As strategies to reduce mass unemployment, we commit ourselves to:

  • Focus first and foremost on the agricultural primary sector to increase production and productivity: agriculture represents the first source of jobs to be supported, both on the side of family farming with small-scale mechanization, and that of agriculture on large farms with large-scale mechanization;
  • Develop the secondary sector to enable it to absorb the output of the primary sector, as well as the surplus labour that will gradually emerge as a result of increased productivity;
  • Encourage, support the growth and inventiveness of the tertiary sector to enable it to provide the other two sectors with tools for optimising their operations while providing more and more useful services to populations: services in the health sector and those devoted to helping people, artists and athletes, as well as teachers will be sources of jobs to support.

Our approach is of a social liberal type: liberal through its productive project and social through its educational project and its social project. We affirm that:

  • Innovation, through the changes it brings, is the fundamental mainspring of growth and progress: in this scheme, the entrepreneur is the central actor. It is therefore up to the companies, i.e. the private sector, to create and develop more and more job-providing activities since the hiring capacities of the State itself are limited. The role of the State will therefore be to create and maintain the conditions for the development of these enterprises (infrastructure, taxation, legislation). The State will also provide some tools and information that are lacking to our entrepreneurs, for example by endowing them with managerial qualities (love of innovation and managerial skills) that will make them real industry captains in 5 or 10 years.
  • Jobs must be created massively in all regions of the country. To achieve this, the State will have to rely on the complementary efforts of the decentralised territorial units (or the federated States), which better control the realities of their territories and their populations, hence a new form of societal organisation with a state that is based on entities with a large degree of autonomy, whether regional or on federated entities, in which the central authorities and institutions cooperate with the authorities of the decentralised units (or federated entities) with a view to the creation and support of activities providing jobs at the local level.
  • The State will take its share of initiative, in the strategic sectors and structuring projects, by investing, through a sovereign investment fund (SIF), to reassure and encourage entrepreneurs to follow. As such, the generalisation of vocational training, the reform of certain companies and organisations in the State portfolio or the creation of new organisations will be the main levers to operate.

Professional training

Most young people, whether they are graduates or not, often do not have the professional qualifications required to enter the world of formal work.
We believe that in order to overcome youth unemployment, we need to give them the keys to access the world of work through targeted technical and practical training bridges, as outlined in the educational project.

To this end, in order to provide the know-how to these young people, the State will finance, through a reform of the FEICOM, the construction and equipment of vocational and technological training institutes in all divisions and trade centres in all municipalities of Cameroon, instead of continuing to build and equip the sumptuous town halls with ques tionable utility in the villages

Revenue optimisation of and reduction State expenditure

In order to compensate for the State’s financial losses due to the allocation of part of its oil and gas export revenues, the State will have to take a number of actions, including:

  • Broadening the tax base with good tax administration through necessary tax and customs reform;
  • Further consolidation of the State salary file;
  • Eradication of fictitious and/or overbilled orders and markets;
  • The restriction of medical evacuation of senior officials and other privileged persons of the regime;
  • Streamlining missions abroad and administrative vehicles.

Quantified objectives in terms of job creation

The generalisation of vocational training, the creation of a sovereign investment fund, the creation of a strategic committee for consultation and partnership with the regions and the optimisation of the State budget are he 4 major areas of a global plan to launch virtuous cycles of job creation in 3 of the 5 projects of our vision.
As such, we set as objectives for a term the creation of at least 1 million jobs:

  • 100,000 additional teaching and training positions in the education and training project;
  • 500,000 salaried jobs on the production project, including 400,000 jobs in agriculture and agro-industry and 100,000 jobs in non-agribusiness industrial sectors;
  • 40,000 salaried jobs in social, cultural and national solidarity projects.
  • 100,000 jobs in the health, defence and security sectors;
  • 160,000 jobs in the tourism and leisure sector, the social and craft economy;
  • 100,000 jobs in the central administration of the State and in the administrations and technical services of decentralised units (or federated states).