Service Laïque de Coopération au Développement

The SLCD contribution consists of:

•  Establishing relationships among key stakeholders so as to better coordinate field operations activities in different chosen sectors.
•  Providing counselling in small business management
•  Setting up systems to face common risks related to the hydraulic and electrification fields as well as to the health sector.

All our actions and those carried out by other financial backers are mutually strengthened in a systemic approach.

Our actions are mainly co-financed by the BADC ( Belgian Administration for Development Cooperation).

Electrification is co-financed by the Wallonia Region.

Achievement 1

Economic development of the "Nongtaaba village" estate by ABPAM (Burkina Faso Association for the Welfare of the Blind and Partially Sighted), located on the edge of Ouagadougou.

The funding for this development, amounting 27000€, helps the association to manage and finance day to day activities.

Achievement 2

Support of "Les Pionniers," a school which helps the earlier integration of visually deficient children into nursery school.

The school intake is 75 children per year .

Five visually deficient children can be enrolled every year and take advantage of specialised care. 

Achievement 3

During the last five years, 76 waterholes have been either drilled or rehabilitated.

This has enabled 38000  people to gain access to improved drinking water.

Achievement 4

Barsalogho town centre has now been furnished with electricity. We currently have 186 electricity consumers to which we should add approximately 40 more in 2008 with the completion of the last line.

The regular supply of electricity has led to various initiatives taking place.

A centre for the generation of electricity has been installed in Dablo from the medical centre of the village is supplied.

Though the entire demand is not yet met, the network extension is still going on.

Achievement 5

Owing to the sponsoring of training and the acquisition of additional equipment, the quality of obstetrical care has clearly improved in the health district of Barsalogho.

Achievement 6

Structuration and support given to seven emerging ABPAM groups in the Pô region ( putting buildings and setting up modest remunerative activities,...). Four hundred visually deficient people have so far benefited from coaching via ABPAM.

Achievement 7

Management monitoring of the young rural maintenance enterprise at Barsalogho (MMB). Having started from scratch, this enterprise currently employs 13 people and plays a central role in development of the area as it actively contributes to the maintenance of the area's hospitals and of its hydraulic and electrical networks.