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In terms of reporting, the management units prepare implementation reports to show the
achievements already made, those in progress and those to come. In addition, the annual report
monitoring the implementation of the National Development Plan provides an analysis of the
performance of the implementation of "major projects".
One of the issues identified in the common practice of this phase of project life/cycle in Côte d-
Ivoire is represented by the lack of formal procedures and rules for monitoring the
implementation of projects. Annual reports were commented to be provided later (République
de Côte d’Ivoire, 2019). However, initiatives are being implemented by the national authorities
to tackle this weakness: in particular, the ongoing strengthening of the National Programming
and Monitoring and Evaluation System (SYNAPSE) will eventually enable Côte d'Ivoire to make
an information system available and accessible to all stakeholders and, beyond that, to make this
information accessible to the Ministry of Economy and Finance in charge of planning and
development, that is also responsible of monitoring the implementation of the NDP (République
de Côte d’Ivoire, 2019).
In addition, it shall be noted that at present contract monitoring is not undertaken in the
perspective of risk management. However, the toolkit for PPP risk management recently
developed by the CNP-PPP also covers this phase, and its gradual implementation is currently
ongoing.
Finally, also concerning the construction phase, it shall be noted that Ivorian legislation does not
provide for a specific acceptance procedure once the construction works of infrastructure are
completed. In practice, the procedure of acceptance is defined by the parties in the contractual
provisions. Following a relatively common approach, acceptance procedure is generally divided
into two phases. Firstly, once the construction works are completed, a “temporary acceptance”
phase takes place. During this phase, the public authority controls the compliance of the works
with the laws and the contractual and technical specifications. After this period, the private party
can be asked to undertake complementary works. Once this phase is concluded, a “definitive
acceptance” phase can take place.
Box 16 PPP under construction: widening and deepening the Vridi canal and building the
2nd Container Terminal of the Port of Abidjan
This major project in the Port of Abidjan aims to build a second container terminal, with a
capacity of 1.5 million TEU per year, hence doubling the capacity of the Port of Abidjan, for a
total investment of CFA 931,000 million (or EUR 1,419 million). The main activities include the
widening (from 120 to 250m) and deepening (from 12 m to 20m) of the entry of the canal,
building 1,150 ml of quayside (with a water depth of – 18 ), backfilling around 37.5 ha of land,
developing the quayside surface and finally equipping the terminal with modern cargo handling
equipment.
The contracting authority is the Autonomous Port of Abidjan (PAA), which is an entity under the
responsibility of the Ministry of Transport.
According to the PPP agreements, the activities transferred to the private party include financing
and equipping the superstructures and operating the terminal (under a DBFO scheme), while the