Investors, Managers to upgrade skills

The three-day training session organised by GICAM opens in Douala on June 1, 2012.

Investors and managers of enterprises in the country will enhance their productive skills in a series of training sessions organised by the educational arm of the Cameroon Business Cartel, the GICAM University in Douala next June 1.

The training seeks to improve the efficiency of enterprises by upgrading the skills of managers, beginning investors and self-employed investors. It also seeks to bring together a coherent framework for the use and sharing of knowledge according to André Fotso, GICAM President.

Its motivation is based on the fact that Cameroon's production sector is characterised by informal activities, the collapse of enterprises and the low level of education of many managers. Home management and informal enterprises generate an estimated 6.8 per cent of Gross Domestic Product. The public sector employs 4.9 per cent, private sector 4.7 per cent, while the informal sector employs 90.4 per cent of the working population of Cameroon.

Composed mainly of professors, the GICAM University is based on the idea of Charles Sanders Peirce who in 1891 described university an association that offers intellectual training and can resolve theoretical problems that spring up during development of civilization.