The Livestock Resilience and Competitiveness Project (PRECEL) organized on August 19 and 21, 2024 in Bobo Dioulasso and Ouagadougou, the framing and information workshop on the co-financing of 2000 PRECEL microprojects.

These meetings brought together approximately two (200) people from PRECEL staff from the decentralized technical structures of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal and Fisheries Resources and representatives of the sectors targeted by the Project from the thirteen (13) regions of Burkina Faso. The objective of these meetings, according to the PRECEL Coordinator Dr Soumaila BITIBALE, is to inform the various stakeholders with a view to harmonizing understandings on the process of implementing microprojects.

During this workshop, the PRECEL team presented to the participants, the actors implementing the activity, the micro-project financing mechanism, the eligibility criteria and the implementation roadmap in implementation of microprojects 2024. These presentations were followed by discussions in order to agree on the process and find the best keys that will allow effective implementation of the activity.

The participants in this workshop welcomed this PRECEL initiative which, according to them, allows us to harmonize points of view for effective implementation of the activity. They add that the 2000 microprojects are well received but remain below the demand of the populations. They therefore wanted other initiatives to fill the gap in order to lift the population out of poverty.

The leaders of the citizen livestock monitoring network (ReCiVEL), a citizen monitoring organization and implementation partner of PRECEL, recommended that the operation take place in transparency in order to respect the principle of equality and fairness advocated by PRECEL.

The Regional Directors of Agriculture, Animal and Fisheries Resources (DRARAH), who chaired these meetings, invited all stakeholders to become more involved in the success of the operation.

The financing of these two thousand (2,000) microprojects which fall into component 2 of PRECEL, will grant a quota of at least 30% to women and young people, specified Dr Soumaila BITIBALE. This activity aims to improve the living conditions of populations, he added while inviting candidates to propose innovative and sustainable project ideas, he added.

PRECEL communications specialist