The Social Nets project in collaboration with the NGO Progettomondo organized on Tuesday April 18 in Dano, an immersion workshop for the benefit of the actors implementing the project "Monetary transfers for security food and nutrition.
It was the High Commissioner of Ioba Bernadette Adenyo /Sermé who chaired the work of this workshop.
The “Monetary transfers for food and nutritional security” project is part of the fight against poverty and inter- and intra-regional disparity.
The organization of this workshop aims to enable all the actors involved in the implementation of the project to take ownership of its objectives, its approach and its intervention mechanisms.
The participants exchanged around the essential points presented in the communications.
This is the overall structuring of the project (its objectives, components, areas of intervention, stakeholders and their roles); mechanisms for targeting beneficiaries, cash transfers, support measures, management of complaints including gender-based violence (GBV).
Initiated in favor of poor people and vulnerable to poverty, cash transfers through this project will directly increase the consumption of beneficiaries and their access to basic social services.
These beneficiaries in the province of Ioba are pregnant women and or mothers of children from 0 to 59 months.
The objective of the project is to improve food security and reduce malnutrition among pregnant women and children under five (05) years old.
The eight (08) municipalities of the province of Ioba are concerned by the project.
Ultimately, the project intends to provide 1,500 women beneficiaries of cash transfers.
This is why the project will focus its interventions in the area of regular and unconditional cash transfers, support measures on the nutrition of children and pregnant or breastfeeding women, and production measures on the promotion and protection of livelihoods of poor households with a focus on empowering women.
Each woman beneficiary of cash transfers will receive every two months the sum of 35,000 CFA francs for twelve payments for the benefit of her household.
For the productive accompanying measures, the beneficiaries will obtain a grant of 100,000 CFA francs.
In collaboration with the NGO Progettomondo, the social safety nets project is implemented thanks to funding from German cooperation through KfW.
The main actors in the implementation of project activities are, among others, the project management unit, the central, decentralized and decentralized services of the ministries of humanitarian action, health and territorial administration, the NGO Progettomondo, community-based health workers without forgetting the beneficiary populations.
In her opening speech, the High Commissioner of Ioba underlined that the issue of the economic and nutritional recovery of vulnerable people is taken seriously by the government of our country through numerous initiatives.
In the province of Ioba, the implementation of the "monetary transfers for food and nutritional security" project is part of this dynamic, she continued.
In view of the crucial role of each of the stakeholders and the need for their involvement, Ms. Adenyo invited all participants to provide all objective and constructive analyzes for the successful implementation of the project in the province of Ioba.
The president of the elderly of Ioba Albert Dindomè Somé (standing) thanked the authorities for the initiative of this project which will educate the populations to make good use of local foodstuffs for a good diet.
The work of the workshop ended with notes of commitment and adherence and satisfaction of the actors for the success of the interventions for the benefit of vulnerable people.
Source: Burkina Information Agency