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Cameroon: Civil Society to Monitor Implementation of Debt Relief Fund
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The Post (Buea)
21 April 2008
Posted to the web 21 April 2008
Leocadia Bongben
Some 30 civil society organisations, under the coordination of the Central Public Trade Union, have undergone a three-day training on the manual of inquiry and the follow up of transparency in the implementation of French debt Relief and Development contract, funds dubbed C2D.
The national coordinator, Jean Marc Bikoko, states that after the nation-wide training, the civil society organisations would be deployed to the field for three months to collect data on the implementation of the programme. He added that the role of the civil society would be to raise awareness on the problems faced, and propose a solution
He argued that with the bad management of debts in the past, the weak implication of development actors and the predominance of the executive on the legislature on the one hand, and the mechanisms related to the process of the debt relief, the effective utilisation of the funds to the profit of the population cannot be guaranteed.
The sectors benefiting from the debt relief programme that are to be investigated include, Basic Education, Health (the fight against HIV/AIDS), infrastructure, agriculture and food security, environment and biodiversity.
Ahead of the training, the French embassy held a press conference to explain their contribution to the better implementation of the C2D programme and the role of the civil society.
The C2D, the Debt Relief and Development Contract, is aimed at refinancing through relief after the attainment of the completion point of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, HIPIC.
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A consultative and follow up committee of the programme was created with focus on the debt relief strategic paper as priority validated in 2003. The objective of the C2D is to render Cameroon's debt sustainable, contribute to sustainable development and the attainment of the millennium development goals.
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