The Tiipaalga association, through its project to disseminate improved 3-stone stoves / Yig-Paala in the province of Bazéga, intends to implement 60,000 within three years, in order to curb the excessive consumption of firewood and increase the resilience of farming families to climate change.

The objective of the Yig-paala project is “to relieve women in households by helping them to reduce wood consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide,” said Thursday, the executive director of the Tiipaalga association, Bakary Diakité.

Mr. Diakité, who was speaking at the end of the opening ceremony of the meeting of project stakeholders, noted that the initiative also aims to improve women’s health through the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the reduction of wood fetching, the reduction of pressure on protected areas. Thanks to its ”Income-generating activities” component, the project intends to enable women to improve their income and beyond that of the household.

The stakeholders gathered in Manga to better immerse themselves in the project and the opportunities it offers to the beneficiaries of Bazèga are made up of actors in its implementation, local authorities, representatives of research structures, NGOs, associations, state technical services from the rural world and the private sector, namely craftsmen, dolotières, members of forest governance umbrella organizations, etc.

In the execution of the Yig-paala project, it is planned, in terms of activities, among others, the capacity building of actors in this case women, training in the construction and dissemination of improved 3-stone stoves (F3PA) and monitoring-evaluation, noted the executive director of the Tiipaalga association.

“In the first three years of its implementation, it expected the implementation of 60,000 improved 3-stone stoves for 30,000 households, i.e. two stoves for each household, one for the sauce and the other for the early”, specified Bakary Diakité.

The Regional Director of Environment, Water and Sanitation of the Center-South, Aboudou Ouédraogo, praised the initiative which will also help raise awareness about the preservation of natural resources.

“This project, for us, is welcome because in addition to helping to reduce the excessive cutting of wood, it will instil the notion of environmental protection in households”, he argued.

“We have a lot of protected areas in the region and it is extremely important that we be able to safeguard these spaces and such an initiative comes at the right time,” added the governor of the Center-South, Yvette Nacoulma.

To enable the Yig-paala project to achieve the expected objectives, Ms. Nacoulma called on all the actors involved in its implementation to take ownership of it.

The project “Resilience of peasant families to climate change through the construction and use of improved 3-stone stoves in the province of Bazèga in Burkina Faso” also called the “Yig-paala” project will intervene in seven municipalities in the province of Bazèga and envisages saving at least 40,000 tonnes of wood per year.

The project is executed by the Tiipaalga association in partnership with the Office CO2logic/South Pole.

The Tiipaalga association is an association under Burkinabè law whose objective is to contribute to restoring and sustainably exploiting ecosystems to improve the living conditions of peasant families in Burkina Faso. It operates in twelve provinces in seven of the country’s 13, according to Bakary Diakité.

Source: Burkina Information Agency