The High Commissioner of the Balé province, Ibrahim Boly, launched during a workshop, held on April 3 and 4, 2024 in Boromo, the Project to strengthen the resilience of rural households in the face of changes climate change and food and economic vulnerability through an integrated territorial approach in the ten municipalities of the Balé province (ProRACE) of the NGO TREE AID.
The Project strengthening the resilience of rural households in the face of climate change and food and economic vulnerability through an integrated territorial approach in the ten municipalities of the Balé province (ProRACE) of the NGO TREE AID is now official.
The activities were launched in the Balé province during a workshop on April 3-4, 2024 in Boromo.
According to the coordinator of ProRACE, Hugues Ouédraogo, this meeting allowed stakeholders to visit and provide information on the project, present and plan the activities of the first year of implementation of the activities.
In the opinion of Mr. Ouédraogo, the ProRACE pr
oject is a resilience project. There is a need to help producers in difficulty.
Participants planned activities for the first year of the project and adopted an implementation strategy across the province.
According to officials of the NGO TREE, the ProRACE project will thus contribute to strengthening the resilience of 89,240 people in the ten municipalities of the Balé province, including 22,191 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in six municipalities for four years.
For the implementation of field activities, the NGO TREE AID will work in collaboration with the association Junction of Actions to Advance Africa (JAAFA) based in Boromo and the technical services of the province.
To do this, four facilitators from the JAFAA association will assist the beneficiaries in the areas of agroforestry and natural resource management, agricultural production and livestock breeding.
The project must therefore impact the lives of these people in the rural world by making them adopt positive behaviors in the sustai
nable management of ecosystems, agroecological practices, economic and food security through the development of nutritious and market gardens, the sustainable exploitation of non-timber forest products and small livestock farming.
The project will cost more than two billion CFA francs and is financed by the Delegation of the European Union and the NGO TREE AID.
The High Commissioner of the Balé province, Ibrahim Boly, welcomed the initiative of the NGO TREE AID because the project will cover the entire province.
He invited stakeholders to get involved in achieving the objectives.
Source: Burkina Information Agency