Aid – Burkina Faso

•population = 17.4 million (2012)

• Natural growth = 3.2% per year (2000-2015)

•Life Expectancy = 57 female, 55 male

•HDI position = 182/187 (2012)

•Energy supply = 90% of the households depend on wood

• GNI per capita = US$580 (World Bank, 2011)

•Trade balance = US$296 million (debit, 2001)

•About 30% live on less than $1 a day

•Landlocked

•Suffered from recurring droughts and, up until the 1980s military cops

•Significant reserves of gold but cotton is the main export

 

Oxfam in Burkina Faso

•Been working there since the 1970s

•Increase farmers’ incomes by improving production and by helping to restructure and market cereals, rice, fruit, and cotton

•Increase the capacity of communities to avoid and or address the consequences of climatic change on their livelihoods

•Reinforce public support to ensure that the government guarantees access to basic social services

•Contribute to the building and reinforcement of civil society, especially in rural communities. Thereby increasing its capacity to take part in development programs. – Grow – Oxfams global campaign

•Support the improvement of living conditions and the status of women and young people

•Provide help and support in relation to food security and/or water and sanitation during humanitarian crises

•Increase capacity of the community to press government of BF for greater transparency in the mining and subsequent use of resources derived from extractive industries.