The institution has granted a financing of approximately 20 billion to improve care for children and mothers in Cameroon.

The Board of Directors of the World Bank (WB) has approved, on June 24, a total of 40 million dollars (about 20 billion F) to help Cameroon to increase the availability of health services and to improve the quality in the northern regions of the country.

This funding was approved in respect to the trust fund Multi-donor for achieving results in the area of health through innovation (HRTIFF), the instrument of the WB for funding based on the results.

This envelope is divided into two parts: 10 billion F by donation and ten others in the form of credit.

"Through the use of the methods of funding based on the results, the project will allow the coverage of key maternal and child health services in Cameroon and to improve the quality," said Gregor Binkert, Director of operations of the World Bank in Cameroon.

Thanks to this funding, the investment project in support of the sector's health in Cameroon will continue to support poor households, particularly mothers and children.

Notably in helping to motivate community health workers and to directly put at their disposal the resources they need to rush to the rescue of the persons concerned. 26 health districts, receiving funding based on the results, are involved.

Beyond the four first regions already covered, the current initiative in particular is to target child and maternal health and communicable diseases such as tuberculosis.

Some 5.3 million people including women of childbearing age, adolescent girls and children less than five years will benefit.

With regard to the credit of 20 million dollars from the International Development Association (IDA), another institution of the World Bank, it will extend the period for the implementation of the investment project in support of the ongoing health sector in Cameroon and to extend coverage to poor families living in rural areas in the North of the country.

According to the World Bank, this project already recorded promising results: nearly 714 024 persons have benefited from the improvement of health care, 2044 TB cases were detected and treated and 56 895 children have been vaccinated.

According to Gaston Sorgho, team leader of the project at the World Bank, the focus is on the northern populations because they hardly receive health services, because of the long distances separating them and sanitary structures, the poor state of roads and lack of personal medical.