REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE - WORK - FATHERLAND MINISTRY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES, SOCIAL ECONOMY AND HANDICRAFTS SECRETARIAT GENERAL DIVISION OF STUDIES, PROJECTS AND FORECASTS MINPMEESA
REPUBLICIQUE DU CAMEROUN PAIX - TRAVAIL - PATRIE MINISTERE DES PETITES ET MOYENNES ENTREPRISES, DE L'ECONOMIE SOCIALE ET DE L'ARTISANAT SECRETARIAT GENERAL DIVISION DES ETUDES, DES PROJETS ET DE LA PROSPECTIVE
FINAL REPORT
STRUCTURING SMESEHs IN THE COTTON-TEXTILE-LEATHER-GARMENT SECTOR
SEPTEMBER 2022
STRUCTURING SMES IN THE COTTON TEXTILE LEATHERMAKING INDUSTRY i | 172
FOREWORD
The Cotton-Textile-Leather-Garment sector is a very important segment of the Cameroonian industrial fabric. It was retained in the SND30 as one of the nine sectors that have the quality and capacity to bring Cameroon to emergence by 2035. However, “the development of the sector faces many constraints that hinder and penalize the harmonious development of the activities that make it up”.
With regard to the composite character of the sector, the analysis was made on the Cotton-Textile-Leather-Garment branches on the one hand and Leather industry and shoe manufacturing on the other hand. Indeed, the access to the raw material, the processing chain and the actors who operate there are different, thus justifying our approach.
Analysis of the Cotton-Textile-Confection branch reveals that it is completely devastated by, among other things, the almost total export of national cotton production (99%), almost non-existent local processing (1% of cotton is processed locally) and local spinners who get their supplies at the world cotton price, i.e. they buy locally produced fiber as if they were importing it.
With regard to the Leather and Footwear Manufacturing Industry branch, the analysis reveals that it remains marginal despite a potential in raw materials (raw skins and leather of cattle and horses, sheep and goats), the sector is struggling to see the emergence of a unit on an industrial scale. The activity is essentially confined to crafts or even to the export of raw or semi-finished products.
It is therefore with a view to making a contribution to the development of the Cotton-Textile-Leather-Garment sector that this study was carried out against the backdrop of the idea of structuring Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Social Economy Organizations and the Artisans who operate there in order to enable them to fully play their role as catalysts for growth and major players in the structural transformation of our economy.
The Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts
Achille BASSILEKIN III
SUMMARY
Contents ... i
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ... iv List of Tables ... vii List of Graphs and Figures ... ix Introduction ... 1
CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW AND DIAGNOSIS OF THE COTTON-TEXTILE-GARMENT-LEATHER SECTOR ... 3 I. Delimitation and segmentation of the Cotton-Textile-Clothing-Leather sector in component 3 II. OVERVIEW of the COTTON-TEXTILE-GARMENT-LEATHER sector and the external environment ... 10 III- Diagnosis of the COTTON-TEXTILE-GARMENT-LEATHER sector ... 57
CHAPTER 2 : OPERATIONAL CHOICES FOR REVIVING THE COTTON-TEXTILE-GARMENT-LEATHER SECTOR ... 68