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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
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
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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
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