Cameroon has developed a National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (SND30), a new framework for its development activities over the next decade, with one of its pillars focused on promoting employment and economic integration. In this area, the government’s overall objective is to promote full decent employment by expanding and enhancing job creation opportunities in the economy.

This development policy is articulated, among other things, around the alignment of training and employment and the improvement of the professional integration system. Taking into account the SND30’s orientations and convinced that urban development is successful if it is driven, in particular, by decent and accessible employment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development is developing actions and activities that both promote an inclusive environment while contributing to reduce exclusive mechanisms. This justifies the offer of training for 100 disadvantaged youth in small trades in the municipality of Tokombéré.

This is a capacity-building program that seeks to train disadvantaged young people identified in the municipality in the manufacture and installation of paving stones in order to integrate them into the production and consumption circuit in urban areas. This would ensure, through their income, their empowerment and, by extension, the reduction of poverty that is inherent in the economic integration of young people, particularly the fragile category that is victims of school dropout and the spiral of both social and economic exclusion.