IOM Community facilitation team (CFT) capacity building in IGA and waste management in North West (Santa, Ntamulun) and South West (Batoke, Mudeka)

IOM Community facilitation team (CFT) capacity building in IGA and waste management in North West (Santa, Ntamulun) and South West (Batoke, Mudeka)

“Supporting Displaced and Crisis Affected Populations in Cameroon’s Far North, North-West, and South-West Regions for Recovery and Resilience Building for Humanitarian Development Peace NEXUS” (hereinafter Japan 4) funded by the Government of Japan plans a series of trainings for promotion of youth entrepreneurship under Outcome two.

In this component, IOM is coordinating with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Cameroon and its Japanese technical consultants specialized in a Japanese world widely renowned 5S/KAIZEN concept,[1] in complementarity to JICA Cameroon’s ongoing technical assistance “Project on Strengthening Corporate Competitiveness through the Deployment of Comprehensive BDS Delivery System”.

In August, a baseline survey was conducted on the communities’s (internally displaced persons, host populations) needs assessment in business management, and waste management in the North West (Ntamulung, Santa) and South West (Batoke, Mudeka) regions on behalf of IOM in collaboration with JICA. Local community facilitation teams, business owners and community leaders were interviewed on the challenges that they faced in daily business management, community’s waste management.

After the baseline survey, we completed last week the training of the 22 community facilitation team ( of Santa, Ntamulun, Batoke and Mudelka) in business idea generation, Marketing (4P), costing, book-keeping, Kaizen approach, 5S and waste management.The training that was very practical and participative will help the participants in supporting the project beneficiaries in running their IGA (farming, livestock, restaurant, table market, etc).

At the end of the waste management training, each community group made a waste management action plan on how to organize the community in households’ waste management (mainly waste collection, community sensitization on waste management, dumping sites removal by community etc. ).

Since Kaizen is participative and universal, continuous improvement is also applied in community’s activities…