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NAME: TAMBI HARRISON NCHOW
BATCH: IN-SERVICE TRAINING 4TH BATCH 2025
PROGRAM: BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT
PROJECT: ASSIGNMENT
COURSE: DECENTRALIZATION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
DATE: Feb 2025
QUESTION:
PROPUSE 5 SOLUTIONS TO MANAGE THE PROBLEMS OF LOCAL COUNCILS IN
CAMEROON.
SOME 5 SOLUTIONS TO MANAGE THE PROBLEMS OF LOCAL COUNCILS IN
CAMEROON.
1. Effective communication, this is important to manage the problem of internal conflicts
between council workers, when effective communication is in place these issues will be
resolve
2. Trained and qualify personnels. The effectiveness or an organization depends on the
quality of trained workers, untrain workers will eventually be in efficient. When trained
and qualified workers are employed at the local councils, such councils will experience
growth, effectiveness and high productivity.
3. Strategic positioning of workers. It one thing to employ trained workers, it’s another
thing to position them rightfully. For example, a worker is well trained to manage finance
is good and efficient in that area but he/she is inefficient in the management of technical
tools because he/she is not a technician. Trained workers should be position at their areas
of expertise this will solve the problem of inefficiency.
4. Innovative and income generating activities. Local councils are located in areas of
natural resources yet most of these councils lack the finances. Activities such as renting
out plots of council land to the local population to cultivate could bring in income to the
council, reserving a forest for council exploitation (timber exploitation, eru, sand etc.)
could also generate income for the council.
5. Adequate sensitization of the local population. Most of the people situated at areas
covering by some local councils don’t know their rights and their duties as citizens of
such locality. Some of the do not even have the knowledge of some services which are
available for them at the local council office. Most of them are not aware of the
relationship that is supposed to exit between them and their local council, especially in
the area of local transportation and businesses. When the mayor and his workers enforce
sensitization, it will help to reduce the conflict between the councils and the local
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NAME: TAMBI HARRISON NCHOW
BATCH: IN-SERVICE TRAINING 4TH BATCH 2025
PROGRAM: BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT
PROJECT: ASSIGNMENT
COURSE: DECENTRALIZATION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
DATE: Feb 2025
QUESTIONS
LIST SOME CITY COUNCILS AND SUB-DIVISIONAL COUNCILS IN CAMEROON
SOME CITY COUNCILS AND SUBDIVISIONAL COUNCILS IN CAMEROON.
A. CITY COUNCILS
Buea council
Limbe ii council
Bamenda city council
Kumba council
Belo council
Bertoua council
Ngaoundere council
Maroua council
Edea council
Ngongsamba council
Garoua council
Bafoussam council
Ebelowa council
Kribi council
Douala council
Yaounde council
Ngoundere council
Akonolinga council
B. SUB-DIVISIONAL COUNCILS
Eyehook council
Tinto council
Akwaya council
Konye council
Nguti council
Batibo council
Idenua council
Tiko council
Moyuka council
Mosaje council
Mbonge council -
NAME: TAMBI HARRISON NCHOW
BATCH: IN-SERVICE TRAINING 4TH BATCH 2025
PROGRAM: BUDGETARY, FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT
PROJECT: ASSIGNMENT
COURSE: DECENTRALIZATION AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
DATE: Feb 2025
QUESTIONS
1. Who are the stakeholders of decentralization?
2. What are the objectives or goals that the decentralization team in Cameroon want to achieve?
3. What do you think are the winds that can push the decentralization boat forward?
4. What do you think are the weaknesses or anchor of the decentralization policy in Cameroon?
5. What are the obstacles that the decentralization boat must avoid in order to achieve its
objectives(paradise).
ANSWERS
Decentralization is the process of devolution of powers from the central government to the local
authorities to manage and control the affairs of their divisions, cities and sub-divisions.
The ministry of territorial administration has been charged with the task of decentralization. This task
can be best accomplished only through the implementation of the following three (3) components
– Deconcentration
– Devolution and
– Democracy.
In response to the above assignment
1. The stakeholders of the process of decentralization in Cameroon are:
The state
Local authorities
Civil society
Development cooperation agencies. All these actors have to exercise complementary roles for a
successful decentralization process in Cameroon.
2. As objectives, the decentralization process aims at improving services, increasing accountability,
enhancing local development and meeting the local need of the people.
3. To change a nation, you have to first of all change the mind. The first and most important
agency or wind of decentralization is the transformation of the mind of the citizens of dear
nation Cameroon. There are bad and good citizens, if the bad citizens can be converted to good
citizens by the power of mind transformation, then I think the process of decentralization will
have it smooth way in Cameroon.
4. The decentralization process in Cameroon is facing setbacks due the following reasons.
a) Limited resources
b) Weak institutional capacity
c) Inadequate mechanisms of accounting and accountability
d) Limited or slow availability of information.
5. Fragmented initiatives are one of the obstacles of decentralization, at the peak of the process,
certain initiatives may be fragmented, this act as an obstacle to the attainment of the objectives.
The issue of weak administrative and technical capacities is another factor that limit the
achievement the objectives of decentralization in Cameroon.
The fear of poor management of financial resources and or lack of it to perform new local
responsibilities may hinder the attainment of the objectives of the process of decentralization in
Cameroon.
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