Les acteurs internationaux et la question de l’accès à l’eau potable au Cameroun: le cas de l’arrondissement d’Ayos (1987-2023)

Abstract

This study focuses on "Les acteurs internationaux et la question de l’accès à l’eau potable au Cameroun : le cas de l’arrondissement d’Ayos (1987-2023)". His main research question is how international actors contribute to improving the conditions of access to drinking water in the district of Ayos. Its main objective is to show the contribution of international actors to improving the conditions of access to drinking water in the district of Ayos. To do this, this research relies on plural sources which are compared. Also, it is based on the historical method of the new history of the annals school. Its analytical approaches are both quantitative and qualitative; while its theoretical grids are constructivism, realism and transnationalism. Thus, this work was structured into four chapters with various results. After the presentation of the district of Ayos and the diagnosis of its state of access to drinking water, this work undertakes an analysis of the motives of the intervention of international actors in access to drinking water. Drinking water in the said locality. Then, the analysis continues with the presentation of the actors who intervened in favor of the construction of hydraulic infrastructures in this same district. In addition, the reflection shows that the achievements of hydraulic infrastructures by international actors in the district of Ayos, have not only been a lever for the supply of drinking water for the populations, but also a factor of health improvement in several of these localities; these projects also provided temporary employment. Furthermore, the construction of water points can be evaluated over two periods, that of 1987 to 2012 and that of 2013 to 2023. Finally, this research establishes that the construction of water access points in Ayos are forms of public development aid where several issues intertwine which have difficulty sustaining in the long term, at the forefront, the well-being of local populations. It emerges from these analyzes that the construction of access points to drinking water by international actors in Ayos was a mixed reality. These works have been, in more than one respect, factors in the resolution of several social problems in the localities where they have been established, but they are not essentially philanthropic initiatives. This is a game of interests in international relations.