The Bafut council in the Bafut Sub
Division of the North West region of Cameroon is a very vast municipality
covering a surface area of 420 km2 and made up of 54 villages. It is thus very
difficult for council agents to constantly move round the different
villages gathering relevant information whenever a project is about to be distributed.
But thanks to the ProADP software provided by PNDP, the Bafut council area has
been summarized in a unique platform. With the tool, the mayor and his collaborators
can easily have an overview of the state of affairs in all the nooks and crannies of
the council area without necessarily conducting feld works at all times. It is
a tool which with a glance you know the particularities of the council area.
Practically, and according to the Council Development
Ofcer, with just one click or two, you can discover the number of existing
infrastructure in the Bafut Municipality in terms of buildings, road network,
schools, hospitals, markets, bridges and many more. Information is even more
specifed with the Pro-ADP software in such a way that you can easily identify
where projects are needed in the council area, where projects are in progress
in the council area and where projects are abandoned. It gives also a closer
look at the council personnel and support staff. The
mayor must not all the time rush to seek the services of the human resource
manager to know the situation of the staff
because all is contained in the software. The mayor of the Bafut council in an
extensive interview made us to understand that the fact that the Bafut council
is summarized in a platform has been of great help to the municipality. An
example being that the council now has a caterpillar grader offered
by the elites of the locality who are in the Diaspora, after they were
presented the challenges of the municipality with the use of the council
support database. Many other achievements have been made within a record period
of time given that the functioning of the council and the representation of all
the villages in the Bafut council are found in the Pro-ADP software.
