The mid-term review of phase 3 of the National Participatory Development Programme (PNDP) showed a brilliant overall assessment.
Seeing a development programme arrive in the final phase demonstrates the general satisfaction of the stakeholders (Government, technical and financial partners, and of course the beneficiaries). Since 2004, the PNDP, which works to improve the living conditions of the population at the grassroots level, has been supporting the 360 municipalities in Cameroon. Thanks to its tool for monitoring and planning at the communal level, which is no longer presented, the Communal Development Plan (PCD), more than 6,000 microprojects have been financed in fields as varied as education, hydraulics, health, market equipment, agriculture, livestock, natural resource management, etc.
Co-financed projects throughout the country report results (not updated) that show that 314,700 people have access to water through the creation or rehabilitation of more than 467 water points; 250,000 people have access to electricity through the electrification of more than 50 localities. 166,000 students are studying under better conditions thanks to the construction of more than 274 classrooms; 95,000 people have access to health facilities thanks to the construction and equipment of 32 integrated health centres; 125,000 people have been opened up and distributed in 100 villages thanks to the development of 160 km of rural tracks and 80 crossing structures (bridges, culverts, culverts).
Other specific operations such as the Medicinal Plant Management Project have trained more than 900 people in techniques for inventorying and sustainable management of medicinal plants. The Sustainable Land Management and Agro-Sylvo-Pastoral Systems (SLMP) Project has implemented nearly 293 microprojects to reverse land degradation in 20 communes in the northern, Adamaoua, central and western regions. The High Intensity Manpower Project (HIMO) is being implemented in the Far North and is helping to settle thousands of young people by giving them the means for socio-economic development and integration; etc.
In view of this non-exhaustive deployment of the PNDP's achievements thanks to the support of the State and donors such as the C2D, it must be recognized that "the PNDP is a real laboratory, which generates principles that are gradually taking root in public, local and national policies" as Marie Madeleine NGA, National Coordinator of the Programme, proudly says.
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