Saison 2016-2017

Articles

• Burkina Faso: farmers’ organisations get together to face the housing issue for rural populations
  30 March 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  Recent political developments and the Burkinabe Governments commitment to development issues, backed by advocacy from AVN have led this season to new strategic initiatives for the adoption of the AVN programme and the implementation of new partnerships. Following recent contacts with relevant ministries and decentralised agencies, AVN has also convinced civil society organisations to invest in solving the housing issue.
  AVN met with the most important of these organisations the Fédération (...)

• AVN Steering Committee: a strategic event for the programme
  21 July 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  AVN’s end-of-season Steering Committee brought together some 40 participants at the beginning of July in Burkina Faso to analyse the season’s results, and to discuss the evolution of the programme, its methodologies, and priority strategic orientations.
  A refined methodology for regional strategies
  This season an important role was assigned to workshops on the programme’s key themes: technical and entrepreneurial training, awareness raising and the kickstart method, incentives to accelerate (...)

• InterAction Forum: AVN invited to Washington meeting on international cooperation
  5 July 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  Amarys Preuss, AVN’s Director of Development, was part of a delegation of French NGO’s invited to Washington in June for the annual InterAction Forum, an American network of NGO’s working in the fields of international development and solidarity. This meeting was organised through the Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle (SCAC) of the French Embassy and Coordination Sud (the French equivalent of InterAction).
  The Forum welcomed many notable participants, including ex-President Bill (...)

• Desertification & Habitat: how AVN contributes to the preservation of African ecosystems
  3 July 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  Over one-third of the planet’s land surface is affected by desertification today, essentially in dry regions where 2 billion of the poorest people in the world live. In West Africa, this degradation of the land is accelerated by climate change, increasing human activity, deforestation, and fragile socio-economic systems.
  Although often considered as secondary influences, the built habitat and associated construction techniques can have both positive and negative impacts on the causes and (...)

• The SDO and their adoption by French non-state actors
  23 June 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  As a new member of the French Comité 21 network, AVN, along with 48 other members (corporate and territorial representatives, educators, NGO’s, researchers) has contributed to the drafting of a report on the adoption of Sustainable Development Objectives (SDO) by French non-state actors. Two years after its adoption, this report reflects the French commitment to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda established by the UN in 2015.
  AVN specifically contributed to SDO 11, concerning the (...)

• Visit of the French Ambassador to Ghana
  15 June 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  The AVN-Ghana team was delighted to welcome the visit of François Pujolas, French Ambassador to Ghana, in Bolgatanga.
  The Ambassador was accompanied by representatives of the Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle (SCAC) of he Embassy, and by Frank Fuseini, Deputy Regional Minister of the Upper-East Region. The delegation was able to get an overview of the NV programme in northern Ghana, and to appreciate the technical features of NV buildings.
  After a brief presentation of AVN’s (...)

• Burkina Faso: AVN at the International Salon on Renewable Energy
  1 June 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  AVN took part in the Salon International des Énergies Renouvelables (SIERO) of Ouagadougou at the beginning of May, along with some 30 NGO’s who came to present their initiatives in promoting renewable energies and awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues.
  The theme of the salon was « Collectivités territoriales et changements climatiques en Afrique », a golden opportunity for AVN to make participants aware of the NV concept as a contribution to attenuation of and (...)

• The French Ambassador visits Boromo
  18 May 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  Mr. Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes, the French Ambassador to Burkina Faso, accompanied by a delegation of 10 staff from the French Embassy, met AVN’s national team in Boromo at the beginning of May. This was a chance for the delegation to visit some rural NV buildings, and to understand the benefits of the NV concept (thermal, acoustic, comfort, aesthetic, durability...), as well as the promotional methods used by AVN. The Ambassador appreciated the AVN programme as an integrated solution to (...)

• The Nubian Vault Association receives the World Habitat Awards in Nairobi
  10 May 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  The award ceremony for the World Habitat Awards took place on Monday May 8th in Nairobi, at 26th plenary opening session of the Governing Council of UN-Habitat. During the entire week, this biennal meeting brings together representatives of member states for the implementation of the new Urban Agenda, in accordance with the Sustainable Development Objectives and the Paris Climate Agreement.
  After the presentation of the laureates by David Ireland, Director of the Building and Social (...)

• AVN Burkina, the latest member of SPONG
  13 April 2017, by Chloé Adloff

  AVN has just been admitted as the latest member of Burkina Faso’s Secrétariat Permanent des Organisations Non Gouvernementales (SPONG). This organisation brings together most of the NGO’s, national and international development agencies, foundations, and R&D centres working in the country. It is also the focal point for the Réseau Sahel Désertification (ReSaD) in Burkina Faso, an initiative of the Centre d’Actions et de Réalisations Internationales (CARI), in which AVN is already involved in (...)