Obstacles to the Implementation of Joint-funded Road Projects in Cameroon

Thomas D’Aquin Biyindi; Reine Amaleke Kinogo; Fabrice Kwefeu Mbakop; Atemengue Onambelé

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Obstacles to the Implementation of Joint-funded Road Projects in Cameroon

Thomas D’Aquin Biyindi, Reine Amaleke Kinogo, Fabrice Kwefeu Mbakop, Atemengue Onambelé

Published in American Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (Volume 7, Issue 1)

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The main objective of this research is to analyse and evaluate the determinants of the failure of the effective and efficient implementation of jointly financed road infrastructure projects in Cameroon. Specifically, we first analyse and assess the institutional and administrative determinants of the failure to implement jointly financed road infrastructure projects in Cameroon effectively and efficiently. Secondly, we analyses and assess the techno-financial determinants of the failure to implement jointly financed road infrastructure projects in Cameroon effectively and efficiently. In both cases, our methodology opted for a hypothetic deductive method through a questionnaire developed from direct and semi-direct interviews with the implementers of jointly financed road projects. Our main results, which are consistent with our hypotheses, show that in both cases, administrative red tape, long contracting times, late payment of accounts, deficiencies in design offices, release of rights of way, and late signing of compensation decrees, negatively influence the effective and efficient execution of jointly financed road infrastructure projects in Cameroon. On the basis of these results, this study concludes that there is inefficiency and ineffectiveness in the execution of the said road projects. Thus, we make a series of recommendations to the public authorities in order to formulate new development programmed and policies to be implemented within the framework of the various strategies and levers necessary to promote better management of road works in Cameroon, through proposals for better managerial and technical management in order to address the various bottlenecks preventing the normal progress of jointly financed road infrastructure projects in Cameroon. We will also suggest some strategies that would allow the fluidity of procedures related to the implementation of jointly financed road infrastructure projects in Cameroon.

Published in	American Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (Volume 7, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajetm.20220701.12
Page(s)	8-20
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Joint Financing, Achievements, Road Projects

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Thomas D’Aquin Biyindi

Civil Engineering Laboratory, Higher Institute of Science, Arts and Grafts, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Reine Amaleke Kinogo

Civil Engineering Laboratory, Higher Institute of Science, Arts and Grafts, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Fabrice Kwefeu Mbakop

Department of Renewable Energy, National Advanced School of Engineering, University of Maroua (UMa), Maroua, Cameroon
Atemengue Onambelé

Civil Engineering Laboratory, Higher Institute of Science, Arts and Grafts, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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