Supporting Sustainable Landscape and scaling up of Ecovillages development model

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country, with low levels of human development. The Human Development Index (HDI) stood at 0.4 in 2018, ranking the country at 183 out of 189 countries. Its economy remains agricultural and focused on food crops and cotton production. Over the last twenty years, the country has experienced average annual GDP growth of around 2%. However, poverty rates have remained unchanged during the period. To support the rural area the GoBF launched an initiative called "creation of 2,000 ecovillages" which aspired to implement inclusive growth in rural areas and preservation of the environment. Its intervention framework integrates the contribution of the government and other actors in national development i.)State, ii.)Local Authorities, iii.)Private Sector, and iv.)technical and v.)financial partners to the realization of the basic infrastructures (such as the socio-economic infrastructures) and the creation of a framework encouraging the development of sustainable investment models in rural areas.