Yaounde-Cameroon:French Immigration and Integration Office (OFII) hosts workshop on migration issues

In accordance with department guidelines and at the request of Gilles Thibault, Ambassador of France to Cameroon, the OFII (French Immigration and Integration Office) representatives arranged a monitoring committee on migration issues on Sept. 26, 2016 at the French Embassy in Yaoundé. 

Various departments of the Embassy took part in this committee, including the Chancellery, the INN (International Cooperation Department), the SCAC (Cooperation and Cultural Action) and the AFD (French Development Agency).

Emphasis was put on the steering and implementation of French cooperation actions, the implementation monitoring of our regional and international partners’ actions on the one hand and conducting on the other hand an evaluation of legal and illegal migration in the country of residence, in order to improve the effectiveness of migration policies and the quality of the fight against migrant-smuggling, as well as the cooperation in regard to return and readmission to the country of residence.