Cameroon: Centre - MIPROMALO Trains Technology Transfer Agents

Some 34 trainees from technology transfer centres, CTT, last Friday March, 5 were awarded certificates at the end of a month-long training at MIPROMALO on the production and use of local material. Among the 34 trainees were 21 specialised workers and 13 owners or promoters of technology transfer centres.

Speaking during the certificate award ceremony, the director of MIPROMALO, Uphie Chinje Melo, said the training of the technology transfer agents falls in line with President Biya's policy to provide decent lodging to Cameroonians at a cheap cost through the use of local material in building construction. It is for this reason, she said, that MIPROMALO came up with the project on the 'promotion of local material to improve on the living standards of the population" which benefited from HIPC funding in 2008. According to the project, 50 technology transfer centres were to be created in all the ten regions of Cameroon. Within the first phase of the implementation of the project, 20 CTTs were to be created, 17 of which were already operational. To assure the transfer of technology, the centres were to train people on the technologies of production and quality control. It is in this vein therefore that the agents were trained to serve as trainers of trainers.

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