The Franco-Cameroonian Volunteer Skills Platform (PCFCV) and the Debt Reduction and Development Contract (C2D) for a technical and financial partnership signed in Yaoundé on February 1, 2019, a new contract worth CFAF 161 million to mobilize volunteers for the cancellation and reconversion programs of the country’s debt vis-à-vis France.
It is a partnership that extends until 2021, and which should help to “offer C2D programs, forms of expertise and voluntary types of different types that can be mobilized, individually or in pairs, in the aim of strengthening the implementation and impact of Cameroon’s debt cancellation and conversion programs vis-à-vis France in development projects “.
According to Richard Evina Obam, President of the Bilateral Technical Committee (CTB-C2D), “C2D programs and projects now have a pool of talent and skills that can be mobilized immediately when needed, in fields as diverse as vocational training. , health, agriculture, environment, water and sanitation, urban planning, information and communication technologies, decentralization or local development “with the signing of this convention.
Born from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative, the Franco-Cameroonian volunteering skills platform brings together the National Civic Service for Participation in Development, France Volunteers and Volunteer Actions for Cooperation and Development (AGIRabcd). It touches on the forms of expertise and services such as exchange and skills volunteering, international solidarity volunteering (VSI) as well as civic service commitment.
