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

The Environmental Intervention Fund (FIE) is holding, from October 15 to 17, 2025 in Koudougou, the third 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 October 15, 2025 is to take stock of the activities of the EFLs for the third 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 third quarter of 2025 of the EFL; analyzing and validating the results achieved during the third 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+.

The work consists of plenary presentations of the balance sheets of the EFL activities during the quarter, highlighting the details of the municipal files processed, the situation of expenses incurred, settled and paid, the difficulties encountered and the proposed solutions.

Following the presentation of each EFL, discussions will be held by the participants in plenary session to better analyze the difficulties encountered and identify relevant solutions. At the end of the work, an action plan will be developed for the implementation of the proposed solutions with the aim of increasing the financial execution rates and disbursements 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 the holding of periodic consultation frameworks between the FIE and the EFLs to ensure the success of the project. To this end, each quarter, the FIE and the EFLs meet for a quarterly review in order to analyze the results obtained and the difficulties encountered on the one hand, but also to propose a schedule for the following quarter.

World Bank representative Abdoulaye ZONGO welcomed the regular holding of this framework, which allows the various stakeholders to discuss and find solutions to the difficulties in the implementation of PDIC/REDD+. He emphasized the World Bank's willingness to support the implementation of the project.

In his opening remarks, the Director General of the FIE congratulated the EFLs for the sacrifices made that have enabled them to achieve significant results in the implementation of PDIC/REDD+. He invited participants to outline the difficulties encountered so that discussions could help remove bottlenecks.

DCRP/FIE