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THE FIE AND THE EFL TAKE ASSESSMENT OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE YEAR 2025

The Environmental Intervention Fund (FIE) is holding, from April 16 to 18, 2025 in Ouagadougou, the first quarterly meeting of 2025 with Local Financial Experts (EFL) as part of the implementation of Integrated Municipal Development Projects for REDD+ (PDIC/REDD+).

The participants in the meeting are the EFL (financial controllers) in charge of the thirty (30) municipalities of the first wave and those of the second wave. Indeed, twelve (12) EFL were mobilized in 2023 for the municipalities of the first wave and eight (8) others in March 2025 for the municipalities of the second wave.

The general objective of the meeting is to take stock of the activities of the EFLs for the first quarter of 2025 of the fiduciary implementation of PDIC/REDD+ and to develop the action plan to accelerate the disbursement rates and the progress index of PDIC/REDD+.

Specifically, it will involve analyzing and validating the technical and financial assessments of the activities of the first quarter of 2025 of the EFL; analyzing and validating the results achieved during the first quarter of 2025 in the fiduciary facilitation of PDIC/REDD +; identifying and analyzing the difficulties/challenges encountered in the implementation of the fiduciary facilitation of PDIC/REDD+. For 72 hours, participants will also have to make proposals or recommendations aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the fiduciary implementation of PDIC/REDD+, informing and raising awareness among new EFLs on the principles and procedures of intervention of PDIC/REDD+ and their respective roles and responsibilities in fiduciary facilitation.

For the record, Burkina Faso has benefited from financial and technical support from the World Bank for the preparation and implementation of the " Project for the sustainable management of communal landscapes for REDD+ (PGPC/REDD +) subdivided into four components, the first of which is devoted to the implementation of Integrated Communal Development Projects for REDD+ (PDIC/REDD+). Planned in ninety-six (96) communes in several regions of the country, the PDIC/REDD+ benefits from a budget allocation of two hundred million (200,000,000) FCFA to three hundred million (300,000,000) FCFA each for the development of the activities included therein.

For better monitoring of the management of financial resources, a collaboration agreement for fiduciary facilitation was signed between the PGPC/REDD+ and the FIE. The mission assigned to the FIE aims to enable fiduciary facilitation for the successful implementation of PDIC/REDD+. To do this, the FIE must play a dual role: to ensure financial intermediation between the PGPC/REDD+ and the intervention municipalities and to ensure compliance with administrative, accounting, financial and procurement procedures.

To operationalize this mission, the FIE has identified, at the local level, resource persons called "Local Financial Experts" who ensure the control of budgetary operations and the application of regulatory texts within the framework of the execution of the PDIC/REDD+ of the municipalities .

The financial monitoring system provides for periodic consultation between the FIE and the EFLs to ensure the project's success. To this end, each quarter, the FIE and the EFLs meet for a quarterly review to analyze the results obtained and the difficulties encountered, but also to propose a schedule for the following quarter.

The opening ceremony featured two speeches. The first was delivered by World Bank representative Abdoulaye ZONGO, who praised the quality of the work accomplished by the FIE and the EFL. He encouraged these project partners to continue in the same dynamic for the successful implementation of PDIC/REDD+, as the goal is for the project to be a success story.

FIE Director General Delwendé Davy NANEMA also congratulated the EFLs for their commitment. He urged them not to give up, as the challenges remain enormous. For Mr. NANEMA, this meeting is an opportunity to share experiences in order to achieve common results. He urged the EFLs not to hesitate to make proposals for better implementation of PDIC/REDD+.

DCRP/FIE