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Reference to specific projects
Reference to specific PPP examples mentioned in the section above is made throughout the case
study to substantiate the description of the practices and provision of recommendations. The
following projects have been in particular recalled in the report, illustrating key issues for the
different phases of PPP project life-cycle:
 Construction of line 2 of the Abidjan transit network (BRT), in preparation;
 Widening and deepening the Vridi canal and building the 2nd Container Terminal of the
Port of Abidjan, currently under construction;
 Riviera-Marcory bridge in Abidjan, currently in operation;
 Concession of the Abidjan–Ouagadougou–Kaya railway line (Sitarail), in operation and
recently renewed after the end of the first concession.
These initiatives have been selected based on their significance with respect to riskmanagement
and the availability of information; however, they do not constitute a representative sample of
the performance of PPPs in the country.
5.2.2. Strategy and policy
Political support
Building on the experience, in the last decade PPPs played a central role in the strategy of the
government of Côte d'Ivoire, especially in the development of public infrastructure, and in
particular transport.
The Ivorian government decided to make PPPs a privileged instrument for the implementation
of its National Development Plan (NDP) for the period 2016-2020 with the aimof making Côte
d'Ivoire an emerging country by 2020. The target set in the PND is to achieve strong growth
driven by structuring investments in growth-promoting sectors and by the continuation of
large-scale structural reforms. To achieve these growth targets, the NDP 2016-2020 provides
for an overall level of investment of around 30,000 billion CFA francs, of which 60% for the
private sector including Public-Private Partnerships (République de Côte d'Ivoire, 2015). In the
NDP 2016-2020, around 25% of these PPPs were identified in the transport sector, with the
distribution of the investment cost by responsible authority and subsector shown in the chart
below.