Burkina Faso: Government has reference framework to improve situation of internally displaced people
The validation workshop of the National Strategy for the Recovery of Internally Displaced Persons and Host Communities opened on 29 December 2022 under the chairmanship of Mrs. Nandy Some Diallo, Minister in charge of Solidarity and Humanitarian Action.It was during the 15th ordinary session of CONASUR, in the presence of the resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme. The holding of this meeting will provide the government with a framework for recovery.
For the Minister, the development of this strategy aims to strengthen the resilience of populations deeply affected by the effects of the dual security and humanitarian crisis while improving or even restoring their livelihoods in order to promote the creation of opportunities. Thus, an operational action plan will complement this strategy for its implementation.
As part of the search for solutions to the humanitarian crisis in Burkina Faso, the government has adopted a recovery strategy for the populations affected by this crisis. It is in this context that the validation workshop of this national recovery strategy for internally displaced persons and host communities is being held today.Since 2015, the security crisis has led to massive population displacements. These people are spread over all thirteen regions of the country with a high concentration in the Centre-North, Sahel, North, East and Boucle du Mouhoun regions.
Given the protracted crisis and the scarcity of resources mobilized for humanitarian response, the government and its partners have opted to develop a national strategy paper for the recovery of internally displaced persons and host populations and lay the foundations for sustainable development in areas with a high security challenge. The project aims, in an integrated approach to early recovery and development interventions, to reduce the socio-economic vulnerability of IDPs and returnees as well as host communities through the strengthening of social cohesion and socio-economic reintegration in a secure environment.
Mrs. Elsie Laurence CHOUNOUNE, the representative of UNDP, affirmed that this repository is of great importance, since it is a document that, once validated, will reflect, in terms of plans and feasible programs, the vision of the Government through actions for the recovery of internally displaced persons and host communities.
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