Priority areas in Cameroon

GTZ has been operating in Cameroon for 30 years. It has aligned its technical cooperation activities with the priorities of the Cameroonian Government, focusing especially on the following areas:

• Decentralisation

• Natural Ressources

• Health

Work in these priority areas was restructured in 2002 by consolidating numerous individual measures into three major programmes. The aim was to accelerate the achievement of the goals contained in the priority strategy papers. In the health field, the cooperation project Health/HIV/AIDS was continued. Two new elements were added: a decentralisation and local development support programme and a programme for sustainable natural resource management. By consolidating the measures of all German organisations operating in Cameroon, we are now providing “joined-up” Development Cooperation.

In the health field, this has led to a joint financial and technical cooperation project that in future will also be supported by the German Development Service (DED) and InWEnt. Technical cooperation projects are implemented in the priority areas “Sustainable use of natural resources” and “Decentralisation, participatory development and governance”. Joint approaches with DED, InWEnt and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation have also been agreed and implemented.