Partners

Several technical and financial partners (PTFs) have committed to supporting the dynamics of economic emergence of the esp through support to operational actors on the basis of the second Adjusted and Accelerated Priority Action Plan (PAP-2A) over the period 2019-2023, which constitutes the reference document for interventions by the State and partners technical and financial, public-private partnership and citizen participation.

The BOS has thus established partnerships with TFPs such as: UNDP, UN Women, Italian Cooperation, the Belgian Development Agency, the ADB, GIZ, GGGI and the European Union. The budget mobilized over the period 2019-2023 amounts to approximately 3 billion FCFA.

This funding made it possible to carry out a certain number of very important activities over the period, such as:

• The recruitment of several consultants and firms as well as the organization of various project structuring projects and reforms (relaunch of the pharmaceutical industry, agropole center, Green PSE, regional mining hub, etc.)
• Strengthening the system for monitoring the implementation of priority projects and reforms of the esp through the production of reference situations and socio-economic impact studies
• The deployment of the platform for monitoring flagship projects and reforms (Saytou PSE)
• Benchmark trips
• The organization of annual reviews with all stakeholders involved in the implementation of the esp
• Certification training (Prince 2, Lean 6 Sigma)
• Acquisition of computers and software
• Etc

- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), has supported the BOS since its launch in 2014, through the Monitoring of the esp Support Project (PASSE). The objective of PASSE is to contribute to improving the institutional and organizational efficiency of the public sector in monitoring the implementation of priority programs and reforms of the esp.

• Over the period 2014-2018, the BOS benefited from a UNDP support project amounting to approximately 500 million FCFA, which made it possible to develop a solid monitoring-evaluation system for the 27 projects and 17 flagship reforms of the esp as well as an application and dissemination diagram of said device.
• UNDP renewed the partnership over the period 2019-2023 through support for the restructuring and monitoring of the implementation of priority projects and reforms of the esp for the implementation of the following activities: digitalization of the Dashboard (Saytou- PSE), annual reviews, impact studies and structuring of the recovery of the pharmaceutical industry, capacity building of the BOS (acquisition of computer equipment, Prince2 training), etc.

- UN Women and Italian cooperation with the Project to Support the System for the Development, Monitoring and Evaluation of Gender-Sensitive Public Policies (PASEMEPP), enabled the BOS to develop a monitoring and evaluation system of the esp taking into account the gender dimension and also to integrate the indicators developed into the Public Policy Monitoring Platform. This project was closed in March 2021.

- TheBelgian Cooperation Agency (ENABEL) provided considerable support to the BOS in the context of structuring the Agropole center and the pharmaceutical industry. They also contributed to training several operational actors of the esp (“Prince2” project management, Leans six Sigma, Women’s Leadership, etc.).

– The BOS also signed a partnership agreement in December 2020 with the BAD, to cover its center of excellence dedicated to the African Network of Delivery Units (RADU) in order to support member countries in the implementation of their development strategies, through the establishment of operational monitoring systems and their offer a platform for sharing experiences and good practices, with a view to supporting their efforts for economic transformation and emergence. Seduced by the methods and tools developed for monitoring the flagship projects and reforms of the esp, the ADB decided to allocate a budget of 350 million FCFA over the period 2021-2023 to the BOS for the operationalization of this center. Excellency. To this end, the BOS will have to support two African countries in setting up a Delivery Unit, organize the training of around fifty actors from the esp in the Prince2 and PMP project management methodology and make every effort to have a recognized quality management system.

– Another partnership was established with the BAD through the Institutional Support Project for Resource Mobilization and Investment Attractiveness (PAIMRAI) for the Structuring of the flagship “mining hub” project and support for the implementation of SEZs and Competitiveness.

- TheEuropean Union and MAVA Foundation represented by GGGI, financed the structuring of the esp vert.

- The CHALK finances the structuring of the flagship reform on the modernization of the administration planned for 2023.