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In January 2009, the government approved a Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme (PRSP) that was prepared in collaboration with all stakeholders. The strategy document outlines the government’s aims:

• consolidating peace and the security of persons and property, and promoting good governance
• creating a healthier macroeconomic framework
• creating employment and wealth by supporting the agricultural sector and promoting the private sector as an engine of growth
• improving the accessibility and quality of basic social services, protecting the environment and promoting gender equality and social protection
• achieving decentralization as a means of fostering people’s participation in the development process and in the reduction of regional inequalities
• being in line with the international context and regional integration

Following the recent upsurge in food prices, the government formulated a food production improvement strategy aimed at better ensuring household food security by promoting the production of rice, cassava and yam.

The 1992-2015 Agricultural Development Direction Programme governs the country’s agricultural sector strategy. The evaluation of the programme in 2008 reconfirmed the pertinence of its objectives nearly 20 years after its design.

IFAD’s main governmental counterpart in Côte d’Ivoire is the Ministry of Agriculture. IFAD collaborates specifically with the Ministry’s Directorate for Programming.

Source: IFAD