Cameroon has signed an agreement with the government of South Korea totaling XAF 23.21 billion ($38 million) for the execution of five development projects in the country.
According to Cameroon’s Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Alamine Ousmane Mey, part of the funds will be channeled to the next phase of an ongoing project to upgrade and digitize the country’s civil status registration system.
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Cameroon has already started the process to digitize its civil status registration system.
The company started a pilot using the OpenCRVS platform for birth registration in 20 municipal councils of the country has been completed.
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Ousmane Mey said $4.8 million out of the $38 million grant will be deployed to subsequent activities of the project which seeks to set up a robust, efficient, and secure foundational identity system for the country.
A project in Cameroon dubbed the “Support Program for the Modernization of the Civil Registration System” (PAMEC) is supported by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), and it is within that framework that this latest grant funding from Korea has been made available. The project also has the financial support of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).
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Another digital project to benefit from the financing is the second phase of a program to digitize Cameroon’s public contracts procurement system, known as “e-Procurement System Development Project.”
This project, to get $5.6 million from the package, is a continuation of efforts by the country to simplify procurement procedures of public contracts by enhancing transparency and efficiency.
A “Smart Campus” project is also part of the lot, according to Ousmane Mey, and will get $8 million from the grant. He says the project seeks to promote digital government efforts in public administration and modernize service delivery in the public service.
Source: BiometricUpdate
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