Côte d'Ivoire Validation 2019

In May 2018, the EITI Board agreed that Côte d'Ivoire had made meaningful progress in implementing the 2016 EITI Standard. See Board decision 2018-22/BC-249.

In this second Validation, the EITI International Secretariat has assessed the progress made in addressing the 12 corrective actions established by the EITI Board following the first Validation. See more under background below. 

Timeline of Validation and related materials

• 8 November 2019: Validation commenced
• 25 November 2019 - 9 December 2019: Stakeholder consultations
• 14 February 2020: Draft assessment sent to the MSG for comments [English | French]
• 10 March 2020 - Comments from the MSG [English | French]
• 17 March 2020 - Final assessment [English | French]

Background

The first Validation of commenced on 1 April 2017. On 8 May 2018, the EITI Board agreed that Côte d'Ivoire had made meaningful progress in implementing the 2016 EITI Standard (Board decision 2018-22/BC-249). The Board established 12 corrective actions related to:

1. MSG governance (Requirement 1.4)
2. Work plan (Requirement 1.5)
3. License allocation (Requirement 2.2)
4. License register (Requirement 2.3)
5. State-participation (Requirement 2.6)
6. In-kind revenues (Requirement 4.2)
7. Barters and infrastructure arrangements (Requirement 4.3)
8. SOE transactions (Requirement 4.5)
9. Distribution of revenues (Requirement 5.1)
10. Subnational transfers (Requirement 5.2)
11. SOE quasi-fiscal expenditures (Requirement 6.2)
12. Documentation of outcomes and impact (Requirement 7.4).