This execution rate is down compared to the same period in 2019 (42.27%) and 2018 (52.31%). The execution rate of the Public Investment Budget (BIP) in Cameroon for the first semester of 2020 is down compared to the same period in 2019 and in 2018, when it was respectively 42, 27% and of 52.31%. That for this year is 40.62%.
Rosette Moutymbo Ayayi, the President of the National Committee for onitoring the Physical and Financial execution of public investment explains that this decrease is due “to the fact that the government has taken it upon itself to improve a certain number of procedures at the level of the physical and financial execution of the BIP.
They are based on axes such as the contraction of start-up times for budget execution, optimal appropriation of procedures by all stakeholders, strengthening support for all stakeholders in the execution of the BIP .
Due to the difficulties recorded in the execution process and further accentuated by the Coronavirus pandemic, several regions have been affected by this pandemic. In the Central region, for example, the execution rate plummeted from 19.62% to 7.7%.
Also, our colleague recalls that: “in favor of the amending ordinance of the 2020 budget, the allocation of the BIP for the financial year 2020 was reduced by 242 billion FCFA from 1496.3 billion to 1254.3 billion FCFA.
During the first semester, public investment according to the instructions of the President of the Republic focused, among other things, on the acceleration of the State’s policy in matters of decentralization and local development, the completion of the three-year emergency plan for the acceleration of growth ”
