Conflict Response Fund in Burkina Faso

In the Zongo district of Ouagadougou, we have supported ADEP in delivering:

• Food security assistance, providing essential food kits with rice, salt, and oil for six months.
• Dignity and hygiene kits, to improve women’s well-being.
• Income-generating training, including soap-making and sewing, with start-up kits to help women launch their businesses.
• Financial literacy and business management training, alongside cash grants to help women establish small businesses.
• GBV prevention training, equipping women with knowledge and tools to protect themselves and their communities.

Building on this work, we are deepening our partnership with ADEP by co-designing a six-month Social and Economic Empowerment Programme, licensed by Women for Women International. This initiative will equip women with new skills, expand their livelihood opportunities and provide them with small business grants upon completion of the training.

In Banfora commune, our collaboration with Munyu has primarily focused on:

• Establishing community dialogue groups to promote women’s rights and gender equality.
• Coaching and financially supporting community members to implement action plans for positive masculinity and improved gender relations.
• Organising awareness sessions on GBV prevention, marital conflicts and gender inequalities.
• Strengthening GBV referral networks and improving support services for survivors.
• Training women in life skills, self-confidence and leadership to enable them to become agents of change in their communities.
• Providing training and start-up support for income-generating activities (IGAs) in agri-food processing.
• Conducting radio and TV awareness campaigns on women’s rights and GBV prevention.

We are also continuing our partnership with Munyu through a new six-month Social and Economic Empowerment program, designed in collaboration with Women for Women International. Participants will gain economic skills, receive mentorship and access business grants to start or expand their ventures.

In the communes of Gaoua and Kampti, our partnership with APFG has led to:

• The establishment of community gardens to improve food security and agricultural productivity.
• Training in improved farming techniques, organic composting and local product transformation.
• Providing women’s groups with agricultural equipment, raw materials and cash grants to launch collective businesses.
• Creating and strengthening listening and counseling centers to provide psychological support for GBV survivors.
• Hosting community awareness events on peacebuilding, women’s inheritance rights and GBV prevention.

Our continued collaboration with APFG includes a six-month Social and Economic Empowerment programme, empowering women to achieve economic independence and contribute to their communities.