There was a four-day workshop to gain Knowledge organised on September 4-7 in Edea.

Mayors and Communal Development Agents are undergoing a four-day workshop to reinforce their capacity in a training of trainers workshop on the management committee in the maintenance of structures realised by the National Community Driven Development Programme, PNDP, in the Littoral Region. The workshop involved 23 mayors and 23 Communal Agents of Development in all the councils in the Littoral Region except the divisional councils.

The main objective of the workshop is to give Communal development agents the know-how and the tools necessary to help them to operate a management committee in existing projects.

Talking to the Official in charge of Infrastructure, Nkolo Essimi Marie Jeanne, she said in 2010 they launched a micro project in Manjo and 10 projects are still to be realised while two have been endorsed. She added that the other 22 councils are still carrying out feasibility studies which will soon be over, after which the SDO will validate the communal plan. The council will then sign a convention to co-finance the micro projects with the PNDP and the projects will be tendered. The company that wins the bid will be followed up by the management committee and maintain the infrastructure already realised. Each project will have one management committee living in the place where the project is to be executed. It is for this reason the workshop is organised to give them knowledge on how to maintain structures.

In the opening ceremony, the SDO for Sanaga Maritime, Abah Abah Prosper Alain, said the workshop comes to testify Cameroon in the decentralisation domain. He called on them to be available and contribute in the good walk of decentralisation.

On his part, the Regional Coordinator PNDP, Bekack Olivier Hermann said a lot has been abandoned because people do not know who is doing what. He said most projects are not working so trainees have to be trained to train others so that they can work together.