CI-DPO on Fiscal Management, Education and Energy Reforms

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The operation is the first in a programmatic series of two Development Policy Operations (DPO). The policy program supported by the Development Policy Financing (DPF) aims at: (i)enhancing tax revenue collection and public procurement; (ii) strengthening the efficiency and equity in the education sector; and (iii) improving the performance of the electricity sector and enabling private participation. The development policy operation (DPO) series is closely aligned with the 2016‐20 National Development Plan (NPD) and an integral element of the World Bank Country Partnership Framework (CPF). The DPO series aims at supporting the Government in its overall effort to promote sustainable and inclusive growth over the next few years. The Government’s strategy was well defined in the recently adopted National Development Plan (NDP) for the period 2016‐2020, which was presented to the international community at the Consultative Group meeting organized in Paris in May 2016. The series deliberately focuses on a sub‐set of critical challenges linked to fiscal policy, education, and energy. This selectivity was based on the combination of the Government’s priorities, the recent findings of the Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) and other analytical work, and the lessons derived from previous budget support’s operations in Cote d’Ivoire and in other low‐income countries. Other 2016‐2020 NDP priorities, in particular job creation and private sector development, are being, and will continue to be, supported by other World Bank Group (WBG) operations, including the regional DPO on trade facilitation between Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire as well as several investment projects aimed at improving Côte d’Ivoire’s competitiveness in priority sectors such as agriculture and industrial transformation.