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# H.E. PAUL BIYA ## HEAD OF STATE
> “I hereby wish to acknowledge the work of our development partners since the outbreak of the pandemic [...]. > [Some of them] have provided emergency funding for our various response plans [...]. > The Debt Service Suspension Initiative for our countries has eased the strain on our public finances [...].
The significant amount of cash made available strengthens our ability to respond to the health crisis and enables economic recovery. Furthermore, in line with the recommendations of the 18 May 2021 Paris Summit on the financing of African economies, and the recent Abidjan Summit, we urge countries with satisfactory reserves to agree to a partial reallocation of their SDRs to African countries.
This would increase the cash flow in all our countries by at least US$100 billion.
OPENING SPEECH BY H.E. PAUL BIYA DURING THE EXTRAORDINARY VIRTUAL SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE OF CEMAC, YAOUNDE, 18TH AUGUST 2021
MINPMEESA 2021 MINPMEESA
# SUMMARY
01 MATRIX OF MINPMEESA'S STRATEGIC ORIENTATIONS IN LINE WITH THE NDS-30 02 NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS OF MINPMEESA VIS-À-VIS TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL PARTNERS 03 OTHER PROJECTS IDENTIFIED IN THE SMESEH SECTORS
ADVOCACY MINPMEESA 2021
REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE – WORK – FATHERLAND MINISTRY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES, SOCIAL ECONOMY AND HANDICRAFTS
MINPMEESA
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# THE MINISTER’S FOREWORD
Technical and Financial Partners are key players in supporting the Government’s efforts to achieve its development objectives. With regard to cooperation and partnership, the National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (NDS-30) prescribes to ‘review, broaden and improve the nature and scope of the contribution of external partners to Cameroon’s development process’. The core place of small and medium-sized enterprises, the social economy and handicrafts (SMESEH) in the dynamics of economic development calls for the implementation of a sectoral strategy to mobilise the means and opportunities available from Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs). We have therefore developed a framework document to build advocacy with the TFPs in favour of our targets.
This Advocacy Paper was submitted to TFPs in Yaoundé, during the maiden edition of Cooperation and Partnership Days of MINPMEESA organised from 12-14 July 2021, under the theme “Technical and financial partners for the development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicraft. It intends to present the different projects in financing needs and technical assistance that could promote the emergence of these three sectors in the perspective of achieving the objectives of the National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (NDS-30).
Bilateral and multilateral Technical and Financial Partners are therefore invited to browse this menu of projects with a view to supporting the Government’s efforts to promote the emergence of SMEs, social economy organisations and crafts-people who actively participate in the economic growth and creatin of decent jobs in Cameroon, in order to materialise the vision of the Head of State, His Excellency Paul Biya, to see Cameroon become an emerging country by 2035.
ADVOCACY 3 MINPMEESA 2021
REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE – WORK – FATHERLAND MINISTRY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES,