(Business in Cameroon) - Thanks to the Civil Society Support Programme (PASC in French) financed by the European Union (EU), Cameroonian civil society organisations received grants totalling 2 billion FCFA over the 2012-2015 period. This was announced by the management of this programme, which will close with a review meeting on August 27, 2015 in Yaoundé, the country’s capital.

According to the programme’s management, in the 38 months during which the PASC was implemented, around 3,000 members of the Cameroonian civil society benefited from the training and support sessions as well as the theme-based workshops to build capacity.

Totalling 4.5 billion FCFA, the EU maintains that the PASC “was created and implemented as a tool to strengthen the capacities of civil society organisations so that they can better contribute, along side the government, to social transformation.”