Community Development Program Support Project-Phase III

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The development objective of the Third Phase of the Community Development Program Support Project for Cameroon is to strengthen local public finance management and participatory development processes in communes for the delivery of quality and sustainable social and economic infrastructure. The project comprises of three components. The first component, local development support will ensure equity, the project authorities will allocate funds to communes annually, using criteria agreed upon beforehand and only investments not supported by other projects and programs will be eligible for project financing. It consists of following two sub-components: (i) local development investments for communes; and (ii) targeted investments for the poorest and vulnerable populations in the Adamaoua, North, far north and eastern regions. The second component, support to the decentralization process will seek to facilitate the sustainability of the programme national de développement participatif (national community development program) (PNDP's) benefits and strengthen the capacity of institutions that support the decentralization process. It consists of following three sub-components: (i) institutional support to the decentralization process; (ii) capacity building; and (iii) local public financial management system. The third component, project coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation, and communication will finance project coordination, administrative, technical, and financial management of the project, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and communication and dissemination activities.