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Cameroon: CFA 3.5 billion to Restructure Civil Society
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
2 April 2008
Posted to the web 2 April 2008
Lukong Pius Nyuylime
The money has been disbursed by the European Union to ensure the participation of civil society in development projects.
The State wants to make the civil society a competent, organised and credible development partner. The Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Louis Paul Motaze underscored the importance of such an objective yesterday during the launching of the Support Programme for the Restructuring of Civil society in Yaounde. "This objective is clearly engraved in the second phase of the National Governance Programme which runs from 2006 to 2010", he said.
Financed by the European Union, the Support Programme for the Restructuring of Civil society, was jointly agreed upon by the government and the European Union in 2006 when on 29 March, the two partners signed a CFA 3.5 billion agreement to that effect. The programme constitutes essentially the institutional strengthening of the civil society through organisational and technical capacity building and improving the functioning of civil society organisations. In effect, the programme sets out to empower members of the civil society so they can partake in development strategy definition and in their implementation.
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The decision to integrate the civil society in the development process has certainly come of age and at the time when the whole concept of civil society remains cloudy in the minds of many. But as Minister Motaze stated in his speech yesterday, the place of the civil society in managing issues of common interest remains incontestable. "The participatory approach adopted presently in the revision of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-PRSP, is proof of the potential contribution of the civil society to development", Motaze said.
Based on the important role they can play in the country's development, members of the civil society participating in the Yaounde workshop, were urged to improve their competence, organise themselves and adapt their working methos to present dispensations.
According to the Project Coordinator, Christophe Courtin, the three days training will enable participants to work out the content of the programme which will be presented to the project master, which is the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development as well as the European Union. The programme effectively started in Bamenda from where it went to Garoua before coming to Yaounde. The Head of the European Delegation to Cameroon, Javier Puyo, was equally present at the launching.
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