2008 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

Cameroon faces serious problems with its governance and anti-corruption framework. Elections (especially political financing regulations), government accountability (across the legislative and judicial branches, in particular), and oversight and regulation (including a weak to non-existent ombudsman office, audit agency, and poor business regulation) are all rated as Very Weak. While there is robust legislation in place that criminalizes corruption, the agency mandated to address corruption is ineffective. "Members of [the anti-corruption agency]," for example, "are close to the ruling party [...] and their neutrality is questionable." Despite this bleak governance landscape, there are a few bright spots. Civil society organizations (CSOs) are active and regulations over taxes/customs and state-owned companies are reasonably effective.