North West: PAGFI 3 Ignites SIM_ba Revolution for Municipal Treasurers
Local finance officers from Bamenda's regional, city, and municipal councils gathered for a game-changing three-day coaching workshop on March 26 at the MINEPAT hall. Under Phase 3 of the Financial Governance Support Project (PAGFI 3), treasurers confronted SIM_ba application headaches head-on, sparking a digital uprising against accounting reform roadblocks and paving the way for smoother local government finances. Participants at the workshop The session opened with raw, real-talk presentations from attendees, exposing the app's daily dramas. Municipal treasurers detailed persistent glitches: deleting commitments often triggered negative balances, derailing budgets. Cancelling erroneous files felt impossible, locking errors in place. Worst of all, payments processed at the treasury resisted integration into SIM_ba, creating shadowy discrepancies. "It's sabotaging our work," one council rep lamented, voicing a chorus of shared struggles in Cameroon's push fo...