Cameroon - Second Technical Cooperation Project

Eocument of The World Bank FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Repot No.8833 PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT CAMEROON SECOND TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROJECT (CREDIT 1168-CM) JUNE 25, 1990 Country Operations Division Country Department I Africa Region This document has a restricted distribution and may be used by recipients only in the perfonnance of their official duties. Its contents may not otherwise be disclosed wlithoat World Bank athorization.  ABBREVIATIONS DCA: Development Credit Agreement DEPt Departement des Etudes et de la Planification IPD: Institut Panafricain de Dsveloppement MINAGRI: Ministere de l'Agriculture MINAS: Ministare 4es Affaires Sociales MINDICt .aistere du D4veloppement de l'Ir.dustrie et du Comerce MINFI: Ministere des Finances MINKEN: Ministare de l'Energie et des Mines MINPAT: Ministere de la Planification et de l'Amenagement du Territoire MINSANTE: Ministare de la Sante MINSCOF: Ministere de la Condition Ffbinine MINUH: Minister6 de l'Urbanisme et de l'Habitat PERP: Public Enterprises Reform Project SNI: Soci$te Nationale d'Investissement  THE V'r)RLD BANK FOR OMCIAL US ONLY Washrtn, . D.C 20433 - 5.A. Ofic o Owect.Gwa Operatum wiuatwun June 25, 1990 MEMORANDUM TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AND THE PRESIDENT SUBJECT: Project Completion Report on Cameroon - Second Technical Cooperation Proiect (Credit 1168-CM) Attached, for information, is a copy of a report entitled "Project Completion Report on Cameroon - Second Technical Cooperation Project (Credit 1168-CM)" prepared by the Africa Regional Office. No audit of this project has been made by the Operations Evaluation Department at this time. Attachment This documet has & restficted distbution and may be used by ripbets nly in the perfomcac of their official duties. Its contents may not otherwise be discbsod without Wald Banlk auwtion.  FOR OMCIAL USE ONLY CAMEROON SECOND TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROJECT (CREDIT 1168-CM) PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No. Preface ............................... .i Evaluation Summary ............................... . ... . ii I. PPOJECT REVIEW FROM BANK'S PERSPECTIVE .... 1 Project Identity....... * .. ............................ 1 Project Background ... 1 Project Objectives and Description .................... 2 Project Design and Organization .. 2 Project Implementation ... . 3 Major Results of Project .............................. 5 Training, Project Preparation and Institution Building 7 Bank Performance .......... ............................ 8 Borrower Performance ........ .......................... 9 Conclusion ............. ............................... 11 II. PROJECT REVIEW FROM BORROWER'S PERSPECTIVE ....... 12 III. STATISTICAL INFORMATION .................. ........ 13 Related Bank Loans . ..* .............. 13 Project Timetable ... ................................ 13 Project Costs and Finacing . . .................. ........ 14 Credit Disbursements . . .......................... 14 Status of Credit Covenenants .......................... 15 Use of Bank Resources . . .................... ...... 16 TABLE: Studies Financed under the Credit.............. 17 This document has a restricted distribution and may be used by recipients only in the performance of their official duties. Its contents may not otherwise be disclosed without World Bank authorization.  CAMEROON SECOND TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROJECT (CREDIT 1168-CM) PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT PREFACE 1. This is the Project Completion Report (PCR) for the Second Technical Cooperation Project in Cameroon for which Cr. 1168-CM in the amount o%f SDR 8.2 million was approved in June 1981. The Credit Closing Date, originally December 31, 1985, was postponed three times, to December 31, 1988 at Government's request. In keeping with the Bank's general practice, the Credit account was kept open a further six months to honor withdrawal applications arising from commitments made before the revised Closing Date. The Credit account was closed June 30, 1989 and the undisbursed balance of SDR 17,350 was cancelled. 2. This PCR was prepared by staff of the Country Operations Division of the Africa Occidental and Central Department (AFlCO). Part II, the Borrower's evaluation, is a translation, by AFlCO staff, of evaluative comments made ir. a completion report prepared in the Secretariat General of the Ministry of Plan and Territorial Development and forwarded to the Bark in March, 1989. The brevity of the Cameroonian authorities' r-eport reflects the difficulty the Secretariat General had in evaluting a project which had never been actively monitored by any central unit, for which at least nine different individuals had been theoretically responsible at one time or another over seven years and during which there were periods when no-one was officially designated as responsible for project management. 3. Preparation of this report was started in the course of a supervision carried out in November/December 1988 and was further discussed with the Authorities during a project completion mission. It is based, inter alia, on the Report and Recommendation of the President to the Executive Directors, the Development Credit Agreement, supervision reports, correspondence between the Bank and the Borrower and internal Bank memoranda.  - ii - CAMEROON SECOND TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROJECT (CREDIT 1168-CM) PROJECT COMPLETION tEPORT