Title: Aménagément du Parc National du Mont Sangbé et de sa zone périphérique

Project number: B-7 5041/93.33/VIII/FOR

Amount: 2.950.000 ECU (see the financial annex)

Contractor:

• République de Côte d'Ivoire (administrative responsibility)
• Parc Naturel du Haut-Jura (F) (technical assistance)

Field: Management of National Parks

Country: Côte d'Ivoire

Date of signature: 11/07/94

Duration: 60 months

Objectives:

Protect and manage the National Park of Mont Sangbé and of its peripheral zone in the same way as the French regional Natural Park:

• Protect ion of wildlife and natural environment of the protected area and its peripheral zone;
• Implementation of a development and management programme in peripheral area with a long term association of village-communities.

Activities:

There are 4 fundamental type of actions:

1. The co-ordination of the project (financial and administrative aspects);
2. The development of the Park;
3. The development of the peripheral areas, the integrated rural development and the forest gallery;
4. The Inventory and the scientific follow-up of the project.

Results expected:

Create the structures and the conditions to allow the "Groupe de Pilotage du Mont Sangbé" (CAPNS) to follow and to develop the activities mentioned above in a long term sustainable prospective.

Beneficiaries:

Agriculture Ministry CDI, Regional and local Administration and Technical Services, local population living in the area.

Implementation Strategy:

• Human resources: Head of Project, and technical assistance (Parc Naturel Régional du Haut-Jura, France); "groupe de pilotage du M. Sangbé" (Agr. Min.CDI, Regional and local administration); ONG;
• Tourist structures (track, restoration of old villages,) , social structures (schools, access), vehicles and equipping for park management).

The intermediate report (Contractor Parc Naturel Régional Haut-Jura-responsible for technical assistance), concerning the period from September 1994 to December 1996, give a positive appraisal on the progress done and some clear instructions for the future. It indicates that the situation improved a lot during the last period (Mission of November 1996).

It could be interesting to note that the European Commission finances also a study concerning this area with the contract B7-5041/94.05/VIII: "étude préalable à l'amenagement de 4 Aires protégés et de leur zone périphérique.- Contribution à l'étude de la végétation du Parc du Mont Sangbé et de sa zone périphérique" (ENGREF-Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural des eaux et des Forêts de Montpellier). Attached a copy of TOR and study. This is scientific and should reinforce the activity on the development of the Park (2) and peripheral area (3) and the Inventory and scientific follow-up of the project (4).

Considering that other projects with environment objectives have been financed in Côte d'Ivoire (letter of the Delegation 14/11/96), the intermediary assessment of the project should equally assure that:

• actions realised in the present project follow the objective to improve the environmental policy in the country;
• a co-ordination between all the existent projects with the same objective.