Mayors from the Littoral region met on Thursday June 13 in Douala for a workshop to build their capacity on the Road Fund financing procedures.
Some forty Mayors from the Wouri, the Sanaga-Maritime, the Moungo, the Nkam divisions, along with focal points from sector Ministries, met in Douala on 13 June 2024 for a capacity-building session on the contents of the technical guide for stakeholders.
The workshop was launched by the Road Fund Administrator. In his opening remarks, Aubin ESSAIE MOUSSA outlined the aim of the workshop, which is to support regional and local authorities in their role of authorizing officers. In this light, it is important that they master the operating methods and interactions between the stakeholders involved in the chain of operations financed by the Road Fund. Concerning the 2024 municipal road maintenance programme, he emphazised that an amount of 12.5 billion has been allocated to 155 councils for 2 088.67 kilometres of road and 708.20 linear meters of bridges.
During the workshop, four modules were discussed including : transferred competencies and requirements specification for each of the Road Fund’s three authorizing officers, the methodology for designing communal road maintenance programmes, award of contract and execution of projects, and the procedures and processing chain for invoices and payments.
At the end of the session, participants were encouraged to continue using the documents made available to them, in order to improve their mastery of the Fund’s procedures. The ultimate aim is to reduce the rejection rate for files, with a view to improving road maintenance in Cameroon.