The Parties in the Ouagadougou Accord agreed on the urgent need to build peace and stability; to fight against growing insecurity, unemployment and poverty; to restore the authority of the State over the whole of the national territory; and to guarantee the free movement of persons and goods. The Parties agreed that in relation to identity and nationality documentation, mobile courts would be established for three months, with judges appointed by decree. The Parties agreed to prioritise identification based on the electoral list. At the end of the mobile hearings, the Independent Electoral Commission would proceed, on the basis of the electoral list of 2000, to an electoral census, with collection of biometric data over the entire national territory, following which identity cards would be issued to everyone on the list. The Parties further agreed that all Ivorian citizens of voting age would be able to register on the electoral roll.
The Parties, aware that the National Army must reflect national unity and cohesion and be the guarantor of the stability of state institutions, undertook to restructure the two armies with a view to the establishment of new defence and security forces. The Parties also agreed on the establishment of an Integrated Command Centre which will be responsible for DDR, which should proceed as soon as possible. The Parties agreed that the reestablishment of administration would concern all public services, including basic social services, in particular education, health, water and sanitation.
The Parties agreed to adopt a new amnesty law covering crimes and offenses committed between September 2000 and the date of entry into force of this Agreement, excluding economic crimes, war crimes and crimes against humanity. With a view to national reconciliation and political and institutional normalisation, the Parties agreed to set up, as soon as possible, an assistance programme for the return of displaced persons. The Parties also undertook to organise a vast information and awareness campaign among the population to get it to fully adhere to the process of ending the crisis and national reconciliation. The Parties undertook to maintain between themselves a spirit of permanent dialogue based on mutual trust.
In the Third Supplementary Accord the Parties decided that the regrouping of ex-combatants, the storage of acmes and the dismantling of the militias would begin no later than 22 December 2007, under the leadership of the Integrated Command Centre. For the purposes of facilitating DDR the Parties agreed to have the Government pay a monthly flat-rate allowance to ensure demobilisation operations, food and support for ex-combatants, until their reintegration or integration into the new Defence and Security Forces (FDS) or civilian life. It also provided for timelines for the redeployment of the Administration and public services throughout the national territory.
In the Third Supplementary Accord the Parties agreed that the new national army should be established no later than one month from the inauguration of the new president of the Republic and that the DDR should be completed no later than two months prior to the presidential election. The Parties agreed that 5,000 eligible ex-combatants of the Forces Nouvelles would be included in the new national army. Timelines were also established for the deployment of civil servants and judges and the reopening of courts in the Central-North-West.