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This is an archived USAID document retained on this web site as a matter of public record.
USAID Assistance to Cameroon
U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
FACT SHEET
WASHINGTON, DC 20523
PRESS OFFICE
http://www.usaid.gov
(202) 712-4320FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November, 2002
USAID ASSISTANCE TO CAMEROON (in thousands)
RESOURCES FY 2001(Actual) FY 2002(Estimated) FY 2003(Request) Economic Support Fund $ 0 $ 0 TBD Democracy and Human Rights Fund $ 48 $ 80 TBD Special Self-Help Fund $ 114 $ 122 TBD PL 480 Title II $ 0 $ 284 TBD TOTAL PROGRAM FUNDS $ 162 $ 486 TBD (TBD=TO BE DETERMINED)
USAID has no office in this country, and there is no direct U.S. aid program. However, the U.S. has a number of regional or worldwide programs that benefit Cameroon. These programs are monitored from the USAID/Washington and USAID/Ghana office in Accra.
PROGRAM AREAS
Some useful Cameroon websites: West African Regional Program
Economic Support Fund (ESF): Congress established ESF to promote economic and political stability in strategically important regions where the United States has special security interests. Cameroon, as well as Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo are benefiting from ESF in fiscal years 2002-2003 for activities such as the Global Forest Watch network that provides up-to-date concession maps and monitors changes in use, with implementation through the Central African Regional Program for Environment (CARPE). ESF resources are being used for "participatory" mapping of forest communities in the Cameroon, for small grants to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to identify and test conservation measures, and to enhance economic benefits to communities. ESF resources are also being used to build the capacity of Cameroonian NGOs and independent media who work on monitoring and tracking human rights issues, and skills of human rights groups.
Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF): USAID supports this small grants program which provides assistance to indigenous organizations that implement small, short-term, targeted country-level activities in support of human rights and democratic institutions. In Cameroon, the FY 2002 DHRF activities include production of election education brochures, women's rights TV documentary production, paralegal training, women's empowerment seminars, and seminars on rights of handicapped persons.
Special Self-Help (SSH) Fund: SSH supports community-based development activities that have an immediate impact. In Cameroon, SSH supports health, HIV/AIDS prevention, education and income generating activities, including funds to purchase grain mills, construction of classrooms, health clinics, roads, bridges, and wells, as well as training for community farms, vegetable gardens, and women's cooperatives.
Public Law 480 Title II (PL 480): Nearly 800 million in the world are food insecure, and many live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chronic poverty, the persistent lack of economic opportunity either to produce adequate amounts of food or to exchange labor for income needed to purchase food in adequate amounts, is the chief cause of food insecurity. The Office of Food for Peace, through funding provided by PL 480, makes commodity donations to Cooperating Sponsors to address the needs of food security through 5-year development projects and through emergency food assistance. In Cameroon, PL 480 supports the World Food Program's direct food distribution to address the heightened food security needs of the most vulnerable groups due to poor annual rainfall.
Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs): CRSPs involve U.S. universities, developing government researchers and farmers worldwide in interactive research for improved crop productivity and technologies. West African countries collaborate in many of these CRSPs: sorghum and millet (7 countries), beans and cowpeas (7 countries), soil management (3 countries), peanuts (5 countries), integrated pest management (1 country), SANRAM natural resource management (1 country), and the West Africa inter CRSP natural resource management (5 countries). Cameroon is involved with the sorghum and millet CRSP and the West African inter CRSP natural resource management activity to increase the application of improved technologies that have a positive impact on people and their natural resources management efforts in West Africa.
Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE): This activity works to reduce deforestation, encourage bio-diversity and improve forest management in the 9 countries comprising the Congo Basin, which includes Cameroon.
Grants Program: Since 1961, the Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation in the USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA/PVC) has approved grants to U.S. Private Voluntary Organizations to enhance their involvement in developing countries. A two-year (FY 2000-FY 2001) grant was approved for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, for the Center for Health, Education and Economic Research, for the Interchurch Medical Assistance, for MAP International, for the Northwest Medical Teams International, and for World Emergency Relief to defray transportation costs for selected commodity that complement development in Cameroon.
Peace Corps Small Project Assistance (SPA) Program: The SPA program is active in 75 countries. The program facilitates local grass-roots efforts by combining Peace Corps Volunteers' knowledge of local conditions with USAID technical and financial resources. In Cameroon, approximately 90 volunteers work in agro-forestry; small enterprise development; health; and education.
Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access (SAGA) Project: SAGA provides technical assistance and small research grants that strengthen the capacities of national African economic research institutions. SAGA works through the Secretariat for Institutional Strengthening of Economic Research in Africa (SISERA) which is made up of 18 national economic research institutes.
Tree Crop Program: The Sustainable Tree Crop Program promotes sustainable tree crop systems, including coffee cocoa, gum arabic and cashews. The tree crop program engages public and private sector entities to enter into partnerships, as well as to focus on resolution of child trafficking concerns and development issues related to production and marketing of tree crops, such as cocoa and coffee. The program promotes conservation and bio-diversity while encouraging production and marketing policies that stimulate income generation.
West African Regional Program (WARP): USAID's WARP provides funding to a number of public and private sector regional organizations on region-wide issues of economic integration; population, health, and nutrition; food security, the environment, natural resources management; and conflict prevention. In Cameroon, health activities include family planning, HIV/AIDS prevention, technical support to enhance clinical services delivery, social marketing of health products, training of health workers, and dissemination of health messages in the areas of reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections (STI), HIV/AIDS, and child survival. Other activities include STI diagnosis and treatment, counseling and testing, STI/HIV prevention services and products, behavioral surveillance survey, and capacity building. The model for this health work is built on strategic partnerships with four U.S. Private Voluntary Organizations working to achieve results in family planning; child survival; and HIV/AIDS service delivery; information, education, and communications; training; and operations research. The Family Health and AIDS Project is conducting several special studies in Cameroon, including a study of users' perspectives on measures of condom use that will compare responses from women who report consistent condom use to responses from women who report inconsistent use, and a study of Conceptrol gel and sexually transmitted diseases users' perspectives on measures of condom use to assess the effectiveness of Nonoxynol-9 (N-9) Gel in preventing male to female transmission of gonorrhea and chlamydia infection.
For additional information, contact USAID's Cameroon Country Development Officer at (202) 712-0220.
November 2002
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