Burkina Faso

Friday 5th October 2018, the implementation stage of Banfora's strategic plan for SDG 6 was launched during a solemn ceremony in the district's function hall. It marks a milestone in Banfora's work towards achieving SDG 6.

By the end of 2016, Burkina Faso's presidential commitment to the water sector was phrased as "zero burden for water collection and a healthy living environment by 2020". There were budgeted national programmes for SDGs 6.1 and 6.2. It was the start of the process for revising the rural water supply strategy in order to improve service quality.

IRC has significantly contributed to these key sector strengths in its activities. Nevertheless, the WASH sector faces a lack of financing (findings from IRC's TrackFin study in 2017 showed that barely a third of sector programmes are financed). Also the sector still uses as its main performance indicators, the access rates inherited from the MDGs despite the adoption of the SDGs. Finally, social accountability for water and sanitation was very unstructured and ineffective. Most of the WASH NGOs are specialising in technical assistance to government while most CSOs active in social accountability (human rights, democracy, consumers' rights, etc.) didn't have WASH on their agenda.

Our main activities at national level for the 2021 horizon are:

1. Supporting the Ministry for Water and Sanitation in implementing service delivery indicators in line with the JMP indicators; strengthening capacities of sector experts on learning, knowledge management and training in service delivery models, strategic leadership and institutional reform.
2. Supporting parliament in improving parliament members' control on government performances in WASH.
3. Supporting CSOs and citizen media in promoting social accountability for WASH.
4. Extending our expertise in strengthening district WASH systems to other municipalities in Burkina Faso through collaboration with other NGOs.

Banfora is the capital of the "Cascades" region and has a population of 153,574 in 2017. It is one of the most water rich areas in the country. More information.

Banfora est le chef-lieu de la région des Cascades et a 153 574 habitants en 2017. C'est l'une des communes les mieux arrosées du pays. Plus d'information.