Rapport Final Cameroun

Type Report
Title Rapport Final Cameroun
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
Publisher PNUD
URL http://www.se4all.org/sites/default/files/Cameroon_RAGA_FR_Released.pdf
Abstract
The major challenge for Cameroon is to achieve strong and sustainable
economic growth, whose fruit is evenly distributed to the population. To achieve
this, the country needs to diversify its exports, largely based on oil, and
eliminate a number of constraints; the most important being the poor energy
services and basic infrastructure, governance, poor capacity, and an unfavorable
environment for the private sector. The lifting of these constraints must take
place in a stable and quality macro-economic environment.
In the energy sector, Cameroon has great potential: hydroelectricity (the second
in Africa after the Democratic Republic of Congo), gas, and renewable energy.
Less than 5 % of hydroelectricity potentials (estimated to 20 GW) are actually
exploited, and proven untapped gas reserves estimated at 110 billion m3
. The
country also has significant renewable energy potentials, with important forest
areas in the south of Adamawa. Firewood is still the first source of energy for
households, especially in rural areas.
The wood waste estimated exploitable is 1 million m3
per year. Concerning solar
energy, the average insolation varies from 6 kWh / day / m ² for the Northern
areas to 4 kWh / day / m ² for the southern area, enough for its development.
Even with the decreases in crude oil production, it provides nearly one third of
government revenue. The country also has a large untapped mining (iron, rutile,
bauxite, tin oxide, uranium, gold, diamond etc..) that will need energy for its
exploitation and processing. Cameroon can become a tourist destination with its
colorful culture and its diversified landscape.
The Government working hard to consolidate the results obtained in (i) road
construction, to densify the internal network and connect Cameroon to other
neighboring countries of the sub-region, in order to strengthen regional
integration, (ii) reducing isolation of agricultural areas to allow people access to
markets and basic social services, (iii) improving access to electricity in urban
and rural areas and (iii) support the procurement policy of drinking water and
sanitation.

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