Promoting Solar Irrigation Pumping Systems and Mini-grids in Burkina Faso

The Burkina Faso intervention is a result of series of consultations with the government and private sector since 2019. The program is aligned with the National Development Strategy as well as Ecovillage National Program that support vulnerable communities. The primary outcome is to increase the climate resilience of people in Burkina Faso by enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience, and reducing vulnerability to climate change of vulnerable and poor farmers. GGGI’s support will focus on: · Facilitate access to clean energy for the livelihood of vulnerable households is enabled through the provision of SIPS and its use by farmers living in the ecovillages · Vulnerable households’ and Ecovillage committees’ capacities and knowledge enhanced to maintain social and economic trajectories and initiate the green growth transition · Mini-grid based off-grid electrification to enhance electricity access Vulnerable households’ and Ecovillage