Public/Private Partnership: Yaounde Hosts Growth Vision Confab

Against a backdrop of reviving the country’s growth in view of attaining an emergent economy status by 2035, a tripartite brainstorming session grouping government, business people and the civil society takes place at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel this Wednesday February 29. Placed on the theme, “Together, let’s speed up growth,” the Yaounde meeting is bringing together all development stakeholders to reason together and come up with what is needed to catapult the economy to boom.

Getting the private sector, the civil society and development partners onboard the development objectives, outlining short and medium-term wealth and job creation policies as well as jointly identifying appropriate measures to take the sustainable growth off the ground, are the main objectives of the Yaounde confab.

Participants are expected to come up with growth-inducing policies worth promoting, how the private sector could well be taken into the country’s growth policy, measures through which the country’s ten-year growth vision contained in the 2010 – 2020 Growth and Employment Strategy Paper, can be better implemented as well as how business people can contribute to sustainable growth. Through lectures and plenary discussions, participants will handle topics like, “What measures the private sector can take from now hence to accelerate economic growth,” “What can be done to boost infrastructure development and sub-regional integration,” “What policy, by who and how to promote growth,” and “How and with who to finance the economy.” The concertations are placed under the patronage of the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development.

Par Godlove Bainkong, Cameroon Tribune du 28/02/2012