In November 2020, Cameroon thus adopted its new ten-year development plan with a name that no longer refers to a document, it is entitled the 2030 National Development Strategy (NDS30) and follows the GESP (2010-2019). Much has been said and written about the achievements and the outcome of this first strategy (phase 1 of the 2035 Vision). Our reviews have been widely disseminated and commented thereupon. Notwithstanding! To this end, we take note of the new directions and the commitments of the government, from the moment that national political authorities have endorsed them. From now on, our role is to support them to the best of our abilities and skills, and that is what we are going to try to do. Barely launched and without having made tentative steps, the NDS30 is caught up in an unfair competition with a new economic and financial programme. Indeed, according to the latest official reports, after weeks of official negotiations by top representatives of the Cameroonian Government, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to decide in the month of June (precisely on 25 June) to approve an umpteenth economic and financial programme for Cameroon. It simply means that the country is once again entering into a structural adjustment programme. Our intention is not being for or against, much less is the purpose of this policy note. At this moment, our concern by way of reflexion focuses on the capacities and the skills that are required to reconcile water and fire, arrange the union of incompatible sets and make the two programmes to coexist.
