Poverty reduction in Burkina Faso to mitigate the social and poverty-related consequences of the current multiple crises

This project, which is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection, aims to strengthen the capacities of households of urban smallholder farmers and IDPs in Burkina Faso in order to increase their resilience. This will also enable them to protect the health of children aged 0 to 23 months and pregnant women more effectively.

The target group consists mainly of children aged 0-23 months from households of small urban vegetable farmers aged between 16 and 45 years with an average age of 24-25 years.
They live in Ouagadougou and very often live in spontaneous or unparcelled, unsanitary settlements.
IDPs are internally displaced persons who have fled from other parts of Burkina Faso to the city of Ouagadougou due to the ongoing fighting.

The objective of the project is to facilitate these households’ access to basic food, basic household items and the basic health system, to restore the foundations for vegetable production (vegetable farming households) and the implementation of income-generating activities (IDPs), and to protect them from malnutrition, malaria and dengue fever. All this will help reduce their poverty, increase their resilience to successive shocks and reduce mortality among the most vulnerable population – pregnant women and children aged 0-23 months.