Maternity with fewer risks in the Yako Health District in Burkina Faso
(1999)

This project is the result of long negotiations among Burkina Faso, CCISD, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Plan and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammernarbeit , after which Burkina Faso defined its national strategy for maternity without risk.

In September 1997, CCISD presented a document to the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health and the UNPF accepted to finance a feasibility study in 1999 for a pilot project entitled Contributing to maternity with fewer risks, District of Yako, Passoré Health Region, Burkina Faso.

The project is aimed at improving the health of women by helping to significantly reduce maternal morbidity through support for health services, as well as encouraging women, women's organizations and the community to become involved in advocating better health, and defining and providing better health services.