NLAID - Activity in Burkina Faso

Information on Burkina Faso

Birth rate 43.59 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 37.4% (2006) country comparison to the world: 8

Climate tropical; warm, dry winters; hot, wet summers

Death rate 12.74 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues recent droughts and desertification severely affecting agricultural activities, population distribution, and the economy; overgrazing; soil degradation; deforestation

Infant mortality rate
total 81.4 deaths/1,000 live births
male 88.88 deaths/1,000 live births
female 73.69 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population

Life expectancy at birth
total population 53.7 years
male 51.75 years
female 55.71 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 21.8%
male 29.4%
female 15.2% (2003 est.)

Maternal mortality rate 560 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 21

Natural resources manganese, limestone, marble; small deposits of gold, phosphates, pumice, salt

Population
16,751,455 (July 2011 est.)
note estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected

Population growth rate 3.085% (2011 est.)

Religions Muslim 60.5%, Catholic 19%, animist 15.3%, Protestant 4.2%, other 0.6%, none 0.4%

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 6 years
male 7 years
female 6 years (2009)

Dit secretariaat ondersteunt de donor-troika bij vertegenwoordiging en coordiatie van donoren mbt PRSP-monitoring; beheer van ABS en tenuitvoerlegging van Parijs/Accra agenda

Project code NL-1-PPR-21530

To strengthen the capacity of local organizations to intervene in the field of non-formal education by providing subsidies in conformity with criteria adopted in the procedural manual

Project code NL-1-PPR-13755

Co-financement fond commun du Programme d'Appui au Développement Sanitaire 2008-2012

Project code NL-1-PPR-19177

Programme d'accélération de la mise en oeuvre de la PNG

Project code NL-1-PPR-21437

NLAID - Activity in Burkina Faso

Information on Burkina Faso

OUAPNM-SIDA regions Kaya/Manga

Appui Budgetaire Général

Construction d'infrastructures complémentaires

Uitvoering strategisch plan 1 juli 2005 - 31 juni 2008

Beleidsondersteuning 2011

Ministère de la Promotion des Droits Humains : actions prioritaires 2007-2010

Contribution au panier commun CNLPE

Renforcement des partis politiques

filmfestival gericht op mensenrechten en persvrijheid

Appui au Plan Stratégique 2009-2012

Appui à l'émergence de contre pouvoir, Laboratoire Citoyennetés

Appui à l'émergence de contre-pouvoir2

Renlac 2008-2012 herzien

CITO 2010-2012 ongeoormerkt

Fonds Commun Genre

Financement du plan stratégique 2011-2013 de SEMFLIMS

Appui à la Politique Nationale Genre Phase2

Dit secretariaat ondersteunt de donor-troika bij vertegenwoordiging en coordiatie van donoren mbt PRSP-monitoring; beheer van ABS en tenuitvoerlegging van Parijs/Accra agenda

Appui au CGD pour la mise en oeuvre de son PS 2008-2012

Appui au Plan Décennal de Développement de l'Education de Base 2006 -2010

Mettre à la MEBA l'expertise de l'UNICEF dans les domaines de la scolarisation des filles, et de la petite enfance

To strengthen the capacity of local organizations to intervene in the field of non-formal education by providing subsidies in conformity with criteria adopted in the procedural manual

Co-financement fond commun du Programme d'Appui au Développement Sanitaire 2008-2012

Programme d'accélération de la mise en oeuvre de la PNG