Burkina Faso

Cur­rent­ly, devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion rela­tions are gov­erned by ICP III (2017−2022), signed on 21 Novem­ber 2016 by both gov­ern­ments. ICP III has a cur­rent indica­tive fund­ing enve­lope of EUR 98.5 mil­lion and focus­es on four pri­or­i­ty sec­tors: (i) new infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nolo­gies; (ii) sus­tain­able man­age­ment of nat­ur­al resources; (iii) edu­ca­tion, teach­ing and tech­ni­cal and voca­tion­al train­ing; and (iv) inclu­sive finance. The major­i­ty of the bilat­er­al inter­ven­tions, amount­ing to EUR 86.8 mil­lion in these areas, is imple­ment­ed by LuxDev, the Lux­em­bourg agency for devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion. In addi­tion, with­in the frame­work of the ICP’s inclu­sive finance sec­tor, the NGO SOS Faim was com­mis­sioned to imple­ment Agri+, a project on the inno­v­a­tive financ­ing of fam­i­ly agri­cul­ture, with a bud­get of around EUR 3.5 million.

On a bilat­er­al lev­el, Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion con­tin­ued to imple­ment the ICP III pro­grammes in 2021. In view of the health cri­sis, the 13^th part­ner­ship com­mit­tee meet­ing was held on 1 July 2021 by video-con­fer­ence, and was co-chaired by Min­is­ter Fay­ot and Min­is­ter Kaboré, Burk­i­na Faso’s Min­is­ter of Econ­o­my, Finance and Devel­op­ment. ICP III makes pro­vi­sion for part­ner­ship com­mit­tee meet­ings to be held annu­al­ly. These are forums ded­i­cat­ed to dia­logue between the two coun­tries, which also facil­i­tate the exam­i­na­tion of the state of play in devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion inter­ven­tions. Fol­low­ing one of the main rec­om­men­da­tions in the ICP III mid-term review, car­ried out between Octo­ber 2020 and May 2021, the two min­is­ters for­malised the exten­sion of ICP III for one year, until 31 Decem­ber 2022. This exten­sion of ICP III trans­lates, in prac­tice, into the exten­sion of some of the pro­grammes cur­rent­ly being imple­ment­ed and an increase of EUR 7 mil­lion in the fund­ing enve­lope. This increase is main­ly intend­ed to finance Luxembourg’s com­mit­ment to Burk­i­na Faso’s edu­ca­tion sec­tor (EUR 5.5 mil­lion), a sec­tor in which Lux­em­bourg has been act­ing as the lead tech­ni­cal and finan­cial part­ner since Sep­tem­ber 2021. In addi­tion, EUR 1.5 mil­lion has been added to the fund­ing enve­lope for the project for the restora­tion and devel­op­ment of pas­toral areas. Final­ly, and fol­low­ing the com­mit­ments made at the part­ner­ship com­mit­tee meet­ing, in Octo­ber 2021 Lux­em­bourg and Burk­i­na Faso signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing for a new project of EUR 1.8 mil­lion in the field of digi­tis­ing the land reg­istry in the cities of Oua­gadougou and Bobo-Dioulas­so, fol­low­ing an ini­tial request from Burk­i­na Faso.

Mul­ti­lat­er­al­ly, Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion con­tributes a bud­get of EUR 8 mil­lion to mul­ti­lat­er­al agen­cies under ICP III. Under this frame­work, in Octo­ber 2021 Lux­em­bourg com­plet­ed its sup­port in the area of local gov­er­nance through a project imple­ment­ed by the Unit­ed Nations Devel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP). The Unit­ed Nations Pop­u­la­tion Fund (UNF­PA) con­tin­ues to be sup­port­ed through a project on empow­er­ment and sex­u­al and repro­duc­tive health for vul­ner­a­ble women and young peo­ple. The third tranche of sup­port through ICP III, a UNDP project in sup­port of youth and women’s entre­pre­neur­ship, came to an end in late 2020.

Apart from the ICP III mul­ti­lat­er­al pro­gram­ming, Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion pro­vides sup­port amount­ing to EUR 2.7 mil­lion to the Unit­ed Nations Cap­i­tal Devel­op­ment Fund (UNCDF), which deliv­ers aid for inno­va­tion in the field of inclu­sive dig­i­tal finance in order to sup­port the eco­nom­ic and cli­mate resilience of pop­u­la­tions. A sim­i­lar project is also receiv­ing finan­cial assis­tance of EUR 3.2 mil­lion from the Min­istry of the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate and Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment (MECSD) for the 2019 – 2022 peri­od. In addi­tion, Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion is also con­tribut­ing EUR 1.3 mil­lion to the Aid for Trade project to sup­port the pro­cess­ing and mar­ket­ing of shea from Burk­i­na Faso, which is imple­ment­ed by the Enhanced Inte­grat­ed Frame­work (EIF) of the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion (WTO), bring­ing total con­tri­bu­tions by Lux­em­bourg to mul­ti­lat­er­al agen­cies to over EUR 15 million. 

Final­ly, in 2021, 16 Lux­em­bour­gish NGOs were active in Burk­i­na Faso, and con­tin­ued to imple­ment their projects despite the health cri­sis, often through local part­ners. EUR 3 575796.37 was dis­bursed by Lux­em­bour­gish NGOs in Burk­i­na Faso in 2021.

Fol­low­ing devel­op­ments in the secu­ri­ty and human­i­tar­i­an sit­u­a­tion in Burk­i­na Faso since the end of 2018, Lux­em­bourg has con­sid­er­ably increased its sup­port in the field of human­i­tar­i­an assis­tance. In 2021, Lux­em­bourg con­tributed EUR 4.3 mil­lion to emer­gency and ​“nexus” projects and pro­grammes, includ­ing a finan­cial con­tri­bu­tion of EUR 2 mil­lion for the Min­istry of Education’s edu­ca­tion in emer­gen­cies response. In addi­tion, in 2021 Lux­em­bourg sup­port­ed the World Food Pro­gramme, the Inter­na­tion­al Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross, the Office of the Unit­ed Nations High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees, the Office for the Coor­di­na­tion of Human­i­tar­i­an Affairs and sev­er­al human­i­tar­i­an NGOs.