

The national response to Covid-19 has also created lessons and coordination structures that could be built upon in the long term (Box 5). Nevertheless, the UN Country Team did receive funding for an HDP Nexus Coordinator through the Humanitarian-Development-Peacebuilding and Partnerships Facility managed by the Peacebuilding Support Office to support nexus efforts between the UN and the World Bank. At the time of research, interviewees were unclear on the specific support available at country level through the UN-World Bank initiative.

The Nexus Taskforce focuses strategically on addressing the needs of refugees, IDPs and host communities in the Far North, North, Adamawa, East, Northwest and Southwest. In 2019, the UN RC/HC established the Nexus Taskforce (Box 4) co-chaired by OCHA and UNDP to facilitate joined-up planning between HDP actors as part of the joint UN–World Bank initiative to pilot the triple nexus in three countries. Several recent initiatives, however, offer opportunities to strengthen coordination among HDP actors in Cameroon. Donors reportedly coordinate informally given the lack of a formal mechanism, but the key challenge is the engagement and leadership of the government as a prerequisite for effective coordination of development, and HDP actors, more broadly. While humanitarian action is coordinated by UN OCHA through the cluster system, the main mechanism for bilateral and multilateral donor coordination on the development side is the largely non-functioning Multi-Partner Committee ( Comité Multipartenaires) chaired by MINEPAT and the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (RC/HC). The Regional Strategy for the Stabilization, Recovery & Resilience of the Lake Chad Basin RegionĬoordination takes place in silos with stronger coordination mechanisms on the humanitarian than the development side. National Community Driven Development Program (PNDP) Recovery and Peace Consolidation (RPC) Strategy appendix two Planning and financing frameworks.chapter nine Conclusion and recommendations.Strong coordination mechanisms bringing HDP actors togetherĬoordinated planning within agencies between HDP staffīest practice approaches to the nexus for development actorsĭecentralised decision-making for flexibility and speed

