Outsourcing: Opportunities to be seized by SMEs in Lom-Pangar

The Electricity development corporation (Edc) company presented the different areas in which SMEs can outsource.

Small and medium-sized Cameroonian enterprises (SMEs) now know what to think about the possibilities of subcontracting Electricity Development Corporation (Edc).

During the 3rd day meeting organized by the Exchange providers subcontracting and partnership of Cameroon (Bstp-Cmr) last Tuesday in Douala, these opportunities were clearly presented.

According to Alphonse Emadak, Assistant Director for Communication and Environment of the proposed Lom-Pangar "other projects such as the Touraké bridge are sites that will last for two years from 2016; it will also be built to prepare for fishing in Lom Pangar, especially since we are on a retaining dam of 6 billion m 3 of water and 540 000 m² lake surface. There will be a lot of fish and we can move from small-scale industrial or semi-industrial fishing. So there are a lot of economic opportunities and opportunities for subcontracting in the proposed Lom-Pangar," he informs.

"There is also the maintenance project of the dam and other various projects that will benefit SMEs, such as the construction of social infrastructure, schools, electrification of the city," says Evariste Yameni, director of the Bstp. It is joy to the interpatronal Group of Cameroon (Gicam), which is also a member of the steering committee of the Bstp.

Especially since, according to André Tuete Kwam, chairman of the commission accompanying the Gicam SMEs, the SME constitute 90% of the economic fabric of our country. "These SMEs are characterized by difficulties such as access to finance, but also access to markets, including public markets and big business markets. It is therefore important to understand the importance of measures to bring to SMEs to support and resolve problems faced by these companies, "he hoped.

Regarding the Lom Pangar dam, partial filling of the dam will be made on 15 September, a year before the complete filling of which will be in September 2016, informs Alphonse Emadak.

The Deputy Director of Communication and Environment of the project informed later that the site is not finished. "You can put 3 billion m 3 of water and continue to build the dam. It saves us a lot of money in terms of fuel economy during the dry season to cross the low water. These 3 billion m 3 will allow groups and turbines in Edea and Song-loulou to rotate during the low water level from 2015 to 2016," says Alphonse Emadak.