This humanitarian aid project, financed by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Office (ECHO) aimed at supporting 2.500 poor households in the Région du Centre of Burkina Faso during the lean period between the using-up of last year’s harvest and the new harvest where the households are in a state of extreme food insecurity and especially children are at risk of malnutrition.
The strategic approach chosen to support these households in bridging the lean season (also called ‘hunger gap’) is assistance via unconditional cash transfers during the months when they are most at risk (July, August, September). In addition, those households with children between 6-24 months receive baby food enriched with nutritional ingredients to reduce the risk of malnutrition of these particularly vulnerable children.
