As of February 2011, the World Bank portfolio in Cameroon stands at 24 active projects with a total committed amount of US$826.1 million funded by IDA credits, GEF (Global Environment Facility) grants, Special Financing, Large Recipient-Executed Activities and Montreal Protocol Operations. Current active projects in the portfolio are:
National IDA and GEF funded operations: 13 active projects totaling US$447.8 million
Education Development Capacity Building Project (US$18.2 million)
GEF Forest and Environment Program (US$10.0 million)
Forest & Environment Sector Program (US$25.0 million)
Sustainable Agro-Pastoral and Land Management Promotion Project (US$6.0 million)
Urban and Water Development Support (US$108.7 million)
Energy Sector Development Project (US$65.0 million)
Environment and Social Capacity Building Project for the Energy Sector (US$20.0 million)
Health Rector Support Investment Project (US$25.0 million)
Transparency and Accountability Capacity Building Project (US$15.0 million)
Community Development Program Support Project (US$40.0 million)
The objective of the Education Development Capacity Building Project is to: (i) increase the efficiency and equity of primary and secondary education, with a focus on the disadvantaged areas (ZEP); (ii) improve the relevance of secondary and higher education to the needs of the economy and (iii) develop and apply management and learning tools for use by government and communities to improve efficiency and accountability of the Cameroon education sector.
The Forest and Environment Sector Program (FESP) seeks to promote the sustainable management of rainforests and savanna lands, increase local community involvement in and benefits from sustainable management of natural resources, improve the institutional and organizational capacity to implement new policies and regulations for forest management and timber industry development; and to enhance conservation of biodiversity, and supply environmental services of national & global relevance.
The Forest and Environmental Policy Development Program Project represents the International Development association (IDA) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) contribution to a multi-donor national forest and environment sector development program, initiated and led by the Government of Cameroon.
The Sustainable Agro-Pastoral and Land Management Promotion Project seeks to enhance the sustainability of land (SLM), and natural resources management under the Community Development Program, by complementing local and national benefits, with key global benefits, such as conservation of globally significant biodiversity, reduction of carbon emissions by improving land management activities and rehabilitating degraded lands, as well as increasing carbon sequestration.
The Urban and Water Development Support Project objective is to increase access of the urban population, particularly those living in low-income settlements, to basic infrastructure and services, including water supply. To achieve this objective, the project will (i) assist the various stakeholders of urban development in the preparation and implementation of tools and investments designed to increase access to services to as large a number of beneficiaries as possible; and (ii) support and facilitate the implementation of the public-private partnership in the provision of urban water services.
The overall objective of the Energy Sector Development Project (ESDP) is to increase access to modern energy in targeted rural areas and improve the planning and management of sector resources by all energy sector institutions. Through its intervention, the project is expected to contribute to improved reliability of electricity supply.
The objective of the Health Sector Support Investment Project for Cameroon is to increase utilization and improve the quality of health services with a particular focus on child and maternal health and communicable diseases.
The Transparency and Accountability Capacity Building Project ’ s development objective is to contribute (i) to enhance transparency and efficiency in Public Finance Management, and (ii) to strengthen accountability in the use of public resource. The project will play a key role in Cameroon acceleration of the pace toward a more orderly and open PFM and thus more efficient service delivery.
The Community Development Program Support Project II (PAPNDP) is the second phase of the program. Its objective is to assist the Government of Cameroon in setting up and implementing a decentralized financing mechanism to ensure participatory community development in rural areas.
The Agricultural Competitiveness Project aims to increase the competitiveness of eligible producer organizations working on Target value chains. It is expected that the Project would lead to increased value of marketed production through increased productivity, quality, and marketing of productions.
The Competitive Value Chains Project willcontribute to the growth of the wood and tourism value chains in Cameroon by improving their competitiveness and the investment climate. The project will support specialized infrastructure investments, vocational training, policy reforms and direct support to firms through an innovation grant. There are four components to the project. The first component of the project is sustainable wood processing. The objective of this component is to increase, sustainably, the economic value added of the wood value chain in Cameroon (second and third 'stage processing). The project will support a critical mass of interventions in the wood value chain to trigger productive private investments and job creation. Although the project will promote wood products, the net environmental impact should be positive because it will promote the use of certified wood (coming from sustainable forestry exploitations), productive cutting techniques (allowing much more wood to be used from a given tree), secondary species (left abandoned today) and drying techniques (allowing the wood products to have a much longer shelf life). The second component of the project is ecotourism. This component, together with the third component tackling the cross-cutting investment climate issues, aims at addressing a critical mass of the constraints preventing the growth of the tourism industry in Cameroon.
The Education for All-Fast Track Initiative willsupport the Education Project for Cameroon in order to reduce class sizes by recruiting and retaining more teachers in the public education system, as well as deploying them in an equitable manner. The project consists of one component. It will be fully used to support the Government's contract teacher program. It will contribute to the payment of the salaries of 37,200 primary public school contract teachers recruited during FY07, FY08, FY09 and FY10 during: (a) the period from January 2010 through the date which is four months after the effective date, and (b) part of the remainder of the 2010 and 2011 school year. The indicators for this project will be the reduction in pupil-teacher ratios (PTR) and reduction in the variation of PTR across regions.
The West and Central Africa Air Transport Safety and Security project will improve the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization’s safety (ICAO) standards, increase CAA’s compliance with ICAO’s security standards, and enhance main international airports’ compliance with ICAO’s security standards in the countries involved.
The CEMAC Transit-Transport Facilitation Project will contribute to the shared growth objectives of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) countries’ Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, by ensuring that the Customs Union is effectively implemented and by improving trade facilitation in the region. It will also support the broader goal of increasing the regional integration of CEMAC member states by improving i t s core rail and road infrastructure. Furthermore, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has selected CEMAC as one o f the target institutions for Central Africa, and these corridors as the main transport infrastructure to be supported in this sub region.
The Central Africa Backbone will support the countries of the Central African region in developing their high-speed telecommunications backbone infrastructure to increase the availability of high-speed Internet and reduce end-user prices. The CAB Program will also help countries harmonize the laws and regulations that govern the ICT sector to increase private sector investment and improve competition.
The GPOBA W3: Cameroon Water willexpand access to urban water supply in Cameroon through a subsidized household connections program, to be implemented by the international private operator, Office National de l'Eau Potable (ONEP) of Morocco, competitively selected to run the national water utility under a 10-year lease contract in August 2007. The project shall allow for the installation of 55,000 household connections in urban areas countrywide over 4 years, equivalent to a 25 percent increase in the total number of water connections in the country.
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