Improving food security and child health in Burkina Faso in a changing climate

This policy brief highlights priority areas for actionable advances in improving food security, nutrition and child health in Burkina Faso in the context of a changing climate. Burkina Faso is increasingly having to deal with the growing challenges of climate change, which is leading to greater fragility and deepening vulnerabilities, undermining efforts to reduce poverty and increase prosperity.

Some of the key messages from the brief include:

• Effective and efficient policies that tackle the nexus of climate change and health will require greater cooperation across different government ministries and development policies more broadly.
• The government is working with regional organisations including the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU) to advance the country's preparedness for the impacts of climate change.
• Many of Burkina Faso's human development indicators have improved, driven by the country's new Universal Health Insurance Scheme (RAMU), investments in nutrition and access to universal health care for women, an expansion of the country's healthcare services more broadly, and a focus on vaccination and inoculation.