World bank innovations and directives that ensure transparency and efficiency in participatory development have been explained to stakeholders in the North West region.
In effect, donors of the National Community Driven Development Programme (PNDP), credited as partners of local councils for development now stress on competition as the password for all supplies of goods and services, works and intellectual services. It is against this backdrop that council tender boards have been suppressed while regional and divisional boards emerge in new provisions in the field of procurement.
A concertation meeting in Bamenda recently drilled development stakeholders to assimilate the innovative methods that now serve as a compass in the procurement and implementation of World Bank financed contracts at the level of the council through the PNDP. Topical is the contracting process in view of the implementation of PNDP activities and best practices towards the development of the North West Region with FCFA 5.3 billion PNDP money for projects in some 31 councils in 2013.
It was against this background that the Regional Coordinator of the PNDP, Cypriane Sab said the innovations are meant to improve on the provision of basic social services like health, education, water and sanitation to communities and support the nation's decentralisation process. The PNDP implements activities through outsourcing and the Bamenda meeting presented innovations in public procurement by the Regional Delegate of the Ministry of Public Procurement and the Procurement Plan for PNDP funded projects to ensure the respect of deadlines in implementing successful programming and fully consume allocated amounts by councils to improve the quality of life among the people of the region. Governor Adolphe Lele Lafrique was around with the blessings of the administration and instructions for stake holders to master and stand by PNDP innovations for the emergence of Cameroon. He re-echoed government's efforts and strategies to promote development in local communities with the creation of the Ministry of Public Contracts to show.
