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Law n ° 2019/023 of December 24, 2019 on the finance law of the Republic of Cameroon for the financial year 2020 has been available since the end of 2019 and its implementation started in January 2020. Due to the health crisis, the said law was revised from 4.951.7 billion FCFA to 4.409 billion CFA francs, ie a decrease of 542.7 billion corresponding to -11.0%. It is in this context that CRADEC, member of the Civil Society Reference Group for the Transparency of Public Finances in consortium with REACH-OUT was appointed by COSADER, to organize and run an information campaign on the Law. 2020 Finance Committee and its announced Budget Collective and serve as a dissemination space for the 2020 Citizen Budget in the South-West region.

On the sidelines of the pre-validation workshop of the study on IFFs, the Task Force as well as the members of the consortium and the project implementation team, had a day of capacity building in understanding and use of tools; and influence and mobilization of other stakeholders in the monitoring of tax equity and IFFs for optimal mobilization of budgetary resources in Cameroon.

Leakage of tax and customs resources in Cameroon is possible, both due to billing fraud, and the misuse of tax agreements and benefits, are among others the different forms of Illicit Financial Flows (IFF), underlines the consultant Idriss Linge During the pre-validation workshop of the report of the study he conducted on IFFs in commercial exchanges in Cameroon at CICM, Mvolyé / Yaoundé, this August 18, 2020.

Within the framework of the Cameroon - European Union, the European Delegation in Cameroon launched in 2017, a call for proposals to support Cameroonian civil society organizations for their contribution to inclusive and sustainable growth in Cameroon. This initiative is part of the thematic program "Civil Society Organizations and Local Authorities" (2014-2020).

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