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Circular 24/05/MINESEC/SG/IGE/OBC/D/DIVEX of 11 October 2005
addressed to the provincial and departmental representatives, national private
education representatives, heads of public and private institutions to organise
examinations for hearing and visually impaired candidates;
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The joint circular letter 34/06/LC/MINESEC/MINAS of 2 August 2006 on the
enrolment in public secondary schools of children with disabilities or whose
parents have disabilities and are poor;
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Joint circular letter No. 283/07/LC/MINESEC/MINAS of 14 August 2007 on the
identification of children with disabilities or whose parents have disabilities and
are poor, who are registered in public secondary schools, and their
participation in official examinations;
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Joint circular 8/0006/LC/MINESUP/MINAS of 9 July 2008 on the improvement
of reception facilities and care for students with disabilities or vulnerable
students in state universities in Cameroon;
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Introduction of international humanitarian law (IHL) in the school curriculum,
with 18 institutions participating in the IHL experiment, including Maroua High
school, Kousseri High school, Ambam Bilingual School, Mvomeka High
School, etc.
Measures to Promote Pre-school Education
The Prime Minister signed into law, decree no. 2001/110/PM of 20 March 2003 on
the organisation and operation of public educational institutions for young children. They
are described as special institutions tasked with the reception, guidance, survival,
protection and development of children from 0 – 6 years. The institutions are under the
Ministry of Social Affairs and comprise nurseries, crèches and day-care centres.
A strategy of convergence was formulated with support from UNICEF to help with
the proper implementation of the convention on the rights of the child, with Adamaoua
chosen for a pilot project.
From 2003 to 2007, the general objective was to develop an effective plan for the
implementation of joint activities, to supervise young children in this region and ensure
their integral development, and by so doing, define a model that could be replicated in
other regions.
With this in mind, MINEDUB has embarked on the following actions with its
development partners: