Nuru Burkina Faso 2023 Impact Report
Authors: Heath Prince and Thomas Boswell (Ray Marshall Center); Souleymane Ouedraogo (Nuru Burkina Faso); and Matt Lineal, Casey Harrison, Ian Schwenke, Bethany Ibrahim (Nuru)
Date: May 2024
Publication Type: Report, 23pp.
This report is commissioned by Nuru.
Executive Summary
Nuru Burkina Faso (NBF) is a locally-led and locally-registered NGO in Burkina Faso. NBF’s mission is to build resilience corridors by eradicating poverty and unlocking economic potential within fragile communities in Burkina Faso to stop the spread of violent extremism by 2030. NBF was founded in 2022, and at the time of this report is in its second year of operation. Since its inception, NBF has created a capable and professional local organization that is engaged across several interventions. Currently, NBF is working with USAID to implement the Tiligre Initiative for Farmer Resilience (TIFR) in the Centre Sud and Plateau-Central regions of Burkina Faso, just outside of the capital Ouagadougou, and receives further support from additional donors to provide support in terms of crop input packages to farmers. Furthermore, NBF has partnered with ignitia to provide two consecutive years of weather forecasting services to nearly 2,000 Nuru-registered farmers.
In 2023, NBF conducted its first input-distribution activity, allowing farmers who are members of the cooperatives that NBF supports to receive crop input packages, consisting of various inputs aimed to improve the yields of soy and groundnut production for individual farmers. Crop loan repayments are made to the cooperative, which becomes a revolving fund at each cooperative. This report examines the results of this 2023 agricultural season, including the yield potential between farmers and demonstration plots. This report also explores baseline gender evaluations aimed at uncovering gender dynamics at the household level.
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