📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2021.2310.7
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
1600 West Africa 2, Madagascar
Contact person:
Milica Vukadinovic milica.vukadinovic@giz.de
Partner countries:
Ivory Coast
SUMMARY
Goals:
The institutional, organizational and human resources conditions for implementing reforms to structurally transform the Ivorian economy have improved.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Ministry of Trade, Industry and SMEs
Financier: not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
12 000 000 euros
Current project:
12 000 000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
05.04.2023 - 31.10.2027
Current project:
01.11.2023 - 31.10.2027
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Democratic and inclusive governance
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
25010 Business policy and administration
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
Côte d'Ivoire is the country with the highest economic growth in West Africa. Gross domestic product has been between six and nine percent since 2012. The private sector is therefore crucial for the country's development.
In its strategy for the United Nations Agenda 2030, the Ivorian government is therefore calling for private companies to receive special support. The national development plan (Plan National de Développement, PND) 2021 to 2025 also aims to remove obstacles in order to accelerate the country's economic and social transformation. One
of the challenges is inclusive growth, as almost half of the population lives in poverty. This particularly affects women and young people, as well as rural areas. The private sector also lacks many skilled workers. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) suffer from cumbersome procedures such as those for business licenses or company start-ups.
Several reform programs are targeting them. However, the economic conditions are improving only slowly. This is largely due to the fact that the reforms are difficult to implement.
Objective
The institutional and personnel conditions are improved in order to structurally reform the Ivorian economy and promote competitive and environmentally friendly companies.
Approach
The project is building up the skills in ministries and associated authorities to set up reforms and monitor their implementation. The project is specifically helping to improve data collection, increase the participation of the business community in reform processes and systematically use the resu