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Yaoundé, 9 December 2020-- “Thank you for selecting our municipality for this project. Our population has been hit hard by COVID-19”, stated the Mayor of the district of Yaoundé 2, Mr Ayissi Eloundou in his opening speech at the first meeting of the local monitoring committee of the UN-Habitat project  “Fostering partnership for leaving no one behind in addressing COVID-19 socioeconomic recovery plan in Cameroonian Cities” funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

In collaboration with local authorities and key national institutions, the project aims to contribute to the reduction of the negative socioeconomic effects of COVID-19 by ensuring the necessary data is available to  municipalities to promote evidence based socioeconomic recovery. Special attention is given to engaging local communities in participating in the response and recovery efforts and empowering women, youths, and persons living with disabilities. Local authorities are supported in  developing municipal socioeconomic recovery plans while considering other crises affecting the vulnerable urban populations.

A member of the local monitoring committee, Mr Bertrand Kemoun, the representative of a youth organization, Association des Amis Solidaires, stressed how youths have been victims of the indirect effects of COVID-19: “Due to the economic slowdown there are less job opportunities for the young and their education has suffered because of the closure of schools.”