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    Cameroon Public Utilities Forum

Education Campaign  

• The Cameroon Utilities Bill/Act 2009

• Bill/Act Implementation, Nation-Wide, Strategy and Programme

• Training Stakeholders

• Coverage in the Media and by other Organisations

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The Cameroon Utilities Bill/Act 2009

The bill/law agenda is to:

1. Identify and remove barriers to increasing responsiveness and accountability in the way utility services are developed and delivered in Cameroon.
2. Put in place a coherent operation strategy for the satisfaction of utility service needs of everyone without discrimination, in the shortest possible time and least costs, all over Cameroon.
3. Earmark funding sources and provide a sustainable framework for financing and managing the provision of quality utility services to everyone.
4. Empower people to live up to the mandate of the Constitution of Cameroon and make it possible for all to be supplied utility services within specified time periods - such as two (2) years in areas where there already is substantial but under-performing investments as we have in Kumba, and four (4) years in other areas requiring more time to canvass, rally and work with the needed investment.

Read the bill/law in draft (Coming up soon).

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Bill/Act Implementation Strategy & Programme

We expect the bill/act to be implemented on a political constituency by political constituency basis, all over the national territory of Cameroon. You, and the elected officials of your area, in or out of Parliament, are central to the approach. Your behaviour helps to condition that of others, including the President of the Republic, your Members of Parliament, Mayors and Counsellors. Each parliamentary constituency has council areas with a number of mayors and counsellors. Each counsellor represents wards that comprise communities or quarters, where individuals and their families reside with utility service needs to be met.

Each community or quarter is expected to assume its responsibilities, with your participation in leadership. Your community or quarter has to rally and work with its existing and/or prospective counsellors, mayors, parliamentarians and President of the Republic, to implement the bill/act as well as evaluate its impacts and make or agree reform proposals.

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Training Stakeholders

Volunteers and other activists or stakeholders will be supported with training and back-ups in efforts to get adequate utility services to everyone in your community or quarter, as specified in the bill/act. Some of the specialist training is already being developed and made available as part of the ongoing public education campaign programme. Click here to contact us for details.

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Coverage in the Media and by other Organisations

Journalists, media houses and other organisations are expected to become increasingly committed to ensuring that our country is properly served by its institutions and people. Following are links to profiles of ongoing utility services coverage efforts of journalists, media houses and other organisations in Cameroon:

• Chiangeh Yves-Isaac Kukwa (CELASRIMA)
• Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh  (The Post Newspaper)
• Talla Aghaa Kitts (Eden Newspaper)
• Ashu Manfred (The Herald Newspaper)

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   Mr. Chiangeh Yves-Isaac Kukwa is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kumba based Centre for Law Sensitisation and the Rights of Man (CELASRIMA). He has wide ranging experience with insurance and motor corporations. Following mentorship from the late Albert Womah Mukong, Mr. Chiangeh became a human rights activist. Read his appeal letter to the Divisional Officer (DO) Kumba Central for due consideration of "Customers Dissatisfaction with Public Utility Services - Restoring Hope in Water Supply".

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Mrs. Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh is the Kumba based reporter of The Post newspaper. Read some of her utility service dispatches.

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Mr. Talla Aghaa Kitts reports for Eden newspaper from Kumba. Click here to read some of his utility service stories.

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Mr. Ashu Manfred is the Kumba based reporter of the Herald newspaper. Read some of his stories on utility services.