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Burkina Faso

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Since 2022, COOPI has been present in the country providing assistance to displaced people and host communities, with a focus on the most vulnerable groups, such as women and children aged 0 to 5.

Our results in the country

Areas of intervention :
Areas of intervention:
Health Food Security Nutrition Security Economic development
5 projects
20% development
80% emergency
447,403

direct beneficiaries

5

international operators

33

local operators

Areas of intervention:
Areas of intervention:
Health Food Security Nutrition Security Economic development
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COOPI presence in Burkina Faso

COOPI has been present in Burkina Faso since 2022. The country has been experiencing a serious humanitarian crisis since 2018, linked to the rise of organized armed groups. This is an unprecedented situation of insecurity that has already generated nearly 1.5 million displaced people and places an even greater burden on women and children. In total, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance stands at nearly 5 million.

COOPI has implemented an integrated emergency response to meet the basic needs of "people on the move," with interventions in the areas of nutritional security, health and mental health, food security and livelihoods, and access to water and sanitation.

At the center of COOPI's interventions in the country are the displaced and host communities, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable groups, such as women and children ages 0-5.

Main sectors of intervention today

In Burkina Faso, the number of displaced people is rapidly increasing, due to the increasingly precarious health conditions of the population and, in particular, of women and children under five years. COOPI promotes health and nutritional security, among the most vulnerable segments of the population and in remote areas, through:

  • PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF MALNUTRITION;
  • IMPROVEMENT OF ACCESS TO BASIC HEALTH SERVICES THROUGH TECHNICAL, MATERIAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO HEALTH FACILITIES;
  • MENTAL HEALTH CARE, PSYCHOSOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT, INCLUDING CLINICAL SESSIONS FOR COMMUNICATION OF BEHAVIORAL CHANGE ON IYCF AND COVID-19 BARRIERS;
  • REVITALIZATION OF LOCAL WARNING MECHANISMS AND SYSTEMS OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE;
  • CAPACITY BUILDING OF HEALTH AND COMMUNITIES ON HEALTH AND NUTRITION ISSUES.
2024
1

project

58,183

beneficiaries

In recent years, the number of displaced people in Burkina Faso has increased significantly and goes hand in hand with the number of unaccompanied or separated children who are at risk of being recruited by armed groups. COOPI promotes protection interventions towards displaced persons and host communities, with a focus on child protection. COOPI also serves as a focal point for preventing and responding to child rights violations, helping to strengthen child protection mechanisms in local communities while adopting a participatory and gender-sensitive approach.
COOPI promotes protection activities in Burkina Faso at different levels:

  • RECREATIONAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL ACTIVITIES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL (CREATION OF CHILD-FRIENDLY SPACES);
  • CAPACITY BUILDING OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND PRACTITIONERS ON MONITORING VIOLENCE AND SERIOUS VIOLATIONS OF RIGHTS (CHILDREN AND WOMEN);
  • STRENGTHENING AVAILABILITY OF AND ACCESS TO GBV CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES (REFERRAL AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A REFERRAL CIRCUIT);
  • PROVISION OF DIGNITY KITS (CASE MANAGEMENT).

Given the security and humanitarian context that the country is experiencing, it is difficult to implement development projects due to the displacement of populations to other locations. Despite this, the Zood Nooma Development Association (AZND), the German NGO Welthungerhilfe (WHH) and the Italian NGO Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) have formed a consortium as part of a project funded by the German G5 Sahel Foundation. This project, called ZEMSTAABA, aims to contribute to peace promotion, conflict prevention and sustainable development. The project is implemented in Bam province, north-central region, as a hub for development through:

  • AWARENESS, INFORMATION AND INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMUNITIES IN THE IDENTIFICATION, PRIORITIZATION AND VALIDATION OF INVESTMENTS OF COLLECTIVE INTEREST THROUGH A PARTICIPATORY PROCESS;
  • CREATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IMPROVES THE RESILIENCE OF THE COMMUNITY;
  • STRENGTHENING HARMONIOUS AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE AMONG DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES;
  • ENSURING INCLUSIVE USE OF AND ACCESS TO NATURAL RESOURCES BY COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
2024
1

project

203 110

beneficiaries

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Future development of COOPI in Burkina Faso

COOPI's current areas of intervention in Burkina Faso, such as health, Nutritional Security, Protection, and Food Security, will remain the focus of COOPI's programming in the country.

COOPI also aims to strengthen intervention in other areas such as WASH, emergency education, environment, social cohesion, and socio-economic activities.

Finally, COOPI intends to diversify its interventions in other regions such as the Boucle de Mouhoun region where humanitarian needs have recently emerged and in the Hauts Bassins region with development interventions.

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NATIONAL AND LOCAL PARTNERS
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COOPI's projects in Central African Republic are currently funded by:

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Health (mental health) - Nutrition - Nutritional Security - Food Security - Protection (childhood, gender-based violence)

Ministry of Health - Ministry of Solidarity, Humanitarian Action, National Reconciliation, Gender and Family - Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization

AZND • Keeogo • BALLA SUKABE

WHH • Mercy Corps

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