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Annual Report 2018-2019 The Nubian Vault Association ANNUAL a programme supported by REPORT 2018-2019 Editorial 5 1 - The programme 6 Key Figures Programme History Intervention Strategy Training Contents Technical Expertise 2 - Our Countries 20 Burkina Faso Mali Senegal Ghana Benin France & International 3 - Means and Resources 80 Community Life Human Resources 4 - Financial Report 84 5 - Partners and Awards 88 Financial Partners Cover: Beneficiaries of the Diakré rehousing Networks project (Mauritania) Awards and Recognitions Writing and graphic design: AVN - English translation: Adrienne Brayman - Printed by Field Partners Impact Imprimerie - Photo copyrights: AVN, GERES (p. 41), Malem Auder (p. 6), Régis Binard Prospects 93 (p. 4, 5, 8, 84, 87, 88), Atelier Martel (p. 46), Mathieu Hardy (p. 78, 79) - Published in May 2020 3 Editorial One thing is obvious... Sahelian populations have an urgent need This methodology is managed by local for adapted architectural solutions that help development actors who, mobilized, trained strengthen their resilience to economic and and supported by AVN, are responsible for demographic trends and to climate change. implementing it in their territory. The alternative construction techniques Thus, the first support measures delineating proposed must be simple, standardized, and this methodology saw the light of day during able to be replicated. They must be based on the 2018/2019 season of AVN's programme. They mobilizing a native workforce and on using allowed for awareness raising and training of the local materials that are widely available, while organization's managers to take place, as well as also fitting in with the everyday – largely that of the first of AVN's on-the-ground partners. informal – economies. Together, they began the initial territorial rollout For over 20 years, AVN's "Nubian Vault" under this comprehensive approach. technical concept has more than proven that This new methodology quickly won over all it is a good match for local contexts, that it is stakeholders: AVN managers and Operational able to respond to the expectations of different Partners, as well as development actors, types of clients, and that it does a good job institutional decision-makers and donors. addressing the problem of providing housing It makes the operational logic behind AVN's for as many as possible in the Sahel through programme more visible and provides added development programmes. visibility to action taken, its cost, and the results An important step has been taken. and expected impact thereof. With this concise and persuasive methodological Over the course of a long period of on-the- approach, we now have an appropriate tool for ground research/action, AVN and its partners the quick and efficient multi-regional rollout of have set up and tested approaches and the NV market, which will launch the expected mechanisms that help a market to emerge and heralded change of scale. and grow the basis for disseminating the NV concept. Together, let us provide the human At the beginning of 2018 work was done to and financial resources necessary to summarize and bring together these different considerably expand this impetus for approaches; this helped establish a precise structured development. and refined methodology for territorial rollout Thomas Granier of the NV market. Co-founder and General Director of AVN 4 5 Impacts & Key Figures Decent Housing Climate Adaptation 37,300 beneficiaries living or working in a NV building 3,500 construction sites - 122,000 m2 completed since the start of the programme 590 private and community buildings built in 2018-2019 5 countries of deployment Professional Training 15 regions Green Jobs 1,221 towns 806 apprentices, masons, artisans and entrepreneurs active in the market, including 250 apprentices who began their training this season 23% average annual market grow 1 - The programme 146 artisans supported in entrepreneurship (compared to the last 10 years) Key Figures p. 7 Since 2000, the goal of the Nubian Vault Association (AVN) has Programme History p. 9 been to develop a market for sustainable housing in West Africa, Climate Mitigation Local providing vulnerable populations access to affordable housing Environment Development Intervention Strategy p. 10 that is comfortable and well-adapted to climate change; it has also Training p. 14 aimed to create green jobs, strengthen economies at all levels and develop an "adapted housing" sector. 0 tree cut down 3,5 million euros generated in the local markets for building purpose Technical Expertise p. 18 At the centre of this programme lies an architectural concept that is 28 local civil society actors both ancestral and innovative, based on local materials, economies 99,800 tons CO eq. and involved in disseminating the NV concept and knowledge: the Nubian Vault technique. 2 3,100 MWh potentially saved 6 7 Budget: Progamme History 11,700 € Creation of AVN in France 1st public funding 1st community 1st AVN Burkina by a French mason and a by the French Ministry of buildings permanent team Burkinabe farmer Foreign Affairs in Mali in Boromo 2000 2003 2006 2007 Ashoka Award 1st salaried 1st technical tests Start of the programme changemakers for employee to standardize in Burkina Faso affordable housing in France 2008 the NV concept st Budget: 1 International 366 K € Volunteers to support AVN-BF and st Formalization of the Regional duplication 1 collaborative kickstart method launch AVN in Mali in Yako and region in Senegal in Burkina Faso and Mali 2009 Dédougou (BF) (Podor) 2012 2011 2010 1st AVN Mali team Thomas Granier, co-founder, Regional duplication in Ségou 2013 elected as Social Entrepreneur of in Koubri (BF) the year by the Schwab Foundation Budget: 850 K € Regional duplication in Bama (BF) Budget: and in Dioïla and Koutiala (Mali) Structuring a 1,3 M € Start of the 1st AVN Senegal Financial support Technical Expertise programme team in Thiès (AFD) for a multi-country and a Training AVN joins pluriannual programme in Ghana and Benin Division the GABC 2014 2015 AVN receives the 1er partnerships Financial support (FFEM) st 2016 1 construction Regional UNFCCC with national for a multi-country and training duplication Momentum african entities pluriannual programme incentives measures in San (Mali) for change Award Regional duplication in Budget: Budget: Banamba (Mali) and in Garu (Ghana) 1,4 M € Regional 1,3 M € Implementation of Pilot projects for duplication AVN receives the Starting the NV the IU-IT strategy the NV Housing in Tanguiéta (Benin) World Habitat Fouta project microcredit and in Diébougou (BF) Award in Senegal in Burkina Faso 2019 2018 2017 8 9 Intervention Strategy A redefined, optimized intervention strategy Since the launch of the programme in 2000, the market for Nubian Vault construction has demonstrated its capacity for growth. AVN's staff and thematic teams are experienced, spread out and well structured.The training curriculum for actors from the adapted building sector is largely operational, with good mastery of it on the part of trainers. The methodology, based on territorial dissemination of the market, has gradually expanded and become more focused through contact with partners and the situation on the ground. Now mature, it is standardized and simplified. It makes good use of the tested operating procedures, combining those that have proven to be most efficient and that contribute most to the rapid development of the NV market, driven by actors acting on two complementary territorial levels. This new strategy clarifies how the programme will achieve upscaling and its results. In particular, it is based on three complementary levers: Training of Operational Partners in Benin. The transfer of the NV market The implementation, strengthening The integration and stimulation dissemination strategy to local and diversification of training for of the NV market in local and Operational Partners and the jobs in the NV construction sector, national economies. mobilization of all stakeholders in order to ensure an autonomous Components of the territorial dissemination methodology for the NV market necessary for its longevity; and green professional sector; 1 Mobilization of and methodology transfer to local partners 2018/2019: An encouraging first implementation phase At both of the territorial levels (communes and, depending on the country, Expected results: Starting in September 2018, the implementation of the new methodology in intervention countries (except for Senegal) consisted in departments/cercles/provinces/regions), local organizations (associations, civil Local actors to be made a transitional phase aimed at a more well-adapted organizational and operational structure. The mobilization of and support for society organizations, grassroots associations, etc.) are identified and mobilized. aware of the NV concept and programme actors, whether AVN teams or those from partner organizations, constituted the major focus of this reconfiguration. They are AVN's partners and include housing issues in their missions and activities. of the NV market development Amongst the latter, the Operational Partners (OPs) incorporate the various activities methodology as a lever for local The choice made to reduce the number of zones where action is taken (Implementation Territories and Units) allowed for an used under AVN's territorial methodology. The OPs are trained and supported by development. equivalent volume of activities to take place, concentrated in fewer areas, while maintaining the programme's results and taking
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