Municipality of Mbalmayo

Cameroon | MBALMAYO (DEPARTEMENT DU NYONG ET SO’O) | Neighbourhood - Village DEPOT

Saturday 04 March 2023 at 07:37 | Sunday 05 March 2023 at 07:38

The commune of Mbalmayo has existed since 31 August 1950. With an area of 650 km2, the commune of Mbalmayo is made up of the Bane, Ewondo and other ethnic groups from other regions of Cameroon and elsewhere.

The commune of Mbalmayo has 2 groups (North Bane and Central Bane) and 28 villages with 3rd degree chieftaincies.

Economic activities

The main economic activities in the commune of Mbalmayo are agriculture, livestock, fishing, handicrafts, forestry, small-scale trade, micro-finance, wood processing industries, etc.

Social infrastructure

Educational, health, sports and road infrastructures, water, electricity and telecommunication networks, markets, etc.

Communal heritage

Buildings, rolling stock, land, infrastructure...

Network of relations

Tutelle, SDE, traditional chiefs, religious congregations, NGOs, associations, ICGs, development partners.

Main strengths

Effective participation of advisors in sessions;
Commissions operational on the whole, during sessions;
Dynamic and visionary communal executive
Dynamic and committed mayor who unites his team around a common vision;
Dedicated and available staff;
Existence of a union of communes in the department (SYCONYS);
Strong elite grouped within a development association (ADENSO);
Good management of partnerships.

Main weaknesses

Non-compliance with legal provisions relating to the number of sessions to be held per year (the Commune is limited to 2 sessions: voting of the budget and adoption of the administrative and management accounts);
Non-attachment of campaign plans to the MTEF and AIP, contained in the CDP;
Poor dissemination of council meeting resolutions and lack of ownership by municipal councillors of their role in relaying information to the grassroots;
No work programme planned by the council's technical commissions during the inter-session;
Non-respect of legal provisions relating to the deadlines for holding budget voting sessions and adopting administrative and management accounts;
Non-compliance with legal provisions relating to the submission of management accounts to the audit chamber;
Dependence on the CACs;
Delay in the payment of staff salaries;
Non mastery of the exact number of taxpayers;
Low level of maturation of projects to be submitted to the public investment programme;
Absence of an inventory of assets.

Opportunities

Availability of a Communal Development Plan;
Availability of a Strategic Development Plan for the town of Mbalmayo, with a town contract with MINHDU;
More than 45% of the councillors have a high level of education;
All the councillors come from the same political group;
Good representation of women and youth in the municipal council;
Availability of a core group of qualified staff to draw on;
Diversity of relationships.

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