CINQUANTENAIRE

Indépendance et Réunification

PRESENTATION OF THE MINISTRY,"LE MINPROFF"

Motivated by the concern for the elaboration of a programme for the promotion and use of appropriate technologies in favour of women to help reduce the duration and hardness of their labour, Government ordered a study in 1980, through which Cameroon was sub-divided in three ecological zones, namely: the soudano-sahelian zone, the forest zone and the mountain zone. .

Cameroon’s fifth five-year Development Plan (1981-1986) recommended Government to construct Appropriate technology Centers (ATCs) following identical technological zone.

In 1985, an option was taken to begin the implementation of the programme in the soudano-sahelian zone (Northern Regions).

By appealing to international cooperation, funding from the Canadian Agency for Development (ACDI) enabled the construction of the ATC of Maroua that was inaugurated in 1992.

In 2000, Appropriate Technology Centers were organised by Decree No. 2000/003/PM of 06 January 2000 on the organisation and functioning on Appropriate Technology Centers

• Training , perfecting, le recycling and specialisation of women in agro-pastoral, domestic and craft activities; ;
• Promotion of research in agro-pastoral, domestic and craft areas, to help reduce the duration and hardness of activities carried out by women;
• Identification, development and popularisation of appropriate technologies for women and easing their acquisition of these technologies to increase agro-pastoral and craft production;
• Improvement of preservation and transformation methods of various products in order to reduces post-harvesting losses.

Agricultural, animal and craft production

• Identification and popularisation of seeds, fertilisers and appropriate agricultural equipment;
• modernisation of farming;
• Introduction of mechanisation to farming groups;
• Improvement of rearing techniques
• Improvement of crafting techniques;
• Improvement of traditional methods for preserving, conditioning and transforming products;
• Training of popularisation agents as well as craftsmen and women in villages.

Beneficiaries of services offered by ATCs are from diverse origins.

The Centres welcome, without any discrimination, adult women as well as young girls, individually or grouped in associations, either in need of training or information, or having an expertise to offer.

• Présidence de la République
• services du Premier Ministre
• Ministère de la Fonction Publique et de la reforme administrative
• Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Formation Professionnelle