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Improved Access to EU and other trusts and € 666,000 2016 Association d’Appui aux Activités 67 villages in the 01 Drinking Water and funds de Santé Communautaire Cantons of Naki Est Sanitation Services 2019 and Ogaro, Savannah Region, REGIONAL PROFILE Building Resilience to DFID € 1,900,000 2015 Welthungerhilfe (WHH), Kourweogo and 02 Climate Extremes and Direction Générale des Oubritenga provinces, WEST AFRICA Disasters 2019 Productions Végétales (DGPV- Plateau Central and Min of Agriculture dept of Plant Sanmatenga and Bam Health), Wend Yam, Project provinces, Centre Nord Écologie et Reboisement (PER), regions of 2019 Yendoukoa Assibi and Momiebe Nanane, Nassiete Village, Togo. Association Zood Nooma pour le Développement (AZND) Association de Développement Sougri Nooma (ASDN) he Westmalawi Africa programme operates in Burkina Faso and The focus of the West Africa programme is increasingly Togo, with the regional office based in Ouagadougou in on value addition and creating linkages with private sector Burkina Faso and a country office in Dapaong, Togo. opportunities for agricultural producers. Women and Expertise France, Albert € 220,000 2018 Africare, Fédération Nationale North region, Yatenga T 03 Youth’s Agricultural Jurgens Fund des Groupements Naam (FNGN), provinces, villages in burkinafaso Entrepeneurship in the 2020 Union des Baore Tradition Thiou, Koumbri, Barga North Region of Burkina d’Épargne et de Crédit (UBTEC) and Tanghai, Burkina WEST AFRICA PROGRAMMES AFRICA WEST Faso Faso

zambia

burkinafaso togo WEST AFRICA

ghana

kenya

togo PROJECT KEY NIGER Building Resilience to Climate Extremes and Disasters

Improved Governance and Access to Water and Sanitation MALI Ouagadougou Women and Youth’s agricultural entrepreneurship in the North Region of Burkina Faso BURKINA FASO Extensive Agriculture and Savanna

Intensive Agriculture

Forest, Rainforest, Swamp Dapaong

GHANA TOGO

COTE D´IVOIRE

Lome 2 Zougmore Alimata, Gomtenga Village, Togo. 3 IMPROVED GOVERNANCE AND ACCESS BUILDING RESILINECE TO CLIMATE EXTREMES WOMEN AND YOUTH’S AGRICULTURAL 01 TO WATER AND SANITATION, TOGO 02 AND DISASTERS (BRACED) 03 ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Objective: To contribute to the Objective: To strengthen the ability Objective: To contribute to the socio-economic stability of the improvement of the quality of life for rural of smallholder farmers to cope with Northern region of Burkina Faso through the creation of economic populations through ensuring equitable the impact of climate variability by opportunities for 240 women and young people. and adequate access to water, sanitation diversifying agricultural production. urkina Faso is a landlocked sub-Saharan country Despite the local agricultural potential, vocational training and health. urkina Faso’s climate is changing rapidly, leading with high levels of poverty and limited natural opportunities remain limited to sewing, soap, pottery and he Improved Governance and Access to Water and to increased aridity and water shortages. This Bresources. 45% of the population is living in hairdressing; and formal programmes providing training in Sanitation project is being implemented in the Naki- Bis causing increased difficulties for subsistence extreme poverty. In the Northern region, the poverty rate more relevant areas of economic activity are rare. TEst and Ogaro communities of northern Togo, which farmers, who are highly vulnerable to climate extremes. was estimated at 70% in 2016 and the local population is have recorded very low levels of access to drinking water – mostly comprised of women and young people (24% of the To address this gap, SHA’s intervention offers economic 26% and 52% respectively. These levels are not sufficient to Working with Welthungerhilfe, local government and local population is between 15 and 24 years of age). opportunities to young people and women, with a focus on sustain local populations. partners in Burkina Faso, the Building Resilience to Climate reducing gender inequality and the effects of climate change. Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) project is decreasing the In response to increasing poverty rates, unemployed youth This project is being implemented in order to improve vulnerability of 620,000 women, children and men. are forced to migrate on a seasonal basis to Mali, Ivory Coast This project will contribute to the socio-economic stability Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practices, and local or inner Burkina Faso in search of employment opportunities of the Northern region of Burkina Faso by creating governance of water resources. The project is promoting the diversification of agricultural on arable land and pastures, or on gold panning sites economic opportunities for 240 women and young people. production of smallholder farmers and improving incomes where they are exposed to fatal accidents, banditry or other The project will support the young people and women in WEST AFRICA PROGRAMMES AFRICA WEST The project both drills new, and rehabilitates existing through sustainable access to drought-tolerant seeds, demeaning jobs in order to secure an income. the region in the development of small businesses in the PROGRAMMES AFRICA WEST boreholes in the region, in order to provide access to safe improved soil fertility and a specific focus on enterprise agricultural and livestock sectors. drinking water to 5,750 people. 1,908 latrines, of which 150 development. is also providing training In the communes of Thiou and Koumbri in Yatenga are Ecological Sanitation, will be built over the three-year to increase the organisational capacity of farmers, and province, which share a border with Mali, the situation is project, providing sanitation facilities to 19,080 people. promote climate-smart agriculture techniques. similar to that of the northern region, with a large population • 240 women and young people (120 of young people who find themselves without employment. young people aged 16-33, 50% male, In order for Self Help Africa’s intervention to be sustainable, SHA is working closely with the government in Burkina This is compounded by the deteriorating security situation in artisans will be trained in latrine and borehole maintenance. Faso to strengthen agricultural extension services and early- the region, mainly due to the proximity to the Malian border 50% female and 120 women aged 34+) Water point management structures will also be set up to warning weather systems. Community radio messaging as well as other cross-border and terrorist activities. collect fees from users in order to fund any repairs needed. and other innovative resourcing techniques allowed Self SHA is helping to build ownership and responsibility within the Help Africa to reach over 200,000 individuals with weather And yet, in the northern region, economic potential still exists communities by forming development committees and WASH information by mid-2017. in spite of the difficult climate but this remains underexploited. associations, as well as forming a local project management Agriculture and livestock account for more than 80% of the team in order to assure the sustainability of the action. Overall, this project will lead to improved resilience of poor economic activities of the northern region’s population which is and vulnerable communities affected by climate change in also ranked as the first potato-producing region in the country. Burkina Faso. • 32,569 Evidence from the resilience-building approaches is being • 54% women used for embedding climate adaptation approaches in local, regional and national plans and generating best practice • 67 villages in the Savanna region guidelines on climate adaptation in the Sahel region. of Togo • 200,000 will receive direct training • 419,136 total beneficiaries will benefit from early-warning weather signals • 310,000 female beneficiaries (direct and indirect) 4 Sana Bibata with her children Aboubacar, Avld, Aboul Rasmane in their maize field, Burkina Faso. 5 Venegba Anne Marie, Yameogo Safariti, Yameogo Marie and Yameogo Biba, Kalkinka Village, Burkina Faso.

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Sana Mamata, Lilgou Village, Togo July 2019 Photo Credit: Ken O’Halloran, 2015. 8