Order of Merit (Cameroon)

Order of Merit Ordre du Mérite Camerounais
Type	Order
Awarded for	High services to the State
Presented by	Cameroon
Ribbon bar of the order
Precedence
Next (higher)	Order of Valour
Next (lower)	Order of Agricultural Merit

The Order of Merit is an order of knighthood of the Cameroon.

It is regulated by the ordonnance N° 72/24 of 30 November 1972. It is one of the four orders of Cameroon:^[1]

• Order of Valour
• Order of Merit
• Order of Agricultural Merit
• Order of Sports Merit

The ribbon of the order is yellow since 1972. It was made of red, yellow and green stripes earlier.

The Order of Merit is subdivided into four grades of merit:

• Grand Cordon
• Commander
• Officer
• Knight

• Ulric Cross
• Cyprien Katsaris
• Henri Romans-Petit

• Françoise Foning
• Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• Josip Broz Tito
• Pieter van Vollenhoven

• Orders, decorations, and medals of Cameroon

• "ORDONNANCE N° 72/24 DU 30/11/1972 Portant réorganisation des Ordres Nationaux et de la Grande Chancellerie de la République Unie du Cameroun" (PDF). Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reform. Retrieved 13 April 2018.