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Santa Council COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT PLAN Approved by: Santa Council Development plan-CDP Page 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Within the framework of Cameroon Vision 2035, the growth and employment strategy and the decentralisation process in Cameroon with focus on local governance, councils are therefore expected to assume the full responsibility to manage resources and projects within their areas of jurisdiction. These resources are coming from Government, technical and financial partners as well as those mobilised locally. The Government through some of her sectorial ministries have already in the first generation devolved some resources and competences to councils serving as a trial to measure their level in the areas of project execution and management. The innovation of instituting a bottom-up approach of development whereby the populations at the grassroots are called upon to get totally involved and participate in the identification of their own problems, translate them into micro projects becomes capital to the elaboration of a council development plan. The Council Development plan (CDP) is a document that presents the desired goal, objectives, actions and the activities that the council wants to realize within a period. The CDP is elaborated in a participatory manner based on information obtained from village level, urban level and institutional diagnosis which are consolidated. As such it involved various partners; the National Community Driven Development Program (PNDP) that offered technical and financial resources, the Support Service to Grassroots Initiatives of Development (SAILD) that was privileged to provide services to the Santa Council for various studies, the Santa Council and inhabitants of constituent villages who provided the data required for the studies, and various sectorial ministries within the municipality, Division and the Region who equally provided data and assisted in the analysis and elaboration of planning tables. Data for the elaboration of this plan were collected between July and October 2011. A good number of meetings were organised and held, diagnoses conducted at various levels leading to a participatory identification and prioritisation of more than 700 micro projects in all the 28 sectors for the council area. The Santa council is located in the Southern part of the North West region of Cameroon and is the main gateway into the region from other regions of the country. The Santa CDP present major axes in its development as prescribed in Cameroon’s vision 2035. For a start, it focuses on priorities dealing with basic infrastructures such as Water, Energy, Health, Basic Education, Secondary Education, Public works, Environment and Nature protection, and Trade. Despite the fact that the plan is still new, a substantial amount of financial resources were realised by the council during resource mobilisation. Projects in ten (10) sectors feature in the annual investment plan and in the operational plan of the vulnerable population to the tune of 2.278.639.000 CFAF. This plan remains realistic and should be taken as a reference document by the council, Government, Technical and Financial Partner as well as other development stakeholders. Santa Council Development plan-CDP Page 2 TABLE OF CONTENT OF THE CDP EXECUTIVE SUMMARY... 2 TABLE OF CONTENT OF THE CDP ........................................................................................... 3 LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................................... 6 LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................................... 7 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS .......................................................................................................... 8 Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION ........ 9 1.1 CONTEXT AND JUSTIFICATION..................................................................................... 9 1.2 CDP objective...................................................................................................................... 10 1.3 Structure of the work ........................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 2. METHODOLOGY ....... 12 2.1 Preparatory process .................................................................................................................. 12 2.1.2. Informing and sensitizing local Administrative Authorities. ........................................... 12 2.1.3. Informing and sensitizing other parties involved ............................................................. 12 2.1.4. Putting in place of an institutional and operational arrangement..................................... 12 2.1.5. Launching Workshop ....................................................................................................... 13 2.2 Data collection and analysis. .................................................................................................... 13 2.2.1. Base line and cartographic mapping data collection. ....................................................... 13 2.2.2. Information collection and treatment ............................................................................... 14 2.2.3. At the level of Council Urban Space ............................................................................... 16 2.2.3. At the Level of the Council Institution (CID) .................................................................. 17 2.3 Consolidation of data mapping and diagnosis ......................................................................... 18 2.4 Planning workshop, resource mobilization and programming ................................................ 18 2.4.1. Preparation of the planning workshop ............................................................................. 18 2.4.2. Planning ........................................................................................................................... 19 2.4.3. Mobilisation of resources ................................................................................................. 19 2.4.4. Programming .................................................................................................................... 19 2.5 Implementation of participatory monitoring and evaluation mechanism ................................ 19 Chapter 3. BRIEF PRESENTATION OF THE COUNCIL AREA 20 3.1 Description of the Council area ............................................................................................... 20 3.2 Historitical profile .................................................................................................................... 22 3.3 Main potentials and resources of the Council ..................................................................... 26 3.3.1 Climate .............................................................................................................................. 26 3.3.2 Soils ................................................................................................................................... 26 3.3.3 Relief ................................................................................................................................. 26 3.3.4 Hydrography (main water sources) ................................................................................... 27 3.3.5 Flora and Vegetation (forests, savannas, medicinal plants, etc.) ...................................... 27 3.3.6 Fauna ................................................................................................................................. 27 3.3.7 Protected Areas ................................................................................................................. 28 3.3.8 Mineral resources .............................................................................................................. 28 3.4 Description of potentials of the socio-economic milieu ...................................................... 28 3.4.1 Characterisation of the vulnerable populations ................................................................. 28 3.4.2 Social Organisations ......................................................................................................... 28 3.4.3 Habitat ............................................................................................................................... 30 3.4.4 Local development actors ................................................................................................. 30 3.5 Economic Activities ............................................................................................................ 31 Santa Council Development plan-CDP Page 3 3.5.1 Agriculture ........................................................................................................................ 31 3.5.2. Animal (livestock) rearing and Fishery ........................................................................... 32 3.5.3 Sylviculture ....................................................................................................................... 33 3.5.4 Hunting.............................................................................................................................. 33 3.5.5 Forest exploitation............................................................................................................. 33 3.5.7 Craftsmanship ..................................................................................................................