UNITED NATIONS SDGs AGENDA 2030 - REVIEW OF CAMEROON’S PERFORMANCE

According to SDG Center for Africa and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (2019): Africa SDG Index and Dashboards Report 2019. Kigali and New York: SDG Center for Africa and Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the following paragraphs highlights the general performance of Cameroon.

Cameroon’s overall performance according to the report had an Index Score of 51.5, a Regional Average Score of 45.5 and ranked 28th out of 52 countries with respect to Africa Index Rank.

The current assessment of Cameroon on the 2019 SDG Dashboard indicates that the country is facing major challenges with achieving SDGs 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16 and 17. Relating to SDGs 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10, there are significant number of challenges being faced whiles challenges still remain with respect to SDG 12, 13 and 15.

According to the SDG Trends of this report, Cameroon is moderately improving in the achievement level of SDGs 4, 7 and 8. Also the country is on track or maintaining SDG achievement with respect to SDG 13; Climate Action. The country according to the report seems to be stagnating in the area of achieving SDG 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 11. There is no available information on the country’s performance with respect to achieving SDGs 10 and 14. The report also recorded a decreasing performance in achieving SDG 15, 16 and 17.

The report further on gave information about the country comparing its performance with other African Indices; Cameroon scored 46.7 out of 100 and ranked 41 out of 52 countries in the Africa Gender Equality Index (2015), Pertaining to the Africa Regional Integration Index (2016), Cameroon scored 0.66 out of 1 and ranked 4th out of 52 countries. Ibrahim Index on African Governance (2018) also scored Cameroon 46.2 out of 100 and ranked 36th out of 54 countries. The last index that was also captured in the report is the Africa Infrastructure Development Index (2019). In this index, Cameroon scored 20.35 out of 100 and ranked 29th out of 54 countries