Abstract
Regional institutions remain a spring board for the development of the rural council areas in the North West Region of Cameroon. An example is the Grassfield Participatory and Decentralized Rural Development Project, GP-DERUDEP operating in the North West region of Cameroon. These institutions carry out innovations in the council area development process. Today, with specific or common development policies they make significant contributions to the council area development process. They use the council areas as the unit for development activities and international institutions, the local councils, village organizations and the council area population as their partners in development. This study brings to focus the policies and actions as well as the performance of GP-DERUDEP, a regional development institution analyzing its contributions in the development process. The methodology consisted of a study of published and unpublished scientific documents and project institutional reports on development activities in the various council areas. This was completed with field survey in project areas. The result is revealing as evidence in the council areas show a significant innovation of the development process through capacity building of beneficiaries and the construction of socio economic infrastructure. But there is need for a close monitoring of the realizations especially the physical infrastructure if sustainable quality service provision is to be assured.
Highlights
Institutions as a whole remain a springboard for development (Doner, 2010)
The constant increase in the population of the world and the important socio economic role of rural council areas today such as the feeding of the urban population add to the many reasons for governments through institutions to focus on the need to improve on the living conditions of the rural dwellers
The legal and institutional framework for development in Cameroon has greatly evolved towards the creation of both national and regional institutions that has the objective of systematically planning, execute, evaluate and monitor development endeavors at a regional scale
Summary
Institutions as a whole remain a springboard for development (Doner, 2010). Regional institutions play a very important role to the development of council areas in the world today. The constant increase in the population of the world and the important socio economic role of rural council areas today such as the feeding of the urban population add to the many reasons for governments through institutions to focus on the need to improve on the living conditions of the rural dwellers. Karlheinz, Talis and Gianluca (2009), commented that for these reasons rural areas and communities are becoming a very important starting point and platform for sustainable development They attributed this to the fact that farmers who are the majority in rural areas are very important socio economic and cultural actors. In Cameroon, these institutions include the councils and their partner institutions like the National Community Driven Programme, PNDP, the Community Development Support Project, PADC, the North West Development Authority and its sub project the Grassfield Participatory and Decentralized Rural Development Project, GP-DERUDEP They all operate either at the national or regional scales. A variety of programs and projects have resulted from these rural development www.ccsenet.org/jsd
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