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Titre : Strengthening the resilience of vulnerable population and internally displaced people´s communities in Burkina Faso (UrGard)

This project aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable and IDP households and food-insecure communities in targeted urban and peri-urban areas through an integrated multi-sectoral approach. It combines short-term with medium and long-term interventions, covering the immediate needs of beneficiaries, while building opportunities for the immediate future.

Pays : Burkina Faso

Partenaire (s) : WFP - World Food Programme

Période d’exécution : 01.10.2022 // 30.09.2025

Contexte
Under its Country Strategic Plan (CSP) for 2021-2023, WFP Burkina Faso aims, through its resilience activities, to strengthen the management of natural resources, improve the means of production and mitigate the effects of natural disasters, with the objective of an improved adaptation to climate change, and strengthened resilience of vulnerable communities and households. WFP also works to enable government and communities’ capacity to respond to these challenges, so they can better cope with natural disasters and other forms of shocks.

Groupe cible/ Beneficiaires
World Food Program (WFP) will provide assistance to vulnerable families in Burkina Faso, namely the Boucle du Mouhoun, Centre-Nord, Nord, Est, Centre-Est and Sahel regions. WFP will assist over 10,500 beneficiaries (or 1,500 IDPs and vulnerable households) through this project. Since 2016, WFP has forged long-standing operational relationships with several ministries (Ministry of Agriculture and Rearing ; Ministry of Water and Hydraulics ; Ministry of the Environment) in the scope of the implementation of the Integrated Resilience Programme in the four regions of Burkina Faso (Centre-Nord, Est, Nord and Sahel), as well as general food assistance in the regions of Boucle du Mouhoun and Centre-Est. In all six regions, extension services (Directions Régionales) are involved in the implementation of an integrated resilience package of activities. It also includes the Ministry of Health (e.g., for nutrition prevention and treatment, sensitization as part of the integrated resilience package) and the Ministry of Education (school meals programme)

Activités
The project will cover four components : Homestead and urban gardening ; Sustainable energy solutions ; Improving the immediate food and nutrition security of participants during the project timeline ; Improved and diversified knowledge and skills.

Financement : Österreichische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (OEZA)
Budget  : € 2.136.250,00

Austrian Development Agency