Rapports

Highlights -The total estimated annual caseload of children under 5 with severe acute malnutrition is 100,000 children in 2012. A cumulative total 85,883 children have been treated between January and October 2012. -The annual national nutrition survey using…

WASHINGTON, December 20, 2012 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$93.41 million to support the government of Burkina Faso’s rural development and sustainable land and forestry management programs. The financing package includes a…

Communiqué de presse n° 12/496 Le 19 décembre 2012 Le Conseil d'administration du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) a achevé aujourd'hui la cinquième revue d’un accord triennal au titre de la facilité élargie de crédit (FEC) avec le Burkina…

Press Release No. 12/496 December 19, 2012 The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the fifth review under a three-year arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Burkina Faso.The completion of the review…

Summary The 2012 Sahel food and nutrition crisis severely affected Burkina Faso. According to a WFP/Government assessment, the crisis affected more than 2.8 million people, mainly due to poor harvests caused by sparse and erratic rainfall. On 1…

Poor households are becoming less dependent on the market KEY MESSAGES Very poor and poor households are primarily consuming food from their own household food stocks, which were recently replenished with crops from this season’s average to above-average…

The activities proposed hereafter are still subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2013/01000 1 . CONTEXT The 2012 food crisis left some 18 million people food insecure throughout Sahel and put more than 1 million children…

This summary note is an excerpt from the chapter on Burkina Faso that will appear in the peer-reviewed IFPRI monograph, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis. The research, produced in collaboration with scientists from…

Key messages Child suffering in Burkina Faso, where more than half of the population lives in extreme poverty, is at the level of emergency. The country has the third highest child mortality rate in the world. Life-saving…

Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response High-level Meeting on AGIR-Sahel, West Africa Week / Ouagadougou 6 December 2012 Mr Chairman, Prime Minister, Commissioners of ECOWAS and the UEMOA, Ministers, Your Excellencies, Ladies and…