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Francois Tarpaga (49), Ratenga Village, Yargo, Kourittenga, Centre-East, Burkina Faso.
REGIONAL PROFILE
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zambia  he West Africa programme operates in three countries:
The focus of the programme is increasingly on value addition
Burkina Faso, Ghana and Togo with the Regional office
and creating linkages with private sector opportunities for
based in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and country
agricultural producers.
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offices in Tamale, Ghana, and Dapaong, Togo. ghana zambia
kenya
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03.Realising Agricultural Productivity Gains in the Sahel
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01. Building Resilience to Climate Extremes 02. Improving Incomes & Food Security through Agricultural Production
MALI Ouagadougou
BURKINA FASO
05. Improved Governance & Access to Water and Sanitation
Dapaong
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COTE D´IVOIRE
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Lake Volta
GHANA Accra
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04. Empowering Women within the Cashew Value Chain
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Building Resilience to Climate Extremes and Disasters
BRACED Programme – DFID
€1,586,064
Improving Incomes & Food Security through Agricultural Production
Jersey Overseas Aid Commission
€339,000
Realising Agricultural Productivity Gains in the Sahel
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Empowering Women within the Cashew Value Chain
Walmart Foundation
Improved governance & access to water and sanitation
EU
Time Frame 2014
Implementing Partner
Programme Area
Welthungerhilfe, PER, Wend Yam & CABI
Kourwéogo, Oubritenga, Plateau Central, Sanmatenga & Bam Provinces, Centre Nord regions. (Burkina Faso)
ADECCOL
Kourittenga Province & Centre-East Region (Burkina Faso)
Comité Interprofession de Céréales
Centre-Nord Region, Burkina Faso)
SHA
Bole, Wenchi, Kintampo & Brong-Ahafo (Ghana)
3ASC
Savannah Region (Northern Togo)
2017
2015 2017
€649,110
2015 2017
€ 454,664
2015 2017
€666,650
BUILDING RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE EXTREMES AND DISASTERS, BURKINA FASO
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through sustainable access to drought-tolerant seeds, improved soil fertility and a specific focus on enterprise development.
his project seeks to strengthen the ability of
The project is also working closely with the government to
smallholder farmers to cope with the impact of climate
strengthen agricultural extension services and early-warning
variability by diversifying agricultural production and
weather systems.
increasing household income. Evidence from the resilience-building approaches is being Working with Welthungerhilfe, local government and local
used for embedding climate adaptation approaches in local,
partners in Burkina Faso the project is building the economic,
regional and national plans and generating best practice
ecological and organisational resilience of 620,000 women,
guidelines on climate adaptation in the Sahel region.
children and men. The project is promoting the diversification of agricultural production of smallholder farmers and improving incomes
Total direct beneficiaries: 620,000
Members of a rice producer group, Yargo Centre Village, Kourittenga, Centre East, Burkina Faso.
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WEST AFRICA PROGRAMMES
Yongre Fati,Randaogo Village, Yargo, Kourittenga, Burkina Faso.
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IMPROVING INCOMES & FOOD SECURITY THROUGH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, BURKINA FASO
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ocated in the Centre East Region of Burkina Faso, this Jersey Overseas Aid Commission supported project is improving household income and food
security for 1,240 farmers by increasing production and
REALISING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GAINS IN THE SAHEL, BURKINA FASO
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elf Help Africa is collaborating with Context Global Development (CDG) on a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) funded pilot project in the
Centre Nord Region of Burkina Faso.
returns from rice and vegetables. The Centre Nord Region is an area characterised by a short Farmers are being trained in rice and vegetable production,
growing season, high rainfall variability, under-diversified
seed multiplication, in establishing irrigated market
agriculture and is highly vulnerable to food insecurity.
garden plots for vegetable production, and in improved management of wetlands for rice production. Improving
In Burkina Faso, sorghum and millet, on which the project
access to irrigation enables farmers to produce vegetable
focuses, make up the staple food of around 70% of the
crops during the dry season, and help diversify diets and
population. Through this pilot, Self Help Africa proposes
improve nutrition. Drip irrigation reduces labour demands,
to test whether strengthening the capacity of the Comité
and farmers can spend more time on other income-
Interprofession de Céréales – Burkina Faso (CIC-B) and
generating activities.
stimulating local demand will transform the sorghum and millet value chains in the country, improving productivity,
The project is also supporting the establishment of strong
income and nutrition of smallholder farmers in dryland areas.
producer and processor cooperatives that will enable farmers to increase returns through processing and improved market
CIC-B is an umbrella organisation representing producers,
access. Additionally, training is being provided to lead
traders, processors, input suppliers and transporters. SHA
farmers and work is being carried out in close cooperation
will test whether it is a suitable and sustainable mechanism
with government extension staff to ensure that skills and
to address a range of constraints in the sorghum and
knowledge are embedded at community level.
millet value chain. The learning generated from testing this approach will be widely applicable as CIC-B structures are already established in a number of West African countries and cover a range of crops.
Total direct beneficiaries: 1,240 4
Total direct beneficiaries: 1,250
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Habibou Tiendrebeogo, Nomgana Village, Loumbila, Burkina Faso.
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EMPOWERING WOMEN WITHIN THE CASHEW VALUE CHAIN, GHANA
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IMPROVED GOVERNANCE AND ACCESS TO WATER AND SANITATION, TOGO
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Through the use of two low-cost community-based
The project aims at drilling new and rehabilitating boreholes
extension approaches, ‘lead farmers’ and ‘farmer field
in order to give access to safe drinking water to 5,750
schools’, communities are receiving skills to undertake
people. 1,908 latrines of which 150 are ECOSAN will be
improved agricultural practices.
built over the three year providing sanitation facilities to
his Walmart Foundation funded project is being jointly implemented with the African Cashew Alliance in two countries – Ghana and Kenya.
his three-year project funded by the EU is going to be implemented in the Savannah Region of Northern Togo.
19,080 people. The ECOSAN latrines are designed to The project is training cashew farmers on increasing production
transform faecal waste into a safe, natural fertiliser, so any
of quality cashew nuts and empowering producers within the
additional benefit of this project will be an increase in crop
cashew nut value chain. Cashew growers are being assisted
yields through access to natural fertiliser.
to diversify incomes by utilising by-products of cashew farming and inter-cropping with legumes.
In order for our intervention to be sustainable artisans will be trained in latrines construction and borehole maintenance
Training of farmer associations in value chain management
and water points management structures will be set up and
and ‘farming as a business’ is enabling them to engage in
strengthen to collect fees from users in order to fund any
informed relationships with buyers and negotiate prices.
repair needed.
The project is also addressing the low and unstructured
Hygiene training will be provided in the communities
organisation of cashew farmers. Organising farmers will enable
targeted by the intervention.
them to institutionalise knowledge and best practices and create a platform for sharing and multiplying learning and experiences.
Total direct beneficiaries: 25,000 (Ghana)
Total direct beneficiaries: 36,641 5
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Cover: Martine Zongo, Yargo Centre, Kourittenga, Burkina Faso. Photo Credit: Christine Redmond, 2016.