SERVICES: National Platforms
Burkina Faso
Context: Burkina Faso is dramatically confronted with the consequences of violence, persistent food insecurity and malnutrition. Five of the thirteen regions of the country are particularly affected, and the humanitarian situation has been steadily deteriorating since 2017 with a peak observed in the second half of 2019. In total, 2.2 million people face crucial needs created by the deterioration of their living conditions and among them more than 918,000 people are in need of services linked to their survival. The closure of health facilities, schools and markets, the displacement of populations, poor access to WASH services are among other visible impacts of the security and humanitarian crisis in Burkina Faso.
Efforts are underway to scale up the response to cope with these escalating needs. In late October 2019, the Humanitarian Country Team was activated in Burkina Faso, replacing the Humanitarian-Development Country Team, to enable dedicated leadership in coordination and information management. And between December 2019 and January 2020, the CDAC Network – in partnership with Ground Truth Solutions and with funding from the H2H Network and with the assistance of UN agencies and CDAC members operating in the country – undertook a scoping mission to the country to assess the status, current strengths and needs related to response-wide Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability.
CDAC will be publishing the scoping mission report later in February 2020, but is likely to conclude that coordination and collaboration on CEA will require significant strengthening to meet the immediate and medium-term needs of affected people, and to build the existing capacity of humanitarian actors in the country to act on their accountability commitments and to develop better communications and community engagement initiatives.
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