The Public Contracts Regulatory Agency (ARMP) has set the objective to reduce by 75 per cent activities that constitute sources of corruption in the processing of tender files for the award of contracts by mid- September 2012. The action that is within the framework of the Rapid Results Initiative put in place as part of the implementation of the National Strategy for the fight against corruption, concern the administrative structures in Douala I, local authorities of Garoua and the sub-contracting authorities of Buea and Limbe.

The Rapid Results Initiative in the public contracts sector, the Director General of the Public Contracts Regulatory Agency, Jean-Jacques Ndoudoumou launched in Garoua on June 5, 2012, has so far been implemented at the rate of 72 per cent. Officials of ARMP in charge of putting in place the actions contained in the programme in collaboration with the National Anti-corruption Commission (CONAC) and Change Habits Oppose Corruption (CHOC) Project, presented a mid-term review yesterday, August 6, 2012. The Director General of ARMP, also described as the political leader of the programme, chaired the event.

The coach of the implementation team, Onobiono Amos in a presentation, said the first 50 days were over with 72 per cent success rate recorded and the remaining 28 per cent has to be attained by mid-September 2012 when the programme will clock 100 days. The work of the team is in areas such as training and sensitization, strengthening control, sanctioning and transparency in the process of awarding tenders, follow-up and evaluation of monthly activities of team members, reward of best actors and improvement of working conditions. He said the results obtained were concrete and measurable. Jean Jacques Ndoudoumou corroborated the declaration, stating that dysfunctions and petitions in the public contracts sector have greatly reduced. He said the culture of good practices has to be maintained so that contracts be awarded only to deserving contractors.