The work took place in the conference room of the statistical production institution on January 21, 2021 in Yaoundé.
The context of the health crisis that Cameroon is going through does not really help the production of statistics. According to the Director General of the INS, several statistical operations have been suspended due to COVID-19. In his opening remarks, he reiterated the instructions of the Head of State regarding the strict application of barrier measures, not without noting the damage that this pandemic has caused to the National Statistical System. However, despite adversity, it takes resilience. This is the reason why this workshop was organized so that the Institute’s managers can appropriate the various tools of performance management. The first instrument presented is the new statistical law promulgated on July 20, 2020. The presentation presented by Mr. ABANDA Ambroise, Head of the Statistical Coordination Division, made it possible to understand the context and the challenges of this new law. Indeed, it was necessary, on the one hand, to align the law with international standards, in particular the African Charter on Statistics adopted in 2009 by the African Union (Accession Law signed in April 2016), as well as the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics contained in the resolution of the United Nations Statistical Commission of April 1994. On the other hand, it was important to take into account in the formulation, the institutional environment which has been enriched by several structures, in particular, the BUCREP, the BUNEC, etc. This law specifies that statistical production is carried out within the framework of the programs defined in the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics document. The third generation of the 2030 Strategy is currently being developed. The Annual Performance Project for the 2021 financial year, as well as the Finance Law and its Implementation Circular for the same period were discussed in plenary. One of the strong recommendations of the work was the implementation of the financial and accounting procedures that have been enacted within the framework of the various projects and programs of the officials.
At the end of the technical work, the General Management of the INS paid tribute to those of its staff who were allowed to exercise their right to retirement.