Fact sheet revised Program results (2015- 1st September 2022)

Key figures

Component A:  Develop agro-pastoral enterprises

• 56 facilitators trained by 4 NGO on the use of materials to ease the increase relating to project ideas;
• 28,455 people sensitized, including 9,162 (35,21%) women and 18 435 (64,79%) men. Compared to the objective at the end of the project (25.200), this equates to a performance of 112.92%;
• 14 contracts with 14 incubation structures signed;
• 7 017 project idea selected by CRV, including 2674 ideas sponsored by women (38.10%);
• 3702 youths with Economic Initiative (PIE) including men and 1,476 women (39.87%) incubated by the program;
•  2,279 youths CEI financed by the program in installation kits (start-up), on the objective of 3,700 at the end of the project, a performance of 61.59% since 2015 for 2,573,712,766 FCFA;
• 410,751,660 FCFA mobilized by youths with economic initiatives to set up their enterprises;
• 235,031,474 FCFA contribution of Rural Funding Institutions (RFI) as productive credits to 734 (PIE)
• 89 business coaches (follow-up support businesses advisers) of committed PIE and in place within the incubation structures;
• 20 follow-up support advisers for EIS trained on the TRIE-CREE tools of the ILO;
• 59 follow-up support adviser’s / business coaches of incubation structures trained on ILO SIYB tool;
• 20 business advisers AEP-Youth and its EIS trained on the ILO TRIE-CREE tools;
• 01 gender targeting strategy in process;
• 01 communication strategy developed and in the implementation process.

Component B:  Access to financial services

• 3,702 youths sensitised on the best practises in business relations with RFIs
• 65 persons sensitised on RFI procedures, mechanism and tool to manage the partnership and finance the of AEP-Youth
  
  
• 11 partnership agreements with RFIs signed
• 2279 starter kits granted
• 734 productive loans granted
• 3 219 495 900 already committed to finance youth enterprises 
• 40 peoples trained to manage agricultural risks;
• 10 people trained in agricultural finance expertise
• An operational partner RFI refinancing fund
• A mechanism to share the risk incurred by RFI operational partners

Component C: Improve the organisational, legal, institutional and legislative framework

• 03 business cards promoted by AEP-Youth developed and staff trained on the tools;
• 01 working group created to conduct diagnosis of the business area in the agro-pastoral sector and support the policy of improving the business area for TPE and PE concerning agriculture and livestock;
• The EESE methodology adapted to the agro-pastoral sector
• Various interim studies provided for by the EESE methodology carried out, the final report consolidated finalized and adopted in 2019 and a roadmap drawn up for transmission to the component bodies  
• Draft orientation law relating to agro-pastoral sector in Cameroon prepared;
• Easy access to land security, 1,047youth, including 381 developers who have signed contracts for the rental of exploited land;
• Develop A support plan for standardization and quality in the plant and animal sectors promoted by the APE-Youth;

Component D: Coordination, management, monitoring-evaluation and knowledge management

• Existence of Regional Advisory Support Units;
• Availability of the various manuals: administrative accounting and financial procedures, monitoring evaluation, monitoring evaluation plan
• Existence of a dynamic monitoring and evaluation application;
• Existence of baseline studies Socio-economic RIMS and definition of reference values for all indicators;
• The validation of the monitoring and evaluation development tools, training of staff in their use;
• Permanent carrying out of audit account:
• Program staff trained/retrained on the AEP-youth M E system (Hive application, SGBD) and various planning and monitoring-evaluation tools
• Existence of the geo-referencing tool and around 1600 geo-localized JEA;
• Tom ’Pro software operational in local and online version;
• Management strategy of operational knowledges.