Cameroon: Regional Economic Communities Crucial in Accelerating AfCFTA Implementation
With the potential to create the world’s largest free trade area, AfCFTA represents a unique opportunity for African nations to boost their economies and improve the livelihood of their citizens YAOUNDE, January 25, 2024 – The African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, promises to be a game changer for Cameroon, with its single market of over 1.3 billion people and an estimated GDP of $2.6 trillion. Given the goals set by the government in its new National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (NDS30), there is a need to put in place a solid mechanism to ensure that the application of AfCFTA [...]
Cameroonians Urged to Fast-Track AfCFTA Implementation
Source : Pan African Visions YAOUNDE, January 19, 2024 – The African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, promises to be a game changer for Cameroon, with its single market of over 1.3 billion people and an estimated GDP of $2.6 trillion. More than four years, some snags have seen Cameroon still in the implementation phase of the agreement. Following a one-day panel discussion on January 19, 2024, organized by the Nkafu Policy Institute, a think tank of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation, experts admonished Cameroonians to fast-track the made in Cameroon products which will inadvertently see the Central [...]
SME Flagship and Job preparedness bootcamp trainings kicks off in the Center, West, and South-West regions!!!
Yaoundé, February 09, 2023 – The SME flagship and Job preparedness bootcamp trainings run by the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Center at the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation kicks off in the Center, West, and Southwest regions of Cameroon. After the official launch attended last January 19, 2023 by government officials and distinguished guests from the private sector, academia, SMEs, jobseekers, and the civil society, the pace is now set for effective training of the targeted 2000 SMEs and 6000 Job seekers mostly recruited within Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), women and youths. The Center region opens the floor with [...]
Foretia Foundation Receives New $505,000 Grant to Promote Economic Prosperity for Women and Youth
The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Center (SBEC) at the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation has received a new 505,000 USD grant from the Rising Tide Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), build entrepreneurial skills and promote free enterprise in Cameroon. The project entitled “Powering Prosperity and Economic Freedom for Women and Youths in Cameroon” seeks to build a more robust and diverse middle class, foster economic freedom and empower women and youth. The project will particularly focus on vulnerable populations, especially those internally displaced as a result of the ongoing armed conflict [...]
Fri Asanga Appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Foretia Foundation
The Board of Directors of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation is very pleased to announce that Ms. Fri Asanga has been selected as the next Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation
