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Context
With 2.1 million internally displaced persons, Burkina Faso is experiencing one of the fastest growing displacement crises in the world. The December 2024 humanitarian response plan highlights that nearly 6 million people need multisectoral assistance and 25% of households have severe to very severe needs. In addition, the effects of climate change are making Burkina Faso increasingly vulnerable to drought (25 out of 45 provinces have a medium or high risk of drought) and flooding. The country is also facing growing food insecurity, affecting around 2.8 million people, including more than 400,000 in emergency phase.
The year 2024 was marked by numerous humanitarian challenges, including restricted access to certain areas and persistent underfunding, with only 44.8% of financial needs covered as of December 31. In response to this situation, humanitarian partners are calling for an additional US$792.6 million to meet the urgent needs of 3.7 million people in Burkina Faso.
- 23.4 million inhabitants
- 185th out of 193 countries on the Human Development Index
Our action
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Mission
opened in 2018 -
Team
15 international staff
183 national staff - Budget 11.5M€
SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL provides a multisectoral response in four regions of Burkina Faso, through two bases and four sub-bases.
In Burkina Faso, SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL works to ensure sustainable access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in order to improve health, reduce water-related diseases, and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable populations in blockaded and hard-to-reach areas. The organization also implements an integrated response strategy providing food and nutritional assistance and water, hygiene, and sanitation (WASH) services at health and community facilities. It supports the empowerment of displaced households, hosts, and residents through activities providing shelter and essential household items, food and nutritional assistance, while supporting livelihoods (income-generating activities, agriculture).
This diversity of actions, as well as our ability to operate in areas with restricted access, is made possible by our many institutional and private financial partners, as well as international and local implementation partners.
SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL remains a key actor in Burkina Faso in the sectors of water, hygiene and sanitation, food security, shelter, and essential household items. It is an active member of the Forum of Humanitarian INGOs (FONGIH).
Institutional and private financial partners DG ECHO, DDC, AEAP, AFD, BHA, AAP, FHRAOC, CDCS
Operational partners GRET, Groupe URD, Première Urgence Internationale (PUI,) Action contre la faim (ACF), Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Humanité et Inclusion (HI), Solidarité développement Inclusif (SOLIDEV), Christian Aid (CA), Association pour l’Unité de la Jeunesse et le développement en Afrique (UNIJED), Association Formation Développement Ruralité (AFDR)
Our impact
Saving and preserving lives
- Distribution of more than 2,083 WASH kits and 1,000 food security kits
- Key player in the rapid response mechanism
- Deployment of innovative solutions: installation of more than 100 ORISA filters, networks of repair technicians, secure management of sludge from 1,000 latrines
- Enhanced water quality monitoring: more than 400 samples analyzed and corrective measures (disinfection) taken at around 100 water points
- Strengthening the knowledge and practices of around 60,000 people on hygiene
- Construction of more than 600 emergency shelters
- Construction of more than 200 latrines and showers
Meeting basic needs
- 50 water points (boreholes equipped with human-powered pumps, PEA/AEPS) built or rehabilitated/repaired
- 4 boreholes for vegetable farming completed
- 160 semi-permanent shelters set up
- Assistance to 7,341 households during the lean season and emergency period
- Distribution of 1,228 kits for income-generating activities and 510 agricultural kits
- Systematic integration of protection analysis and associated matrices
- Training of teams on the inclusion of people with reduced mobility, in partnership with Humanité et Inclusion
Reducing vulnerability and strengthening resilience
- Deployment of a dual humanitarian-development program in partnership with the National Office for Water and Sanitation (ONEA) in Burkina Faso (support for the extension of the ONEA network in Ouahigouya, Titao, and Kongoussi over 35 km; installation of a drinking water network and distribution system in Oula and Séguénéga over 11 km; provision of contingency equipment to ONEA)
- Integration of conflict-sensitive approaches and promotion of social cohesion
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