Cameroon has made the improvement of the populations living conditions and poverty reduction one of the key axes of its Emergence Programme for 2035 currently reflected in the National Development Strategy 2020 – 2030 (NDS30). To monitor the implementation of this NDS30 and measure progress achieved, a statistical monitoring system has been established, including the Cameroon Household Survey (ECAM), which is in its 5th edition. This 5th edition was conducted following two methodological approaches to measuring poverty outlined respectively in the 2021 ECAM5 test survey in line with previous ECAMs, and the 2022 main ECAM5, aligned with the new approach recommended by the World Bank and already implemented in WAEMU countries1 and some Central African countries including the Central African Republic, Chad and Congo. Overall, results show that the objective of reversing the poverty trend has not been achieved since the poverty incidence, which stood at 38.6%2 in 2021 as against 37.5% in 2014, moves away from the NDS30 target of 30.8% set for 2030.
