The purpose of this country environmental analysis (CEA) is to assist the Government of Cote d'Ivoire, development partners and civil society to integrate environmental issues into policy dialogues and country programming through: a) assessing environmental priorities in Cote d'Ivoire, b) identifying environmental implications of key policies, c) evaluating the country's institutional capacity to address their priorities
and d) identifying practical environmental governance, financial, institutional and policy solutions to promote environmentally and socially sustainable natural resources management coupled with sustainable growth. This CEA is also expected to contribute toward the inclusion or mainstreaming of environmental considerations into macro-economic and sector policies and programs, in addition to the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), which are a prerequisite to sustainable development. This CEA study further complements ongoing efforts by the Bank in the mining, petroleum, cocoa, and agricultural sectors. In sum, the purpose of this CEA is to improve the analytic basis for environmental decision making to help ensure that the efforts to support poverty reduction, broad-based reforms and environmental management are mutually reinforcing. This CEA aims to promote in particular the Government's efforts toward realizing millennium development goal (MDG): ensure environmental sustainability. In addition, by reducing the disease burden of environmental risk factors, environmental sustainability underpins the achievement of most MDGs, given that many MDGs have an environmental health component.