In framework of the DAAD financed project "Integrated Watershed Management Research and Development Capacity Building" a Master student of Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Earth Science, conducted a four month field research (03-06/2013) in Cameroon, in the living laboratory “Upper Mefou Watershed”. The study focuses on the Drinking Water Governance (DWG). The research questions are related to:

• reason of the man maid drinking water access problem
• formal and informal structures
• actors of DWG
• SWOTS of DWG.