Capacity Building of Loan Beneficiaries in Littoral

A regional training seminar was organised in Douala to train beneficiaries of PIAASI Loans.

Beneficiaries of the loan offered by the Integrated Project to better the informal Sector known by its French acronym, PIAASI, are undergoing training in Douala on how they can efficiently manage their different micro-projects.
The PIAASI programme is one of the programmes put in place by the government to fight against unemployment of youths, and the goal is to support projects, rigorously selected by the Loans Committee for sponsorship so that these youths can become self-employed.
Giving a balance sheet of the projects since 2005, the Regional Delegate of Vocational Training and Employment, Adamou, he said 123 projects have already been financed this year at the sum of FCFA 80,000,000. He said giving the projects they have financed since 2005 till now, it is 634 projects which he said must have generated 2410 direct and indirect jobs. He added that efforts will be made to recover this loan which is been given out. He called on the trainees to make use of these opportunities to train themselves made possible by the government through the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment and PIAASI.
Following the training, they will be trained on the Socio-economic Environment and the Enterprise, which it is expected that the trainees will be able to understand the rights and obligations they will confront. In training on Management Initiatives, it is expected that in the end the trainees should be able to understand basic accounting techniques. In Strategic Management of the Projects, the trainees will have to learn to develop competence and management of their projects in the area of planning, organisation, programmation and communication and the informal sector conflicts and the urban community, they have to be able to identify the causes of conflicts and the solutions.
The Regional Technical Secretary of PIAASI Serge Paul Kwa Ngangue, outlined the functions of PIAASI, which he said is to organise, train and gives loans.
EFFA TAMBENKONGHO