over 3,800 Bakola-Bagyeli pygmies within an area of 12sqkm, have been receiving farm tools and seedlings at the beginning of every farming season, and have received training (through the 'Learning by doing' method) in agro-forestry and the planting of fruit trees such as palm, plums, pear, and guava. This assistance has been very successful in encouraging many pygmies into farming, and reducing the rate of conflict with their Bantu neighbours. A census of Bakola-Bagyeli children of school age was carried out: school material had been supplied, and fees paid for over 700 pupils. Financial assistance is also being granted to three training centres (Fondaf, Ngovayang, and Arc-en-ciel centres) taking care of pygmy children. In the domain of healthcare, the PPAV programme is providing medicine and financial assistance to some integrated health centres in the area, is supporting vaccination campaigns, and is training nurses and contributes in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The pygmies are now beginning to take their health problems to hospitals because of these initiatives. On citizenship, FEDEC has been establishing national identity cards for pygmies, providing civic education and registering them on the electoral list. This has earned them more respect from the Bantu, who used to look down on them. These projects are all within the framework of the compensation programme put in place by the pipeline project, which has also seen the creation of the Campo Ma'an and Mbam Ndjerem national parks. The CPSP was created in 1997 and has, as its objective, the co-ordination of the state administration's participation in the construction, exploitation, and maintenance of the pipeline project. It is administered under the authority of the Director General of the National Hydrocarbons Corporation SNH.