Thursday, January 25, 2024 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) officially launched its project entitled “Promotion of inclusive urban sanitation for strengthening climate resilience in West Africa”, in Ouagadougou. The chairman of the ceremony was the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Environment.

At the end of the conclusive pilot phase of the “Promotion of Inclusive Urban Sanitation for Strengthening Climate Resilience in West Africa” project, a second phase is launched. GGGI received a grant for the Promotion of inclusive urban sanitation for strengthening climate resilience in West Africa, from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a period of 30 months. For this current phase, the project has the objective of fully integrating sanitation into the Measuring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system of Burkina Faso to precisely assess greenhouse gas emissions of the sector and to develop opportunities in the waste sector in general, and sanitation in particular. The project will cover West African countries, namely Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, and Burkina Faso.

For the measurement, reporting, and verification system, it will be a question of making it more efficient in producing reliable data in the sanitation sector. In this dynamic, the project will ensure that any new tool or process put in place to quantify greenhouse gases generates key data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 6.2 which aims by 2030, to ensure equitable access for all to adequate sanitation and hygiene services and end open defecation, paying particular attention to the needs of women and girls and people in vulnerable situations.

The project is being implemented by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in Burkina Faso in collaboration with the Government of Burkina Faso, the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Sanitation, the National Office for Water and Sanitation, local authorities, the private sector and civil society. 

Consultations with stakeholders will be carried out to identify promising technologies for integrated management of solid and liquid waste in Burkina Faso, to develop viable investment models which will be levers for mobilizing financing. Thus, the project will strengthen the consideration of sanitation in the global climate dialogue and will be a window for promoting the sanitation sector in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).

Dethie S. Ndiaye, GGGI Burkina Faso’s Country Representative explained that a plethora of activities will be put forward to achieve the objectives of the project. “There will be a lot of studies that will be done in different areas, and this will help improve the MRV system. This will involve measuring, reporting, and verification in accordance with the commitments made by the transitional government,”: he noted. 

The ministry in charge of the environment, through Ousmane Bawar, the Chief of Staff of the said ministry affirms: “The Minister of Environment collaborators are committed to supporting the implementation of the project with a vital contribution through technical support, through active participation in the implementation of the project and will benefit from the capacity building of the actors.”