FAP employs gender-sensitive, participatory ways to empower impoverished community people and develop their capacities in order to address these issues. FAP anticipates that this strategy will lessen unemployment and poverty while achieving more equitable access to and control over natural resources within the community.

FAP focuses on the rural population of Cameroon, which constitutes 80% of the total population of the region. The reason for focusing on the rural population is because they depend on natural resources for most of their income-generating activities (crop production, livestock rearing, including beekeeping, and exploitation of timber and non-timber forest products). Because of their poor organization and poor management capacities, these resources are depleting, thereby rendering them even poorer.