The 2nd ordinary session of the year 2024 of the Communal Consultation Framework was held this Tuesday, June 4, 2024 in Nouna, for discussions on the issue of population resilience in relation to food security.
Food security has always been a concern of the State and its partners and prevails in Kossi in this period of insecurity.
Many families are under the weight of this disastrous situation which is jeopardizing the survival of populations in general and of women and children in particular.
It is to discuss the issue that the statutory members of the Communal Consultation Framework met this Tuesday, June 4, 2024 in Nouna.
This meeting, with the support of the ‘Res Com’ project, is intended to be a framework for direct exchange with the municipal consultation unit in the hope of finding suitable solutions to the issue of food security in Nouna.
According to data from the Provincial Directorate in charge of Humanitarian Action of Kossi, as of April 30, 2024, the commune of Nouna recorded 39,579 interna
lly displaced persons (IDPs) including 6,099 men, 9,921 women and 23,559 children, distributed in 5,654 households.
Two communications related to food security and good governance were presented respectively by the provincial director in charge of Agriculture of Kossi, Hamadou Tamboura and the secretary general of the town hall of Nouna, Arouna Zerbo.
After the definitional framing of the terms and with regard to the socio-security context, Hamadou Tamboura developed population resilience strategies with concrete examples.
These examples include, among other things, securing and promoting access to land and agricultural inputs, developing market gardening areas and lowlands to support community production and support for parents’ organizations. of students for the development of vegetable gardens.
Arouna Zerbo relied heavily on codes of good governance, a guarantee of grassroots development that involves all social layers and civil society organizations.
The participants formulated recommendations and su
ggestions for real endogenous development in terms of food and nutritional security.
The 2nd vice-president of the special delegation of the commune of Nouna, Ernest Simboro, expressed his gratitude to the NGO ‘Res Com’ for the successful organization of this session.
Source: Burkina Information Agency