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About The Institute for Research,
Socio-economic Development and Communication
The Institute for
Research, Socio-economic Development and Communication(IRESCO) is one of Cameroon’s leading independent
research institutes, conducting research, managing programmes and projects to
promote better health and quality of life. IRESCO is extremely pleased with the
reputation for being rigorous and giving unbiased outputs on both study results
and evaluations of development activities undertaken throughout Africa and
overseas by third parties and issuing outstanding reproductive health and
educational material for the youth. The publication and dissemination of
results from our wide range of activities is at the heart of our mind set.
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News About
Us
This year we
received around 581500 US Dollars from Global Funds to support our existing
sexual and reproductive health education campaign for the youth via our broad
range of educational techniques and tools.
Our other major
donors this year have been:
Financial
monitoring is something we take pride in, making sure our financial resources
are efficiently and effectively used. We use Ciel Compta 8.01 to generate
tailor made financial reporting for our donors and we regularly receive
complimentary feedback from our partners and auditors.
Recent News
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Ngomo
Inauguration |
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The Community
of Ngomo, located 70km North-west of Yaounde celebrated the Inauguration of
their new Integrated Health Centre on the 20th of June, 2006.
The community of 5400 have been in need of a basic health clinic for many
years. Now the community has a new health clinic and additionally have
access to safe drinking water as they have their own water pump.
The 20 Million
FCFA Health Project was implemented by IRESCO and funded by the British High
Commission (BHC). The project was completed in just over 8 months and
IRESCO received complimentary evaluations from the BHC throughout the
project life cycle. The special guest speakers that attended the
inauguration included the Co-ordinator of IRESCO, the British High
Commissioner, the Minister of Public Health and the Mayor.
The Co-ordinator of IRESCO stated in his speech that
IRESCO would continue to be committed to projects like Ngomo, striving to
improve standard of living for Cameroonians. The High Commissioner told the
community that "the UK Government is
working hard to strengthen the international effort to combat global health
problems, especially those in developing countries". The Minister of Health
Urbain Olanguena Awono promised the people that government would continue to
develop the health centre. He hoped to see it become a specialised centre
for the handling of emergency cases given its proximity to a major highway.
To show the government’s interest he presented the health centre with a
donation of essential drugs, a refrigerator and a motorbike. The local
chief and the people of Ngomo were full of thanks and praise for the British
High Commission and IRESCO and celebrated in song and dance at the
Inauguration. The local community offered hand made gifts and a traditional
broom as a symbol of power to the High Commissioner.
The High Commissioner also told the local community of one of the UK’s long
term goals is development, "…the British High Commission in Cameroon is
participating actively in these efforts through the administration of its
Community Projects Fund". |
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