Country Partnership Framework for the Republic of Cameroon for the Period FY17-FY21
This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) covers the period FY17-FY21. It sets outthe World Bank Group’s (WBG) proposals for supporting the Government of Cameroon’s (GoC) objectives for inclusive growth and poverty reduction, its commitment to the S...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/480711490925662402/Cameroon-Country-partnership-framework-for-the-period-FY17-FY21 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26374 |
| Summary: | This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
covers the period FY17-FY21. It sets outthe World Bank
Group’s (WBG) proposals for supporting the Government of
Cameroon’s (GoC) objectives for inclusive growth and poverty
reduction, its commitment to the SustainableDevelopment
Goals (SDGs) and its responsibilities and priorities in the
area of climate changemitigation and adaptation. The GoC’s
long-term vision, ‘Cameroon Vision 2035’, is of ‘an
emerging, democratic and united country in diversity’. To
operationalize this Vision, the Government adopted a Growth
and Employment Strategy (‘DSCE’, ‘Document de Stratégie pour
la Croissance et l’Emploi’) in 2009 and defined specific
objectives to be achieved by 2020. The GoC has further
adopted the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development. It also endorsed the Paris Agreement under the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and
published Cameroon’s Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDC) setting out its contribution to climate change
mitigation and priorities for adaptation. The CPF draws on a
comprehensive Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD, report
103098-CM), completed duringFY16, which identified
constraints to achieving the World Bank’s Twin Goals of
eliminatingpoverty and fostering shared prosperity in a
socially and environmentally sustainable way. TheCPF also
benefited from other pieces of analytical work, including a
gender assessment and afragility assessment carried out in
2015. Cameroon’s vision of becoming an upper middle-income
country, and of reducing poverty to less than 10 percent by
2035 (29 percent by 2020), is highly ambitious. It would
simply an annual real GDP growth of 5.5 percent per capita
during the period, which would represent a marked increase
from historical patterns, and strong sector, social and
spatial policies that can reverse the inequalities observed
over the past two decades. The SCD points to three main
areas of constraints - and opportunities - to achieving
these objectives: (i) low rural productivity, particularly
in northern regions; (ii) a non-conducive business
environment for the formal and informal private sector; and
(iii) fragility and poor governance of the private and
public sectors. |
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