📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173240
Region: Africa west
Commitment Amount: Us$ 100.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 100.00 million
The proposed project is designed to accelerate country-wide digital transformation through four complementary components on the supply and demand sides of the digital economy.These components are designed to improve the foundational enabling environment for the digital economy (strategy, policy, and regulation), fill digital infrastructure gaps in rural areas that the private sector could not tackle alone, and develop digital services in the strategic agricultural sector.21.The potential impact of climate change will be addressed throughout the project, and mitigation measures will be incorporated. The project will assess the effects of heavy rainfall, floods, heat waves, severe droughts and geophysical hazards, and incorporate appropriate mitigation measures within the proposed activities, including the installation of the last-mile physical infrastructure and the rollout of digital agricultural technologies. The choice of technologies will incorporate climate change mitigation measures (e.g., the use of renewable energy for equipment). Component 1: Enabling Strategy, Policy, and Regulation for Digital Inclusion and Transformation (US$15 million)22.This component will support the Government of Cameroon (GoC) in improving the strategic, policy, and regulatory environment for the emergence of a vibrant, safe, and inclusive digital economy. Specifically, this component aims to establish an enabling environment for the development of a vibrant broadband market, expand the reach and coverage of digital broadband networks in rural areas, ensure last-mile connectivity to key public entities in these areas, foster an enabling environment for the safe and resilient development of digital services, and strengthen the digital sector’s institutional structure and capacity. Component 1 is articulated around three subcomponents, as detailed below.
