TUME oversees and facilitates efforts to secure sponsored project funds, including development of proposals, fund-raising projects and programs. Explores, researches and identifies appropriate funding sources consistent with department/organizational mission and goals.
Bazil Tume is an early-career conservationist in tropical Biology, with Cameroon nationality and has grown to develop special interest in the protection of the environment and conservation of wildlife within the Congo Basin. TUME has undertaken several courses on grant development and fundraising and has worked as a volunteer with several environmental protection NGOs where he specialized in community livelihood improvement through the sustainable use of natural resources-agriculture.
His professional experience within this field includes working as focal point/executor of conservation projects including livelihoods trainings, conservation education programs, agroforestry nursery establishment and habitat restoration of degraded forest patches in and around Protected Areas.