Capacity Building Workshop:

APME Staff Schooled On Internal Rules, Career Evaluation
By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde
Personnel of the decentralised services of the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Promotion Agency, APME, from three regions have been schooled on some key internal rules and regulations that guide their duty of promoting small enterprises in the regions. 
   
    As explained by Feke Christopher, Sub-Director in charge of Human Resources at the APME, the workshop among other things focused on strengthening personnel capacity on career evolution, rights and obligations and but create awareness among them on professional performance evaluation systems as adopted by the agency in conformity with what obtains in other public service structures.
    Feke said the workshop will permit uncurious personnel to become conscious of certain rights and obligations and other rules which concern them but are still to be implemented by the agency as provided for in the statutes of the agency. He added that the training will also enable the personnel to have a mastery of the organigram of the agency.
    He disclosed that before the Yaounde training, a similar training was held in Douala for the services in Littoral and the Southwest regions with plans to move to Bafoussam for the personnel in West and Northwest Regions and then to Garoua for personnel North, Adamawa and Far North regions.

    The General Manager of APME, Jean Marie Louis Badga in his address to officially open the workshop said it was a perfect opportunity for workers to gain knowledge on the functions of the agency and its decentralised role and create a feeling of belonging to personnel from the regions who might have felt abandoned by those working at the head office.
    Badga challenged the workers to be assiduous in the discharge of their duties despite challenges faced in the field adding that the impact created by the agency is so far getting much acknowledgment from government. He all personnel to take the training seriously as it will among other things help them to review steps taken by the agency in ensuring the promotion of SMEs notably the ongoing integrated programme for the valorisation and transformation of farm products and Agri-foods (TRANSSFAGRI) and urged them to bring order in the random creation of SMEs with no sustainability plan.

APME personnel from three regions pose with general manager others during training workshop

The workshop which brought together personnel from Centre, East and South regions held at the Palotti House at Mvolye, Yaounde, on 12 December 2019.