This article examines the relevance of e-governance and the extent to which local public authorities leverage Information Communication and Technology (ICT) as a tool to improve public participation in sustainable local development in Cameroon. It is anchored on e-governance as a by-product of ICT and a vehicle for more efficient, transparent, responsive, accountable, participative, and socially inclusive local development in a post-COVID-19 era. Cameroon’s digital landscape took a positive shift in May 2016 with the development of the National ICT Strategic Plan 2020, which recognized the digital economy as a driver for development. Despite the relative progress, the unprecedented consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on the country’s economy have shown how weak the e-governance system might be in providing citizen-based service delivery, fostering informed, and effective participatory local development. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches was used in collecting, analyzing, and reporting in an integrative manner. Data was garnered from a heterogeneous sample population using surveys that integrate both closed and open-ended questions.  Both methods were employed simultaneously and data was triangulated for an in-depth understanding of the overall objective. The research finding reveals that e-governance is a significant tool that can be properly leveraged by the government at all levels to advance participative local development in Cameroon. Given that the government put in place policies that encourage the use of ICT during the Covid-19 pandemic, municipal councils took advantage of this and used different social media platforms to stay connected with the local population and to monitor and evaluate projects initiated prior to the Covid-19 breakout in Cameroon.