The ILO’s technical assistance to the Yaoundé Sanitation Project started in March 2007. The project aims at promoting urban projects as a way of engaging more local people and resources and contributing towards reducing poverty in large urban areas such as Yaoundé, Cameroon. This will include training in community contracting and labour-based approaches; and sensitization for these approaches of local communities, NGOs, small contractors, municipal technical services, and ministries involved in the project. The project will demonstrate construction techniques on five kilometres of drainage using the labour-based approach, which will not only improve the living and working environment for the informal economy operators in Yaoundé but demonstrate the impact of this approach on reducing poverty in other urban areas. The four-year project is funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
For more information, please contact Claude Yao Kouame: yaokouame@ilo.org