Who Are the Beneficiaries of the ABF “Giving for Change” Program in Boucle du Mouhoun

The Burkinabe Fundraising Association (ABF) has made a clear, consistent and early vocation to support community-based organizations for an endogenous approach in carrying out their development projects, in particular through the identification of local financing opportunities, technical support, coaching.

A vision with tangible results on the ground and which facilitates the appropriation by the populations of the general policy encouraged by the leaders, namely the dynamics of national sovereignty. Observation at the beginning of 2024 with associations benefiting from this ABF expertise in the Boucle du Mouhoun.

The Burkinabe Fundraising Association (ABF) has shaped the basis of several development organizations in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, like those in several other localities. This has given new dynamism to these associations, whose members, especially the leaders, never miss an opportunity to express their gratitude.

Among these community-based development organizations, the simplified agricultural production cooperative Scoop/Pa-Yeda-Badenya, created in 2019. Its purpose is to popularize organic farming, therefore agro-ecology; a type of agriculture concerned with preserving the environment.

“We use organic fertilizers, which we manufacture ourselves, unlike conventional agriculture which uses a lot of chemical inputs, with their harmful effects on the human body and health as well as on the environment and the soil. Our goal is really to make quality products available for consumption,” motivates the secretary general of Scoop/Pa-Yeda-Badenya, Oumarou Drebo.

In addition to preserving the health of the farmers themselves, the soil and the environment, agroecology preserves the health of the consumer through its natural aspect and retains all the nutrients. A testimony that the cooperative’s managers deliver with full knowledge of the facts, some of its members having previously experienced conventional agriculture. They owe this leap in quality to the ABF, admit the leaders of Scoop/Pa-Yeda-Badenya.

“The meeting with ABF was made thanks to one of our partners, which is the integrated development program, housed at the OCADES level. With the ABF, we benefited from a lot of practical knowledge, in particular techniques on agroecology. We had training on tools, equipment and techniques for making compost. Today, we are able to count on local resources and this makes our activities much easier.”

“Before, we relied on international partners, and with the multiple international crises, these actors are becoming increasingly rare, there are other concerns elsewhere. The ABF’s “Giving for change” program therefore came at the right time to resolve the equation, because it made us realize that we can develop by relying on partners at the local level and on ourselves. We had believed that to develop, we necessarily need external aid,” said Oumarou Drebo, who also learns that the cooperative operates in about ten villages in Boucle du Mouhoun, with more than 300 members and several hundred tons of cereals at harvest.

The simplified agricultural production cooperative Scoop/Pa-Yeda-Badenya has great prospects in terms of production in the years to come, which is why it always pleads with the ABF for more capacity building and for the acquisition of equipment and logistics for large-scale production.

ImpactAdo Burkina, a conciliation and peace organization, especially through the Ado’Déclic conference project and Innovation-CADI is this other structure benefiting from the expertise of the ABF. According to Stéphane Boro, a member of the association, the activities are deployed in two main areas: “seed of communities in Burkina Faso” (a program for the social transformation of young people, by establishing them as ambassadors for peace consolidation) and the “CADI program” (a program for the inclusion and certification of young people in new digital professions).

The overall objective pursued is to positively impact the psychological growth of young adolescents, through non-violent communication, particularly digital, to move towards peace. To achieve its goals, the association initiates, among other things, debate and public speaking competitions and ensures the sustainability of the acquired skills.

“The impact is real, we can prove it through the creation, for example, of clubs of young ambassadors of mediation, conciliation and peace,” says Mr. Boro before affirming that the association has, to date, impacted more than 35,000 young people.

A dynamic that the meeting with the ABF helped to boost

“Thanks to the training we received with the ABF, we have greatly improved our activities; because in 2022, we had a budget of more than 8,300,000 CFA francs and in 2023, nearly 10 million CFA francs. It is thanks to what we learned that we were able to mobilize all these sums, because we were shown how to mobilize support, mobilize resources. With the ABF, the more training we receive, the more we improve,” appreciates Stéphane Boro, who adds that ImpactAdo Burkina also introduces people to digital professions, thus contributing to the fight against unemployment.

The “Benkadi” cooperative also benefits from the support of the ABF, in particular through the project for the processing of non-timber forest products in the communes of Dédougou and Tchériba.T

The president, Mariam Dayo, and the training manager, Bissounadié Sangaré, inform us that the cooperative transforms shea nuts into butter, it produces traditional and semi-traditional soap, transforms néré grains into “soumbala” (local broth), dried baobab leaves, moringa leaves, tamarind seeds, in short, everything that is a non-timber forest product. “But we are largely based on soumbala, shea butter and baobab leaves; because that is what is found in large quantities in the area,” explained the president.

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