Cote d’Ivoire Adopts Law on Evaluation of Public Policies

On June 29, 2022, a draft law on the evaluation of public policies in Côte d'Ivoire was adopted by the members of the Economic and Financial Affairs Commission of the National Assembly. The draft law was presented by the Minister of Planning and Development, Nialé Kaba. "This is a first for our country to introduce the evaluation of public policies into its practices in a normative way," said Minister Kaba.

This comes 8 months after a regional conference - "Implementing Development Agendas in Light of Current Challenges: Impact Evaluation at The Heart of Decision-Making” – co-organized in Abidjan, October 25 to 27, 2021, by GEI partner, CLEAR FA, with WACIE/3ie, under the chairmanship of Minister Kaba.

"Our States have many challenges in terms of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); how to see if the objectives we have set ourselves have been translated into concrete effects on the population? Public policies should benefit from an evaluation mechanism in each state," said Minister Kaba during the preparations for the regional conference.

 "It is a long process to put in place. And it involves sharing experiences and practices, looking at best practices and making recommendations to go further in the formalization and institutionalization of the evaluation practice,” said Minister Kaba.

The draft law on the evaluation of public policies has seven (7) titles, 11 chapters and 64 articles. Paragraph 2 of Article 5 of this law stipulates that the purpose of public evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of this policy by comparing its results with the assigned objectives, the planned deadlines and the means implemented.

GEI and CLEAR FA congratulate Côte d'Ivoire on this decisive step forward on the journey towards a culture of evaluation in Francophone Africa.