Chofor Che, Christian Aimé 2023 Cameroon faces an array of serious governance challenges today which include difficulties in handling the country’s inherited dual-state colonial heritage, particularly the perception of marginalisation by the Anglophone community. Other challenges include usurpation of duties of decentralised authorities by deconcentrated authorities, providing adequate service delivery at the local government level, upholding constitutionalism, limiting ethnic tensions, tackling minority concerns and a weak fiscal decentralisation agenda. An examination of the constitutional and legal framework of decentralisation under the 1996 Constitution, shows that these issues have not been adequately addressed under the current dispensation. Thus, there is need for some fundamental changes that would strengthen self and shared rule for better service delivery especially at the local government level. There is also a need for more power sharing at the central government level, the need for robust constitutionalism and human rights and a better fiscal decentralisation agenda. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/325994 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/325994/files/36_Christian Aimé Chofor Che.pdf eng IFF info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.51363/unifr.diff.2023.36 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2813-5261 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC BY Decentralisation constitutionalism diversity management service delivery democracy human rights info:eu-repo/classification/udc/34 Reinforcing decentralisation and constitutionalism under the 1996 Constitution of Cameroon for peace-building and development http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18ws