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

The Environmental Intervention Fund (FIE) is holding, from July 9 to 11, 2025 in Koudougou, the second 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 18 EFL (financial controllers) of the fifty-four (54) active municipalities.

The general objective of the meeting which began on July 9, 2025 is to take stock of the activities of the EFLs for the second quarter of the fiduciary implementation of PDIC/REDD+ and to develop a quarterly action plan to boost the financial execution rates of PDIC/REDD+ and disbursements.

Specifically, this will involve analyzing and validating the technical and financial reports of the activities of the second quarter of 2025 of the EFL; analyzing and validating the results achieved during the second 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+,

As a reminder, 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) municipalities in several regions of the country, the PDIC/REDD+ benefits from a budgetary 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+. In this context, the FIE must play a dual role: to ensure financial intermediation between the PGPC/REDD+ and the intervention municipalities and to ensure monitoring of 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.

Three deliverables are expected from this meeting, namely a validated second quarter 2025 report by EFL; a consolidated second quarter 2025 report from EFL and an action plan to accelerate the financial execution of PDIC/REDD+, disbursements and progress indices (PI).

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