Godlove Bainkong
3 July 2009
A follow up committee that supervised the project presented its end-of-mandate report to stakeholders yesterday.
A follow-up committee (International Advisory Group), created to supervise the Chad - Cameroon pipeline project, has presented its end-of-mandate report with a call on stakeholders to right the wrongs of the project in subsequent ones so as to attract more of such giant investments.
International Advisory Group president, Mamadou Lamine Loum, made the recommendation among others yesterday at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel during a workshop to present its report. The event also marked the end of the group's mandate.
He said the report was a valuable document as it contains the main issues addressed in course of the project. "It will help stakeholders see into the future and to better manage the project for the good of the population", he said.
Presiding at the workshop, the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Technological Development, Calistus Gentry Fuh, described the group's activities and report as indispensable for the continuous monitoring of the project. "Considering the ecological and environmental nature of the project, the report will serve as a follow up document to ensure that the terms of reference are honoured", he said.
International Advisory Group officials said presenting the report in a workshop was to create an avenue to share ideas with stakeholders and improve the report which they observe, could serve as a reference in subsequent projects.
The over 40-page report contains a final review of the group's activities in the past eight years, their experiences and recommendations which officials say if scrupulously followed, the project would continually be beneficial in poverty alleviation in the two countries.
After yesterday's presentation, officials say, the observations made during the workshop will be included in the report and published on its website, www.gic-iag.org.
The group was set up in 2001 to advise the World Bank (the benefactor of the project) and the beneficiary countries on the setting up of the pipeline project and its judicious exploitation.
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