By Bakah Derick
The executive director of the Bamenda based not-for-profit nongovernmental organisation Information Management and Support Services for Rural Agricultural Development (IMSSRAD) has announced that the Bamenda III Council area shall host the first phase of the resilience project.
Sylvester Toh was speaking on Wednesday 15 December 2021 during the budgetary session of the Bamenda III Council whose Mayor and Councilor unanimously praised IMSSRAD's leader for efforts being made by his organisation to assist the council meet the needs of those in the municipality.
Supported by the Embassy of the United States of America in Cameroon, the project aims at "assisting crisis prone neighbourhoods in the Bamenda III Council area of the North West Region to bounce back from shocks and stress and become more resilient."
Talking to Hilltopvoices on the sidelines of the council, IMSSRAD's executive director detailed that the project will focus on areas of "civic education, public participation and public accountability."
Sylvester Toh has expressed gratitude to the Bamenda III Council for welcoming and supporting the project.
"We consider it a privilege to have been accorded space during the council session to reach out to the entire council. With this now, we will proceed to shortlist twenty neighbourhood communities that we shall be working with beginning with a baseline survey followed by an evaluation by the US embassy."
The project comes at the time many internally displaced persons from across the North West and even the south west within the ongoing armed conflict have found home in the relatively calm council area.
The project is expected to run for 12months being from September 2021 to September 2022 with the sponsorship of the Africa Regional Democracy Fund (ARDF).