A partnership agreement was signed on April 6, 2021 between the two institutions in the MINPROFF conference room.
The pretext chosen for the signing of this act was the holding of the first session of the Interministerial Committee on Gender Statistics in which the UN Women organization participated.
The agreement for a period of 05 years concerns the INS but also the BUCREP. It aims, among other things, to promote research and studies on gender, to enhance the gender-related results of major survey operations, to prepare and implement joint projects between the INS and MINPROFF, to support MINPROFF in the production of its statistical yearbook, etc.
During the opening ceremony of the work of the Committee, Mrs. Catherine Abena Ondoua took the floor to welcome the collaboration that exists between the INS and MINPROFF and welcomed the formalization of this agreement. The Director General of the INS, for his part, has committed to providing regular statistical data on gender. The representative of UN Women, who also spoke during the ceremony, thanked the Director General of the INS for his involvement in the production of gender statistics as part of the first phase of the “All Women and Girls count” programme. As this first phase ends in July 2021, the representative of UNWOMEN has committed to funding the second phase of the programme. Consistent in her approach to support, the representative of UNWOMEN did not come empty-handed. Five complete computers were offered to MINPROFF for the benefit of its statistical service and awareness-raising materials were given to the Director General of the INS and the Director General of BUCREP.
The inter-ministerial committee that served as the framework for the signing of this agreement is a body of strategic orientation and support for the monitoring/evaluation of the National Gender Policy (NGP) through the production and use of gender statistics in Cameroon for a better monitoring of the SDGs. The overall objective of this Committee is to make gender statistical data available, accessible, analysed and used to inform policy, advocacy and accountability to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.