Burkina Faso Livestock Resilience and Competitiveness Project

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The project supports improvements in productivity, commercialization, and value addition for as mechanisms to improve the competitiveness of selected livestock value chains (including meat, milk, eggs) which: (i) demonstrate evidence-based market demand both in domestic and regional markets; (ii) fit within the country’s overall strategies for job creation, income diversification and poverty reduction (iii) offer opportunities for increased exports, prospects for attracting private-sector investments, and potential for integrating local value chain actors into regional markets. The Project also would also support other value chains e.g., pork, fisheries, and honey that could generate quick income for women and youth.The project addresses binding constraints to competitiveness and resilience in both traditional and improved sedentary production systems, focusing on: (i) strengthening the policy, institutional foundations, and service delivery for the subsector; (ii) improving productivity and value-added; and (iii) mainstreaming measures that promote mitigation and adaptation to climate change across the value chain segments. To achieve this, the project adopts a value chain approach focusing on both the upstream and downstream segments of the value chains – from on-farm production to marketing and distribution (including processing, cold storage, and transport). PRECEL recognizes the critical role of the private sector in strengthening the competitiveness of the livestock sector. With the view to attract private investment in the livestock sector, the project supports policy, regulatory and financial measures, and innovations as well as advisory services to ensure adequate private investment in various segments of the value chains. Access to finance is catalyzed through matching grants and business service support. Policy measures to rationalize public and private sector roles in the provision of veterinary services will be developed and implemented, leading increased participation of the private sector in provision of veterinary services wherever feasible. The project will partner with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to ensure complementarity in supporting the targeted livestock value chains.PRECEL seeks to overcome multiple challenges facing women in Burkina Faso’s livestock sector, especially those linked to access to inputs, and credit and financial services. All implementing partners will be required to proactively seek for opportunities ensure that project benefits flow to women. The project will support vulnerable conflict-affected livestock-keepers. Working in partnership with relevant national and international agencies, PRECEL will identify and provide relevant support to conflict internally displaced persons (IDP) in project areas with capacity to participate in project activities. In keeping with the WBG FCV Strategy, the aim is to boost resilience, expand access to productive assets, and create employment and income generating opportunities.Support will be provided for institutional capacities for climate adaptation and mitigation and reduction of greenhouse gas impact. The project trains small-scale producers as effective agents of environmentally sound practices. Building environmental resilience in close liaison with livestock producers is a core dimension of PRAPS-II and was emulated by PADEL-B. PRECEL seeks to do the same, with mainstreaming of climate change considerations as a central feature of investments in capacity strengthening and policy reform.