Central Africa’s Transformation: Third Common Indicative Programme Under Review

Experts from CEMAC, intergovernmental organizations and UN agencies are meeting in Yaounde to adopt the plan to run from 2017 to 2023.

The third Common Indicative programme (CIP III) for Central Africa’s development is under review in Yaounde by experts from the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), intergovernmental organizations and United Nations agencies. The experts are meeting within the framework of the eight session of the Sub-regional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) of the UN System-wide support to the African Union’s (AU) New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) programme in Central Africa.
For two days, ending today, the stakeholders will take stock of actions carried out in line with the putting in place of CIP II (2013-2016) and carry forward projects which were not successfully realized or not realized at all. They will also make recommendations for the mobilization of resources to effectively put in place CIP III.
According to Govannie Biha, Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), CIP II had some loopholes as not all envisaged projects were executed. As such, she said the concertation will seek to render the sub-regional mechanism more efficient so that it should help central African countries achieve growth and provide decent jobs.
To Antonio Pedro, Director of UNECA’s Sub-regional Office for Central Africa, Head of Stat...