Reliable and affordable drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in every household, school, health care facility, workplace and public place by 2030
The IRC team in Burkina Faso is led by Country Director Juste Nansi
13 staff
9 projects
8 donors
€ 684k invested
Léo, Koudougou, Pouytenga, Po, Bérégadougou, Niangoloko and Centre Ouest
“Since the arrival of IRC, the water and sanitation sector has been continuously improving. We therefore thank IRC and all our partners for their work.”
Siaka Soulama
First Deputy Mayor of Banfora district
"I thank the partners for organising this training. The learnings will be useful in our daily work and will benefit the population. Hopefully other parliamentarians can also follow in our footsteps and take this training."
Honourable Halidou Sanfo
President of Réseau des Parlementaires pour l'Eau, l'Hygiene et l'Assainissement
The national aim to achieve universal access to drinking water must be implemented at the regional level. This can only be done through well-calibrated planning in the form of master plans. And we've been able to take this work to scale, extending master plans to 87 districts with the support of IRC through the financing of the European Union.
Boukaré Sabo, Regional Director of Water and Sanitation for the Centre West Region
To reach the ambition of achieving the WASH SDGs committed to at the global level since 2015, IRC expects the government of Burkina Faso to put in place good enough systems for WASH governance by 2021. Unfortunately, the constant deterioration of the security situation and political context has been hampering the ambitions for systems strengthening. Two-thirds of the country is currently considered a red zone prone to terrorist attacks. Additionally, public financing for WASH has been largely insufficient compared to expectations. Public funds and external aid have been increasingly allocated to addressing the security challenges and related emergency and humanitarian issues.
On a positive note, the Head of State and the First Lady are prioritizing the water and sanitation agenda. The Ministry of Water and Sanitation have designed a strong national investment plan for strengthening the water and sanitation sector and IRC and partner are making good progress in the implementation of the WASH master plans in the partner districts Banfora and Tenkodogo.
Through our work in our partner districts we are reaching 352,000 people. Our district work serves as a model to reach every district in Burkina Faso. The European Union is supporting us to together with ONEA to adopt elements of the district approach in 93 additional communes, and to develop full master plans.
Visiting address
Rue Zangoeg-Pelgo
Zogona - Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso
Postal address
01 BP 5754
Ouagadougou 01
Burkina Faso
Phone : +226 25 50 51 44
burkina@ircwash.org
