Burkina Faso's Council of Ministers approved on October 22 the ratification of $120mn, or 67.2bn FCFA (€102mn), in loan and grant financing from the World Bank's concessional arm IDA for a five-year program to help poor households earn more, the official readout said. The program aims to organize 120,000 households into 4,800 community cooperatives built around processing and production units, the readout said.
Analysis: The financing exceeds a roughly $100mn addition to a separate World Bank-supported works project announced two weeks earlier. Divided among targeted households, it amounts to around 560,000 FCFA (€854) each, by our calculation, though that is not the planned cash payment per household. The project also includes 42 trucks and warehouses with about 50,000 tons of storage, creating potential demand for vehicles and storage equipment. Suppliers and cooperative finance providers will need procurement details to assess opportunities. The project has no published start date or tender plan, and its July 14 agreements still require ratification.
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