16 July 2008

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  The political context in Côte d’Ivoire has evolved significantly since the signing of the Ouagadougou Peace Agreement (OPA) between the Ivorian Government and the Forces Nouvelles (former rebel movement-FN) on 4 March 2007.  The security environment has improved, as have the Government’s relations with the international community in general and the Bretton Woods institutions in particular.  Many of the persons displaced during the conflict have now returned to their areas of origin, but the social and economic infrastructure remains fragile, and land and nationality disputes continue to pose serious threats to social cohesion, stability and the still fragile peace process.  Since the signing of the OPA, 61,432 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to the Western regions of Moyen Cavally and 18 Montagnes.    (...)   Most of the projects in the health, water and sanitation, protection, education and food security and nutrition sectors were therefore designed to reflect current humanitarian needs of IDPs and host families in return areas.  With the exception of the food security sector, project proposals in the other sectors did not undergo any modification in terms of increase in funding requirements.  The total amount of funding sought through the revised 2008CAP stands at US$[1] 54,801,294.