REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON PEACE – WORK – FATHERLAND
DECREE No. 2020/2592 / PM OF 19 JUN 2020 to lay down procedures for the establishment, organisation and functioning of vocational training and learning centres.
The Prime Minister, Head of Government,
Mindful of the Constitution;
Mindful of Law No. 92/007 of 14 August 1992 to institute the Labour Code;
Mindful of Law No. 2018/010 of 11 July 2018 governing vocational training in Cameroon;
Mindful of Law No. 2018/012 of 11 July 2018 relating to the fiscal regime of the State and other public entities;
Mindful of Decree No. 92/089 of 4 May 1992 to specify the duties of the Prime Minister, as amended and supplemented by Decree No. 95/145 of 4 August 1995;
Mindful of Decree No. 2011/408 of 9 December 2011 to organise the Government, as amended and supplemented by Decree No. 2018/190 of 2 March 2018;
Mindful of Decree No. 2012/644 of 28 December 2012 to organise the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training;
Mindful of Mindful of Decree No. 2019/001 of 4 January 2019 to appoint a Prime Minister, Head of Government,
HEREBY DECREES AS FOLLOWS:
CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
SERVICES DU PREMIER MINISTRE SECRETARIAT GÉNÉRAL DIRECTION DES AFFAIRES ADMINISTRATIVES ET DES RÉQUÊTES
COPIE CERTIFIÉE CONFORME
ARTICLE 1.- This decree lays down procedures for the establishment, organisation and functioning of vocational training and learning centres.
ARTICLE 2.- The purpose of vocational training centres shall be to ensure:
- the initial training of all persons wishing to acquire vocational qualification by learning a trade in order to have an ordinary or specialized job in a given branch of activity;
- continuous training;
- sandwich courses;
- distance training;
- further training or retraining of workers who wish to acquire vocational qualification;
- the promotion of the Validation of Acquired Experience.
(2) They shall apply duly approved official or autonomous programmes and prepare candidates for corresponding certification.
ARTICLE 3.- The purpose of learning centres shall be to ensure long-term sandwich training, a significant part of which shall be carried out in an enterprise, and further complemented in a vocational training centre, with the aim of transmitting, on the job, recognized initial vocational qualification that will enable the exercise of a trade.
ARTICLE 4.- Vocational training centres and learning centres can be either public or private.
ARTICLE 5.- (1) Any person who has duly registered in a vocational training or learning centre can benefit from a scholarship allocated by the State, Regional and Local Authorities, or any private individual or corporate body governed by public or private law, to partially or totally cover the fees for the said training, registration fees for end of course examinations training, as well as insurance charges.
(2) The amount of the scholarship shall be fully paid to the sponsor of the private vocational training or learning centre in which the learner or apprentice is duly registered, according to the procedures in force in the area of public finance management.