Discussions with the Director of Operations and her World Bank team concerned the lessons learned from experiences, with regards to inclusion and resilience underway in the 7 Cameroonian cities concerned by the project, namely:  Yaoundé, Douala, Batouri, Kumba, Ngaoundéré, Maroua and Kousséri. Both parties also highlighted their common desire to speed-up the implementation of identified activities in each city concerned by the project, so as to enable the project to achieve its development goals. These include capacity building for inclusive and resilient urban management and upgrading urban infrastructures, in a bid to increase access to basic services in precarious neighborhoods.  With its budget worth XAF 93 billion, PDVIR plans inter alia to tar 28.051 kilometres of roads and to construct 7.256 kilometres of drains.

During this audience, the issue concerning the extension of PDVIR’s closing deadlines slated for 2024 was discussed. The Minister of Housing and Urban Development availed the opportunity to table in the proposal of the Cameroonian Government to move to the second phase of the project, in a bid to include a maximum of cities and to meet the urgent needs of urbanization and housing within regional and local authorities.