For the second time since 2014, the Douala International Airport, located

in the Cameroon economic Capital city will be closed for renovation. From the 1st to the 21st of March 2016, the Douala International Airport, responsi-ble for 72% of the International air traf-fic, will be closed for rehabilitation and modernization of its infrastructure, financed by a financial aid granted to the Government by the French

Development Agency (AFD).On this occasion, the traffic will be diverted to Yaounde-Nsimalen Interna-tional Airport which will see its traffic go from simple to triple. This closure will cause an overload of activities either at the airport platform or on rails and road segment that will allow the transfer of passenger and cargo between the 2 main cities of the country. Another direct consequences is the direct cost encoun-

tered by passengers obliged to pay their transport from Yaounde to Douala and Douala to Yaounde. Arrangements and additionals measures must be taken in terms of security, safety of air navigation and road traffic, especially to ensure that passengers forced to land in Yaounde can reach Douala by rail or road in better conditions.

Julienne S. Nouetchognou

Closure of the Douala International Airport

Director of Nkafu Policy InstituteYaounde, Cameroon – February, 2016 The Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation is pleased to announce that Patience Ombick has joined the Foundation as the Director of Policy and Strategy, effective February 2016. In this capacity she is the Director of the Nkafu Policy Institute, a leading Cameroonian think tank at the foundation. She works with the Country Director to craft the foundation’s short and long term strategy.

Welcome Patience!

Announcement

En prélude à un des projets qu’elle entend mettre en oeuvre au courant

de l’année, la Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation a organisé le 04 février dernier, sous le patronage du MINH-DU, une conférence débat sur le thème “Développement urbain au Cameroun : quelles synergies entre les collectivi-tés territoriales décentralisées et les organisations de la société civile ?”.

Cet évènement a eu lieu dans la salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Cameroun et a réunit un ensemble d’acteurs impliqués dans les domaines du développement urbain, de la dé-centralisation, de l’appui à la société civile, du développement local et par-

ticipatif au Cameroun afin de dégager des réflexions pertinentes autour de cette thématique centrale. Celle-ci a été abordée sous plusieurs angles notamment :

1. Cadres institutionnels et mode de coopération entre les CTD et les OSCs à la satisfaction des besoins sociaux, en-vironnementaux et infrastructurels des populations urbaines au Cameroun.

2. Avantages et inconvénients du re-cours aux OSCs dans la mise en place des politiques et des projets de dével-oppement urbain.

3. Exemple de coopération entre ces

acteurs sur un projet de développe-ment urbain: quel bilan ?

4. Comment renforcer les synergies entre CTD et OSCs pour le développe-ment urbain au Cameroun?

Grâce à un panel d’experts venus du MINHDU, PADDL-GIZ, CIPRE, ASSOAL, Programme de Gouvernance Urbaine et un parterre composé de nombreux participants, la conférence a été un riche moment d’échanges permettant d’analyser l’état des lieux de la coopé-ration qui existe entre les CTD et les OSCs, les actions déjà entreprises par les parties prenantes et leur mode de coopération, les difficultés rencontrées

La visite du Fondateur de la Fondation Foretia: on ne pouvait espérer plus beau cadeau pour le nouvel an.

Conférence sur le Développement Urbain

Le programme HEALTH INITIATIVE L’amélioration des politiques publiques de santé est une condition de développement durable, un défi de l’heure pour l’Afrique et une préoccupation avérée de la Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation. Au travers de ce programme, nous mettons en œuvre des projets allant dans le sens de l’amélioration de l’accès des populations aux services de santé essentiels, du renforcement des capacités du personnel de santé, de l’amélioration des infrastructures de santé, de l’essor d’une véritable politique d’assurance maladie, entre autres. Aussi, les questions liées à la sé-curité alimentaire et à la lutte contre la mortalité infantile n’échappent pas à notre regard stratégique.

et les perspectives de renforcement de ces synergies en vue d’un meilleur développement urbain au Cameroun. En effet, il est à retenir que les dis-positions de la loi N°2004/017 du 22 Juillet 2004 fixent les règles applicables en matière de la décentralisation et établissent en même temps les bases d’une collaboration CTD-OSCs dans le processus de développement urbain. Autour de ces acteurs, se trouve en ef-fet un potentiel énorme en termes de synergie d’actions pour la satisfaction

des besoins des populations urbaines et l’atteinte des objectifs de développe-ment urbain au Cameroun. Cependant, bien qu’il existe des cas de bonnes pra-tiques, cette collaboration CTD-OSC achoppe encore sur de nombreuses difficultés d’où l’importance d’un pro-jet visant à renforcer la gouvernance participative dans le domaine du dével-oppement urbain et à contribuer à une gestion multipartite des problèmes et des projets de développement dans ce domaine. Plusieurs recommandations

ont été faites dans ce sens, ce qui a ainsi ouvert des perspectives pour une plus grande implication de la Fonda-tion dans ce domaine dont la maîtrise est l’un des objectifs de la vision à long terme du développement du Cameroun.

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Annette Mogoum

Introduction

The International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated every 8th of

March and in Cameroon precisely, an IWD week is launched and activi-ties such as round table conferences, sporting activities and campfire usually characterize the activities of the week. On the 8th, women are dressed in the women’s day fabric and participate in parades in the presence of the First Lady (in Yaoundé), and other govern-ment authorities (in other regions). This day is set aside to reflect on pro-gress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determi-nation by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the his-tory of their countries and communi-ties. The 31st edition of this year’s ce lebrat ion is under the theme, “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality”. Under this theme, the world strives to have a planet

Round Table Conference at the Yaounde Regional Delegation of Women’s Empowerment and the Family in commemoration of the International Women’s Day

The International Women’s Day

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where men and women have equal rights and participation in political, economic and social arenas in the development of their community, country and world at large. The 2030 Agenda comprising 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which took over Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that ended in 2015 further saw the need for achieving a Planet 50-50 by 2030; from MDG 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women with target: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 to SDG 5: Gender Equality with two targets:

- End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls every-where. - Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.Empowering women and promoting gender equality is crucial to accelerating sustainable development. Ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls is not only a basic human right, but it also has a multiplier effect across all other development areas.

Report in details

The one day Round Table Conference which started at 11:48am at the con-ference hall of the Yaoundé Regional Delegation of Women’s Empowerment and the Family (MINPROF) was under a subtheme, “Egalite des sexes et au-tonomisation des femmes: Gagner le

Pari.”Among the government authori-ties present during the Round Table were the Representat ive of the Re g i o n a l D e l e gate o f Wo m e n ’s Empowerment and the Family for the Centre Region (DRPROF), Representa-tive of the Governor of Centre region and other dignitaries. The event started with a run-down of the activities for the day, followed by the singing of the National Anthem in the French language. The Repre-sentative of DRPROF gave an opening speech where he acknowledged the importance of women in the society as contributors to sustainable devel-opment through their participation in economy, health and other domains in-volve in development of the nation. He rounded up by saying that the govern-ment is behind the women in achieving gender equality.Immediately after the opening speech, the floor was given to the Representa-tive of United Nations International Children’s Educational Fund (UNICEF), who explained the pertinent role of a woman in the vaccination of her baby. The representative clearly elaborated the difference between routine vac-cination and vaccination during cam-paigns and urged the women to take the lead to vaccinate their babies and also to explain to their spouses the need to vaccinate in case of husband refusal. This is because the husbands generally turn to be the author of re-fusal. Refusal to vaccination may arise due to improper information, miscon-ceptions about vaccines and adverse effects after vaccination. In either of these cases, women are called upon to

play their role effectively. To further emphasize on the role of the women in the development of the country, the Representative of the Governor for the Centre Region ex-plained that equality does not mean biological equality, but equal rights and opportunity to contribute to the economic, social and all the activities of development.Going to the core issue of the day which was presentation of female lo-cal organizations and the activities to achieve gender equality, a total of about 15 organizations presented their organizations and what they do to bridge the gap between men and women in sustainable development.

Conclusion

Women have a right to equality in all areas. It must be embedded across le-gal systems, upheld in both laws and legal practices, including proactive measures. Since all areas of life relate to gender equality, efforts must be made to cut the roots of gender dis-crimination wherever they appear.

Kareen Atekem

The Nkafu Policy Institute, a Cam-eroonian Think Tank at the Denis &

Lenora Foretia Foundation is organiz-ing a one-day Forum on Cameroon’s In-dustrialiation on the 21st of April, 2016 at the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Mines in Yaounde. This special fo-rum will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss the indus-trialization process in Cameroon with

the hope of seeking concrete ways of accelerating the country’s economic transformation.Discussion sessions will focus on En-ergy, Infrastructure, Telecommuni-cations, Agriculture & Agribusiness, Manufacturing as well as International Trade.The General theme is ‘ what industrial-ization for a sustainable and emergent

development of Cameroon’s economy to the horizon in 2035’. The symposium will run from 8AM to 5:30PM.About 200 participants from civil soci-ety, Government, Universities, diplo-matic corpse, international organiza-tions, actors of the private sector as well as managers of financial struc-tures are excpected.

Forum on Cameroon’s Idustrialization

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Article

Le système bancaire de la CEMAC connaît un excès de li-quidité qui contraste avec la situation de sous-dévelop-

pement dans laquelle se trouve l’ensemble de ses pays membres . Ces derniers sont dotés pour la plupart de sec-teurs productifs attrayant (sous-sol riche en matières pre-mières exploitables, biomasse importante,…) et des PME qui manquent fréquemment de financement pour leur épa-nouissement, ce qui ne permet pas d’asseoir un cadre de vie meilleur pour les agents économiques. Ce paradoxe dans la disponibilité des liquidités pourrait justifier à suffisance les résultats médiocres enregistrés en terme de croissance économique de ces derniers par rapport aux autres pays du Tiers monde (Rapports Annuels de la Zone franc, 2002, 2003, 2004).Pourtant, la mobilisation de l’épargne nationale et internationale pourrait constituer une solution. La poli-tique monétaire de la Banque des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale (BEAC) met d’ailleurs un accent sur le financement par les établissements bancaires des économies de la sous-région en agissant sur le taux directeur de refinancement de ces derniers ou sur le taux de réescompte. Malheureusement,

ceux-ci préfèrent inéluctablement préserver leur capacité de financement plutôt que de prêter une partie de l’épargne collectée auprès des entreprises, lésant ainsi ces dernières. Il en résulte une situation de surliquidité qui se traduit par l’augmentation de leur dépôt auprès de la Banque centrale.

La surliquidité des banques en zone CEMAC

De fortes réserves monétaires ont été enregistrées dans la plupart des comptes bancaires des pays de la zone à la fa-veur d’efforts consentis par les autorités internationales et nationales en vue d’assainir l’environnement économique et bancaire en zone CEMAC. Ce qui a contribué à amélio-rer le taux de bancarisation au sein des Etats malgré son niveau jugé toujours bas. Ceci n’a pas pour autant rendu les banques moins méfiantes. En effet, ces dernières rationnent le crédit et s’intéressent beaucoup plus aux opérations de gestion bancaire (carte magnétique, opération via internet, …) qui semblent être plus rentables que le crédit. Elles per-çoivent donc l’épargne des clients mais ne prêtent que très peu. L’ex. Directeur Général de la Standard Bank Cameroon, Monsieur Mandeng Matthieu affirmait d’ailleurs que les banques cacheraient volontairement des informations liées au crédit...

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Le sous-financement de l’Economie en Afrique Centrale : le paradoxe de la surliquidité bancaire

Nanko Nguepdjio Cyrille,Economic Policy Analyst at the Nkafu Policy Institute, a Cameroonian think-tank at the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation in Yaoundé,

The Nkafu Policy Institute is a Cameroonian Think-Tank at the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation which pro-vides independent, in-depth and insightful policy recommendations that advance the Cameroonian economy and the economies of other sub-Saharan countries. Its reputation is founded on its independence, high quality research and innovative policy prescriptions. Its mission is to advance public policies that help all Africans pros-per in strong, fair, and sustainable economies.

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Article

Accidental exposure to blood and body fluids is a public health con-

cern, especially among health workers and constitutes a risk of transmission of blood-borne viruses including HIV, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus. The objective of this study was to de-termine the frequency and the post exposure management of acciden-tal exposures to blood and body fluid among health workers in the Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital.

Methods

It was a cross-sectional hospital-based study conducted from the 1st to the 30th of September 2013. Self-ad-ministered questionnaires to health workers were used to collect data on self-reported accidents, circumstances and post-exposure management. Their knowledge on accidental exposure to blood was also assessed. Data were

entered and analyzed using Epi Info software version 3.5.4. Descriptive analysis was performed to measure the importance of AEB and to evaluate the risk of contamination.

Results

One hundred and fifty health workers were interviewed among which 36.7 % reported having been exposed to blood and body fluid at least once in the pre-ceding 3 months. Splash was the most reported injury (in 60.3 % of cases), fol-lowed by needle stick (28.7 %) and cuts (10.9 %). Moreover, 43.6 % of victims were not vaccinated against HBV, 7.3 % were not wearing gloves during the accident and 41 % of splash occurs on injured skin. The majority of victims be-long to the surgical Department [20 %, p = 0.2310]. None of these injuries had been reported in the registry of accidental exposure to blood.

Conclusions

There is a high rate of accidental expo-sure to blood and body fluid in the daily hospital routine. Preventives measures, including wearing of protective equip-ment’s during care and vaccination against HBV are not systematically done among health workers. Health institution should develop and provide standard operat ing procedures target ing surveillance of occupational risks, staff training, and supervision.

Keywords

Accidental exposure Health workers Blood and body fluids Cameroon Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital ...

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Accidental exposures to blood and body fluids among health care workers in a Referral Hospital of Cameroon