Burkina Faso

Basic Information

• Target areas of assistance: Koumandjari Province World Education has relationships with local organization Tintua for implementation in Koumandjari Province.
• Partners: Fawe Burkina is currently handling 50 secondary school girls in the Kadiogo Province (Ougadougou).
• School year calendar: September - July

Program Overview

Selection Process

New scholars are selected through a transparent process:

1. Community is widely informed and sensitized on AGSP goals, objectives and targets
2. NGO, school administration and PTAs form a selection committee to select schools using established criteria
3. Local selection committees are established to select scholars
4. Selection forms are distributed to PTAs and schools for potential eligible girls to fill out
5. Forms are submitted to NGO Tintua
6. Local selection committees convene a selection meeting and choose scholars according to AGSP criteria
7. Returning scholars are kept in the program until they graduate out of the cycle funded by the AGSP
8. NGO, consultant and PTAs conduct sample visits to verify physical existence of scholars

Mentors

Mentoring activities are ongoing, on track and include: remedial and evening classes, youth clubs, life skills building activities, HIV-AIDS, general health, and hygiene sensitization campaigns.

Program Update

In Year 1, the AGSP in Burkina Faso provided 250 scholarships (200 at the primary level and 50 at the secondary level) in the Eastern region of the country. Ms. Rawolatou Geraldo is the local consultant, working with Tintua, the local NGO implementing partner.

In Year 2, there has been a significant increase in the number or scholarships awarded, from 250 to 462 girls. Additionally, mentoring activities have been on-going since year 2.

In Year 3, Tin-Tua and FAWE/Burkina distributed a total of 465 scholarships. The two partners have also carried out mentoring activities for the scholarship recipients.

In collaboration with the local education authorities and PTAs, Tintua established local monitoring committees that are in charge of monitoring scholars' attendance, performance and usage of scholarship items in schools.