Since late 2005, USAID has been responsible for a MCC-financed girls’ education program, that has focused on building 132 girl-friendly school complexes in rural communities located in 10 provinces of Burkina Faso (West Africa). This includes a $12.9 million first phase that ended in late 2008, and a three-year $28.9 million second phase that begins in 2009.
Since 2004, USAID Burkina Faso has supported a number of PL 480 non-emergency assistance programs that focus on agricultural productivity and maternal and child health. The program currently has an annual budget of $15 million, and a new five-year phase is scheduled to begin in 2010.
Burkina Faso regularly receives assistance from USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). In 2009, OFDA approved four grants to various organizations working in Burkina Faso worth a total of about $8.9 million, as part of its response to the impact of the global high food price crisis. In addition, OFDA recently provided $250,000 in emergency funding for the purchase of vaccines in response to an unusual outbreak of measles in Burkina Faso.
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