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  Bihndumlem Humanitarian Association of Peace and Hope (BIHAPH) together with partners have launched a 6month project focused on Providing Space for an Increased Citizen Participation and Civic Engagement, as major tools for Conflict Transformation and Peace Building in the Bamenda I, II and III Sub-Divisions with the North West Region. Launched in the presence of over 200 local community leaders and actors, the project aims at reducing the rate of violence and enhance the participation of Community members in peace Building in the NWR using a Bottom-Top approach. BIHAPH will in the next couple of months support actions in the communities that are geared towards Building peace while encouraging and promoting Communities advocating for peace. Mme Mih Bibiana Executive Director BIHAPH According to the Executive Director of BIHAPH, Mih Bibiana Mbei DIGHAMBONG, the motivation of BIHAPH and partners stem from the prolonged crisis within the NWR where communities currently live in...

The Cameroon GCE board was officially created in 1993, according to a book titled " The Cameroon GCE Crisis: A Test of Anglophone Solidarity." The book says the creation of the board was spearheaded by Anglophone community groups, such as the Teachers' Association of Cameroon (TAC), led by Mr. Peter Chateh; churches; Confederation of Anglophone Parents’ Teachers’ Association of Cameroon (CAPTAC), with other trade union groups also playing a pivotal role in the creation of the board. It took 10 years, from 1983 to October 1993 for a consensus to be reached by the aforementioned groups and the Government of Cameroon to create an examination board to award certificates to Anglophone Cameroonian students. Following the creation of the Board, the Ministry of National Education set up an Ad Hoc Committee to write the text of application to the 1 July 1993 decree. On 12 October 1993, the Prime Minister signed the Text of Application; Order Nº: 112/CAB/PM to define and determine...

  The International Day for the Elimination of Child Labour is being celebrated each year on June 12 th . As we celebrate the World Day Against Child Labour 2021, with the theme “Act Now: End Child Labour!” we should focus on actions that will eliminate child labour in our community and country at large. This day was unanimously adopted in a UN General Assembly resolution in 2019 and was aimed to urge government to do what is necessary to achieve Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’S). A child is every human being below the age of 18 years. Child Labour is work that deprives a child or children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity. Child labour harms children mentally, physically, socially and morally. It interferes with their schooling, preventing them from attending or concentrating. It may involve them being enslaved, separated from their families, and exposed to serious hazards and illness. The socio-political crisis in Cameroon and the...

  Initiated by a German-based NGO WASH United in 2014, World Menstrual Hygiene Day (WMHD) is an annual awareness day to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management. Observed on May 28, the commemoration seeks to acknowledge that 28 days is the average length of the menstrual cycle. World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021, aims to create awareness and change negative perceptions around menstrual hygiene. Menstruation, period or monthly, is the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina.    This year’s theme, “Action and Investment in Menstrual Hygiene and Health”, is clarion call for tax free pads or free provision of pads like the case of Condoms. This clarion call is as a result of the fact that approximately 800 million women and girls are having their period right now, yet across the globe, they face barriers to properly manage them. This calls for a world free of period poverty and stigma and ...