Vers une gestion des ressources naturelles et un développement économique transfrontieres : connecter les communautés et les institutions dans la zone libérée de l'onchocercose au Burkina Faso et au Ghana
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Abstract:
The Socio Economic Development Programme for the Transborder Onchocerciasis Freed Zone of Burkina Faso and Ghana was initiated by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to explore the modalities to institutionalize such a cross-border planning and development approach. The first phase of this programme (the ‘OFZ Project’) was implemented from 2003 to 2007 by FAO in the Upper East Region in Ghana and the adjacent Nahouri and Boulgou provinces in Burkina Faso. One of the activities was to test the suitability of the Participatory and Negotiated Territorial Development (PNTD) approach for cross-border natural resource based planning and development in the OFZ. PNTD has been developed by FAO and offers a structured approach to consensus building and joint planning on natural resource management. This made the approach potentially useful, considering the complex institutional environment made up of communities, traditional authorities, and government agencies in two countries with partly overlapping mandates on natural resource management. SNV provided advisory support to the OFZ Project to pilot the PNTD approach through its teams in Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). The PNTD process was tested in a single pilot area spanning the border. Most of the people in the pilot area belong to the Gruni (Frafra) ethnic group. They thus share a common language, culture and ancestry, but are divided on the basis of nationality.
Authors:
Van Waveren, E.
,
Mariez-Currena, V.
,
Issaka, B.Y.
Country:
Burkina Faso
,
Ghana
Category:
Practice
Keywords:
agriculture
,
health
,
rural development
Language:
fra
Organization:
SNV - Netherlands Development Organisation
,
KIT - Royal Tropical Institute
PAGE:
55
Place:
Accra
Publisher:
SNV Ghana [etc.]
Year:
2008
Region:
Africa South of Sahara
,
West Africa
Right:
© 2008 SNV and KIT
Subject:
Agriculture and Rural Development
Title:
Vers une gestion des ressources naturelles et un développement économique transfrontieres : connecter les communautés et les institutions dans la zone libérée de l'onchocercose au Burkina Faso et au Ghana