By Doh James Sonkey
Thanks to C2D funds, since September 2025, six partner microfinance establishments have doled out the sum of FCFA 505 101 000 to micro enterprises. The revelation was made last December 4, 2025 in Yaoundé, by the National Coordinator of the Support Programme of the National Strategy of Financial Inclusion, PASNFI, N’djana N’duga Victor, during a press launch offered by the Technical Support Programme to the Execution of C2D in Cameroon, in the presence of the Coordinator of STADE C2D, Berthes Jeanine Tsafack.
He disclosed that this four years programme funded to the tune of FCFA 3.935.740.000 effectively started last January 2022 after the convention was signed on June 28, 2018.
So far, 22 microfinance establishments having innovative projects benefitted from funding from the programme to develop financial solutions adapted to the needs of rural agricultural and agrofood micro enterprises.
The project is implemented in the Centre, West, North West, Littoral, South West, Adamawa and North regions of Cameroon.
An official of the programme, Yeyap Emmanuel Pountougnin disclosed that, “we have trained more than 876 micro-finance actors, that is, elected officials, leaders of micro-finance agencies, in governance, in management of customers complaints. We have also done financial education, where we have trained more than 320 micro-businesses. And then there have been micro-finance actors who, on the basis of our grants, have also financially educated more than 1,500 micro-entrepreneurs.”
He added that “this pilot phase will last for around one year and six months. So, after three months, these six establishments out of 29 have already granted FCFA 505 million. So, we hope that the 2.5 billion objectives will be achieved, and even surpassed by the end of July 2027 when it ends.”
The programme focuses on increasing access to diverse, affordable financial services for vulnerable groups (youth, women, rural areas, MSMEs) to reach 65% of adults, building on previous efforts with enhanced infrastructure, literacy, and regulation. It is aimed at creating a more inclusive financial ecosystem, driving economic growth and poverty reduction by making financial services accessible and relevant for all Cameroonians.