Burkina Faso is benefiting from a total of 2,100 dams in low-lying areas of the country to harvest rain run-off for use during the cropping season and provide fishery resources for local people.
Burkina Faso had made a serious commitment to improving children's rights and had enjoyed some success in doing so, but was constrained by poverty and cultural resistance among other factors, United Nations child rights experts heard this week.
Responding to low levels of basic education and a high rate of illiteracy, the West African country of Burkina Faso last week launched a programme to raise school enrolment throughout the country from 40 to 70 percent by 2010.
The EU has agreed to provide Burkina Faso with 16 million euro (US $15.9 million) for water management activities aimed at reducing rural poverty, and to support the private sector.
The EU has agreed to provide Burkina Faso with 16 million euro (US $15.9 million) for water management activities aimed at reducing rural poverty, and to support the private sector.
