Make efforts to put social and economic infrastructure at the required level for economic take-off

• Socio-economic infrastructure covers roads, ports, airports, bridges and railways, schools, hospitals,
  markets, administrative buildings, university campuses and amphitheatres, courts and prisons, supply and distribution of drinking water, sanitation network, electricity distribution network, public lighting network and infrastructure for environmental protection.
• We plan to make these infrastructures an important lever for growth. To this end, we will bring together all the stakeholders (relevant ministries, local authorities, employers’ associations, professional orders, SME unions, banks and insurance companies, etc.) to agree on a national master plan for the creation, exploitation and the management of priority socio-economic infrastructures.
• We aim to make sure that each inhabitant in our cities is 5-minute walk (500 m) away from a paved road.
• The regional programmes (trans-African Lagos-Mombassa road and Central African network) will be continued and strengthened. Transversal linkages across the country and those opening up vast areas with a definite potential to the rest of the country (Nkam Division, Yoko area, etc.) will be developed.
• In order to strengthen the territorial unity of the country, a backbone will be built, in the form of a highway or a three-lane (times two) road between Yaoundé and Kousseri, as well as an appropriate road network in the North-West and South-West regions of the country.
• We will reform road maintenance management by taking this activity out of MINPW and entrusting it to a National Road Maintenance Agency with decision-making autonomy.
• We will decentralise the maintenance of rural roads. In view of their remoteness from national decision-making centres, rural roads will be the subject of local management by the Regions (or federated entities) and especially the municipalities

An infrastructure financing policy focused on partnerships

The mobilisation of national financial institutions and multilateral organisations (MLO), the mobilisation of savings and domestic private financing, combined with the mobilisation of diaspora contributions, in addition to public budgets to finance infrastructure equipment, are the links of our financing policy for equipment that, alone, will allow the country’s economic growth and whose investment needs remain considerable.

• The partnership principle will be instituted and encouraged: private/private partnership, private/public partnership that will take the form of performance contracts, leasing, management contracts, operating and mainte nance (O & M) contracts, joint ventures, contracts focused on performance, concessions and subcontracting, BOT contracts (build, operation and transfer), BOOT (build, ownership, operation and transfer), DBFO (design, build, financing and operation), DCMF (design, construction, management and financing)), IPP (independent power producer) and BOO
  (build, ownership and operation).
• Partnership contracts, applicable to all infrastructure equipment and services to the population (such as electricity distribution, drinking water distribution, public lighting), using private capital, will enable the state to bring public service to citizens now, instead of waiting for many years for shortfalls in public resources.