For 10 years, Cameroon Environmental Watch (CEW), with the support of several donors including the European Union, has been working to classify a 14,107 ha forest massif as an intercommunal forest in the Central Cameroon Region, for the benefit of 2 neighboring communes belonging to 2 different and rival political persuasions. Since the classification by decree no. 2018/4175 of May 29, 2018, resources have been sought to produce a management plan. The present BIOPAMA-funded initiative has set out to carry out, for the very first time in Cameroon, an IMET assessment in a communal forest (outside conventional protected areas) with the aim of identifying management priorities prior to drawing up the management plan. Using IMET as a dialogue tool, we identified 3 priority areas for action.