GGGI Burkina Faso team received a delegation of KOICA for a feasibility study from the 20th to 24th of June 2022. The country has been facing a humanitarian crisis since 2019 with a big number of internally displaced people (31, 000). The KOICA mission was able to carry out a feasibility study in collaboration with […]

June 23, 2022 – As part of the process of developing Burkina Faso’s low-carbon development strategy 2050, the Ministry of Environment, with the technical and financial support of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the French Development Agency (FDA), organized a validation workshop of the low-carbon scenarios prepared in past months. National experts from […]

Ouagadougou, June 16,  2022 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Urban Planning, Land Affairs and Housing and the Order of Architect of Burkina Faso,  organized a capacity building workshop on energy efficiency in buildings. This awareness workshop addressed the members of the Community of Practice (CoP) on sustainable […]

Burkina Faso, through the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), is in the process of formulating its long-term (2050) low-carbon development strategies. At the current stage of reporting on low-carbon scenarios, it was important to consider gender, women’s empowerment and social inclusion aspects in the sectors of transport, waste, agriculture, […]

Ouagadougou, 30th May – 3rd June 2022 –In partnership with the General Directorate of Green Economy and Climate Change, the Global Green Growth Institute organized a training workshop on the Sustainable Development Analysis Grid (SDAG). The training brought together about thirty public administration executives from the Ministry of Environment, Energy, Water and Sanitation (MEEEA), and […]

From May 30th to June 3rd, 2022, training sessions on climate-smart agriculture took place in three cities and several farm sites in the Northern region of Burkina Faso. A total of 350 producers, of which more than 40% were women, were trained and participated in site visits in the villages of Ouahigouya, Rikou, Oula, Petit […]

Ouagadougou, May 16th – 27th, 2022 – The Permanent secretariat of the council for sustainable development (SPCNDD) in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and support of the Swedish Cooperation (SIDA), organized a training on the IPCC software and guidelines for greenhouse gas inventories (GHGI). Burkina Faso, which has benefited from the support […]

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; May 20th, 2022 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), in collaboration with UN Habitat, Order of Architects of Burkina Faso, and the Ministry of Urban Planning, Land Affairs and Housing, organized a technical workshop on the newly founded energy efficiency Community of Practice and the capacity building needs of its members. […]

The Global Green Growth Institute, in collaboration with the General Directorate of Green economy and climate change of Burkina Faso, organized a training workshop on the SPSS software for national actors involved in MRV system from 25th to 29th April 2022. SPSS is a fundamental tool for statistical analysis of quantitative and qualitative data throughout […]

From 11th – 13th April and 19th – 21st April 2022, the national institute of statistics and demography (INSD) in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute held training workshops on the methods used to elaborate greenhouse gas inventories (GHGI), specifically in the energy and industrial processes sectors. The workshops aimed to explain the methodology […]

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) with the financial support of the Kingdom of Denmark  organized from the 11th to 15th April 2022, a training on climate-smart agriculture at the Ministry of Environment, Energy, Water and Sanitation. About sixty technical advisors on agriculture, livestock, and the environment from Hauts-Bassins, Centre-Ouest, Nord and Centre regions strengthened […]

From the 27th to the 30th of March in Ouagadougou, the Director-General of GGGI Dr. Frank Rijsberman visited Burkina Faso to celebrate the ongoing successful collaboration between GGGI and Burkina Faso actors. Frank Rijsberman had many rich exchanges with national authorities, development partners, local actors and donors. Audience at the Presidency with the Minister of […]

On Tuesday 29th of March 2022 in Ouagadougou, the ministry of the environment, energy, water, and sanitation in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute officially launched the national web based MRV platform. This platform is designed with the technical support of GGGI under Swedish funding. It represents the country transparency framework and serves as […]

The Permanent Secretariat of the National Council for Sustainable Development (SP/CNDD) through the National Observatory for Sustainable Development (ONDD), the department in charge of the coordination of the national Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system, organized training sessions on the MRV platform. From March 14-18 in Ouagadougou, the administrators, facilitators and sectoral MRV focal points […]

On Tuesday 1st of March 2022 in Ouagadougou, the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Environment in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) held a workshop to validate the study of the legal and regulatory framework for data flow between stakeholders with regards national measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of climate emissions.  The study […]

February 28, 2022 – GGGI Burkina Faso published a collection of insights by women who received green entrepreneur training as part of the “Promotion of Solar Irrigation Pumping system and Solar Mini-grids” project. GGGI implemented this project in Burkina Faso with the financial support of Denmark. The project has recognized the role that women play […]

From the 22nd to 23rd of February 2022, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in collaboration with the team of the Permanent Secretary of the National Council for Sustainable Development (SP\CNDD), organized a capacity building workshop for stakeholders in the process of establishing a national strategy, that will align greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions with long-term […]

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; February 21st to 25th 2021 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), in collaboration with Burkina Faso’s Ministry in charge of Housing and Urbanism, organized a workshop in the framework of the revision of the Urbanism and Building Code initiated by the Government. Since the last revision of the code of urban […]

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; February 15th 2022 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), in collaboration with Burkina Faso’s Ministry of environment and ecological transition, organized a workshop to validate a recent assessment of tools for greenhouse gas inventories (GHGI) covering energy sector, industrial processes and product use. This collaboration, financed by Sweden, has already resulted […]

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; November 11-12th , 2021 – The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Urbanization, Housing and Cities, organized a two-day training on building energy efficiency policies and standards. The technicians of the different directorates of the Ministry took part in this training. The Ministry is in charge of […]