{"id":183,"date":"2017-08-04T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T12:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/?p=183"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:12:35","slug":"developpement-dactivites-generatrices-de-revenus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adap.ch\/en\/developpement-dactivites-generatrices-de-revenus\/","title":{"rendered":"BURKINA FASO – EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Specialized, annual training by the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) project prepared future teachers to develop environmental skills.\u00a0The project also offered primary schools to create practical activities in market gardening, beautification and re-greening, hygiene, and knowledge of nature.<\/p>\n

AREAS OF INTERVENTION<\/strong>
\nEducation, environmental conservation<\/p>\n

MAIN PARTNERS<\/strong>
\nEcole Nationale des Enseignants du Primaire de Fada N’Gourma (ENEP), Haute \u00e9cole du paysage, de l’ing\u00e9nierie et d’architecture (HEPIA), Plan\u00e8t’ERE Burkina Faso, Association “Courir pour Aider”, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).<\/p>\n

CONTEXT<\/strong>
\nPoverty and strong demographic growth mark the Sahelian country Burkina Faso in West Africa. Burkina Faso also suffers from severe conditions like recurrent droughts, desertification, etc., worsened by climate change and loss of biodiversity.\u00a0With the alarming degradation of its environment, Burkina Faso has recognized the urgency of raising awareness of environmental issues, and of existing measures to achieve sustainable management of its natural resources.
\nThe teaching program Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Burkina Faso is appropriate and a priority. Appropriate because the troubled east of the country has enjoyed partnerships with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for more than thirty years.\u00a0And a priority because the lands of the provinces of Gnagna, Gourma, Komandjari, Kompienga, and Tapoa concentrate the country\u2019s most important biodiversity.\u00a0Addressing environmental issues and managing natural resources are all the more essential for these provinces currently under strong pressure from agricultural expansion (the rest of the country has been almost exhausted).<\/p>\n

PROJECT DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\" In 2005 ADAP decided to develop an ESD project in eastern Burkina Faso, in response to a local initiative from the National School of Primary Teachers of Fada N’Gouma (ENEP). This initiative\u2019s overall objective was to contribute to the promotion of environmental education.\u00a0This project with its awareness, information, and training-in-environmental education (EE) components is in line with the environmental education action plan for the basic education sub-sector. ADAP saw this as an opportunity to address two major challenges for the promotion of more sustainable development: improving the living conditions of the project\u2019s beneficiaries, and maintaining an environmental balance.<\/p>\n

In 2006, interviews and documentary research in cooperation with the main institutions that had experience in ESD enabled an inventory and a critical synthesis of the ESD approaches in Burkina Faso.\u00a0Based on this inventory and the reference literature, a teaching program was implemented with the directors of ENEP.\u00a0The program has been offered to ENEP staff and teacher students of the 2007 and 2008 classes.
\nCurrently, the project wishes to pursue its initial objective and continue to train teacher students.\u00a0The plan is to simplify the initial training manual\u2019s content and better adapt it to the capacities of the teacher students and their regional context.\u00a0Primary school pupils will receive additional educational sheets that accompany the training manual to benefit as much as possible from this teaching program.\u00a0All this should thus allow future teachers to transmit the knowledge they have acquired during their training.\u00a0Finally,\u00a0activities should be developed in 14 test schools located near the wildlife conservation areas to increase awareness of environmental protection among their students.\u00a0These activities will be designed according to the conditions (access to water, available land, etc.) and the needs of each school, and should help improve living conditions within them.\u00a0This project targeted pupils, pupils\u2019 parents, and the local communities.
\nInformation exchange with the local communities helped the project identify four suitable, major sectors to pay attention to:<\/p>\n

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  • Beautification and re-greening<\/li>\n
  • Market gardening<\/li>\n
  • Hygiene<\/li>\n
  • Knowledge of nature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    OBJECTIVES
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    • Intervene more actively in the regions of Burkina Faso, located near conservation areas to raise awareness of ecological issues<\/li>\n
    • Promote more eco-friendly behavior among all primary school children in Burkina Faso<\/li>\n
    • Promote more eco-friendly behavior among their families, and communities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • Two new flocks of teacher students (approx. 850 persons\/year) received training, based on the new version of the teaching manual, during 2009\/2010 and 2010\/2011.
        \nAdditional, educational material has been created and made available to teachers leaving ENEP, to pass on their knowledge of environmental protection to primary school students more easily.<\/li>\n
      • The activities developed within the 14 test schools are easily identifiable.\u00a0They raised students’ awareness of environmental protection and improved living conditions in schools.<\/li>\n
      • The enclosures or the exteriors of the schools are embellished with flowers. Each school has a hedge, a grove, or any other form of reforested area that marks its space. The school canteen menus have been enriched with products from the garden.\u00a0The pupils wear clean clothes, the classes are cleaned, the drinking water is carefully contained in a closed and airtight container, and the toilets are washed with disinfectants every day.\u00a0The pupils have acquired new knowledge about nature, they can identify certain animal and plant species and they are aware of their usefulness and the importance of their preservation. Last but not least,\u00a0the pupils\u2019 parents and the neighboring local communities have shown interest in the activities developed in the schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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