In Burkina Faso, the association Yaam Solidarity accompanied the disadvantaged people in the city of Boassa (on the outskirts of Ouagadougou), the rehabilitation of their habitat, by promoting the use of local and sustainable materials.
Within the framework of the project “Live, and live better in the non-off”, which is funded by the AFD and the Fondation Abbé Pierre, and driven by the NGO Craterre, urbaMonde supports Yaam Solidarity in its consolidation as a member of the urban development and production of the habitat dignified and sustainable in Burkina Faso in an approach to promoting the use of local and sustainable materials.
The project has also given rise to a reflection on the implementation of financial mechanisms, land and organizational likely to strengthen the capacity of the inhabitant·of the informal settlement of Boassa (district 7 of Ouagadougou) in the ownership and development of their living environment.
The establishment of a revolving fund, managed by the Federation of the inhabitant·es Burkina Faso formalized in 2020, and powered by the savings of the inhabitant·es is the result of this work.
The project also includes a component cluster, which aims to create a network of federations of capita.es existing or emerging in West Africa, in order to foster the exchange of practices and advocacy on the right to habitat worthy in the informal settlements across the sub-region.
In Burkina Faso, urbanization, uncontrolled and the shortage of urban housing have led to a strong informal production and insecurity of land tenure marked in the housing sector. However, the housing policies focused on the middle class, private property and the formal sector. Taking into consideration issues of informal housing and the needs of the poorest populations is virtually non-existent in the action state and local government data and statistics are incomplete. However, after data of the 2018 UN-Habitat, 57 % of the urban population of burkina faso live in informal settlements, and 21 % of households in the zone off.
Advancements 2022
2022, urbaMonde has participated in different types of activities of the project. In march, a support mission partners Yaam Solidarity has been working with the team, to meet clients and attend meetings with new groups of people requesting their integration into the Russian federation.
A meeting multi country also took place in march in Canchungo, Guinea-Bissau), bringing together representatives of the federations of the Senegal, Togo, Côte d’ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau and Burkina Faso. This meeting helped to lay the foundations of a confederation of the inhabitants of the WAEMU zone.
In September, a mission of bringing together the representatives of the group responsible for the implementation of the project, “Dwell, and live Better in the non-off” took place in Ouagadougou. It has allowed the partners to work on the final phase of the three years of the project (evaluation, funding) and to prepare for the next phase to be submitted to donors (2023-2026).
