The immortalising agreements signed between Cameroon and Italy during the four-day State visit to Cameroon of the Italian President, Sergio Mattarella, will certainly have far reaching effects on the local material production sector.

The optimism of the future implementation of the agreements threaded through the joint press statement issued at the end of the visit. In effect, the protocol agreement signed between the Cameroon School of Public Works and the University of Padoue, Italy as well as the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development on the one hand and the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment of the same University, on the other, tells of a sector that is of great economic interest to one of the G-Seven nations.

Mauro Battistella, Coordinator of Italian business in Cameroon (CAICAM) was even more assuring stating inter alia during the Economic Forum at the Hilton that the Italian community is ready and has been eying sectors such as brick manufacturing, rural development, food production, hotel development and marketing of Italian products in Cameroon.  Already, a Partnership Contract has been signed between the Cameroon government and the Italian company, Pizzarotti  for the construction of 10,000 low cost houses in Yaounde, precisely in Mbankomo, a project that is expected to begin this year.

Structures such as MIPROMALO will certainly play an important technical role in the execution of projects of this nature.