MISSIONS OF GOVERNMENT

Agro-Pastoral sector

• Implement an ambitious agricultural policy by developing our traditional productions;
• Develop a new strategy to revive to our animal industries, fisheries and livestock;
• Provide our farmers with new opportunities, including participation in the reconversion of the plantain sector, exploitation of marshland for off-season products.

Economic sector

• Complete our investment charter to make it attractive;
• Design a large-scale industrial policy;
• Strictly execute the investment budget;
• Finalise the privatisation programme;
• Actively participate in new forms of economic cooperation developed through globalization (NEPAD,  TICAD);
• Promote the transformation of our raw materials;
• Seek funding to complete road projects that have been started;
• Seek funding for the construction of the second bridge over the Wouri river;
• Systematize public-private collaboration in a bid to achieve a win-win partnership.

Education and training sector

• Submit report on studies with a view to creating new university institutes;
• Boosting research to ensure that its findings are applied to development;
• Conclude the reflection on the revaluation of teachers' condition;
• Finalize the recruitment of part-time teachers;
• Intensify on-going actions to ensure equal opportunities and access into the professional world;
• Raise the level of education of the majority of our people;

Diplomacy

• Defend our national sovereignty relentlessly through a policy of peace and good-neighbourliness;
• Develop all forms of bilateral and multilateral cooperation with our foreign partners;
• Fight for the strengthening of the sub-regional cooperation;
• Strengthen the peace camp within the community of nations;
• Support the action of international organisations, namely the African Union and the United Nations.

Health sector

• Create new health centres;
• Increase prevention campaigns of certain pandemics and pursue the reduction of healthcare cost;
• Launch new vaccination campaigns;
• Prepare the whole population to face the risk of disease;
• Modernize hospitals;
• Recruit new health personnel;
• Strengthen the fight against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

Security sector

• Combat terrorism and eradicate all forms of insecurity;
• Defend our territorial integrity relentlessly;
• Ensure the modernization of our armed forces.

Finance sector

• Make the Douala stock exchange the first money market in the sub-region;
• Continue the improvement of public finance;
• Reorientate the relations with international financial institutions and cross the completion point of the HIPC initiative;
• Recapitalize the Postal Savings Bank;
• Ensure the progressive payment of domestic debt;
• Ensure the effective use of HIPC funds and review the methods they are raised;
• Ensure the regular payment of salaries and pensions.

Basic infrastructure sector

• Complete the rehabilitation of the Wouri bridge;
• Complete public projects that have been started;
• Construct the second bridge over the Wouri river;
• Facilitate access to water and electricity to the majority;
• Implement short-term measures to put an end to power outages permanently;
• Implement medium and long-term actions to develop our power infrastructure;
• Implement an energy programme to suit our current needs on the basis of our hydroelectric and natural gas potential;
• Continue the construction of basic infrastructure such as roads, bridges, etc.
• Frist session of the National Road Board.

Sports, culture and communication sector

• Create conditions for a rapid development of New Information and Communication Technologies;
• Define a sports policy that is up to standard with the notoriety of our country;
• Develop our cultural industries (music, cinema, theater, dancing, editing, fashion);
• Make radio and television information accessible to the largest part of the country.

Tourism sector

• Provide new impetus to our tourism.

Institutional sector

• Accelerate the implementation of decentralization;
• Complete the establishment of the Audit Chamber to combat corruption;
• Set up and structure the Services of the Mediator of the Republic;
• Put in place the Constitutional Council;
• Establish the  Senate;
• Pursue the implementation of the good governance programme;
• Rigorously identify the electorate;
• Reform public administration so that it should be closer to citizens and guarantor of general interest.

Social sector

• Improve the purchasing power of the underprivileged;
• Ensure that women are better represented in our institutions and administration;
• Draft a three-year national investment programme;
• Make effective the social housing programme;
• Introduce the granting of aid by Government to SME/SMIs
• Fight against unemployment with emphasis on women and youth through the establishment of a national action plan for youth employment;
• Continue efforts to improve women’s conditions.