To boost digital learning: Minister Nalova Lyonga hands over electronic boards to 250 schools nationwide.

The exercise is the continuation of a World Bank-funded project, which was flagged off in the country in 2021.

Speaking while symbolically handing over the equipment, Minister Nalova Lyonga described the initiative as a bold declaration that Cameroon is ready to embrace the future of learning. 

The pragmatic member of government emphasised that the project represents more than a technological milestone but stated that it is a transformation of how teaching and learning will be experienced in Cameroonian classrooms.

She explained that the distribution of the equipment is part of the PADESCE programme, a project in the education and training sector, which she disclosed is implemented by the government, with the technical and financial support of the World Bank.

The project, she added, has been effectively implemented in Cameroon since December 21, 2021. 

Minister Nalova Lyonga said the project “…seeks to ensure equitable access to quality education”.

“We want to ensure that digitalisation shouldn’t only a theory but a practice,” she continued.

Speaking further during the ceremony, the Minister indicated that other significant actions had been carried, out including the payment of 7.7 billion FCFA, as financial support to 350 institutions to achieve quality service. 

She further detailed the payment of 1.3 billion FCFA for the schooling of vulnerable girls in priority zones in the East, Adamawa, Far North and North Regions and the payment of 288 million FCFA, to 48 institutions as support to internally displaced persons.

Commenting on measures to ensure proper use of the equipment, Minister Nalova explained that: “Each school has cameras. Each school is having a strategy that is being put in place. We just want them to be aware and make sure that these things are working well. That is why we are telling that we have a tracking system because we are just allowing them take these things away…because this is a very expensive venture”.

She encouraged all beneficiary schools to ensure proper use of the equipment. 

“You can imagine how much money it has taken…it is not easy. So, people should not think that they will get it today, lose it tomorrow and get it again the next day…No, no, no, they have to keep them. We are doing the tracking system to ensure that what we give remains; that there should be sustainability both in the use of it and the way they manage it,” the minister said.

Asked if there will be sanctions for principals who don’t manage the equipment judiciously, the minister was affirmative.

“Oh yes…we will get them. There are our principals, so we will get them. That shouldn’t be a problem. The principals should be very careful because the onus is their heads,” she warned.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3653 of Friday December 12, 2025