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Burkina Faso: Education
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The main challenge for IICD in Burkina Faso in 2007 will be to finalise project formulation in the three active sectors (education, agriculture and governance). The addition of projects in the education and governance sectors will enable the country programme to move into a consolidation phase later in the year.
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Burkina Faso has ... made appreciable efforts to address demand-side education constraints. To this end, the proportion of schools with drinking water and sanitary facilities has reached 47 percent and 45 percent respectively. The number of literacy centers has more than doubled since 1990 and the literacy programs available to only 90 villages in 1990 today cover 4,500. To further stimulate school attendance on the part of low-income groups, the Government has set up a system for providing sets of textbooks for use free of charge and has encouraged greater parent participation in the running of the schools. To lower the opportunity costs for poor households and promote school attendance by girls, a considerable effort has been made to build schools not far from the villages, financial and material resources have been made available to mothers’ associations (Associations des mères d’élèves) for income-generating activities, and school lunch programs have been developed in rural areas.
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A non profit organisation in Paris which assists primary school students in Burkina Faso thru payment of school fees, provision of supplies, a library, etc. It has 150 members from all over France and some from abroad. Teachers and parents choose the students to be assisted. Special attention is given to rural areas and to girls' education. [KF] http://www.edukafaso.org/
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Participatory development has been a tradition in Burkina Faso and a key component of its development efforts. Communities have always had a role in choosing and implementing grassroots development-activities. In support of this tradition of participatory development, a robust associative movement – which ... has its origins in traditional society – has emerged and has expanded steadily. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -which have increased in number significantly since the major drought of the early 1970s – have been instrumental in the success of this concept. Some 200 NGOs have formed associations, the major ones being: the Permanent NGO Secretariat; the NGO and Association Liaison Office; the Network for Communications, Information and Training of Women in NGOs; the Secretariat for Sahelian NGO Consultations; the Comprehensive Framework for Consultations between NGOs and Associations on Environment and Development; and the NGO Coordination Committee on Basic Education. The associative movement also includes nearly 14,000 entities (cooperatives, groups, and self-help organizations).
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The Peace Corps entered Burkina Faso in 1966. The Peace Corps program was phased out in 1987, but was invited to return to Burkina Faso in 1995 as part of a newly established health project. One year later, the Peace Corps established a secondary education project and in 2003, Peace Corps introduced a small enterprise development project to complement the government's poverty reduction and private sector promotional programs. In 2005, the Government of Burkina Faso asked for assistance to increase the level of girls' access to education, which later became the focus of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's Threshold Compact with Burkina Faso. All Peace Corps Volunteers, regardless of sector, are trained in how to promote awareness on HIV/AIDS and gender and development.
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Currently, 9 projects are being implemented in Burkina Faso. Additional projects still need to be developed in education and governance, in order to build a critical mass of projects. These will then serve as a tool to illustrate what can be achieved using ICT. Existing projects will be made sustainable by embedding them in the project partner organisations and other institutions. That will ... be the starting point to begin the process of influencing national ICT-policies.
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