*ENAM CONCOURS…competitive examination for the recruitment of sixty (60) students into Cycle “A” of the Administrative Division of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) for the academic year 2025/2026..(Reg. Details, Exam Format and Sylabus in English)*

REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON
Peace – Work – Fatherland
MINISTRY OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

DECREE No. /001186 / MINFOPRA / OF 15 APR 2025
Concerning the opening of a competitive examination for the recruitment of sixty (60) students into Cycle “A” of the Administrative Division of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) for the academic year 2025/2026.

THE MINISTER OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM,

HAVING REGARD TO the Constitution;
HAVING REGARD TO Law No. 2017/010 of 12 July 2017 on the General Statute of Public Establishments;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 75/774 of 18 December 1975 on the special statute of civil servants of the General Administration Corps;

HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 75/788 of 18 December 1975 on the special statute of civil servants of the Public Health and Social Affairs Corps;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 75/791 of 18 December 1975 on the special statute of civil servants of the Labor and Social Security Corps, as amended and supplemented by Decree No. 77/243 of 15 July 1977;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 94/199 of 7 October 1994 on the General Statute of the State Public Service, together with its subsequent amendments;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2011/408 of 9 December 2011 on the organization of the Government, as amended and supplemented by Decree No. 2018/190 of 2 March 2018;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2012/537 of 19 November 2012 on the organization of the Ministry of the Public Service and Administrative Reform;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2018/191 of 2 March 2018 on the reorganization of the Government;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2018/240 of 9 April 2018 on the reorganization of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM);
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 040/PM of 19 May 2022 setting the modalities for granting age exemptions to persons with disabilities during administrative examinations and recruitments in the State Public Service;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 2000/696/PM of 13 September 2000 establishing the general regime for administrative examinations;
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 0004831/MINFOPRA of 10 October 2012 on the regime of studies and schooling in the Administrative and Financial Regulations Divisions of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM);
HAVING REGARD TO Decree No. 00000490/MINFI of 21 December 2022 specifying the practical modalities for implementing administrative examination fees,

DECREES:

Article 1:
(1) A competitive examination for the recruitment of sixty (60) students into Cycle “A” of the Administrative Division of ENAM is open for the academic year 2025/2026.
(2) The available places are distributed as follows: [Details not provided in the text].
(3) The related program is attached as an annex.
(4) The choice of sections will be made by candidates at the time of submitting their application files.

Article 2:
Eligible candidates must meet the following conditions:
(a) For external candidates:

• Fulfill the general conditions required for access to public employment;
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree from general higher education or a Professional Bachelor’s degree in Legal Sciences, Economic Sciences, Social Sciences (related to the requested section), or Management obtained in Cameroon, or an equivalent diploma recognized by the Minister in charge of Higher Education;
• Be at least seventeen (17) years old and no older than thirty-two (32) years as of 1 January 2025;
• However, persons with disabilities holding a National Disability Card issued by the competent authorities may benefit from an age exemption of up to five (5) years above the age limit specified above, in accordance with Decree No. 040/PM of 19 May 2022 mentioned above.
  Note: Permanent civil servants of any category are not authorized to apply as external candidates.
  (b) For internal candidates:
• Be a civil servant of category “B,” exclusively from the General Administration, Labor Administration, or Social Affairs Administration Corps;
• Have at least five (5) years of effective service in their grade as of 1 January 2025;
• Be at least seventeen (17) years old and no older than fifty (50) years as of 1 January 2025.

Article 3:
(1) Application forms can be downloaded from the ENAM website (www.enam.cm).
(2) The examination registration fee is twenty-five thousand (25,000) CFA francs.
(3) Candidates shall pay their registration fees in cash against a receipt at BICEC agencies.
(4) Candidates may submit their application files directly to ENAM or to the Regional Delegations of the Public Service and Administrative Reform, except for the Central Region Delegation.
(5) Applications must reach ENAM or the Regional Delegations of the Public Service and Administrative Reform no later than Friday, 6 June 2025, which is the strict deadline.
(6) The required documents are as follows:

• A stamped envelope at one thousand five hundred (1,500) CFA francs;
• An application form stamped at one thousand five hundred (1,500) CFA francs, previously downloaded from the ENAM website (www.enam.cm);
• A certified true copy of the required diploma;
• A certificate of presentation of the original diploma signed by the Regional Governor, Prefect, or Sub-Prefect;
• A certificate of presentation of the original Baccalaureate or any other diploma that allowed access to higher education, signed by the Regional Governor, Prefect, or Sub-Prefect;
• A receipt of payment of the examination registration fee issued by BICEC;
• A criminal record bulletin (Bulletin No. 3) dated less than three (3) months from the date of file submission, issued by the competent judicial authorities;
• A medical certificate dated less than three (3) months from the date of file submission, signed by a doctor from the Administration;
• A certified true copy of the birth certificate, handwritten or typed, signed by an administrative or municipal authority;
• A copy of the integration act and an authorization to take the examination issued in due time by the Minister in charge of the Public Service, for internal candidates.

Note: Any incomplete file or containing documents deemed false or forged will be rejected.
(7) The lists of candidates authorized to take the examination will be posted at ENAM no later than Wednesday, 2 July 2025.

Note: The publication of these lists serves as an individual summons.

Article 4:
(1) The written eligibility tests, which will take place at the sole center in Yaoundé, will be held on the following dates and times:
a) Tests common to all sections:

• General Culture:
  • Date: Saturday, 5 July 2025, from 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Coefficient: 04
• Constitutional Law:
  • Date: Saturday, 5 July 2025, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Coefficient: 03
• General Economics:
  • Date: Sunday, 6 July 2025, from 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM
  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Coefficient: 02
    b) Specialty Tests:
  • Date: Sunday, 6 July 2025, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Coefficient: 05
  • General Administration Section: Administrative Law Test
  • Labor Administration Section: Labor Law Test
  • Social Affairs Administration Section: Psychology Test

(2) The latest time for accessing the examination rooms is set at 7:00 AM for morning tests and 12:30 PM for afternoon tests.

Article 5:
The oral admission tests will take place in Yaoundé (ENAM). They include:

• A grand oral: Coefficient 1
• A language oral: Coefficient 1

Article 6:
Receipts for applications for national identity cards dated less than three (3) months from the closing date of examination registrations will not be accepted.

Article 7:
Any fraud detected before, during, or after the examination will be sanctioned in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.

Article 8:
This decree shall be registered and published wherever necessary.

YAOUNDE, 15 APR 2025
THE MINISTER OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

PROGRAM OF THE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION TO ENAM CYCLE “A” OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026

I- WRITTEN ELIGIBILITY TESTS:

A- GENERAL CULTURE:

• Literature, philosophy, contemporary history;
• Scientific and technological evolution;
• Arts and culture;
• Gender and development;
• Regional integration;
• Geopolitics and geostrategy;
• ICT and their impact on society.

B- PUBLIC LAW:

• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS:

1. The State and Political Power:

• Constituent elements of the State;
• Different forms of the State (unitary State, composite State).

2. The Constitution:

• Adoption and revision of the constitution;
• Form of the constitution (material and formal definition of the constitution);
• Customary and written constitutions;
• Supremacy of the constitution and protection mechanisms (political sanctions, legal sanctions: constitutional review).

3. Democracy and the Citizen:

• Direct democracy and representative democracy;
• Conditions of suffrage;
• Characteristics of suffrage;
• Voting systems.

4. Separation of Powers:

• Executive power;
• Legislative power;
• Judicial power;
• Relations between powers.

5. Types of Political Regimes:

• Presidential regime;
• Parliamentary regime;
• Presidentialist regime;
• Assembly regime.

6. History of Institutions and Constitutional History of Cameroon:

• Evolution of Cameroonian institutions (Cameroon under protectorate, Cameroon under mandate, Cameroon’s independence, Federal Cameroon, United Republic of Cameroon, Republic of Cameroon);
• Various constitutional revisions in Cameroon and resulting reforms.

7. The Role of Political Parties.

• ADMINISTRATIVE LAW:

1. Fundamental principles of administrative law: legality, proportionality, equality of treatment, retroactivity, guarantee of good faith;
2. Foundations of Cameroonian administrative law;
3. Fundamental principles of Administration/organizational structure, centralization, deconcentration, and decentralization;
4. Missions of the Administration (public service mission, administrative police mission)/public service and public order;
5. Administrative acts (unilateral administrative act, bilateral administrative act);
6. Administrative liability;
7. Identification of the Administration:

• Administration in the organic sense;
• Administration in the material sense;
• Combination of both organic and material senses of the Administration.

8. Submission of the Administration to the law;
9. Sources of administrative law;
10. Administrative jurisdictional order:

• Organization of the jurisdictional order;
• Jurisdictional remedies.

11. Competence of the administrative jurisdictional order:

• Disputes involving the principle of separation of powers;
• Disputes involving the principle of separation of authorities;
• Resolution of competence disputes;
• Independent administrative authorities;
• Administrative contracts.

C- ECONOMICS:

1. Microeconomics:
   a. Microeconomic Principles:

• Market study: supply and demand;
• Consumer behavior;
• Producer behavior and production theory;
• Short- and long-term costs;
• Production function;
• Price theory in pure and perfect competition: short- and long-term equilibrium;
• Price theory in pure monopoly: short- and long-term equilibrium;
• Monopolistic competition;
• Oligopoly markets.
  b. Applied Microeconomics:
• Industrial and commercial enterprises in Cameroon: specific management issues;
• Tax levies and consequences in a sector under pure and perfect competition: short- and long-term effects. Consequences in a monopoly situation;
• Issues raised by price and quantity control in competitive and monopoly situations;
• Sectoral policies.

2. Macroeconomics:
   a. The Income/Savings/Consumption Triptych:

• Determination of national income;
• National income function;
• Investment function;
• Income/expenditure model;
• The multiplier: principles and limits;
• Variation in income levels;
• The accelerator;
• The oscillator.
  b. Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Models:
• The IS-LM model: principles, functioning, implications;
• The relationship between inflation and unemployment: the Phillips curve, challenges to Keynesian and neoclassical theories;
• Equilibrium with rationing: Keynesian unemployment, classical unemployment, scope of the models;
• Renewal of neoclassical analysis through the introduction of expectations: formation of expectations, conclusions of the analysis.
  c. Structural Adjustment Programs:
• Theoretical foundations;
• Pursuit of internal and external balances;
• Economic recovery.

3. Monetary Economics:
   a. Money and Money Supply:

• Definition, functions, and properties of money;
• Monetary aggregates;
• Money supply, composition, and counterparts.
  b. Money Supply and Demand:
• Determinants of money demand;
• Determinants of money supply.
  c. Financial Institutions:
• Central bank;
• Commercial banks;
• Other institutions;
• Treasury.
  d. Money Market and Financial Market:
• Actors and mechanisms;
• Interbank market and open market;
• Role of the central bank;
• Actors and organization of the financial market;
• Stock exchange;
• New financial instruments.
  e. Monetary Policy:
• Objectives and instruments of monetary policy;
• Discount rate policy;
• Open-market policy;
• Reserve requirement policy;
• Credit selectivity and control;
• Limits of monetary policy in the Franc Zone;
• International development financing;
• Debt of developing countries.
  f. Population and Development:
• Demographic growth in developing countries;
• Optimal demographic growth;
• Education, health, and development;
• Democracy and development.
  g. International Economics:
• Theories of international trade;
• Labor productivity and comparative advantage: Ricardian model;
• Resources and trade: Heckscher-Ohlin model;
• Standard trade models;
• Economies of scale, imperfect competition, and international trade;
• International trade policies;
• Protectionism;
• Free trade;
• Trade policies in developing countries;
• World Trade Organization and globalization of trade;
• Economic integration;
• Exchange rate policy;
• National accounting and balance of payments;
• Exchange rate regimes and determination;
• International monetary system;
• Monetary zones.

4. Digital Economy:

• Definition;
• Services;
• Infrastructure;
• Underlying technologies.

D- LABOR LAW:

• Objectives of labor law:
  • Worker protection;
  • Employment protection;
  • Social peace;
  • Social dialogue.
• The place and role of International Labor Conventions;
• Legal status of the worker:
  • Concept of a worker;
  • Worker’s rights;
  • Worker’s obligations.
• Powers of the business manager:
  • Management power;
  • Regulatory power;
  • Disciplinary power.
• Execution of the employment contract:
  • Worker’s rights;
  • Worker’s obligations;
  • Incidents related to the execution of the employment contract:
    • Suspension of the employment contract;
    • Modification of the employment contract.
• Termination of the employment contract:
  • Termination of an indefinite-term employment contract;
  • Termination of a fixed-term employment contract:
    • At the initiative of one of the parties;
    • Due to limits set by law.
  • Termination of an indefinite-term employment contract:
    • At the initiative of one of the parties;
    • Economic dismissal.

  
  
  
  

E- PSYCHOLOGY:

• Child and developmental psychology;
• Health and disability psychology;
• Group psychology and personalities with specific needs;
• Biological, psychological, and sociocultural foundations of the family;
• Social environments and responsible parenting;
• Medical and health anthropology;
• Clinical theories and care practices;
• Psychopathology;
• Ontogenesis and sociogenesis of behaviors.

F- PARLIAMENTARY LAW:

• Sources of parliamentary law;
• Parliamentary procedures and practices;
• The role of parliament;
• Parliamentary institutions;
• Parliamentary functions and the functioning of parliament;
• Parliament and the law.

II- ORAL ADMISSION TESTS:

A- GRAND ORAL:
An interview with a jury aimed at assessing the candidate’s personality and suitability for serving the State and citizens.

B- LANGUAGE ORAL:
An interview with a jury, in French for English-speaking candidates and in English for French-speaking candidates.