Regional Development:Government Validates Reconstruction Plan

 The Far North, North, Adamawa and East Regions will benefit from special investments worth FCFA 2,700 billion contained in the Recovery and Peace Consolidation (RCP) strategy.
 

ARecovery and Peace Consolidation (RCP) strategy in favour of the Far North, North, Adamawa and East Regions has been validated. The regional development plan was adopted in Yaounde, Thursday November 9, 2017, during the third committee meeting for the validation of the RCP.
According to experts, recent crises in Cameroon, whose causes are exogenous, have exacerbated pre-existing and structural development weaknesses in the beneficiary areas, affecting some 9.1 million people. The crises have increased the risk of instability also in the rest of the country, aggravating vulnerability of the people to food insecurity, malnutrition and epidemics.
It is against this backdrop that the government, in partnership with the European Union, the United Nations and the World Bank Group, jerked into putting in place the RCP strategy to reverse the tide. The RCP, which comes as an effective response to reducing socio-economic marginalisation that the concerned regions have suffered for a long time, will run from 2018 to 2022 and will cost some FCFA 2,700 billion.
We learned the RCP strategy will put in place investments to up-grade transport, electricity, information and communication technology network infrastructures. It will support private sector and financial inclusion, relaunch and develop cross-border...