Action Éducation signed a funding agreement with Expertise France on Monday 15 July 2024 in Conakry to implement the project in Guinea. Strengthening the Citizen Commitment to Fiscal Responsibility and Improving Budget Transparency (RECIFAT). This agreement is part of the implementation of the Programme d'Appui à la Mobilisation des Ressources Intérieures et aux Corps de Contrôle (AMRIC). This programme is managed by Expertise France and co-financed by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union.
The RECIFAT project, worth 400,000 euros, will be implemented by Action Education in partnership with Hèrè Guinée and Action des Femmes Volontaires pour le Développement Durable (AFVDD). Its aim is to contribute to improving the mobilisation of fiscal and non-tax resources for the State and local authorities through a culture of budget transparency and fiscal civic-mindedness. More specifically, it will build the capacity of civil society (CSOs, media, students) to play its role as an independent player in the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of State and local authority budgets. It will also promote fiscal civic-mindedness and citizen monitoring of public action at national and local levels.
The 15-month project covers all the administrative regions of Guinea. It targets 6,00 actors from CSOs, the media and universities (students), and at least 10,000 people, including company managers and employees, CFU debtors, local elected representatives, territorial administrators and citizens.
The signing ceremony took place at Expertise France's headquarters in Camayenne. It was attended by representatives of the donors, the two pilot communes of the AMRIC programme (Boké and Kissidougou), the beneficiary NGOs, and executives from the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation (MATD) and the Ministry of the Economy and Finance (MEF).
