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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
FACT SHEET
WASHINGTON, DC 20523
PRESS OFFICE
http://www.usaid.gov
(202) 712-43202003-021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 27, 2003
USAID ASSISTANCE TO BURKINA FASO
BUDGET (in '000s) FY 2001
(Actual)FY 2002
(Estimated)FY 2003
(Request)PL 480 Title II $ 10,969 $ 10,502 $ 10,121 Democracy and Human Rights Fund $ 50 $ 75 TBD Special Self-Help Fund $ 118 $ 129 TBD Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance $ 25 $ 0 TBD Total $ 11,162 $ 10,706 $ 10,121 Note: USAID has no office in this country, and there is no direct U.S. assistance program. However, the U.S. has a number of regional or worldwide programs, which indirectly benefit Burkina Faso. These programs are monitored in USAID/Washington and from the USAID/Mali office in Bamako.
PROGRAM AREAS
Public Law 480 Title II (PL 480): The PL 480 program was designed to increase crop productivity, improve household nutrition, and improve education. Africare's 1999-2004 Zondoma Food Security Initiative strengthens the capacity of community organizations to increase crop productivity, enhance food security and improve household nutrition. The Catholic Relief Services' (CRS) 2002-2006 Food Security Initiative supports a feeding program for primary school students. CRS also supports a micro-finance activity that provides credit and saving services to food-insecure households, including poor rural women, and a sesame production activity to enhance economic opportunities. Both Africare and CRS carry out food for work activities to provide a food security safety net for the most vulnerable people in selected communities.
Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF): USAID provides grants to assist indigenous organizations that implement short-term, highly targeted country-level activities in support of human rights and democratic institutions. Burkina Faso's DHRF activities include support for a film that clarified women's rights and the consequences of social exclusion of women.
Special Self-Help (SSH) Fund: SSH supports community-based development activities that have an immediate impact. Burkina Faso's SSH activities include construction of potable water wells and grain silos, purchase of cereals grinding mills, purchase of tools and seed to start up vegetable gardening in several communities, and the addition of classrooms to several community schools.
Peace Corps Small Project Assistance (SPA) Program: The SPA program is active in 75 countries. The program facilitates local grass-roots efforts by combining Peace Corps Volunteers' knowledge of local conditions with USAID's technical and financial resources. In Burkina Faso, approximately 40 volunteers work in community health development and education.
Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs): CRSPs involve U.S. universities, developing government researchers and farmers worldwide in interactive research for improved crop productivity and technologies. West African countries collaborate in many of these CRSPs: sorghum and millet (seven countries), beans and cowpeas (seven countries), soil management (three countries), peanuts (five countries), integrated pest management (one country), and natural resource management (one country) and the West Africa inter-CRSP natural resource management (five countries). Burkina Faso is involved in the sorghum and millet, peanut, and the West African inter-CRSP natural resource management programs.
Education: The Education for Development and Democracy Initiative (EDDI) supports the efforts by local non-governmental organizations to encourage girls to go to school. Burkina Faso's EDDI supports girls mentoring activities and continuing educational scholarships for girls. The Peace Corps in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou and local community leaders coordinate selection of the girls for mentoring and scholarship activities.
Grants Program: An eight-year (FY 1996-FY 2003) farmer-to-farmer grant was awarded to Winrock International Institute for Agriculture Development to increase food quantity and quality, as well as to improve the environmental sustainability of farming. An ocean freight reimbursement grant was approved for Samaritan's Purse to defray transportation costs for selected commodities that complement development in Burkina Faso.
International Agriculture Research Centers (IARCs): IARCs are financed for eight collaborative research networks in various countries throughout eastern and western Africa. These programs develop and disseminate improved varieties and technologies for crops such as rice, corn, sorghum, and millet. In Burkina Faso, IARC supports capacity building and networking for government researchers and farmers.
Regional Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net): FEWS Net encourages establishment of long-run food strategies and supports contingency planning by the drought prone Sahelian countries. FEWS Net intervenes as needed to respond to food security threats. FEWS Net also enhances concerns about reducing environmental threats that would limit sustainable development posed by climate change. FEWS Net in Burkina Faso supports improvement of the quality and effectiveness of information and response planning systems that contribute directly to Burkina Faso's preparedness to respond to drought, food insecurity and natural disasters.
Strategies and Analyses for Growth and Access (SAGA) Project: SAGA provides technical assistance and small research grants that strengthen the capacities of national African economic research institutions. SAGA works through the Secretariat for Institutional Strengthening of Economic Research in Africa (SISERA) which is made up of 18 national economic research institutes, including the Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation pour la Recherche Economique et Sociale (CEDRES) in Burkina Faso.
West African Regional Program (WARP): WARP provides funding to a number of public and private sector regional organizations on region-wide issues of economic integration, health, nutrition, food security, environment, natural resources management, and conflict prevention. The WARP Ambassador's Fund supports local non-governmental organizations active in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention activities. WARP's Family Health and AIDS program (FHA) supports a 3-year maternal neo-natal health essential obstetrical care and malaria in pregnancy activity that is improving the efficacy of Burkina Faso's health policies. The FHA support is increasing both access and the quality of health services available to mothers and newborns, as well as identifying community financed approaches to ensure sustainable health delivery. WARP's support to community health centers is improving women's use of bed nets and intermittent presumptive malaria treatment.
USAID's support to the World Health Organization strengthens immunization programs and malaria control activities, enhances integrated management of childhood illnesses, and strengthens health service capacities in epidemic preparedness and response, leading to a reduction in child morbidity and mortality. Safe motherhood activities carried out through local institutions reduce maternal mortality. USAID also encourages HIV/AIDS prevention activities and counseling and testing efforts. USAID supports the International HIV/AIDS Alliance to strengthen the capacity of indigenous NGOs, religious institutions and social institutions to disseminate HIV/AIDS information and provide health care and support services to highly vulnerable children, including HIV/AIDS related orphans.
WARP addresses Burkina Faso's regional economic integration through support to regional organizations such as CILSS* and ECOWAS**. CILSS and ECOWAS use WARP-funded studies and analyses to formulate new regional development policy and the design of region-wide program activities. The CILSS headquarters is based in Ouagadougou. WARP also supports shea butter marketing workshops that helped women's groups use the naturally available forest nuts to produce a high quality shea butter that is subsequently transformed into cosmetics products.
* Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) -- Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal.
** Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
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