Vision 2035 Phase II: Scientific Community Proffers Proposals

Government is consulting with the country’s academia as it prepares the second phase of Cameroon Vision 2035; the country’s blueprint for economic emergence. A three day participatory workshop to this effect is holding at the Yaounde Conference Center.

Speaking at the opening, Tuesday August 6, 2019, the Minister Delegate in the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development in charge of Planning, Paul Tasong, said the government decided to adopt a ‘planning without exclusion’ approach in the drawing up the second phase of Vision 2035. Making allusion to western countries which turned to their academia for transformative ideas after the Second World War, the Minister Delegate noted that government could not be indifferent at this crucial stage of the drive towards emergence. It is the first-time government is consulting university dons as a community in the planning of Vision 2035.

“We have been to the regions where we consulted the population through their different representatives. We have also consulted the two Houses of Parliament, the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedom and the private sector. Today, we are rounding up this approach by consulting the wealth of knowledge. We want to get their feel and also want them to take part in designing the future of Cameroo...