Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (PAND)

Managing Institute:
Plan International

Contractor:
Plan International

Project Code: 010-680-002	Start Date: 01/04/1990	End Date: 31/03/1994
Commitment: £548,000	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC

Project Background:
PLAN's activities in Burkina Faso will encompass the areas ofboth curative and preventative health with emphasis on the preventative aspects. This will be achieved through programmes of material aid and service support in construction, latrine fabrication, well drilling and deepening and community health education in close collaboration with government health authorities and village committees. PLAN's programme also encompasses projects concerned with environment and agriculture. In environmental improvement, PLAN will concentrate on laying ant-erosion lines,including the treatment of ravines and building small dams (called barrages), to reclaim and extend the bottom land around which villages cluster. The barrages are used to dam wadis, which catch rainwater, in Kongoussi PLAN will embark on a modest system of projects to irrigate 100 hectares of land. Plan will also help to establish tree nurseries and provide support to reforestation projects. In agriculture PLAN will undertake projects in agricultural training and credit, gardening, crop production and preservation and animal raising.

Project Objectives:
The objectives are: improve water supply for irrigation, counter soil erosion and deforestation, introduce efficient wood fuel stoves and improve supply of clean drinking water.

Intended Outputs:
The intended outputs are: potable water projects in Boulsa region (30 villages) and Kaya region (54 villages), health project in Kongoussi (Clinic construction,medical supplies,staffetc.) and irrigation and erosion control programmes in Boulsa, Kaya & Kongoussi.