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Burkina Faso: ils et elles ont dit


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Entrepreneurs wanted
A innovative government program supported by IFAD attempts to unlock the entrepreneurial spirit in one of the world's poorest countries.
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United Nations Children's Fund

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Improving the lives and reproductive health of married and unmarried adolescent

Interventions for adolescents are less in Burkina Faso, and even fewer exist for married girls. Majority of adolescent girls are married - frequently to older men as 2nd /3rd wives.
Source: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

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Socio-economic impact of the Ivory Coast crisis on Burkinabe women & children

"I used to be able to make about CFA15-20,000 per day selling fruits", says 28-year-old Lalla. "Look at my fruit stand now – there's nothing here. All I've got to sell are these baskets, but no-one buys them on this side of the border because we're the ones that make them."
Source: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

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Burkina Faso's hungry herders

Balki Sa Mohamadou is two months old. His mother died because of complications during childbirth, near the village of Touka Bayel in the drought-ravaged north of Burkina Faso.
Source: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Burkina's white gold fails to deliver wealth

There are no roads to Sini Moussa's cotton farm.

Once you veer off the busy main road to Sapone, about an hour from Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, the path quickly turns to dusty scrub.
Source: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Agence Canadienne de Développement International

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Microcredit-Changing People's Lives
In 1994, Jacqueline Boni decided to start up a business as a dressmaker in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. She had no idea her business would grow so fast.
Source: Agence Canadienne de Développement International (ACDI-CIDA)

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Sanem de l'avenir (Gold of the Future)-Helping Small Businesses

Modeste Ouédraogo’s career path has had many twists and obstacles along the way; however he is now clearly forging ahead in his career as a dairy farmer.
Source: Agence Canadienne de Développement International (ACDI-CIDA)

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Farmers on the Internet in Burkina Faso

Could the Internet be useful to farmers, even those who are illiterate? Father Maurice Oudet, a priest who lives in Burkina Faso, shares his views and experience.

Source: International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)

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