Lukong Pius Nyuylime
16 May 2008
Members of the Steering Committee of the rural development oriented programme of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Agricultural Professionalism and Institutional Capacity Building better known by its French abbreviation, PARI, met in Yaounde last Friday to examine the milestone covered in 2007 and work out the activities to be carried out in 2008.
Initially programmed to cover a period of 36 months, the PARI project was finally extended by one year to catch up with the time lost due to the transfer of the project portfolio from SCAC to the French Development Agency. The report of project implementation for 2007 examined during the Yaounde meeting, constitutes the consolidation of project achievement and expression of major results.
According to the report, the major areas of concern to develop and consolidate include: reinforcing provincial and national platforms for peasant organisations through the putting in place of a transparent accounting system, management tools, training, information dissemination and dialogue with partners. Other areas of concern are: the putting in place of a discussion framework between the State and peasant organisations in the three Northern provinces and the North West province, consolidation of an observation apparatus of peasant organisations through support for the cleansing of the cooperative and Common Initiative Groups and exploitation of diagnosis of the 22 member cooperatives of the South West Cooperative Union and six member cooperatives of the Cocoa Cooperative Union of the West (UCCAO).
A budget of CFA 793,912,858 was adopted for the 2008 action plan. Activities will take place under five major themes. These include: institutional reinforcement, capacity building, project implementation and technical assistance.
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