| Grant Profile: |
| Project Title: |
Support to the Peace Process - Recipient Executed |
| PCF/LICUS/SPF: |
LICUS |
Status: |
Open |
| File Number: |
84
| Region: |
AFR |
| Sector: |
Health and other social services |
Country: |
Cote d'Ivoire |
| FY approved: |
2009 |
Grant Theme : |
Social dev/gender/inclusion |
| Keyword(s): |
Peace and reconciliation dialogue;Peace negotiations |
Approved Amount: |
$349,500.00 |
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Grant Recipient:
UNDP |
Grant Purpose:
The grant aims to:
(1) Support stabilization of the crisis and peace-building, and assist the government in addressing key conflict factors (through implementation of the Ouaga accords);
(2) Assist war-affected populations by way of community rehabilitation and support to the provision of basic social services;
(3) Assist economic recovery and reform by focusing on economic governance reforms, institution building, fostering demand for governance and accountability and supporting sustained economic growth.
More specifically, the project has three objectives:
(i) Strategic: to reinforce the capacity of the Facilitator to continue negotiations and mediation throughout the life of the peace process until the successful conclusion of elections and to drive forward the crisis recovery program;
(ii) Operational: to finance various initiatives and necessary support arising from the peace process, such as high level meetings and regional consultations, which arise during this period;
(iii) Evaluative: to allow the Bank to learn lessons of its approach to peace and state building in a key African country.
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Grant Activities:
Component 1: Support to the Facilitator’s Office and Mediation under the Ouaga process
(1): Reinforcing the staffing of the Office of the Special Representative
The grant will finance the monthly stipends for staffing of the OSR. Particular officers will include Counselors of Economic and Financial Affairs, Judicial Affairs and Communications. Given the qualifications and terms of reference of these particular staff it is clear that there will be no risk that these officers will be working on political and military issues. These officers are already on contract (they have six month contracts, renewable, depending on the ongoing timeline of the peace process). These officers will be responsible for the following:
(i) Producing a number of short papers on the current context to reinforce the knowledge of the OSR on the peace process with a focus on legal and socio-economic issues, highlighting risks and proposing options both for the Facilitator and the parties;
(ii) Producing a monthly report in the name of the Facilitator on the status of peace implementation which will include an update on the provision of technical and financial support to the process and identifying any gaps;
(iii) Increasing inclusion through regular consultations in country and the sub-region with key stakeholders amongst civil society, women’s groups, religious actors and formal and informal leadership. Particular focus will be on how to reinforce awareness of the Ouaga process amongst the population at large.
In addition to paying for OSR staff, this support will also contribute to staff operations, telecommunications and local-in country transport. It is expected that this activity will support the OSR in terms of these operating costs and fees for six months until the end of 2008.
(2): Support to the Mediation
In recognition that the Ouaga process is a complex one, the Facilitator regularly convenes meetings in Ouagadougou with the parties and other stakeholders including the international partners. Given the sensitive nature of some of these negotiations, the World Bank support will focus on those questions of a socio-economic nature and will specifically exclude support to mediation of matters relating to military/ security or electoral issues.
The main elements of this activity will be flight costs and hotel bills.
Component 2: Evaluation of World Bank Support to Peace and State Building
(1) Evaluation of World Bank engagement in CdI
The grant will support a comprehensive evaluation of Bank engagement in Cote d'Ivoire in support of state and peace building. Whilst it is not possible to assume that such an evaluation could also be conducted for all international partners in Cote d'Ivoire, including the UN system, it is anticipated that such a review could influence the approach of international partners as well as indirectly strengthen global knowledge on international intervention in fragile states. The kinds of questions that such an evaluation would raise would include: what progress has been made by Côte d’Ivoire in terms of peace building and addressing key issues around state effectiveness, what reforms have worked and what have not, what has been the role of the international community and the Bank in particular in the process, and what lessons can be learned from international intervention in a process of this sort.
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