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This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
presents the World Bank Group (WBG) program for Côte
d’Ivoire (CIV) during the period FY16-FY19. The CPF comes at
an opportune moment to accelerate and scale up the WBG
engagement. The program will take advantage of CIV’s current
climate of renewed stability to modernize the economy and
eliminate long-standing disparities aggravated by a decade
of multifaceted crisis, during which the World Bank Group
had to suspend its operation four times. In 2009, a
transitional Government resulting from the Ouagadougou
Political Agreement (OPA) provided an appropriate platform
to reengage. The transitional Government prepared the
country’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)
covering 2009-2015. The WBG Country Partnership Strategy
(CPS) for FY10-14, which supported the PRSP’s goals, was
prepared in this context. Political unrest following the
2010 Presidential Elections then rendered implementation of
the 2009 PRSP difficult. During the past four years, CIV has
made an impressive transition from crisis to relative
stability, and from fragility and low equilibrium, through
stabilization, to aspiring emerging economy status. Although
some of the root causes of the conflict remain, there are
high expectations that those will be tackled if the current
transformation is maintained and the reconciliation agenda
is intensified. The Government expects to accelerate
implementation of measures designed to improve social
cohesion, develop human capital, build a resilient economy,
support territorial development and promote regional
synergies towards integration. The CPF will also support the
achievement of the WBG’s twin goals of reducing extreme
poverty and boosting shared prosperity, which is also in
line with Côte d’Ivoire’s plans.
