MTN accompanies small and medium-sized enterprises in Cameroon

Philisiwe SIBIYA CEO, MTN Cameroon

Douala, 11 November 2016. MTN Cameroon, leader of telecommunications in Cameroon, announces the signing of a partnership agreement with the Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency (APME), this Friday, 11 November 2016 in Yaounde. The ceremony organized for this event was presided at by a representative of theMinister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Social Economy and Handicrafts (MINPMEESSA), in the presence of Philisiwe SIBIYA, Chief Executive Officer of MTN Cameroon and Jean Marie BADGA, General Manager of APME.

                Within the framework of this partnership, MTN Cameroon shall avail its technology and know-how to 20,000 Small and Medium Enterprises operating in Cameroon since 2012. The SMEs concerned by this programmeshall benefit for example a pack which provides them with a website, professional email addresses and mobile phone as well as data access facilities.In addition, they will receive other productsto enhance their financial, personnel and customer management.Moreover, there will be a dedicated MTN support team within APME offices across the 10 regions of Cameroon.

                The APME on its part,will finance access by enterprises to these solutions atthe tune of 50%. “ Ourobjective is to ensure that all the SMEs participating in this programme become leaders in their respective sectors of activity by valorizing this productive Cameroon that we are all envisaging”, declaredMr. Jean Marie Louis BADGA, General Manager of  APME. Same feeling at MTN, where the “wish today is to continue playing a major role in the development of the digital economy which constitutes a major challenge for the sustainable development and emergence of Cameroon”,confided Philisiwe SIBIYA, CEO of MTN Cameroon.

About MTN Cameroon

Subsidiary of the MTN Group represented in 22 countries and telecoms leader in Africa, MTN Cameroon is a provider of communication and payment solutions, present in Cameroon since February 2000. MTN is one of the five most significant companies in Cameroon and second tax payer in 2015.