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Signature of contract with the Local Water Committee (CLE) of the North Massili

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Faso Koom proceeded the 06th June 2022 to the signature of a subsidy contract of the Local Water Committee CLE Du Massili Nord for the establishment of a Water Users Committee CUE and the realization of a hedge at the level of the Tanghin dam in the commune of saaba.

This grant was made possible within the framework of the implementation of the project to support the institutional, organizational and technical capacity building of the Local Water Committees of the Nakanbé/FASO KOOM II Water Agency’s area of competence, implemented by the consortium of actors formed by the DutchWaterAutorities, (Dutch Water Agencies), the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and the NEA, thanks to the financing of the European Union, amounts to eight million (8,000,000) CFA francs and extends over a period of three months (June – September 2022).

Visit of Ms. Sandra Cats, humanitarian aid advisor and local adaptation at the Dutch Government Agency

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On Thursday, May 19, 2022, FasoKoom received Ms. Sandra Cats, Humanitarian Aid and Local Adaptation Advisor at the Dutch Government Agency. The main objective of this visit was to see the possible possibilities of collaboration between Faso Koom and the #RVO for the implementation of future projects.

The exchanges during Ms. Cats’ visit were very fruitful and above all promising!

Training workshop for the Local Water Committees of the Nakanbe Water Agency’s area of competence

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From the 23rd to 25th May 2022, a training workshop was held in Koudougou for the Local Water Committees of the Nakanbe Water Agency on the document “Harmonized Kit” of the LWCs produced within the framework of the Blue Deal project implemented by Faso Koom.
The main modules developed during this training were among others

  • the fight against invasive aquatic plants
  • the strategy of programming, monitoring and evaluation and sustainability of actions
  • Watershed protection techniques
  • Development of partnerships and implementation of financing strategies for the CLE
  • The technique of elaboration of micro-projects
  • At the end of this training, the participants affirmed that they were well equipped to carry out the rest of their activities.

Provisional acceptance of the cleaning works of the Toukoumtoré

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The Nakanbé Water Agency (AEN) in collaboration with Faso Koom proceeded on Friday May 13, 2022 to the provisional reception of the cleaning works of the Toukoumtoré dam located in the rural commune of Koubri.

Indeed, the dams in Burkina Faso are confronted with the problem of silting which considerably reduces the availability of water. It is estimated that soil losses in the watersheds range from 3 to 9 tons/ha/year in the Southwest, 8 to 15 tons/ha/year in the Central Plateau and up to 28 tons/ha/year in the Northern Region. These losses of soil result in the filling of water reservoirs in Burkina in the form of siltation / silting of about 2.5% per year (data provided by the NEA).

This cleaning action on the Toukoumtoré dam is part of the implementation of the project “Support to the reinforcement of institutional, organizational and technical capacities of the Local Committees”, This cleaning action on the Toukoumtoré dam is part of the implementation of the project “Support to institutional, organizational and technical capacity building of the Local Water Committees of the Nakanbé Water Agency’s Area of Competence or FASO KOOM II” implemented by the consortium formed by the Dutch Water Authorities, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and the NEA thanks to the financing of the European Union.

FYI:
Dam cleaning is an operation consisting of extracting and exporting sediments that have accumulated by settling (siltation/siltation) in the dam bed.