Local associations in the Center-North organized, on Saturday June 1, 2024 in Kaya, a regional forum on their effective participation in the management of the humanitarian crisis.
‘Peace and development efforts: what contributions are made by local associations’, it is under this theme that the first edition of the regional forum of the Center-North Associations Initiative was held on Saturday June 1, 2024 in Kaya. .
With 150 participants, this conclave allowed these associations to examine their effective involvement in the management of the humanitarian crisis and the promotion of peace in the region.
This first meeting of local associations allowed participants to focus on themes such as: ‘Leadership and associative governance for peace and social cohesion: resilience to save integrity’, ‘Humanitarian situation in the Central region -North’ and ‘Local humanitarian leadership’.
These themes were respectively developed by the general coordinator of the NGO Réseau Afrique Jeunesse, Daniel Da Hien, the so
cial affairs administrator, Gaëtan Gourou, and Ousséni Kouraogo of the NGO ATAD.
The president of the ceremony, the High Commissioner of Sanmatenga, Idrissa Gamsonré, welcomed this initiative by local associations.
‘You questioned your leadership in a context of humanitarian crisis and you drew on the experience of each other with a view to your effective participation in the management of the humanitarian crisis and the promotion of peace essential to development’, he rejoiced.
At the end of the discussions, most of the participants expressed their satisfaction. ‘I learned a lot from this meeting. I am happy and I would like to congratulate the initiators,’ said participant Waogba Ouédraogo, also president of the Association for Resilience and Social Integration of Insecure Children in Burkina Faso (ARISEI/BF).
According to the organizing committee, this forum was also punctuated by an institutional exhibition with around fifty exhibitors and B2B meetings.
‘This sharing of experience aims to get to know
each other and to be discovered by other actors in local development,’ explained the coordinator of the Association Voisins Solidaires du Centre-Nord, Augustin Irwaya Ouédraogo.
For the president of the Initiative des associations du Centre-Nord, Roséline Dermé, the holding of these various activities proves that the objectives of the forum have been achieved.
‘We hope that at the end of these discussions, each of the associations will now play its part both in development and in the promotion of peace,’ she added
Source: Burkina Information Agency