Mission to highlight integration strategies in the fight against HIV-AIDS in Danish cooperation programs in rural areas in Burkina Faso
(2000)

In fall 2000, the Danish Royal Embassy called on CCISD to undertake an initial five-week mission aimed at highlighting strategies in the fight against HIV-AIDS in Danish cooperation programs in rural areas in Burkina Faso. The study led to deeper analysis of the social, cultural, institutional and community context in the rural areas to which the fight against HIV-AIDS must be carried. The analysis also described the social, cultural and economic constraints limiting adoption of measures to fight HIV-AIDS, and the methods considered acceptable by rural populations. The mission also specified various actions and joint subcomponents for the three Danish support programs which will be supported by development of a concrete operational action plan along with a provisional one-year budget.

The action proposed by the mission comes under a multidisciplinary and mutlisectoral partnership that includes five Ministries, a number of national partners (local NGOs and national research institutes) international NGOs and several multilateral donor agencies. During the first year of execution, the amount provided for this series of activities is $1,435,000. Sectoral review of the three programs from October 2000 to February 2001 provided for a budget of nearly $2,500,000 over a three-year period.

The impact of the intervention will affect mainly rural populations with employees in the Danish projects as a starting point along with the officers of various Ministries attached to them. In all, a little more than 600 people will be directly affected by the project. In addition their families and their communities should also feel the impact.