ACTIONSACTIVITIESPERIODIMPLEMENTING BODYIMPLEMENTATION STATUSOBSERVATIONS/ VERIFICATION SOURCESAction 4.1 - Ensure the steering of the roadmapActivit
| ACTIONS | ACTIVITIES | PERIOD | IMPLEMENTING BODY | IMPLEMENTATION STATUS | OBSERVATIONS/ VERIFICATION SOURCES |
| Action 4.1 – Ensure the steering of the roadmap | Activity 4.1.1: Elaborate a Communication strategy for the Roadmap | 2021-2021 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office | Executed | Report of the CAH approved by the Chair of CONAFE and the PM/HG |
| Activity 4.1.2: elaborate project fact sheets | 2021-2021 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office | Ongoing | Project fact sheets elaborated but are yet to be updated | |
| Activity 4.1.3: Mobilise financing for the activities of the Roadmap | 2021-2021 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office | Ongoing | Draft funding strategy elaborated (costs and sources of funding identified, related funding to be mobilised) | |
| Activity 4.1.4: Monitor and evaluate the Roadmap | 2021-2025 | CONAFE (Lead body ) PM’s Office | Ongoing | The draft monitoring-evaluation strategy elaborated, update of the organic framework engaged with a view to implementing an ideal institutional monitoring-evaluation framework | |
| Activity 4.1.5: monitor the functioning of CONAFE | 2021-2025 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office | Executed | Continuous and effective activity in 2021 | |
| Action 4.2 – Make trade facilitation a development priority by introducing it into Cameroon’s development policy | Activity 4.2.1: Finalize the Roadmap and ensure government validation | 2021-2021 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office | Executed | |
| Activity 4.2.2: Integrate the implementation programme of the TFA into the post GESP | 2021-2021 | MINEPAT (Lead body ) CONAFE PM’s Office | Executed | This integration is effective, through NDS30 and the Circular of the Head of State relating to the preparation of the State Budget. Through the National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (NDS30), Government has reaffirmed its willingness to see to the effective implementation of pertinent trade facilitation measures, the full national strategy relating to the African Continental Free Trade Area (Fact) In the Circular relating to the preparation of the State Budget for the 2020 fiscal year, the President of the Republic instructed the continuation of efforts to facilitate trade and reduce delays for the passage of goods, in order to increase the competitiveness of our ports and airports. | |
| Action 4.3 – Popularize and promote the ownership of the Trade Facilitation Agreement | Activity 4.3.1: Organize workshops | 2021-2025 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office | Not executed | Popularization strategy elaborated in 2021 – carried over to 2022 |
| Activity 4.3.2: Produce information brochures on the TFA | 2021-2025 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office | Not executed | Popularization strategy elaborated in 2021 – Carried over to 2022 | |
| Activity 4.3.3: Produce memos on TFA for target structures | 2021-2025 | CONAFE (Lead body ) PM’s Office | Not executed | Popularization strategy elaborated in 2021 – Carried over to 2022 | |
| Action 4.4 – Ensure regular production and publication of data on trade facilitation | Activity 4.4.1: Elaborate and update the Roadmap indicators | 2021-2025 | CONAFE (Lead body ) PM’s Office | Ongoing | A first deliverable produced by CAH on the implementation of the NRTF in 2021 Finalization of the elaboration of indicators and ownership of tools in 2022 |
| Activity 4.4.2: Regularly conduct a sequence analysis | 2021-2025 | CONAFE (Lead body ) PM’s Office | Ongoing | Continuation of the calculation of global shipping time for containers in 2021 – Resumption of sequence analyses in 2022 | |
| Activity 4.4.3: Regular update of portals intended for the publication of trade information by focal points | 2021-2025 | CONAFE (Lead body ) PM’s Office | Executed | Lead body MINCOMMERCE Technical Support GUCE (www.cameroontradeportal.cm) and CNSC (www.cameroontradehub.cm) – Activity effective in 2021 for the two structures – Continuation of the activity in 2022 | |
| Action 4.5 – Designate a national coordinator in charge of the international transit of goods | Activity 4.5.1: Elaborate a draft regulatory instrument defining the status and missions of the national transit coordinator | 2021-2021 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office MINT | Not executed | Training of transit coordinators conducted in 2021 with a view to implementing this activity in 2022 |
| Activity 4.5.2: Designate a national transit coordinator | 2021-2021 | CONAFE (Lead body ) PM’s Office MINT | Not executed | Carried over to 2022 | |
| Action 4.6 – Conduct a Time Release Study (TRS) | Activity 4.6.1: Assess the implementation of recommendations from the 2017 TRS | 2021-2024 | CONAFE (Lead body ) PM’s Office DGD/MINFI | Not executed | Execution of the action plan started – Assessment carried over to 2022 |
| Activity 4.6.2: Carry out and publish TRS every two (2) years | 2021-2024 | CONAFE (Lead body ) PM’s Office DGD/MINFI | Carried over to 2023 Examine the possibility of extending the scope of action of the upcoming TRS to include transit | ||
| Action 4.7 – Establish a strategy to coordinate the publication of information through available trade information portals | Activity 4.7.1: Elaborate a procedures manual on the updating of trade information portals | 2021-2021 | MINCOMMERCE (Lead body) CONAFE PM’s Office | Ongoing | – Manual on the coordination of information designed by MINCOMMERCE in 2021. – MINCOMMERCE set up a Steering Committee to coordinate the publication of trade information. The CNSC and the GUCE are members of this committee – In 2022: Update and disseminate the Manual |
| Activity 4.7.2: Create an information point | 2021-2021 | MINCOMMERCE (Lead body) CONAFE PM’s Office | Not executed | Carried over to 2022 Possibility allowed for the establishment of several information points | |
| Action 4.8 – Revise the Chad- Cameroon and CAR-Cameroon bilateral agreements | Activity 4.8.1: Review bilateral agreements on interstate transit of goods | 2022-2025 | MINT (Lead body) MINREX CONAFE PM’s Office | Executed | – Draft agreements revised and forwarded to Chad and CAR for observations – CMR-CAR: Agreement returned to MINREX for joint commission discussions – CMR-CHAD: Reaction from Chad still awaited |
| Activity 4.8.2: Initiate negotiations with Chad and CAR | 2022-2025 | MINT (Lead body) MINREX CONAFE PM’s Office | Not executed | – Meetings of main joint commissions expected – Urge the convening of these meetings in 2022 (Invite MINREX to meetings of the Technical Secretariat) | |
| Action 4.9 – Establish review procedures related to quality control tests during importation | Activity 4.9.11: Elaborate a procedures manual on quality control during importation | 2021-2022 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office Administrator and border control bodies | Executed | – Include MINMIDT and ANOR as implementing bodies; – MINMIDT published a Press Release presenting the terms and conditions for the application of the PECAE programme as from 15 November 2021; – In 2022, finalise the dematerialization of related procedures (ANOR, GUCE, DGD, SGS, INTERTEK) |
| Activity 4.9.2: Sign an instrument defining procedures for quality control | 2021-2022 | CONAFE (Lead body) PM’s Office Administrator and border control bodies | Executed | MINMIDT published a Press Release specifying the terms and conditions for the application of the PECAE programme as from 15 November 2021; | |
| Action 4.10 – Operationalize the programme for Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs) | Activity 4.10.1: Organize an annual workshop on AEOs | 2021-2025 | DGD/MINFI (Lead body) CONAFE PM’s Office | Not executed | |
| Activity 4.10.2: Sign a text determining the terms and conditions for the approval of AEOs | 2021-2025 | DGD/MINFI (Lead body) CONAFE PM’s Office | Ongoing | Draft decree elaborated, and pending the approval of the dedicated Inter-ministerial Working Group, for transmission to the PM’s Office for signature. The scheduled deadline of the Working Group is January 2022. | |
| Activity 4.10.3: Elaborate and implement an AEOs programme | 2021-2025 | DGD/MINFI (Lead body) CONAFE PM’s Office | Ongoing | – Draft Road Map elaborated by the dedicated Working Group and approved by MINFI in 2021; – Implementation as from 2022 | |
| Activity 4.10.4: Implement the AEOs steering project. | 2021-2025 | DGD/MINFI (Lead body) CONAFE PM’s Office | Not executed | The pilot phase is structured; enterprises to be included in the pilot phase have been selected Planned for 2022 |
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