Burkina Faso - Technical support for the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management - Application to the management area of the Nakanbé Water Agency - Phase 5

Since 2011, OiEau has been providing institutional and technical support to the Nakanbé Water Agency (AEN) for

• Consolidating IWRM governance and planning
• Improving water data management
• Strengthening sustainable financing mechanisms
• Organising meetings and study visits in Burkina Faso and France
• Providing an expert on site to coordinate and support activities.

The project targets three fundamental pillars to support the IWRM approach in the Nakanbé basin:

- Consolidating water governance (Basin Committee and Local Water Committees) and planning tools (Nakanbé SDAGE and Massili-Ziga priority SAGE)

- Improving water data management at the basin and national levels

- Studying and implementing sustainable financing mechanisms adapted to the basin context

- Synergy of actions and strengthening of stakeholder networks at the level of the Massili-Ziga Priority SAGE.

The objective is to operationalise and effectively implement these pillars through a territorialised approach.

• Support and monitoring of the implementation of the Nakanbé Sdage,
• Support for the development of the multi-year intervention programme,
• Support for the collection of financial contributions for water (in particular taxes on raw water for agricultural use),
• Support for the development of the Massili Sdage,
• Recruitment of a senior country representative,
• Organisation of regional exchanges (Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal),
• Coordination with decentralised cooperation projects (capitalisation and promotion of ‘structural’ projects),
• Training of AEN agents in France.