Ivory Coast Protected Area Project

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The development objective of the Protected Area Project for Cote d'Ivoire is to improve the sustainable management of the fauna and habitat of the Comoe National Park. There are four components to the project. The first component of the project is institutional, financial, and technical strengthening for protected area management and oversight. This component will address the need to ensure that adequate institutional, financial, and technical capacities are in place to manage the national parks system. The second component of the project is management planning and implementation for the Comoe National Park. This component will be implemented by the OIPR (Office of Parks and Reserves) North-East field offices (zone and sector units) with the assistance of local communities and with input from other key stakeholders. The third component of the project is support to park communities. This component will finance support to park communities, defined as the 200,000 people living on the park fringes, through public awareness campaigns, biodiversity training, land management contracts, and alternative livelihoods. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) finds will support training to enable park communities to understand the importance of biodiversity and permit them, with training, to be able to participate in park management. This component will be implemented by a contracted firm/ Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with support from the OIPR. The contracted firm/NGO will provide the technical assistance needed. The fourth component of the project is project management and results monitoring. This component will finance project management and monitoring. This will include general project coordination through a project management unit.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry

World Bank Group

Project

Raw Materials, Commercial, Government, Residential