Support for basic education reform in Cameroon: CFAF 18 billion disbursed by the World Bank (WB) in 2023
The Minister of Basic Education (MINEDUB), Laurent Serge ETOUNDI NGOA, revealed this yesterday, Thursday September 14 in Yaoundé, on the occasion of the sixth ordinary and 5th extraordinary sessions of the Steering Committee of the WB-funded Programme d'Appui à la Réforme de l'Education (PAREC), whose first objective is to recruit 18,000 teachers. "To date, 12,000 have been recruited. The project aims to recruit at least 95% of schools. We have gone from 43% to 70% in the deployment of teachers (...) With regard to the training of 120,000 teachers in the appropriation of the new curricula developed, 60,000 have already been trained", is MINEDUB's assessment of the implementation of PAREC activities. As for other results already achieved, PAREC coordinator Ambroise OWOTSOGO ONGUENE points out that support for the development of pre-schools in rural areas has enabled some 20,000 children and their teachers to be supervised in these areas. With regard to support for displaced and refugee children, "the project should cover around 400 schools. Today, PAREC supports the schooling of children in 200 schools and 300 for internally displaced persons", he added.
