Ministry of Social Action and National Solidarity

National Committee for Emmergency and Rehabilitation Assistance

01 BP 515 Ouagadougou 01
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METHOD OF INTERVENTION

II. INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK

 

Bodies

Composition

Attribution

CONASUR

President : Ministry in charge of Social Action

Members :

Social Action;
Territorial administration;
Foreign Affairs;
Economy, Finance and plan;
Agriculture and animal resources;
Public works;
Information;
Defense;
Water;
Industry, Commerce and Mines;
Environment and Tourism;
Health;
Burkinabe Red Cross;
SPONG.

Work out and implement the national plan for emergency and rehabilitation assistance of a social nature.

Define, plan and coordinate the activities and tasks whose aim it is  to reduce the effects of natural calamities on the national territory.

Organize, coordinate and assess national and external interventions whose aim it is to curb the effects of natural calamities and other disasters, and rehabilitate the populations, provinces and disaster areas.

Train the technical personnel in the management of emergency aid programmes, inform and sensitize the populations about attitudes and behaviours to observe in case of disaster.

COPROSUR

President : province Haut-commissaire

Members :

Auditor ;
Social Action ;
Province Prefet;
Agriculture-Public works;
Information
Water;
Animal resources;
Health;
NGOs;
Constabulary;
Burkinabe Red Cross;
Education;

Implement the attributions of the CONASUR above mentioned within the provincial framework.

Organize, collect and analyse all data related to all calamity cropping up in the province.

Inform the CONASUR about all activities related to the disasters.

Report on all activities.

CODESUR

President : Prefect

Members :

Social Action and Family;
Agriculture;
Animal resources;
Health;
Local NGOs;
Constabulary;
Red Cross;
Persons in charge of administration in the villages;
Environment;
Police;
Education;

Train the organizers of the village body;

Organize, collect and analyse all data related to the calamities the departments are facing.

Inform the CONASUR without delay, report their activities to the COVISUR.

Coordinate struggle actions at the departmental level.

Set up a system of surveillance and information.

COVISUR

President : person in charge of the administration in the villages

Members :

Director of primary education;
Village counsellors;
Person in charge of customs;
Persons in charge of religious communities;
Health workers;
President of village interest groups;
Agriculture training personnel;
Local NGOs;
Forester peasants;
Village first aid workers;

Organize a system of response to calamities.

Take part in the inventory of risks and analyse them.

Locate risk areas.

Inform and sensitize the community.

Inform the CODESUR

Note:  the committee can call upon any physical or moral person whose competence can help toward the accomplishment of its mission.

 

  1. contents of the attributions of COPROSUR, CODESUR and COVISUR

Each community look upon its geographical environment so as to be able to detect the risk factors.

  1. inventory and analysis of risks

II.1   risk inventory

  • rock falls
  • inundation
  • fire
  • bush fire
  • famine
  • road accident
  • drought and desertification
  • invasion by destructive pests (grasshoppers, insects, rats)
  • epidemics
  • epizootic diseases
  • population displacements

II.2   contribution to risk analysis (vulnerability)

There are three (3) types of vulnerability :

  • Geographical vulnerability
  • Physical vulnerability
  • Socio-economic and health vulnerability
Geographical vulnerability
  • Three struggles (bush fires, abusive wood cutting, animal straying);
  • Building in vicinity of rivers and dams
  • Villages located down stream
  • Proximity of flammable material – villages near woods
  • Sahelian zone population
  • Shortage of arable land
  • Degradation of vegetable layer
  • Population settlement in depressions
Physical vulnerability
  • Fragile building material

Socio-economic and health vulnerability

  • Poor vaccination cover
  • High malnutrition rate
  • Low purchasing power and revenue per inhabitant
  • Low education rate
  • Poor hygiene conditions
  • Soaring demography and rural exodus
  • Difficulty of women’s access to land property
  • Socio-cultural shackles

II.3   inventory of means

dughouts, grain banks, extinguishers, emergency shelters, means of transportation, means of education, insecticides, etc.

II.4   contribution in the mapping of risk areas

  • locating risk areas
  • mapping of the risks and assessment of vulnerability

II.5   information and sensitization

The Committee for Emergency and Rehabilitation Assistance is in charge of keeping the population informed and sensitized with the aim of bringing about new attitudes in order to reduce the vulnerabilities.

II.6   setting up a system of surveillance, information and alert

  • rain
  • water levels in rivers and dams
  • state of food banks
  • equipment efficiency
  • participation in the surveillance of diseases
  • surveillance of pests

II.7   organization of response sytem

  • possibilty to call upon an external assistance
  • prevision of a mobilization and solidarity mechanism

II.8   coordination of actions against disasters and their management

●        The committee is responsible for the management of calamity when preventive actions have not worked:

  • Set up a coordination unit for carrying out the operations
  • Conceive the struggle according to the needs and means of the stricken community (province, department, village)
  • Centralize the information
  • Respect hierarchy