In Burkina Faso, Switzerland is engaged in three domains to help combat poverty: governance and democracy, basic education and vocational training, and local economic development, mainly in the eastern, central-western and northern regions.
Strategy
Following the popular uprising in October 2014, the government in place since December 2015 faces high expectations from the population amid a worsening security situation, evidenced by the terrorist attack in Ouagadougou in January 2016 and the onslaughts in the border regions of the north. Despite an economy growing at about 4% a year, largely thanks to the exploitation of natural resources (gold, cotton, shea), Burkina Faso remains one of the world’s poorest countries. Some 80% of the population grow subsistence crops in family smallholdings
Swiss Bilateral ODA |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 * |
|---|---|---|---|
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) |
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Bilateral development cooperation |
22.28 |
24.16 |
21.50 |
Humanitarian aid |
3.13 |
4.62 |
3.85 |
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) |
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Economic Cooperation and Development |
6.50 |
8.51 |
8.98 |
Peace and Human Rights Division (PHRD) |
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Conflict transformation and human rights |
– |
– |
0.15 |
Total SDC/SECO/PHRD |
31.91 |
37.29 |
34.48 |
Other Federal Offices |
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Network of FDFA representations abroad |
2.72 |
2.69 |
.. |
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) |
0.13 |
0.11 |
.. |
Total other Federal Offices |
2.85 |
2.80 |
– |
Cantons and municipalities |
1.94 |
.. |
.. |
Total |
36.70 |
40.09 |
34.48 |
Swiss government spending for development and cooperation for the current year and the past two years, broken down by institution.
* planned; total based on available data
.. = figures not available | – = nil or amount < 5'000 CHF
