Adapting a rehabilitation programme to a crisis situation in Burkina Faso

23/10/2012

The climatic conditions in the Sahel, marked by an arid climate with recurrent crises, and the living conditions for most rural communities, characterised by extreme poverty, call for interventions that strengthen people’s capacity to withstand crises and for emergency responses during peak crisis times. All aid actors agree on the need to develop interventions adapted to the specific characteristics of the situation, and with the capacity to provide an early response to the erosion of livelihoods. The LRRD-REPI 2010 programme, funded by the European Union Delegation in Burkina Faso, and run by its operational partners, ACF, Oxfam, Christian Aid, and Development Workshop France, implemented the European Commission’s Joint Humanitarian Development Framework, and the crisis preparation and anticipation mechanism developed by Groupe URD. This article analyses the role played by the LRRD-REPI programme in the current crisis.