COMMUNITY-BASED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

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The Community-Based Rural Development Project (Phase I), will initiate the process of improving revenues, and living conditions of rural populations in Burkina Faso, particularly that of food crop producers who account for seventy five percent of the rural poor. It will develop the capacity of rural inhabitants to manage sustainable, equitable, and productive development, and will also facilitate the emergence of rural municipalities. Project components will: 1) strengthen the technical, and organizational capacities of the rural population, through three sub-components, to: raise awareness for participation, and encouragement of village regrouping, through communication, promotion, and information activities; organize managerial, and technical skills through the provision of training to form village, and inter-village land management committees (CVGT/CIVGT); and, provide technical support to community organizations in pursuing annual investment plans; 2) establish a local investment fund for financing CVGT/CIVGTs subprojects, and, provide resources for provincial structural works; 3) build institutional capacity, by training local/provincial/regional/national institutions; 4) improve land tenure through a pilot operation; and, 5) support program coordination, administration, and monitoring/evaluation.