(1) Placed under the authority of a Deputy Director, the Sub-Directorate of Documentation and Archives is responsible for:

• the collection, centralization and conservation of studies, reports and documents of all kinds, published in Cameroon or abroad, relating to economic, social, cultural and technological development issues;
• the technical coordination of the documentation services of the central administration, the decentralised and attached services of the Ministry;
• the design and implementation of a system for the classification, physical and electronic archiving of the Ministry’s documentation;
• the collection, centralization, preservation, multiplication and dissemination of documentation of interest to the Ministry;
• subscriptions to the various journals and publications of interest to the Ministry;
• the preservation of the Department’s archives;
• relations with the national archives;

(2) It shall include:

• The Documentation Service;
• The Archives Service.