Page 36 - The introduction of a three-year “Special Education Programme” at the Faculty of Education of the University of Buea during the 2006-2007 Academic Year. The programme is open to those who have the final school-leaving certificate, the Baccalauréat and includes courses in sign language, braille and psychology of the disabled, leading to the award of a Bachelor‟s degree in Special Education; - Training of young disabled persons at the African Institute of Computer Studies (IAI-Cameroon) in Information and Communications Technology (ICT); - Training and supporting the socio-economic integration of 85 disabled persons, 84 of them in the framework of the PAIRPEV project at a cost of FCFA 35,000,000 and 110 pensioners at the CNRH for FCFA 10,000,000; Specific and significant activities in 2008 included: - The signing on 1 October 2008 of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. The ratification of this international legal instrument is ongoing. However, the Cameroonian Government was one step ahead and had already included some of the relevant provisions of the convention in its bill on the protection and promotion of disabled persons which is still in the pipeline; - A compilation by all stakeholders, including representatives of associations of disabled persons, of descriptions of jobs that the disabled can do, for the use of employers and decision makers; - The signing on 18 April 2008 of a circular letter by the Prime Minister, on compliance with public procurement regulations, directing developers and their representatives to ensure that, building and site plans for public buildings and roads take the disability factor into account and address the concerns of access to such places by persons with disabilities; - The formulation and technical approval by all stakeholders, including representatives of associations of disabled persons, of a practical guide on the access of disabled persons to public buildings and infrastructure; - The signing of a joint MINAS-MINESUP circular letter on enhancing the living and learning conditions of disabled or vulnerable students in state universities; ; - The organization, during the 17th International Day of the Disabled, of a national social mobilisation campaign on the theme “Let us love our children – let us nurture our children”, an expression of the need to love disabled