Decentralisation : President Biya Empowers National Board

The President of the Republic, Paul Biya  has empowered the National Decentralisation Board  in decree No. 2020/676 of 03 November 2020 to lay down the organisation and functioning of the board. 
The decree that comes to repeal all provisions of decree No. 2008/013 of 17 January 2008 to lay down  the organisation and functioning of the National Decentralisation Board has more details and precisions. The President of the Republic has signed the decree within the context of the complete putting in place of all the institutions enshrined in the 1996 Constitution with regard to the decentralisation process. The election of Regional Councillors on December 6, 2020 will come to complete the institutions and the new decree takes into account the regions.
Responsibilities of the Board
The decree of November 3, 2020 maintains that the Board shall be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the decentralisation process. It also maintains that in that capacity, it shall submit to the President of the Republic an annual report on the status of decentralisation and the functioning of local services and also issue an opinion  and make recommendations on the annual programme of transfer of authority and resources to Regional and Local Authorities as well as the terms and conditions of such transfers.  The new responsibilities contained in the November 3,  2020 decree include those in which the Board shall propose to the President of the Republic strategic guidelines for steering the decentralisation process ; issue an opinion, at the behest of the government, on draft instruments relating to the implementation of decentralisation ; and issue an opinion on the share of State resources  allocated to the Common Decentralisation Fund. The Board also has the capacity to define the methods of evaluating the decentralisation process and follow up the activities of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Local Services, Inter-Ministerial Committee on Decentralised Cooperation and the National Committee on Local Finance from which it shall receive reports.
Organisation
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