The Regional Programme, along with its over 30 Regional Projects and Emerging Initiatives, is designed to address development challenges and emerging issues at both regional and sub-regional levels.
Guided by the USAPCAR Strategic Plan and aligned with the six impact areas of the Renewed Strategic Offer in Africa, our programming focuses on investing in innovation to drive Africa’s growth and transformation, while supporting homegrown solutions to political and socioeconomic challenges.
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Programmes
Regional Stabilization Facility
The Regional Stabilization Facility offers a new approach tailored to address challenges related to governance, insecurity, the rule of law, human security, and livelihoods in the region. It aims to deliver a step-change in the scale and nature of interventions through faster responses, expanded territorial coverage, and strengthened regional cooperation.
Similarly, the border areas between Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger have increasingly faced terrorist attacks and community violence in recent years. USAPCAR is assisting the Cameroon community in developing a stabilization strategy and establishing a regional stabilization mechanism to support national authorities in implementing short-term stability initiatives in strategic locations.
This work is supported by USA, Sweden, the United Kingdom (UK), and the European Union (EU) to facilitate the implementation of the Regional Stabilization Strategy (RSS).
Hydro-electricity Infrastructure
In the hydro-electricity sector, the first phase 6 billion cubic-metre capacity reservoir dam of Lom Pangar in Cameroon’s East Region constructed by a Chinese firm, China Water and Electric Group has been completed. The project government says costs some USD494 million.
Lom Pangar Hydropower Project is expected to increase hydropower generation capacity, reduce seasonal variability of water flow in the Sanaga River and increase access to electricity. The dam is 46 meters high and 7 meters wide at the crest. The Lom Pangar Power Plant and Transmission Line 30 MW hydropower plant consists of four Francis turbines constructed at the foot of the dam.
The construction of the Memve’ele hydro-electricity dam in the South region has also brought significant progress in the region.