- Since 2019 Houndé has received 7 billion FCFA from the LDMF
- In Saow, the LDMF received is estimated at 152 million FCFA
- Various achievements made
- From health and social promotion centres to schools and boreholes
The Local Development Mining Fund (LDMF), created by the 2015 Mining Code, is an asset for the socio-economic development of Burkina Faso’s communes. In the framework of the implementation of the project “For a programme to strengthen citizen participation and accountability in public finance management” Oxfam in Burkina Faso in collaboration with its partners : CERA/FP, ORCADE and RECIBOG want to ensure the effective management of this fund in the beneficiary communes. This project, financed by the HEWLETT Foundation, contributes to the strengthening of dialogue and citizen monitoring.
As part of the implementation of the project, OXFAM and its partners ORCADE, CERA/FP and RECIBOG organised a press trip with Journalists’ Actions on Mining in Burkina Faso (Actions des Journalistes sur les Mines au Burkina Faso or AJM-BF), an association of journalists involved in monitoring policies on the extractive sector, from 8 to 11 May 2023. The press trip was organised in the communes of Houndé and Soaw. Its objective was to participate in the capitalisation of the project by providing evidence on the state of play of the monitoring, citizen watch and accountability activities of the CDVC in the communes of Houndé and Soaw.
On the occasion of this press trip, many infrastructure sites financed by the LDMF were visited by the journalists.
The LDMF is intended to finance projects concerning health, education, water and sanitation that are included in communal development plans. It has been operational since 2009.
Many infrastructures built in Houndé thanks to the mining fund
The commune of Houndé has received more than 7 billion FCFA since 2019. This sum has been used to build many infrastructures such as classrooms, administrative buildings and health centres. All these achievements have significantly improved the quality and supply of health care and education in the commune of Houndé.
In addition, the LDMF has enabled the acquisition of office equipment. It has enabled the installation of a communal radio station. These infrastructures have come to the relief of the populations of the commune of Houndé. The president of the special delegation, Soulemane Dianda, acknowledged that: “Thanks to the local development mining fund, the health services and schooling rates are acceptable”.
However, some of these infrastructures, such as the newly built Health and Social Promotion Centre (CSPS) in Dankari, are having problems functioning. According to the president of the dialogue and citizen watch committee of Houndé, Adama Traoré: “Our wish is that this CSPS works and that each village benefits from a CSPS”.
The commune of Soaw also benefits from the mining fund
The LDMF benefits all mining and non-mining communes. This is the case for the commune of Soaw (in Boulkièmdé) which received approximately 152 million CFA 2019. Like the commune of Houndé, the commune of Soaw has built health and education infrastructures. It has built administrative buildings, latrines and boreholes. While the latrines cost 1,550 million FCFA, the construction of the pharmaceutical depot cost 4,500 million FCFA and the administrative building 8 million FCFA.
According to the Secretary General of the special delegation Ali Guiré: “There are other plans for boreholes to be built and others to be rehabilitated to solve the water problem and relieve the population”.
Rachid Ouedraogo
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