The achievements of Germany in Cameroon are not sufficiently known to the general public. The observation is from Valentin Katzer, the head of cooperation of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cameroon. In order to give a little more visibility to German-Cameroonian cooperation, a capacity building workshop for journalists was organized on May 23. From these exchanges, we will learn that Germany’s portfolio in Cameroon weighs 260 billion CFA francs. Through its three agencies which are the KFW, the GIZ and the BGR, this country deploys mainly on four poles namely rural development; health, social protection and demographic policy; sustainable management of natural resources and governance, decentralization, peace and social cohesion.
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In the rural development pole, several projects are currently being implemented. These include support for changes in the Cameroon Cotton Basin – Rural Development Support Project approximately 19.4 billion CFA francs -, the Agro-Business-Facility for Africa – 589 million CFA francs – and the Strengthening Advisory Capacities for Land governance in Africa-720 million Fcfa, led by GIZ. In the same pole, the KFW manages rural financing to the tune of about 6 billion CFA francs and the project on rural infrastructure – about 9 billion CFA francs-, among others.
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As for BGR, it leads projects on soil information for sustainable land use in Cameroon and the development of scenarios and modeling of soil and water resources under the effect of climate change in Cameroon, which are funded by the government. German respectively up to about 2 billion CFA francs and 1.9 billion CFA francs. The governance, decentralization, peace and social cohesion pole is led by GIZ and KFW. The first agency mentioned above manages a dozen projects of this pole, including that of the promotion of the economic and social participation of internally displaced persons and host communities, which weighs approximately 4 billion CFA francs.
For its part, KFW has five projects in this component, including the support program for refugees, internally displaced persons and host populations. The projects included in the sustainable management of natural resources and health, social protection and demographic policy poles are also managed by GIZ and KFW. With regard to the first pole mentioned above, the GIZ acts in the Forest, environment and climate project with funding of just over 8 billion CFA francs.
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The KFW, for its part, implements support projects for the Forest and Environment Sector Program (PSFE) Common Fund and the Sustainable Resource Management Program in Cameroon, each executed in several phases. Note that the GIZ in Cameroon weighs more than 47 billion CFA francs. BGR and KFW have budgets of just over 4.3 and 27.5 billion CFA francs respectively.
