81284237-Municipal Development Cameroon

Since 1996, Cameroon has undergone a decentralisation process at the local level, while remaining a decentralised unitary state. With the establishment of the Ministry of Decentralisation and Local Development (Ministère de la Décentralisation et du Développement Local, MINDDEVEL) in March 2018, the government stepped up its efforts in accelerating the decentralisation process advancing regionalisation (first regional assembly elections took place in 2020) and fiscal decentralisation. The present technical cooperation module builds on the results of the previous project "Support for municipal development in Cameroon" and aims at improving access of citizens at local and national level to state services and infrastructure increasingly financed by tax revenues. Until August 2023, the module plans to strengthen the capacities of the partner municipalities in the regions North, Southwest and Littoral through demand-driven and participatory planning, budgeting and implementation of municipal programme budgets, thereby enhancing infrastructure development. It also contributes to tax-financed service provision at local level by supporting municipal revenue management. Furthermore, it engages in bridging the digital devide by fostering smart communities and improving access for the population to digital services.