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NSI Partners with Cameroon Government to Fight Rural Poverty

Nascent Solutions strives to collaborate with state and local governments wherever we operate, within the context of the country’s poverty alleviation strategies. But in the process of implementation, we also try to involve civil society, community and faith-based organizations to the fullest extent to leverage their transparent management, integrity and trust within their communities.

This explains why Nascent Solutions, while collaborating and consulting with the government of Cameroon, has chosen as local partners the Federation of Catholic Youth and the Kilum Strategic Development Group (KISDEG).

When the President and CEO of Nascent Solutions Dr. Beatrice Wamey visited the country in late 2006 to conduct an assessment of the health services of the diocese of Kumbo in the North West Province she consulted with several high level government officials including the Prime Minister, Mr Ephraim Inoni, the Minister Delegate at the Presidency, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Health and the Director of Customs.

The Meeting with the Prime Minister was a follow up of a discussion that was initiated during the PM’s visit to Washington in April of 2006. After his return from Washington the Prime minister had issued a letter assuring her that the necessary actions will be taken to waive the duties on medical equipment that IMEC, a donor organization and Nascent Solutions intended to send to Cameroon for humanitarian purposes.

The meeting with the Prime Minister also gave Nascent Solutions a chance to elaborate on their vision and strategy for Cameroon. The Prime Minister promised to give Nascent Solutions all the assistance necessary as it helped his administration to implement its poverty reduction strategies.

Following these consultations Beatrice also met the Minister of Health to examine possibilities of collaboration given that Nascent Solutions and IMEC envisioned expanding the rural health initiative to other parts of Cameroon. The Minister of Health expressed his department’s willingness to collaborate with the US organizations and created a technical team in his office to work with Nascent Solutions to draw up the memorandum of understanding and a local official to work with Nascent Solutions on subsequent projects.

Last updated: July 2007