On 30 April 2025, civil society in Cameroon adopted the PLANOSCAM (Plateforme Nationale des Organisations de la Société Civile Cameroun) strategic plan. This strategic document, which is based on Annual Operational Plans (AOPs), is Planoscam’s scorecard for the period 2025-2030. Its aims include strengthening citizen control with a view to improving public policies and enhancing the expertise of civil society organisations.
Meeting on 30 April 2025 in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s civil society players adopted the PLANOSCAM (National Platform of Civil Society Organisations of Cameroon) strategic plan. Covering the period 2025-2030, the plan focuses on institutional development, financial autonomy, territorial networking and responses to socio-political and economic change.
“This strategic plan is a walking document. It’s a tool that is going to help us and give orientation to our work. In accompanying or complementing public efforts to address the challenges we have in the country within the next five years.You have orientations that have to do with the civil society, capacity building and institutional development. You have aspects that have to do with advocacy and influencing public action.You have other actions that have to do with the communication and ensuring that our work is visible and impactful. ”
Stanley Tomber, Vice-president of PLANOSCAM – Cameroon
With the implementation of this five-year strategic plan aligned with the national development strategy (SND30), Planoscam aims to position itself as a watchdog by acting wisely and in line with the role of civil society, which is to defend and promote human rights, but also to position itself to better observe, diagnose, monitor and evaluate the processes, results, effects and impacts of central and territorial public action.
“Taking back from the lessons we have learned. I think one of our key strategies is simply about stakeholder involvement. We know our country is facing various challenges and it tells us that we have at any point in time to engage a broad based pool of actors from the media to the civil society, the private sector and the government, which is the key driving engine.”
Stanley Tomber, Vice-president of PLANOSCAM – Cameroon
Created in 2010, Planoscam is the result of collaboration between Cameroonian CSOs, the government and international donors, notably the European Union. Its mission is to work towards a Cameroon where civil society plays a full role in the dialogue on public policy.
