Projects and Programs

As of September, 2009, the World Bank portfolio for Cameroon comprised 20 active projects with a commitment value of US$ 659.5 million and is divided as follows:

(Note: Please see below for a description of each IDA & GEF project  as well as a breakdown  of the figures.)

IDA, GEF, Regional operations and Trust Funds ( 20 active projects (US$ 659.5 million)

IDA & GEF (13 projects (US$ 440.6)

• Agricultural Competitiveness Project (US$ 60 million)
• Energy Sector Development Project (US $ 65 million)
• Environment and Social Capacity Building Project for the Energy Sector (US $ 20 million)
• Health Sector Support Investment Project (US $ 25 million)
• Transparency and Accountability Capacity Building Project (US $ 15 million)
• Community Development Program Support Project  II (US$40 million)
• Education Development Capacity Building Project (US$18.2 million)
• Railway Concession Project (US$21.4 million)
• Douala Infrastructure Project (US$56.4 million)
• Urban and Water Development Support (US$80 million)
• Forest & Environment Sector Program (US$25 million, IDA)
• Forest & Environment Development Program (US$10 million, GEF)
• Sustainable Agro-Pastoral & Land Management Promotion (US$6 million, GEF)

IDA Regional operations: 3 projects (US$ 211.5 million)

• West & Central Africa Air Transport Project ($US 14.50)
• CEMAC - Transport-Transit Facilitation Project ($US 146.88)
• CEMAC Regional Institutions Support Project (US$ 50.0)

Trust Funds: 4 projects (US $ 7.4 million)

• Cities Alliance-Douala Development Strategy (US $ 0.5 million)
• GPOBA W3- Camwater (US $ 5.3 million)
• CM-Avian Flu (US$ 1.3 million)
• IDF Grant for Mineral Sector (US$ 0.5 million)

Project Descriptions

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 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 development objective of the Environmental and Social Capacity Building for the Energy Sector Project for Cameroon is to improve the management of and the accountability for environmental and social issues related to large infrastructure investments, with an initial focus on the energy sector.

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 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 regional institutions support project aims to strengthen Central African regional institutions so that they can fulfill their mandates to encourage an expanded, better governed regional market, and a more transparent, better regulated and more competitive financial system.

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 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 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 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); and (ii) improve the relevance of secondary and higher education to the needs of the economy.   

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 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 Douala Infrastructure Project  aims at improving the efficiency of the city's transport system, connecting this sub-regional port city to its local, and national areas, by implementing an urgent program of rehabilitation of the primary roads connecting it to industrial areas, as well as strengthening the capacity of urban road management, and maintenance.   

The Railway Concession Project  intends to improve Cameroon's transport sector sustainability, through the private operation of the railway sector, thus eliminating the burden on public finance for provision of railway services.   

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.

Breakdowns

The amount of these twenty projects is approximately US$ 659.5 million. Please see the table below for a breakdown: 

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