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Ministry of Social Action and National Solidarity

National Committee for Emmergency and Rehabilitation Assistance

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Burkina Faso

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METHOD OF INTERVENTION

III. ORGANIZING ASSISTANCE AND REHABILITATION

Three stages will be observed in the organization and management of assistance and rehabilitation.

I. Stage 1 : Prior to disaster

1. the community, as a rule, must organize itself into operational bodies for efficient and swift intervention. In Burkina Faso, these bodies are the CONASUR , the COPROSUR, the CODESUR and the COVISUR. Community organization should be reinforced by local partners.

2. the organized bodies have to managean efficient information system. For Burkina Faso, the sources of information on the subject are essentially the CCI (Coordination Committee for Information on Food Security) which needs to be rivived, and the early warming system. The CONASUR, as a body in charge of the management of disasters, should also, on a regular basis, receive data from the following sources:

statisctics from agricultural, agro-pastoral and forest services
socio-sanitary statistics
meteorogical information
hydrological information
FAO news bulletin
Ouagadougou Remote Sensing Regional Center (CRTO)
Early warning system against famine (FEW)
Quality control laboratory, etc.

The CONASUR should be provided with efficient means (computers, radio, logistics, etc) for handling a data bank

the organised bodies must have an updated, permanent inventory of the means of struggle, namely:

food banks
public buildings that can be used as temporary shelters
tents, essential medicines
logistics
available personnel

In Burkina Faso then, information about the number of grain banks and the level of supplies must be communicated to the CONASUR on a regular basis. As for the inventory of the logistic means, in addition to government services, the traders, the NGOs, the religious confessions must be involved. It must be added here that the Haut-commissaire is empowered to requisition any logistic means for the struggle, and that is present on his/her terroritory.

the organizer bodies must sensitize the public on the adequate utilization of infrastructures and space, as well as on the rational management of the agricultural, forest and faunic resources. They must also sensitize the peasents about the need to heed the advice given by agricultural technicians, the meteorology and the socio-sanitary services.

II. Stage 2 : During the disaster

Objectives	Strategies	Activities	Bodies in charge	Cooperation partners	Means
1. Identify the disaster	Circumscribing the stricken areas	1. visit the stricken area 2. describe the disaster (manifestation) 3. assess the number of families affected - make a list of victims by sex and by age - identify the vulnerable groups (lonely old persons, women heads of family), abandonned orphans, children under 5, pregnant women.	COPROSUR with the help of CANASUR, CODESUR, COVISUR, Crisis Committee	Competent services IGOs, NGOs Multilateral and bilateral donors	Car, moped, bicycle, Camel, Office equipment, fuel
2. make an inventory of the damages	Exhaustive inventory of the damages	1. count the victims 2. make an inventory of the financial losses-movable real estate, as well as material ones	COPROSUR with the help of CANASUR, CODESUR, COVISUR,	Local administration Local red cross, IGOs, NGOs Donors	Office equipment Car Telephone RAT rapp Information sheet, etc.
3. inform the national authorities		1. urgently inform the CONASUR		Local administration Local red cross, IGOs, NGOs Donors
4. organize the assistance	Inventory of emergency needs evaluation	1. make inventory of the needs in : - food stuffs - disinfectant products and equipment - service products -essential medicines -accomodation 2. compare available resources with assessed needs 3. look for means 4. mobilize means	COPROSUR with the help of CANASUR, CODESUR, COVISUR,		Information sheets Car Moped fuel
5. carry the first aid to the disaster areas	Mobilize the logistic and human means (warehouses and trucks)	1. get in touch with carriers and warehouse owners 2. gather first aid material 3. take emergency need to the areas	CONASUR COPROSUR CODESUR COVISUR Crisis Committee	Road carriers, Rail carriers, Other carriers (plane, ...) local communities	Logistics Human resources
6. distribute emergency aid to the victims of the disaster	Draw up plan for the distribution of aid	1. distribute emergency aid to the victims 2. give first care and evacuate 3. give assistance foodwise 4.bring service equipment 5. provide disinfectants and disinfection equipment 6. provide essential medicines	COPROSUR (distribution committee) CODESUR COVISUR	Population Red Cross NGOs Police	Food data Service equipment Disinfection products Essential medicines
7. Disinfect houses and water resources	cleaning up the environment	1. make inventory of water resources 2. disinfect water resources 3. disinfect houses 4.disinfect different public facilities	Ministry of water technicians Drainage technicians	Populations Red Cross NGOs	Medicines disinfectants Disinfection equipment
8. prevent epidemic diseases	Distribute preventive medicines to the whole population of the disaster area Make provision for a vaccination campaign	1. Distribute preventive medicines to the whole population of disaster area 2. identify possibilities of epidemic out break 3. sensitize populations about individual and collective hygiene techniques 4. immunize target groups (children, pregnant women) 5. carry out epidemiological surveillance	Health workers COVISUR CODESUR COPROSUR Aid centers First aid workers Community health workers	International organizations (WHO, UNICEF, etc.) Red-Cross NGOs Donors	Medicines Medical equipment Health personnel and first aid workers Social workers
9. organize reconstruction / rehabilitation	Assess needs for rehabilitation	1. Assess needs for rehabilitation 2. organize distribution 3. carry out follow up / evaluation	COPROSUR CODESUR COVISUR Competent services (housing, social action Town planning Agriculture Water Health Education CONASUR evaluation follow up committee	Bilateral and multilateral organizations NGOs	Information sheets Car Building materials Human means
10. conceive a report	Draft a technical and financial execution report	1. draft a report activities with rehabilitation proposals 2. submit report to CONASUR and COPROSUR 3. send report to CONASUR	Permanent secretariats of COPROSUR CODESUR and CONASUR	COPROSUR members	First draft report Office equipment

III. Stage 3. wake of disaster or rehabilitation stage

The rehabilitation aims at reconstructing the familial living environment that has been disrupted by the disaster, while keeping in mind the possibility to improve it.

In Burkina Faso where the means are scanty, its a question of helping the stricken populations in their reconstruction efforts.

This help generally consists in rehabilitating the social infrastructures, the public works structures, the dams, the houses, as well as tranfering and rehabilitating stricken villages.

At this level, efficiency is a must, and for each disaster, the real causes must be found and responsibilities determined in order that Government should not be the only actor.

Also, solidarity mechanisms must be promoted on a decentralized basis in order to facilitate and develop local initiatives for rehabilitation.

Finally, projects should be initiated whose aims it is to help the populations resume their former activities and thus take part in the development of the disaster area.

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