Mayor Chenwi Peter after signing convention
Four council areas in the North West Region have signed a convention valued at 1.1 billion Francs under the Local Governance and Resilient Communities Project (PROLOG) to implement 40 community-based projects across their municipalities
The signing ceremony took place on Thursday 5th June 2025 involving the councils of Bamenda II, Bafut, Ako and Furu Awa.
Bafut and Furu Awa councils
This convention is aimed at helping mayors accomplish the projects to enhance the living conditions in their communities .
By this effect they should be resilient projects that will last long and serve the communities in areas of road rehabilitation, rural water schemes, solar electrification, construction of classrooms in schools, and flood control measures.
“The project’s idea is to put smiles on the faces of communities,” said Dr. Yessi Anthony, Regional Coordinator for PROLOG.
“The projects belong to them, they are not the projects of the regional assembly or the councils and the communities have to to show ownership of the projects. Right from the beginning of the construction works the first line of monitoring is the community through their village and neighborhood committees." Dr Yessi emphasized.
Leading the four councils is Bamenda II whose Mayor Chenwi Peter says the convention signed, places his municipality with the lion’s share. “My municipality happens to be the biggest in the region with 4villages and I have 25 projects worth 625 million francs.” he stated .
Backed by the World Bank through the International Development Association (IDA), PROLOG is a five-year initiative (2022–2027) that spans six regions and 180 councils across Cameroon, aiming to directly benefit over 1.5 million citizens. The project supports the decentralization agenda of the government, supervised by the Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development, and builds on the legacy of previous programs like the PNDP.
A standout feature of PROLOG is its Performance-Based Grants (PBG) mechanism—an envelope of 28.3 billion FCFA over three years—rewarding regional and local authorities who meet governance and service delivery benchmarks.
“In a region plagued by a crisis the signing of these conventions are not important but the outright implementation of these projects under close follow up by the community and council till completion is the real deal,” emphasized the regional delegate of MINDDEVEL.
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Yuh Joshua Kosimbom
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