Pillar 2

The second pillar of Côte d’Ivoire Solidaire is the creation of wealth, a source of employment.

This involves the structural transformation of our economy, in particular through industrialisation.
Shared creation of national wealth, driven by our entrepreneurs, our businesses, both large and small, our farmers, our women, our young people and our craftsmen in all sectors of activity.
To achieve this, the State will fully play its role as orchestra conductor and will :
1.1. Accelerate wealth creation;
2.2. Promote the private sector as the engine of growth and employment; 2.3. Improve the financing of the economy;
2.4. Continue to improve the business climate;
2.5. Strengthen economic infrastructure;
2.6. Develop the digital economy.

OUR KEY MEASURES :

2.1- ACCELERATING WEALTH CREATION

Sector 1 – Agriculture, animal and fish resources and agri-food chains

• Securing rural land tenure ;
• Modernising and professionalising agriculture ;
• Professionalising producers and strengthening financial and insurance services for agricultural risks ;
• Construction of research and quality control laboratories (Cocoa, Coffee, Oil Palm);
• Popularising applied research for high yields ;
• Improving access to finance for farmers ;
• Improving access to basic infrastructure ;
• Improving access for small-scale farmers to inputs and high-yield, high-performance plant material;
• Accelerating the transformation of the rice and cassava value chains ;
• Promotion of competitive aquaculture and fish farming, and development of infrastructures for the production, processing and conservation of animal and fish products through the promotion of modern livestock farms.

Sector 2 – Preserving the environment and protecting our forests

• Better use and protection of classified forests;
• Strengthening green industries;
• Strengthening coastal resilience ;
• Development of a national multi-sector investment plan, including coastal degradation hotspots (Assinie, Grand-Bassam, Abidjan, Grand-Lahou and San-Pédro).

Sector 3 – Industry, commerce and crafts

• Implementation of a proactive government policy for the local manufacture of industrial products;
• Securing industrial land for the creation of industrial zones in each of the regions;
• Facilitating local access to raw materials ;
• Continuing to facilitate SMEs’ access to public contracts;
• Development of a car industry in Côte d’Ivoire: assembly plants ;
• Creation of assembly plants for transport, electronic and medical equipment;
• Integration of key raw materials in the global value chain (cocoa, cotton, cashew nuts, rubber, etc.)
• Drawing up and implementing a programme to develop domestic trade, which includes cleaning up the trade sector, eliminating de facto monopolies in certain sectors (timber, meat, fish, retail) and integrating nationals;
• Restructuring of export promotion bodies for “Made in Côte d’Ivoire” products.

Sector 4 – Mining and hydrocarbons

• Creation of an integrated downstream centre meeting international standards for refining, trading and storage to ensure domestic and hinterland supplies; – Development of a geological map of the country that will be accessible to all investors;
• Intensification of the crackdown on illegal gold washing and extension of evictions to the entire country in conjunction with the judicial authorities;
• Strengthening the training of artisanal miners through the creation of training centres;
• Intensification of campaigns to promote the Ivorian sedimentary basin to new oil majors and local investors;
• Improving the competitiveness of the Ivorian corridor to position itself as an oil hub in the sub-region.

Sector 5 – Tourism, arts and leisure : Tourism

• Training professionals in the tourism sector;
• Continued implementation of the national tourism development strategy known as “Sublime Côte d’Ivoire”;
• Creation of infrastructures and venues for cultural expression throughout the country;
• Construction of the “African Renaissance Library” in Abidjan as part of our policy of promoting and enhancing books, as well as the Maison du Cinéma;
• Creation of priority protected areas of tourist interest;
• Construction of the City of Culture, Science and Technology in Yamoussoukro,

Sport :

• Construction of infrastructure for the 2023 African Cup of Nations (40,000-seat stadiums in Bouaké, 25,000-seat stadiums in Korhogo, San-Pédro and Yamoussoukro, 8 CAN cities);
• Creation of leisure centres and rehabilitation of sports facilities;
• Developing a policy of identifying talent in schools and universities.

2.2 – PROMOTING THE PRIVATE SECTOR AS AN ENGINE FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT

Development and promotion of national champions
– Direct support for national SMEs in rural/agricultural and urban areas, in order to increase their investment, production and marketing capacities, and thus generate income and create jobs;
– Facilitating access to credit and strengthening the absorption capacity of SMEs.
Entrepreneurship in urban areas
– Implementation of a training programme for young operators in urban areas through a system of retraining or skills training targeting agricultural and agri-food trades, clothing, housing, digital technology and tourism; – Facilitating access to housing, in particular through property development and hire-purchase mechanisms adapted to urban areas.

2.3 – IMPROVING THE FINANCING OF THE ECONOMY

– Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships;
– Strengthening the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations to finance the economy;
– Broadening the tax base to mobilise the own resources needed to finance the economy;
– Mobilising domestic savings;
– Innovative and alternative financing;
– Development of new innovative financial products and services;
– Continued development of venture capital for SME financing;
– Strengthening specialised sectoral promotional financing (Agriculture, Industry, Housing);
– Deepening the financial market;
– Setting up a mortgage market;
– Strengthening the security of urban land.

2.4 – FURTHER IMPROVEMENT IN THE BUSINESS CLIMATE

– Acceleration of the reforms undertaken to improve the business environment, notably within the framework of Doing Business, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Open Government Partnership (OGP);
– Establishment of a geographic information system for urban and rural land in order to thoroughly modernise the Ivorian land registry and consolidate property rights;
– Measures to monitor and support foreign investment intentions;
– Strengthening the prevention and fight against corruption and related offences.

2.5 – DEVELOPING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

– Accelerating the digitisation of government, administrative procedures and the private sector;
– Bringing ICTs to all sections of the population, by offering low-cost access to the Internet;
– Improving the quality of service and providing full telephone and broadband Internet coverage before 2025;
– Extend broadband Internet access to households (the last mile);
– Reform of the VITIB’s legal framework and implementation of its development plan; – Increased training capacity for engineers and technicians specialising in IT and telecommunications in public and private IT and ICT teaching establishments;
– Setting up the “Digital Abidjan” programme, a French-speaking digital hub for West Africa;
– Provision of free Internet access in all public education and health establishments;
– Creation of a network of digital retraining schools;
– Training of more than 75,000 engineers and technicians specialising in digital technologies by 2030; – Creation of business and start-up incubators;
– Creation of E-agriculture and digitisation of the agricultural value chain;
– Setting up a national data centre.