Page 62 - The Inspector of Labour may request the services of a qualified medical officer to examine children to ascertain that they are fit for the work they are employed to do. b. International Cooperation - Cameroon has ratified ILO Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labour and taken immediate and efficient measures to ensure their prohibition and elimination; - Together with the rest of the international community, on 12 June of every year, Cameroon commemorates the International Day Against Child Labour; - On 22 October 2004, the Minister of Labour and Social Security signed an accord to participate in the National Programme for the „Elimination of Child Labour, to which Cameroon acceded in 2002. The WACAP Project, whose ultimate goal is to combat slavery and exploitation of children in the cocoa and coffee plantations, is in line with this dynamic to wage a vehement war against this scourge. The projects‟ pilot phases took place from 2002 to 2006 in three regions, and led to: - Identification and withdrawal of 5,000 children from the plantations; - Reintegration of nearly 1,350 children, with financial support from the Government of the United States, to the tune of 650 million CFA francs to carry out the WACAP and LUTRENA projects. Lack of accurate statistical data is a flaw and challenge at the same time for improving interventions for children subjected to economic exploitation. To gauge the extent of the problem and add to knowledge on this scourge, in-depth quantitative studies will be carried out. However, a study on child labour in Cameroon conducted by the national statistics institute) showed that child labour is closely linked to the poverty situation prevailing in the country, and the dire effects on school enrolment. Nearly 28 per cent of children aged five to 17 in Cameroon are compelled to do work that should have been abolished. This is even more serious in rural, northern areas and the east of the country. The children‟s characteristics, including age, survival of the parents, level of education, the households they belong to; the number of persons living in the household, the presence of children under five, the standard of living of the household, the environment of the residence and