Burkina

Burkina Faso became a donor of the AWF earlier this year when contributing €80,000 to support the Facility, which it pledged at theConference on Partnership for Strengthening Water Security in Africa, held in the context of the World Water Forum which took place in Marseille, March 14, 2012.

Representatives of various local, regional and international development agencies and from different levels of Government met in Ouagadougou to discuss the funding of a sanitation project in the peri-urban areas of Ouagadougou, estimated at €138 million (FCFA 90.5 billion). This project should be completed by 2017 and is expected to improve the lives of an estimated one million people living in the most vulnerable areas of the city.

Tunis, Tunisie, 31 Janvier 2014 – La Facilité africaine de l’eau (FAE) octroie un don de 960 000 euros au Secrétariat exécutif de l’Autorité du bassin du Niger (ABN), pour soutenir un programme de préparation de projets d’infrastructures à buts multiples. Ces projets aideront à freiner la dégradation généralisée des ressources naturelles, causée par le changement climatique, et à en améliorer la gestion afin d’accroître la production agricole et améliorer la résilience des populations.

Burkina Faso is the first country to benefit from a climate change focused grant (to the tune of EURO 838,000) by the African Water Facility (AWF), after AWF’s call for proposals launched in September 2014.