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### Overview
- In March 2012, following 10 years of sociopolitical crisis and economic stagnation, Côte d’Ivoire adopted a National Development Plan (PND) for the years 2012 to 2015 to set out the foundations for the country to become an emerging economy by 2020.
- The PND centers on five strategic outcomes: (i) harmony and secured society with good governance; (ii) increased and sustained national wealth creation with equitable sharing; (iii) access to high-quality, equitable social services (especially for women, children, and vulnerable groups); (iv) healthy environment and adequate quality of life; and (v) effective repositioning of Côte d’Ivoire regionally and internationally.
- This document summarizes results of implementing the 2012-2015 PND across all sectors covered by the five strategic outcomes.

### Strategic Outcome 1 — Harmony, Security, Governance
- Actions and status:
  - 747 actions; 68 major.
  - Major-action status: 28 entirely fulfilled, 26 in progress, 14 unfulfilled.
- Financing and execution:
  - CFAF 584.9 billion allocated out of CFAF 1,060.7 billion planned for 2012-2015.
  - Public funds 2012–2014: CFAF 491.1 billion, with 86.59 percent used.
  - PND financial execution rate: 58.56 percent.
- DDR, returns, and security:
  - DDR and reintegration: 46,000 ex-combatants integrated out of 74,068 total.
  - Refugee returns: 234,118 returned out of 300,000 by end-2013 (78.04 percent).
  - IDP returns: 730,000 internally displaced persons had returned as of October 2012.
  - General security index lowered from 3.3 in 2012 to 1.12 in 2014.
  - United Nations security index lowered from 4 to 2 over same period.
- Justice, decentralization, and communications:
  - Organizational structure of courts restored; commercial tribunal set up July 2012; 5,585 birth certificates issued to previously unregistered schoolchildren.
  - Reduction of local community government types from five in 2010 to three in 2013.
  - Law 2012-1128 (December 13, 2012) on organizational structure of local community government.
  - 2013 law grouping local community governments into districts.
  - Special Status of Traditional Kings and Chieftains adopted.
  - Law 2014-428 (July 14, 2014) strengthening decentralization institutional framework.
  - Improvements in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance, and Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Control of Corruption indicator.
  - Television coverage expanded from 70 percent in 2012 to 93.33 percent in 2014; radio coverage from 60.75 percent in 2011 to 96.42 percent in 2014.

### Strategic Outcome 2 — Wealth Creation, Infrastructure, Productive Sectors
- Actions and status:
  - 696 actions; 204 major.
  - Major-action status: 72 fulfilled, 83 in progress, 49 unfulfilled.
- Financing and execution:
  - CFAF 599.1 billion allocated out of CFAF 1,959.2 billion planned for 2012-2015.
  - Budget resources 2012–2014: CFAF 1,679.3 billion, with 74.65 percent used.
  - PND financial execution rate: 109.54 percent.
- Macroeconomic performance:
  - Economic growth rate: 9.8 percent in 2012, 9.2 percent in 2013, 9 percent in 2014; 4.7 percent drop in 2011.
  - Average inflation 2012–2014: 1.46 percent (WAEMU benchmark 3 percent); inflation was 4.9 percent in 2011.
  - Over 2012–2014, GDP increased by more than 25 percent and per capita GDP by 15 percent (IMF data).
- Agriculture and rural development:
  - Reforms in coffee, cacao, cotton, and cashew production raised incomes for more than 2.5 million small farmers.
  - Cacao producers’ aggregate gross income 2013-14: CFAF 1,309.6 billion versus CFAF 1,041.3 billion previous season (increase of 25.7 percent).
  - Food-crop output: 11.62 million metric tons in 2011 to 15.45 million metric tons in 2014 (increase of 27.13 percent).
- Transport and roads:
  - Major bridge projects: Henri Konan Bédié, Bouaflé, Jacqueville, Béoumi, Bassawa (some completed, others expected end-2015).
  - Rural roads: 5,000 kilometers regraded.
  - Main roads repaved: 346 kilometers (including Singrobo–Yamoussoukro and Boundiali–Tengrela).
  - Freeway Abidjan–Grand Bassam under construction.
  - SOTRA buses: 724 purchased and 459 overhauled.
- P-ICTs:
  - Governance strengthened via three laws: electronic transactions; protection of personal data; cybercrime.
  - New postal code system implemented.
  - High-priority projects advanced in e-health, e-education, e-agriculture, e-electronic governance.
  - 1,000 communities connected using CDMA technology.
- Mining and energy:
  - New Mining Code introduced; efforts to conform to Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
  - Electrification: electric power brought to 800 more communities; communities connected rose from 2,875 to 3,575 in 2014 (nationwide coverage close to 40 percent).
  - Installed generating capacity rose by 211 megawatts, from 1,421 megawatts to 1,632 megawatts.
  - Gross output: 6,785 gigawatt hours (increase of 7.2 percent of demand compared to 2012).
  - Sector in financial equilibrium.
- Hydrocarbons:
  - Gross oil output: 26,500 barrels a day.
  - Five new licenses issued; four new drilling projects carried out; two new discoveries under evaluation.
  - Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) utilization: 70-percent rate.
  - Butane storage capacity built: 9,500 metric tons.
  - Pipeline completed: 385 kilometers between Abidjan and Bouaké.
- Industry, SMEs, trade:
  - Investment code revised (1995 code replaced) in 2012; tax exemptions for crisis-hit businesses.
  - SME strategy “Project Phoenix” prepared; Law 2014-140 promulgated March 24, 2014 for SME guidance.
  - Industrial zone rehabilitation and new parks (e.g., Agroparc with I2T, CDT, CI-Engineering).
  - Trade reforms: law on competition passed; draft Consumers’ Code prepared; campaigns for weights-and-measures inspections.
- Cost-of-living and tourism:
  - National Cost of Living Board established.
  - Reduced VAT rates (in the range of 5 percent to 10 percent) applied to widely used VAT-subject products.
  - Tightened price controls and field inspections; effort to even out butane gas prices nationwide.
  - Tourism Code validated and adopted.
  - Renovation of six deluxe hotels (Hôtel Ivoire; Golf Hôtel; Hôtel Golf Club; Hôtel Le Président; Hôtel Les Parlementaires in Yamoussoukro; Hôtel La Paix in Daoukro).
  - Guest rooms: 27,431 in 2012 to 30,471 in 2013 (increase of 11.09 percent).
  - Artisan Craft Industry Code promulgated June 5, 2014; WAEMU code entry into force July 2014.

### Strategic Outcome 3 — Social Services: Education, Health, Employment
- Actions and status:
  - 961 actions; 73 major.
  - Major-action status: 33 entirely fulfilled, 31 in progress, nine unfulfilled.
- Financing and execution:
  - CFAF 937.5 billion allocated for 2012-2015 versus CFAF 790.7 billion planned.
  - Funds 2012–2014: CFAF 655.2 billion, with 76.89 percent used.
  - Overall utilization of public funds planned by PND for Strategic Outcome 3: 88.28 percent.
- Education:
  - Primary-school gross enrollment ratio (GER): 94.7 percent in 2014 versus 76.2 percent in 2008.
  - Primary-school net enrollment ratio (NER): 72.9 percent in 2013 versus 56.1 percent in 2008.
  - Classrooms built: 6,885.
  - Textbooks provided: 5,106,378.
  - Teachers hired: 24,422 instructors and 7,966 high-school and college teachers.
- Technical and higher education:
  - Agreements with TFPs (AFD, EU, UNIDO) to revise three training streams; repair/renovate/fit out and build capacity in 10 schools.
  - LMD system regulatory texts established; university curricula revised; three universities renovated and converted to autonomous universities.
- Health:
  - 2012-2015 National Health Sector Development Plan (PNDS) formulated.
  - University hospital emergency departments renovated/fitted: Bouaké, Cocody, Treichville, Yopougon.
  - 46 general hospitals renovated/fitted (including Yopougon-Attié, Bingerville, Port-Bouët) and 150 health centers upgraded.
  - Four hospitals built/fitted: Gagnoa, Adjamé, Angré, Saint Joseph Moscati in Yamoussoukro.
  - 52 front-line health units (dispensary and maternity) built and fitted.
  - Vehicles procured: 10 ambulances with medical equipment, 100 transport ambulances, 200 motorcycles.
  - Free access policy: childbirth, complications of childbirth including cesarean sections, treatment for illnesses of children up to age five, and diagnosed malaria provided free of charge.
  - Illicit pharmaceuticals seized: 205,350 metric tons.
- Employment:
  - National Employment Policy adopted June 7, 2012.
  - Labor code adapted to OHADA; guaranteed nonfarm minimum wage (SMIG) and guaranteed farm minimum wage (SMAG) raised effective November 20, 2013.
  - Civic Action Service to Promote Employment and Development (SCAED) established targeting youth without diplomas or training.
  - Jobs created by technical ministries’ programs and projects as of January 1, 2015: 729,546 jobs (compared to 1,638,050 jobs forecast).
- Gender and social inclusion:
  - National Strategy for Combating Gender-based Violence (SNLVBG) adopted.
  - Capacity-building for 2,472 leaders.
  - Funding provided to 61,000 women for income-generating activities.
  - Functional literacy and numeracy training: 6,000 women and 700 women vendors.
- Culture and sport:
  - Major events organized (AfroBasket; World Cup of Taekwondo).
  - Côte d’Ivoire won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
  - Cultural festivals and events (MASA, SILA, FEMUA) promoted talent and cultural exchange.

### Strategic Outcome 4 — Environment, Habitat, Water, Sanitation, Sustainable Development
- Actions and status:
  - 326 actions; 87 major.
  - Major-action status: 24 entirely fulfilled, 35 in progress, 28 unfulfilled.
- Financing and execution:
  - CFAF 536.3 billion allocated out of CFAF 572.9 billion forecast under 2012-2015 PND.
  - Budget resources 2012–2014: CFAF 355.9 billion, with 82.17 percent used.
  - PND financial execution rate: 74.66 percent.
- Social housing and land:
  - Land mobilized for social housing: 3,059.57 hectares (1,015 hectares in Abidjan; 39.27 hectares in Yamoussoukro; 2,005.30 hectares in other main towns).
  - Dwelling units completed: 1,600 in District of Abidjan and 200 in other main towns.
  - Building sites started nationwide: 71.
  - Property title applications processed by new software: more than 112,523 since 2012.
- Urban development, waste, and SMEs:
  - Decree prohibiting plastic bags extended.
  - Garbage collection in District of Abidjan: 1,006,173.89 metric tons collected out of 1,377,355 metric tons forecast (70 percent fulfillment rate).
  - Waste management guide adopted for communities under 50,000 people.
  - Four incubation centers for SMEs and cooperative artisanal groups set up in Korhogo, Bouaké, Man, and Yamoussoukro.
- Potable water and sanitation:
  - 794 new pumps installed in towns and villages.
  - 11,446 hand pumps maintained.
  - 76 water towers constructed.
  - 14 water drilling projects for the city of Abidjan.
  - 6,500 village pumps rehabilitated and national water supply system rehabilitated.
  - Financial support 2012–2013: 20,000 water service connections for poor households (planned: 30,000).
  - Watering points established: 471 (planned: 500) under BID 1 Village Water Systems Program.
  - 3,000 households connected to sanitation network.
  - 56,742 cubic meters cleared out (planned: 57,200 cubic meters) — 98 percent completion for emergency works.
  - Buffer tanks built on C1 and C2 channels of Gourou drainage basin (Indenié intersection).
  - Three flood retention dams rehabilitated; four more under construction.
- Environment and natural resources:
  - Ratification in 2013 of the Maputo Convention on conservation of nature and natural resources.
  - Legal text for platform to reduce natural disaster risk and legal text for REDD+ adopted.
  - National Bureau of Parks and Reserves (OIPR) fitted out; remediation of “Probo Koala” toxic waste dumpsites carried out.
  - Annual maintenance: 376.5 kilometers of road shoulders and forest footpaths; 810 kilometers on perimeters of parks and reserves; 12.6 hectares in Banco National Park arboretum.
  - Rehabilitation: a bridge in Comoé National Park; recovery of 1,269.22 hectares of farmland for Taï National Park.
  - Forestry: new Forestry Code passed June 2014 replacing 1965 code.
  - Reforestation: 13,824 hectares reforested in designated forest areas.
  - Forest protection: 3,392 regular patrols and 411 joint patrols with FRCI; of 10 designated forest areas inspected, five were occupied and cleared.
  - Training: 601 water and forest agents given basic military training by forest police.
  - Abidjan zoo repair and renovation work undertaken.

### Strategic Outcome 5 — International Repositioning, Regional Integration, Diplomacy
- Actions and status:
  - 118 actions; 27 major.
  - Major-action status: 10 entirely fulfilled, 10 in progress, seven unfulfilled.
- Financing and execution:
  - CFAF 77.5 billion allocated for 2012-2015 out of CFAF 195.9 billion planned.
  - Resources allocated 2012–2014: CFAF 57.7 billion (sentence in source cuts off here).
- Diplomatic rehabilitation and international engagement:
  - Ivorian authorities conducted a diplomatic campaign with many official visits, working visits, and business visits to many countries around the world.
  - The President of Côte d’Ivoire served as chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in 2012 and 2013.
  - Three new embassies were opened: in Equatorial Guinea, Turkey, and Lebanon.
  - Two new consulates-general were opened: in Guangzhou, China, and in New York.
  - Eleven joint commissions have been reactivated.
  - The diplomatic bag service to carry official materials from the President’s office and the foreign ministry has been restored.
  - Economic and trade missions were organized to all the country’s diplomatic missions to implement the economic diplomacy promoted by the President.

### Financial execution and PND
- 97.23 percent was used.
- The PND’s financial execution rate is 41.65 percent.
- Reiterated: 97.23 percent was used. Here, the PND’s financial execution rate is 41.65 percent.

### Post-crisis reconstruction and economic initiatives
- Implementation of the PACIR program to support trade and regional integration is underway.
- Negotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union is being undertaken.
- Côte d’Ivoire has joined, and begun actively participating in, the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel and West Africa (CILSS).
- Participation in CILSS enabled the country to benefit from large projects such as construction of the Ouagalodougou livestock market and rehabilitation of the Niellé livestock market.

### Outcomes and analysis
- Actions conducted under the strategic outcomes are progressing in step with the objectives established.
- Côte d’Ivoire has rebounded with rapid growth in a much-improved context of peace and security, with the benefit of better governance.
- The people are beginning to reap the benefits of this renewed economic vigor, thanks to efforts in redistribution and remedying of inequalities across sectors.

*Source: _cr15148 - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY*

### EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

### EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

### Overview
- In March 2012, following 10 years of sociopolitical crisis and economic stagnation, Côte d’Ivoire adopted a National Development Plan (PND) for the years 2012 to 2015 to set out the foundations for the country to become an emerging economy by 2020.
- The PND centers on five strategic outcomes: (i) harmony and secured society with good governance; (ii) increased and sustained national wealth creation with equitable sharing; (iii) access to high-quality, equitable social services (especially for women, children, and vulnerable groups); (iv) healthy environment and adequate quality of life; and (v) effective repositioning of Côte d’Ivoire regionally and internationally.
- This document summarizes results of implementing the 2012-2015 PND across all sectors covered by the five strategic outcomes.

### Strategic Outcome 1 — Harmony, Security, Governance (747 actions; 68 major)
- Major-action status: 28 entirely fulfilled, 26 in progress, 14 unfulfilled.
- Financing: CFAF 584.9 billion allocated out of CFAF 1,060.7 billion planned for 2012-2015.
- Public funds 2012–2014: CFAF 491.1 billion, with 86.59 percent used.
- PND financial execution rate: 58.56 percent.
- DDR and reintegration: 46,000 ex-combatants integrated out of 74,068 total.
- Refugee returns: 234,118 returned out of 300,000 by end-2013 (78.04 percent).
- IDP returns: 730,000 internally displaced persons had returned as of October 2012.
- Security indices: general security index lowered from 3.3 in 2012 to 1.12 in 2014; United Nations security index lowered from 4 to 2 over same period.
- Justice and civil status: organizational structure of courts restored; commercial tribunal set up July 2012; 5,585 birth certificates issued to previously unregistered schoolchildren.
- Decentralization and governance reforms: reduction of local community government types from five in 2010 to three in 2013; Law 2012-1128 (December 13, 2012) on organizational structure of local community government; 2013 law grouping local community governments into districts; Special Status of Traditional Kings and Chieftains adopted; Law 2014-428 (July 14, 2014) strengthening decentralization institutional framework.
- Governance rankings: improvements in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance, and Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Control of Corruption indicator.
- Communications coverage: television coverage expanded from 70 percent in 2012 to 93.33 percent in 2014; radio coverage from 60.75 percent in 2011 to 96.42 percent in 2014.

### Strategic Outcome 2 — Wealth Creation, Infrastructure, Productive Sectors (696 actions; 204 major)
- Major-action status: 72 fulfilled, 83 in progress, 49 unfulfilled.
- Financing: CFAF 599.1 billion allocated out of CFAF 1,959.2 billion planned for 2012-2015.
- Budget resources 2012–2014: CFAF 1,679.3 billion, with 74.65 percent used.
- PND financial execution rate: 109.54 percent.
- Macroeconomic performance: economic growth rate 9.8 percent in 2012, 9.2 percent in 2013, 9 percent in 2014; 4.7 percent drop in 2011. Average inflation 2012–2014: 1.46 percent (WAEMU benchmark 3 percent); inflation was 4.9 percent in 2011. Over 2012–2014, GDP increased by more than 25 percent and per capita GDP by 15 percent (IMF data).
- Agriculture and rural development:
  - Reforms in coffee, cacao, cotton, and cashew production raised incomes for more than 2.5 million small farmers.
  - Cacao producers’ aggregate gross income 2013-14: CFAF 1,309.6 billion versus CFAF 1,041.3 billion previous season (increase of 25.7 percent).
  - Food-crop output: 11.62 million metric tons in 2011 to 15.45 million metric tons in 2014 (increase of 27.13 percent).
- Transport and roads:
  - Major bridge projects: Henri Konan Bédié, Bouaflé, Jacqueville, Béoumi, Bassawa (some completed, others expected end-2015).
  - Rural roads: 5,000 kilometers regraded.
  - Main roads repaved: 346 kilometers (including Singrobo–Yamoussoukro and Boundiali–Tengrela).
  - Freeway Abidjan–Grand Bassam under construction.
  - SOTRA buses: 724 purchased and 459 overhauled.
- P-ICTs:
  - Governance strengthened via three laws: electronic transactions; protection of personal data; cybercrime.
  - New postal code system implemented.
  - High-priority projects advanced in e-health, e-education, e-agriculture, e-electronic governance.
  - 1,000 communities connected using CDMA technology.
- Mining: new Mining Code introduced; efforts to conform to Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
- Energy:
  - Electrification: electric power brought to 800 more communities; communities connected rose from 2,875 to 3,575 in 2014 (nationwide coverage close to 40 percent).
  - Installed generating capacity rose by 211 megawatts, from 1,421 megawatts to 1,632 megawatts.
  - Gross output: 6,785 gigawatt hours (increase of 7.2 percent of demand compared to 2012).
  - Sector in financial equilibrium.
- Hydrocarbons:
  - Gross oil output: 26,500 barrels a day.
  - Five new licenses issued; four new drilling projects carried out; two new discoveries under evaluation.
  - Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) utilization: 70-percent rate.
  - Butane storage capacity built: 9,500 metric tons.
  - Pipeline completed: 385 kilometers between Abidjan and Bouaké.
- Industry, SMEs, trade:
  - Investment code revised (1995 code replaced) in 2012; tax exemptions for crisis-hit businesses.
  - SME strategy “Project Phoenix” prepared; Law 2014-140 promulgated March 24, 2014 for SME guidance.
  - Industrial zone rehabilitation and new parks (e.g., Agroparc with I2T, CDT, CI-Engineering).
  - Trade reforms: law on competition passed; draft Consumers’ Code prepared; campaigns for weights-and-measures inspections.
- Cost-of-living measures:
  - National Cost of Living Board established.
  - Reduced VAT rates (in the range of 5 percent to 10 percent) applied to widely used VAT-subject products.
  - Tightened price controls and field inspections; effort to even out butane gas prices nationwide.
- Tourism and hospitality:
  - Tourism Code validated and adopted.
  - Renovation of six deluxe hotels (Hôtel Ivoire; Golf Hôtel; Hôtel Golf Club; Hôtel Le Président; Hôtel Les Parlementaires in Yamoussoukro; Hôtel La Paix in Daoukro).
  - Guest rooms: 27,431 in 2012 to 30,471 in 2013 (increase of 11.09 percent).
- Artisan craft industry: Artisan Craft Industry Code promulgated June 5, 2014; WAEMU code entry into force July 2014.

### Strategic Outcome 3 — Social Services: Education, Health, Employment (961 actions; 73 major)
- Major-action status: 33 entirely fulfilled, 31 in progress, nine unfulfilled.
- Financing: CFAF 937.5 billion allocated for 2012-2015 versus CFAF 790.7 billion planned.
- Funds 2012–2014: CFAF 655.2 billion, with 76.89 percent used.
- Overall utilization of public funds planned by PND for Strategic Outcome 3: 88.28 percent.
- Education:
  - Primary-school gross enrollment ratio (GER): 94.7 percent in 2014 versus 76.2 percent in 2008.
  - Primary-school net enrollment ratio (NER): 72.9 percent in 2013 versus 56.1 percent in 2008.
  - Classrooms built: 6,885.
  - Textbooks provided: 5,106,378.
  - Teachers hired: 24,422 instructors and 7,966 high-school and college teachers.
- Technical and higher education:
  - Agreements with TFPs (AFD, EU, UNIDO) to revise three training streams; repair/renovate/fit out and build capacity in 10 schools.
  - LMD system regulatory texts established; university curricula revised; three universities renovated and converted to autonomous universities.
- Health:
  - 2012-2015 National Health Sector Development Plan (PNDS) formulated.
  - University hospital emergency departments renovated/fitted: Bouaké, Cocody, Treichville, Yopougon.
  - 46 general hospitals renovated/fitted (including Yopougon-Attié, Bingerville, Port-Bouët) and 150 health centers upgraded.
  - Four hospitals built/fitted: Gagnoa, Adjamé, Angré, Saint Joseph Moscati in Yamoussoukro.
  - 52 front-line health units (dispensary and maternity) built and fitted.
  - Vehicles procured: 10 ambulances with medical equipment, 100 transport ambulances, 200 motorcycles.
  - Free access policy: childbirth, complications of childbirth including cesarean sections, treatment for illnesses of children up to age five, and diagnosed malaria provided free of charge.
  - Illicit pharmaceuticals seized: 205,350 metric tons.
- Employment:
  - National Employment Policy adopted June 7, 2012.
  - Labor code adapted to OHADA; guaranteed nonfarm minimum wage (SMIG) and guaranteed farm minimum wage (SMAG) raised effective November 20, 2013.
  - Civic Action Service to Promote Employment and Development (SCAED) established targeting youth without diplomas or training.
  - Jobs created by technical ministries’ programs and projects as of January 1, 2015: 729,546 jobs (compared to 1,638,050 jobs forecast).
- Gender and social inclusion:
  - National Strategy for Combating Gender-based Violence (SNLVBG) adopted.
  - Capacity-building for 2,472 leaders.
  - Funding provided to 61,000 women for income-generating activities.
  - Functional literacy and numeracy training: 6,000 women and 700 women vendors.
- Culture and sport: major events organized (AfroBasket; World Cup of Taekwondo); Côte d’Ivoire won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations; cultural festivals and events (MASA, SILA, FEMUA) promoted talent and cultural exchange.

### Strategic Outcome 4 — Environment, Habitat, Water, Sanitation, Sustainable Development (326 actions; 87 major)
- Major-action status: 24 entirely fulfilled, 35 in progress, 28 unfulfilled.
- Financing: CFAF 536.3 billion allocated out of CFAF 572.9 billion forecast under 2012-2015 PND.
- Budget resources 2012–2014: CFAF 355.9 billion, with 82.17 percent used.
- PND financial execution rate: 74.66 percent.
- Social housing and land:
  - Land mobilized for social housing: 3,059.57 hectares (1,015 hectares in Abidjan; 39.27 hectares in Yamoussoukro; 2,005.30 hectares in other main towns).
  - Dwelling units completed: 1,600 in District of Abidjan and 200 in other main towns.
  - Building sites started nationwide: 71.
  - Property title applications processed by new software: more than 112,523 since 2012.
- Urban development and waste:
  - Decree prohibiting plastic bags extended.
  - Garbage collection in District of Abidjan: 1,006,173.89 metric tons collected out of 1,377,355 metric tons forecast (70 percent fulfillment rate).
  - Waste management guide adopted for communities under 50,000 people.
  - Four incubation centers for SMEs and cooperative artisanal groups set up in Korhogo, Bouaké, Man, and Yamoussoukro.
- Potable water:
  - 794 new pumps installed in towns and villages.
  - 11,446 hand pumps maintained.
  - 76 water towers constructed.
  - 14 water drilling projects for the city of Abidjan.
  - 6,500 village pumps rehabilitated and national water supply system rehabilitated.
  - Financial support 2012–2013: 20,000 water service connections for poor households (planned: 30,000).
  - Watering points established: 471 (planned: 500) under BID 1 Village Water Systems Program.
- Sanitation and flood control:
  - 3,000 households connected to sanitation network.
  - 56,742 cubic meters cleared out (planned: 57,200 cubic meters) — 98 percent completion for emergency works.
  - Buffer tanks built on C1 and C2 channels of Gourou drainage basin (Indenié intersection).
  - Three flood retention dams rehabilitated; four more under construction.
- Environment and natural resources:
  - Ratification in 2013 of the Maputo Convention on conservation of nature and natural resources.
  - Legal text for platform to reduce natural disaster risk and legal text for REDD+ adopted.
  - National Bureau of Parks and Reserves (OIPR) fitted out; remediation of “Probo Koala” toxic waste dumpsites carried out.
  - Annual maintenance: 376.5 kilometers of road shoulders and forest footpaths; 810 kilometers on perimeters of parks and reserves; 12.6 hectares in Banco National Park arboretum.
  - Rehabilitation: a bridge in Comoé National Park; recovery of 1,269.22 hectares of farmland for Taï National Park.
  - Forestry: new Forestry Code passed June 2014 replacing 1965 code.
  - Reforestation: 13,824 hectares reforested in designated forest areas.
  - Forest protection: 3,392 regular patrols and 411 joint patrols with FRCI; of 10 designated forest areas inspected, five were occupied and cleared.
  - Training: 601 water and forest agents given basic military training by forest police.
  - Abidjan zoo repair and renovation work undertaken.

### Strategic Outcome 5 — International Repositioning, Regional Integration, Diplomacy (118 actions; 27 major)
- Major-action status: 10 entirely fulfilled, 10 in progress, seven unfulfilled.
- Financing: CFAF 77.5 billion allocated for 2012-2015 out of CFAF 195.9 billion planned.
- Resources allocated 2012–2014: CFAF 57.7 billion (sentence in source cuts off here).

*Executive Summary from _cr15148 - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY*

### 97.23 percent was used. Here, the PND’s financial execution rate is 41.65 percent.

### _cr15148 - 97.23 percent was used. Here, the PND’s financial execution rate is 41.65 percent.

### Financial execution and PND
- 97.23 percent was used.
- The PND’s financial execution rate is 41.65 percent.

### Diplomatic rehabilitation and international engagement
- Ivorian authorities conducted a diplomatic campaign with many official visits, working visits, and business visits to many countries around the world.
- The President of Côte d’Ivoire served as chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in 2012 and 2013.
- Three new embassies were opened: in Equatorial Guinea, Turkey, and Lebanon.
- Two new consulates-general were opened: in Guangzhou, China, and in New York.
- Eleven joint commissions have been reactivated.
- The diplomatic bag service to carry official materials from the President’s office and the foreign ministry has been restored.
- Economic and trade missions were organized to all the country’s diplomatic missions to implement the economic diplomacy promoted by the President.

### Post-crisis reconstruction and economic initiatives
- Implementation of the PACIR program to support trade and regional integration is underway.
- Negotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union is being undertaken.
- Côte d’Ivoire has joined, and begun actively participating in, the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel and West Africa (CILSS).
- Participation in CILSS enabled the country to benefit from large projects such as construction of the Ouagalodougou livestock market and rehabilitation of the Niellé livestock market.

### Outcomes and analysis
- Actions conducted under the strategic outcomes are progressing in step with the objectives established.
- Côte d’Ivoire has rebounded with rapid growth in a much-improved context of peace and security, with the benefit of better governance.
- The people are beginning to reap the benefits of this renewed economic vigor, thanks to efforts in redistribution and remedying of inequalities across sectors.

*Source: _cr15148 - 97.23 percent was used. Here, the PND’s financial execution rate is 41.65 percent.*

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/websites/imf/imported-full-text-pdf/external/pubs/ft/scr/2015/_cr15148.pdf_