PRONEC-REAMORCE

The National Institute of Youth and Sports at school

It was during the sixth session of the STALEC Division’s socio-professional exchange meeting, held at the NYIS on 08 May 2024 in Yaoundé under the theme “PRONEC-REAMORCE in the strategic deployment of the Youth and Action professionals”, that students and teachers of this academic institution enriched their knowledge of the new government framework on civic education and national integration.

 “This event is of the utmost importance because this is the place where a significant portion of the Staff of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Civic Education (MINJEC, editor’s note) are trained”. It is in these words that Pr. Paschal Kum Awah, national coordinator of the National Civic Education Programme through Moral, Civic and Entrepreneurial Rearmament (PRONEC-REAMORCE), who also serves as Technical Advisor No. 2 at MINJEC, underscored the need for this socio-professional exchange session conducted by a team from this ministerial department in the educational community of the NIYS.

He explained to these future youth counsellors that this major programme is the response of the Government of the Republic of Cameroon to the resurgence of incivility, and is therefore aimed at changing attitudes. In the same vein, MAHA HADJA spouse Ibrahim, PRONEC-REAMORCE coordinator No. 1 and also Director of Civic Education and National Integration, described the process by which the programme was drawn up, as a genuine concertation of stakeholders from different sectors, ensuring its cross-cutting nature and its impact on youths. She stressed that the mastery of this tool is vital for NIYS students if they are to be highly effective in the field. José Kun IV explained that it was crucial to inculcate an entrepreneurial culture in young people, by equipping them with entrepreneurial values and encouraging them to develop an ironclad mindset. Moreover, future NIYS graduates will be instrumental in building the confidence of young people in government initiatives, so that they can benefit fully from them.

Visibly satisfied with the quality of the presentations and discussions, Tifuh Reuben Cho, Head of the NIYS Division of Science, Animation Techniques, Leisure and Civic Education (STALEC), said, ‘there is still a lot to learn’. At the end of the meeting, the door was left open for future sessions for the ‘training of trainers’, going by the words of Professor Paschal Kum Awah.

                                                                                                                Boris Christian Zo’o