up implementation of these axes, a Department for Economic Empowerment of Women was created at the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and the Family to manage the productive capacity of women. 861- On capacity building for women, the strategy sought to develop local professional training institutions across the national territory to guarantee the training of women in different fields in order to create jobs. These are Women Empowerment and the Family Centres (CPFF), Centres for Appropriate Technologies, home workshops and the Rural Crafts/Household Sections (SAR/SM) which provide room for social recovery and professional placement of women and young girls including those who dropped out of the formal system of education. There are 77 CPFF training women in hotel management, catering, handicrafts and quite recently in Information and Communication Technologies. Between 2013 and 2017, 69,163 women were trained in the 94 Centres. 862- In 2018, 19 752 girls and women were trained in the said Centres. Some of them received support to set up their own businesses. Other initiatives in terms of professional training and job creation helped the youth including women. These are multimedia centres, functional literacy centres and programmes such as the Urban and Rural Youths Support programme (PAJER-U), Multifunctional Youth Empowerment Centre (CMPJ), Project for the Socio-Economic Insertion of Youths for the creation of micro enterprises in the manufacture of Sports equipment (PIFMAS). Furthermore, to bring the Cameroonian woman up to modern times, a training dubbed operation train 100,000 rural and urban women in Information and Communication Technologies by 2012 was organised under the supervision of the African Institute of Computer Sciences (IAI) and which ended on 6 December 2013 with a total of 103,350 graduates. 863- Support was also offered to women to enable them build or develop income generating activities. This support was specifically geared towards the agricultural and informal sectors, given the high number of women in these sectors. Thus, the National Employment Fund trained resellers in small-scale management and provided them with funds as loans to set up their business428. Thanks to the project “5 by 20” COCA COLA launched in 2017 with the support of UN Women, 500 trained women received socio-economic insertion kits. To reduce the difficulty of farming, rural women on their part received small farm equipment and also training in techniques of production, transformation, conservation and sale of agro-pastoral produce. In 2017, 275 rural female organisations received Government support in terms of agricultural equipment compared to 199 in 2018. 864- A gender sensitive market was constructed in Kye-Ossi in 2015 with toilets having separate cabinets for men and women and also day care centres. In addition, 49 micro-projects led by women (that is 34.26%) among the 143 micro development projects429have been given financial support to the tune of CFAF650,000,000430 granted to social economy organisations. 865- However, female expertise was valued in sectors such as sports (football, basketball and volley ball), cinema, in agriculture. On this last point, and considering the economic gain of food crops, women were encouraged to invest in industrial farming such as of coffee and cocoa through incentives like access to credit and to land. In 2015, the different festivals 428 About sixty resellers under Yaounde VI Division received 2 days of training in small-scale management and then a loan of CFAF 3 200 000 to set up their small business thanks to a capacity building programme for resellers (BayamSellam) by the National Employment Fund (NEF). Similarly, 8 training workshops were organised on financial education and management of income generating activities on the road segment Batchenga–Ntui–Yoko–Lena in favour of 416 women within the framework of the afore-mentioned programme. 429 The sectors concerned were agriculture, agri-food processing, animal rearing and small scale industry. 430 In 2016, the envelop was CFAF 605 000 000. 143