Visit in Douala : Interview with Prince kumA Ndume
In February 2023, a team of researchers from the Nkafu Policy Institute paid a courtesy visit to Prince kumA Ndume of Douala in the Littoral region. This was to better understand pre-colonial intra-African trade in the area that makes up modern-day Cameroon and its neighboring countries.
Visit in Mankon Fondom : interview with Fon Angwafor IV Fru Asaah
In February 2023, our team visited Fon Angwafor IV Fru Asaah of Mankon Fondom in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. This visit was to better understand pre-colonial intra-African trade in the area that makes up modern-day Cameroon and its neighboring countries.
Visit in Bimbia :Interview with the chief of Dikolo
In early January 2023, a team of the Nkafu Policy Institute visited Bimbia and met Chief Samuel Epupa Ekum, chief of Dikolo in Bimbia. From the discussion, it emerged that the slave trade, even though it was illicit, was a free trade. This history of free trade in Bimbia in the precolonial era may inspire the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), one of the 13 flagship projects of Agenda 2063, as it presents how trade in precolonial Africa was conducted freely with no or fewer barriers. Today, Bimbia is a small locality in Limbe 3 Subdivision in the [...]
A new wave of interns complete their journey with the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation
A new wave of interns complete their journey with the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation. Four months of work experience, skill development and knowledge acquisition. The happy learners expressed their joy and gratitude to the Management and their respective supervisors. They received their certificates of completion of the internship with full commitment to enter the professional world. The Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation team wishes you all the best.
Solutions to Grow Social Entrepreneurship For Sustainable Development
A hybrid event which went online and physical at the Mansel hotel hall , had a number of penalist from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Government officials from the Ministry of Small and Meduim Size Enterprises. The Research has as case study Cameroon , Burkina Faso and Ghana which all had similar factors such as economic freedom and equality , business facility Competitive environment and language. What can be done to help countries grow from the informal sector to the formal sector was the key question of the research. Using mixed research methods with primary and secondary data in Cameroon, [...]
Public Health Champion Awards
Public Health Champion Awards About the awards The Nkafu Policy Institute is a nonpartisan, independent think tank at the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Its mission is to provide independent, in-depth, and insightful policy recommendations that advance the Cameroonian economy and the economies of other sub-Saharan African countries. As a part of its first ever organised health forum, the organisation will be issuing an award to Best Public Health Champion in Africa. Rationale The rationale for recognizing public health champions is to recognize the efforts of individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to public health [...]
Documentary: Challenges Business Women Face In Accessing Finance
Documentary 1- WERC: Challenges business women face in accessing finances for Economic Growth in Cameroon
Women x-ray Challenges in Ascending to Leadership positions
The fifth-panel discussion on Promoting Women’s Economic Rights in Cameroon (WERC Project), this Friday, April 28, 2022, at the Muna Foundation in Yaounde was under the theme “Challenges faced by Women in ascending leadership positions in Cameroon.” Organized to promote women’s economic rights in Cameroon, the Coordinator of the Nkafu Policy Institute, Dr Kibu Odette, said: “It is important to note that many Cameroonian women hold positions of responsibilities but their economic power remains lower because they have limited access to decision-making positions.” Speaking during the panel discussion H.E Ama Tutu Muna, Member of the NCPBM and president of [...]
Ending the Anglophone Crisis brings Economic Development – WERC
Ending the Anglophone Crisis brings Economic Development – experts say at WERC It has been observed that women are the most affected in the more than five years crisis that has been ongoing in the country’s South West and North West Regions. Women are said to represent 71.6 per cent of workers in the informal sector and have a major role to play in ending the conflict and in reconstructing these two regions. The experts were speaking during the Fourth-panel discussion on Women’s Economic Rights in Cameroon, WERC this Friday, April 22, 2022, organized by the Nkafu Policy Institute, [...]
Key findings, Recommendations on Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurs, business incubators, capital providers and ecosystem enablers have been encouraged to specialize, collaborate, be autonomous and try to generate income for their structures. The experts were speaking during the in-country panel discussion this April 1, 2022, at the Mansel Hotel, Yaounde, held under the theme “Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development in sub-Sharan Africa: Lessons Learned from Business Incubation in Cameroon.” Following the in-country restitution workshop held on 27th August 2021, during which the draft data collection tools were presented to different stakeholders of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, five data collection tools were finalized for business support structures, ecosystem enablers, [...]
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