Burkina Faso Overview

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Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Low Adoption of Agricultural Inputs in Burkina Faso

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Despite the availability of new agricultural technologies, which may increase yields and household income, few farmers in the Sahel region of Sub-Saharan Africa are using improved seeds and fertilizer. This study in Burkina Faso tested different ways of organizing the market for inputs and examined how adoption of a fertilizer application technique called microdosing spreads from farmer to farmer. Preliminary results suggest that subsidies alone were not effective in increasing take-up, but that a soft commitment—where people committed to buying inputs at the time when they had cash in hand—significantly increased adoption of inputs, at no additional cost to providers.

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Results also suggest that targeting based on social network characteristics affects patterns of diffusion, particularly in cases where women are excluded from social networks. Impacts on productivity are still forthcoming. 

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Improving Political Engagement through First-Hand Experience with Municipal Councils in Burkina Faso

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In theory, local government meetings provide important opportunities for citizens to be directly involved in decisions about important services that affect their daily lives. In practice, citizens can be disengaged from local governments, either because they are uninformed or because they do not believe their involvement is welcome or effective.

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Researchers are working with Innovations for Poverty Action and the government of Burkina Faso to evaluate whether receiving a personal invitation to attend a municipal council meeting affects both citizens’ attitudes towards local governments and local officials’ decisions and participation in the meeting.

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The Impact of a Family Planning Mass Media Campaign in Burkina Faso

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Mass media reaches a large and growing share of the population in developing countries, but can it be used to tackle poverty and change behaviors? IPA partnered with researchers and Development Media International to evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of an intensive, two-and-a-half-year mass media radio campaign in Burkina Faso that promoted family planning and modern contraception use.

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The campaign led to a 6-percentage point increase in the modern contraceptive prevalence rate, largely by reducing misconceptions about potential side effects. The impact on contraception translated into a 10 percent reduction in births and an increase in women’s self-assessed health and well-being. Researchers estimate that the nationwide campaign scale-up led to 225,000 additional women using modern contraception, at a cost of US$7.7 per additional user.

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In this image:The IPA Burkina Faso team welcomes Shana Warren (center), IPA Research Scientist for Path-to-Scale Research, for an office visit. © 2022 IPA
Burkina Faso

Our Team

Burkina Faso

Our Team

Country Director, Francophone West Africa

Thierno Faye

Thierno Faye is the Country Director for IPA Francophone West Africa, covering our Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali country offices.

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Research & Policy Manager, Francophone West Africa

Carine Canonici Spellanzon

Carine is a Research & Policy Manager at IPA Francophone West Africa, representing IPA in Guinea-Bissau in the development of a scoping exercise in partnership with the UNDP for the creation of Government Embedded Labs.

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Research Associate

Assereou Atekou

Assereou works on a project, Fasbagré, aimed at providing rigorous evidence on the impacts of the matching and cash grants on performance and ultimately employment in agricultural and non-agricultural firms in Burkina Faso.

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Research Manager, Burkina Faso

Aliou Diallo

“It's not very easy for a younger researcher to get funding to work on such an important project. That's why I went into IPA."

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Finance Manager

Jean Baptiste Nkinamubanzi

Jean Baptiste Nkinamubanzi supports various projects and their teams to ensure financial integrity, compliance with financial procedures, internal control, procurement processes, accounting and financial reporting.

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Translation Associate

Gisèle Euridice Ouédraogo

Gisèle Euridice has three years of experience as a translator (English to French), she has had the opportunity to work for translation agencies, humanitarian organizations, and government institutions, and to be part of various communities and networks of LSPs.

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Field Manager

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Idrissa has more than five years of experience with IPA in roles of various levels of responsibility, having worked on different projects by coordinating and/or organizing both qualitative and quantitative data collection.

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Field Manager

Rose Dounialou Yara

In her role at IPA, Rose has supported the implementation of a sanitation project in Ouagadougou and has helped coordinate field activities for several research projects, including studies on family aspirations and behaviors, governance, and family planning. Prior to joining IPA, she worked as a customer advisor at a telephone company.

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Country Director, Francophone West Africa

Thierno Faye

Thierno Faye is the Country Director for IPA Francophone West Africa, covering our Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali country offices.

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Research & Policy Manager, Francophone West Africa

Carine Canonici Spellanzon

Carine is a Research & Policy Manager at IPA Francophone West Africa, representing IPA in Guinea-Bissau in the development of a scoping exercise in partnership with the UNDP for the creation of Government Embedded Labs.

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Research Associate

Assereou Atekou

Assereou works on a project, Fasbagré, aimed at providing rigorous evidence on the impacts of the matching and cash grants on performance and ultimately employment in agricultural and non-agricultural firms in Burkina Faso.

Read Full Bio

Research Manager, Burkina Faso

Aliou Diallo

“It's not very easy for a younger researcher to get funding to work on such an important project. That's why I went into IPA."

Read Full Bio

Finance Manager

Jean Baptiste Nkinamubanzi

Jean Baptiste Nkinamubanzi supports various projects and their teams to ensure financial integrity, compliance with financial procedures, internal control, procurement processes, accounting and financial reporting.

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Translation Associate

Gisèle Euridice Ouédraogo

Gisèle Euridice has three years of experience as a translator (English to French), she has had the opportunity to work for translation agencies, humanitarian organizations, and government institutions, and to be part of various communities and networks of LSPs.

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Field Manager

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Idrissa has more than five years of experience with IPA in roles of various levels of responsibility, having worked on different projects by coordinating and/or organizing both qualitative and quantitative data collection.

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Field Manager

Rose Dounialou Yara

In her role at IPA, Rose has supported the implementation of a sanitation project in Ouagadougou and has helped coordinate field activities for several research projects, including studies on family aspirations and behaviors, governance, and family planning. Prior to joining IPA, she worked as a customer advisor at a telephone company.

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