Sustainable Housing for Rural Families in Africa

The Polish Government sponsors a project for adapted housing in  Burkina Faso

The Polish Government, through its intermediary the Polish Centre for International Aid (PCPM) has agreed to finance a major NV construction project this season in the north of Burkina Faso. This will involve the building, in 15 communes, of 60 NV houses (each 25m²) for vulnerable families. A professional training programme for 30 artisan-masons and 120 apprentices is also planned.

This project, planned between September and December 2018, is being implemented by AVN and 15 Naam Unions working in the targeted communes (grouped together in the Fédération Nationale des Groupements Naam).

The role of the Namm Unions is to:

• Select the beneficiaries and validate the implementation sites,
• Identify the local candidates for training in the NV technique,
• Take part in the organisation of training activities implemented by AVN’s Training Team,
• Monitor the correct construction of the houses and provide feedback to AVN on any problems encountered,
• Raise awareness amongst institutional and civil society actors concerning the local diffusion of the NV market concept.

In parallel, AVN is committed to:

• Strengthening the capacities of the Naam Unions,
• Validating the choice of beneficiaries and the monitoring of the building sites,
• Mobilising the NV artisan-masons and their apprentices,
• Implementing the relevant NV training modules,
• Raising awareness amongst institutional and civil society actors concerning the local diffusion of the NV market concept.

As well as providing better living conditions for the beneficiaries, this project, with its training and local mobilisation components and the exemplarity of the completed buildings, is an inherent element of the diffusion of the NV concept in the Northern Region of Burkina Faso.