By Doh Bertrand Nua
Government has launched a 10-year (2020/2030) National Development Strategy that will help steer the country toward its 2025 emergence vision.
MINEPAT Boss, Alamine Ousmane Mey
The strategy was presented to the public Monday 16 November 2020 at the Hilton during a ceremony that was chaired by the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, MINEPAT.
Minister Alamine Ousmane Mey told his hearers comprising cabinet ministers, the Resident Coordinator of UN System in Cameroon, some members of the diplomatic corps, technical and financial partners from the public and private sector as well as members of the civil society, that the strategy will serve as a new reference framework for all development actions which will bring about changes in key growth sectors and contribute to the structural transformation of the economy.
“We have to test our foundation and build stronger structure to get fast towards emerging country. We cannot talk about development in a country if human capital is not properly trained, properly taken care of in terms of health, properly inserted in the economy. The third is pillar is dealing with promotion of jobs and social insertion of our youth,” explained Ousmane Mey after launching the strategy.
“Based on our lessons and based on our commitment of the entire nation, we will be able to readjust and chat a new path towards becoming an emerging country in 2035,” he added.
The revise version of the strategy paper for growth and employment for the next ten years is the second phase of Cameroon’s emergence drive inscribe in 2035 vision.
Key stakeholders urged government to learn from the difficulties faced in the other plans and to ensure perfect implementation of the plan.
Government’s development policies dates back to the 1960s with the 5-year economic and development growth plan to 10-year strategic papers with emphases shifted from the structural and economic empowerment of specific regions to development of human capital and good governance that impacts the lives of all.
About six 5-year development plans have been implemented between 1960-1991. The 1960-65 and the 1966-71 plan was drawn for the 6 economic regions under the federal setting.
The 1971-76 plan focused on fostering the maintenance of equilibrium between the different economic and administrative regions while the 1986-91 plan waa drawn to challenge the global economic crisis which forced government to adopt the structural economic program on 1 July 1997 with view of bringing the economy into a sustainable path of growth.
Government in 2003 adopted it first poverty reduction strategy paper to define the overall framework for development policies and later gave birth to the new growth and employment strategy paper which was inspired by the rise in cost of living at the domestic, and international financial and global food and energy crisis.
All the moves gears towards the 2035 vision of making Cameroon an emerging and industrialise country with consolidated democracy and unity in respect of its diversity.
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