The Dimbokro Financial District (CFD) showcased its impact on local development during a conference led by General Treasurer Ouattara Daouda Sylvain on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at the prefecture of Dimbokro, the capital of the N’Zi region in central-east Ivory Coast.
Addressing community representatives from the Regional Council, the Autonomous District of Lakes, and the town halls of Bocanda, Kouassi Kouassikro, and Dimbokro, Sylvain detailed the district’s performance in resource mobilization over the past five years.
“Our administration has mobilized revenues amounting to 22,823,323,659 FCFA, out of a forecast of 27,754,712,000 FCFA,” he said, highlighting an 82% recovery rate.
On the expenditure side, the settlement of local authority spending reached 20,206,865,258 FCFA from January 1, 2021, to August 31, 2025, representing an 80% payment rate of the allocated 25,205,833,746 FCFA.
“The Public Treasury has made qualitative leaps forward in 62 years. And the Dimbokro financial district, impacted by reforms, has progressed structurally, organizationally, and operationally to provide better quality services to our users and clients,” Sylvain added.
The conference also highlighted the district’s adoption of the EFQM quality standard, alongside initiatives in business intelligence and artificial intelligence.
In terms of public and private savings, the CFD mobilized 2,455,489,639 FCFA between 2021 and 2025, with an additional 355,880,000 FCFA subscribed to bonds and notes, covering 600 accounts.
Participants, including the chief of the village of Ahua, Nanan Koffi Emmanuel, known as “Kôtiô,” praised the presentation. “We thought it was just money they were keeping.
Today we know it’s much more, and we’re satisfied with this brilliant presentation,” he said.
The Dimbokro financial district, formerly the Departmental Treasury from 1975 to 2008, comprises five services: the General Treasury of Dimbokro, the pay offices of the Autonomous District of Lakes and the N’Zi region, the Internal Treasury Bank agency opened in 2017, and the Main Treasury of Bocanda.
With a staff of 52 agents evenly split between men and women, the district oversees revenue mobilization, expenditure settlement, public fund management, and financial inclusion initiatives, reporting regularly to the Court of Auditors.
The conference formed part of the Treasury’s 62nd anniversary celebrations, which continue until September 30 with activities including a sanitation day, sports walk, open day, tree planting, and blood donation campaign.
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