Burkina Faso - Bagré Project

The present intervention concerns the Bagré Project. It’s one of the priorities of Burkina Faso's economic development policy. It should contribute to the implementation of the country's five-year programme particularly in terms of food self-sufficiency, Burkina Faso's economic independence from outside the country, drinking water supply for the population, etc. The project consists of the construction of an earth dam equipped with a 16 MW power plant and allowing gravity irrigation downstream of a perimeter of 2,155 ha in the first phase (7,400 ha in the final stage of development) to which a rainfall perimeter of 4,000 ha (11,200 ha in the final stage of development) is associated. The main components of the project are: (i) civil engineering of the dam; (ii) equipment of the power plant and ancillary works; (iii) substations and power line; (iv) access road and bridge of Niaogo; (v) development of the irrigated area; (vi) settlement of migrants and rural development; (vii) deforestation of the flooded basin, etc.