Decentralisation: Cameroon sets up index to improve development of municipalities

The Local Development Index (IDL) is the very first index of its kind in Cameroon. This tool was adopted on May 7 during an extraordinary session of the National Decentralization Council (CND), chaired by Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute. The press release from the Prime Minister’s Office, which followed this extraordinary session, recalls that the IDL will allow the government to assess the level of development of municipalities and the 14 city councils of the country. Georges Elanga Obam, the Minister of Decentralization and Local Development (Minddevel), adds, in the columns of the daily Cameroon Tribune, that the IDL will…