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Burkina Faso

Website of the SDC in Burkina Faso: www.cooperation-suisse.admin.ch/burkinafaso/

BURKINA_FASO.GIFBurkina Faso has been an SDC priority country since 1976. Swiss development programme activities focus mainly on the northern, central and eastern parts of the country, though some have a national dimension, for instance in the field of education. Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has been providing complementary budgetary assistance and other economic support measures since 1994. In the aftermath of the disastrous flooding that took place on 1 September 2009, in early 2010 Swiss Humanitarian Aid began a six-month project to rehabilitate and expand a small, district hospital in the capital.

The Swiss Government's bilateral commitment 2009
Mio. CHF
2010
Mio. CHF
2011*
Mio. CHF
SDC
Bilateral development cooperation 12.11 13.83 13.50
Humanitarian aid 0.71 3.70 0.60
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
Economic Cooperation and Development 10.34 8.61 8.24
Total SDC/SECO commitment 23.16 26.14 22.34
Other Federal Offices
State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) 0.01
Total other Federal Offices 0.01 ..
Total 23.17 26.14 22.34
* planned; total based on available data
Bilateral development cooperation excluding program contributions to NGOs
.. = figures not available | – = nil or amount < 5'000 CHF
 

Development Cooperation: Priorities

The preferred approach involves a broad spectrum of players, encouraging direct partnerships between professional organizations, local associations and municipalities with the public and private services that support them:


Background information Burkina Faso

Facts and figures
Surface area
Population
Annual population growth rate (since 1990)
Life expectancy at birth women / men
Adult illiteracy rate: women / men
Gross Domestic Product GDP per capita
Percentage of population with less than 2 USD per day
274'000
15.8
3.4
54.7 / 52
78 / 63
516.7
81
km2
mill.
%
years
%
USD
%
Source: World Bank's World Development Indicators 2011

Background information provided by the BBC

Local SDC contact address:

Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)

Bureau de la Coopération Suisse au Burkina Faso
01 B.P. 578
770 Avenue Kwamé N'krumah
Ouagadougou 01 - Burkina Faso

Phone +226 503 06729
Fax +226 503 10466
Email ouagadougou@sdc.net
Website www.cooperation-suisse.admin.ch/burkinafaso/

Additional Information and Documents

Here, you will find more publications, links, documents and articles about Swiss development cooperation and humanitarian aid in this country.