Project Description:

Provide financial support to the Burkinabe facilitation of Direct Dialogue between President Laurent Gbagbo and the armed opposition, the Forces Nouvelles, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, thereby paving the way for the resolution of the conflict, leading to the organisation of free and fair elections in Côte d’Ivoire.

Development Goal:

Support the peace process facilitated by the President of Burkina Faso and acting Chairman of ECOWAS Blaise Compaoré, leading to free and fair elections and peace consolidation in Côte d’Ivoire.

Immediate Objective:

Support Facilitator’s activities to implement the Ouagadougou Political Agreement.

Allow the parties to continue consultations in the near future without running the risk of interruption due to insufficient financial resources.

Outputs/Key Activities:

Partial funding of the pre-negotiation, negotiation and follow-up phases in the

context of the Ouagadougou Political Agreement

Procurement:

The project will be directly executed by the UNDP Country Office according to the

Direct Execution modality (DEX).