Burkina Faso

Our impact

Context

In Burkina Faso, women, youth, and rural communities face multidimensional challenges driven by climate change, insecurity, natural resource degradation, and persistent inequalities in rights, access to services, and economic opportunities. In the intervention areas, these vulnerabilities particularly affect women and adolescent girls, both in terms of sexual and reproductive health and economic empowerment, as well as participation in local governance.

In this fragile context, Socodevi works alongside its partners to strengthen community resilience, promote gender equality, improve access to essential health and justice services, and support sustainable collective economic models. Interventions are based on an integrated approach combining co-operative development, nature-based solutions, human rights, and the transformation of social norms.

Objectives and expected results

  • Improve equitable and sustainable access for women and adolescent girls to sexual and reproductive health services and justice.
  • Strengthen women’s economic empowerment through collective entrepreneurship, co-operatives, and income-generating activities.
  • Increase the climate resilience of women, youth, and their communities in the face of environmental and security crises.
  • Restore degraded ecosystems and promote nature-based solutions adapted to Sahelian contexts.
  • Strengthen inclusive governance of natural resources and community-based organizations.
  • Achieve lasting transformation of social norms that hinder gender equality through community and intergenerational mobilization.

Areas of activity

  • Sexual and reproductive health (SRHR)
  • Human rights and access to justice
  • Gender equality and women’s empowerment
  • Sustainable agriculture and green economy
  • Environment and climate change
  • Development of collective and co-operative enterprises
  • Local governance and community mobilization

Results and impacts

Health, Rights, Social and Economic Inclusion

The Plurielles project supports women and adolescent girls in the Kayes and Kita regions by strengthening access to sexual and reproductive health services, implementing actions to prevent gender-based violence, and supporting the economic reintegration of survivors.

As a result:

  • The rehabilitation or equipping of 30 health centres in accordance with gender- and environmentally-sensitive standards, along with the training of 510 healthcare providers and multisectoral stakeholders in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality, hygiene, biomedical waste management, and the development and implementation of an integrated multisectoral protocol for supporting survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), has improved the availability and quality of healthcare services for women and adolescent girls.
  • Improved management and economic performance of 50 women’s groups and co-operatives (GFA/SCOOP) have enabled their women and adolescent girl members, as well as their families, to strengthen their financial capacity to enrol in health insurance and increase their access to healthcare services provided by the health centres.
  • 15 organizations promoting the rights of women and adolescent girls have strengthened their capacities, enabling them to provide legal support to more than 1,500 women and adolescent girls in cases related to gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Gender equality and empowerment

  • 1,334 women and adolescent girls trained in financial literacy and collective management.
  • 150 women’s groups supported toward formalization and access to health mutual insurance schemes.
  • 5,239 people mobilized around positive masculinities and social norms transformation.
  • 150 young lawyers trained using a human rights– and gender-based approach.

Climate resilience and environment

  • 28 hectares restored through nature-based solutions.
  • 9,395 trees planted with survival rates of up to 88%.
  • 87,850 seedlings produced by local nursery operators, generating sustainable incomes.
  • Introduction of green technologies: improved cookstoves, eco-charcoal, solar cookers, and adapted ecological practices.

Testimonials

“Thanks to the training sessions and community dialogues, we better understand our rights and now dare to defend them.”

  • Beneficiary – Plurielles project

“Reforestation activities and improved cookstoves have changed the way we protect the environment while improving our incomes.”

  • Women community relay – FAÉD project

Projects in Burkina Faso

PLURIELLES

Through a multisectoral approach that combines health, human rights and economic empowerment, the PLURIELLES project enables women and adolescent girls in Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali, particularly survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), to benefit from tailored services, improved access and enhanced support throughout a safe continuum of care, including prevention, medical care, legal assistance and […]
  • Funded by:
    Global Affairs Canada
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FAÉD

The project Women and Youth in Action for Sustainable Ecosystems (FAÉD) brings new momentum to communities in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso. This initiative aims to strengthen the resilience of women and young people in vulnerable situations, while contributing to biodiversity conservation for the benefit of local populations. Project activities encourage plant and animal […]
  • Funded by:
    Global Affairs Canada
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Partners

Donors and co-financiers

  • Funder: Global Affairs Canada

Consortium partners

  • Santé Monde
  • Avocats sans frontières
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Contact

Burkina Faso Office
Avenue Thomas SANKARA secteur 22
BP 10831 OUAGA ZOGONA
(+226) 07 36 73 48

Countries where we work

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Ethiopia

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Ghana

Since 2018, Socodevi has been working in Ghana to strengthen the inclusive and sustainable development of agricultural co-operatives. Through structuring projects in the rice and cocoa value chains, the organization supports the empowerment of women and youth, improved co-operative governance, access to markets and financial services, as well as strengthened livelihoods and resilience to climate […]

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